"If I were starting out to play hockey now, my parents wouldn’t have been able to afford to put me in the sport, That’s just the reality of it,” - Joe Thornton

"The cost is extremely high and it’s not really manageable for most working-class families to afford to put their kids in hockey, never mind if they had two kids or three kids that wanted to play the sport.” - Wayne Simmonds

“Obviously, there are greater tragedies in life, but any sport that is so unattainable to so many serves to divide instead of unite.” - Hockey Mom of 2