Breaking: Team adopts player cell phone ban at arena in effort to “not suck so much”!!

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Breaking: Team adopts player cell phone ban at arena in effort to “not suck so much”!!
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The Saskatoon Blades from the WHL are banning cell phones from the rink in an interesting attempt to "not suck so much" according to Vice Sports.

The players are forced to hand over their cell phones to the coach's office as soon as they arrive at the arena for both games and practices. According to head coach Dean Brockman, the policy was institudes because they felt the players were getting distracted and they had a  "tendency to check and respond to messages".

"When there's distraction and you're not mentally focused towards one thing, we just thought it was a course of action that we'd try for a short-term period and see if it helped our play or helped our focus on the ice and in the dressing room," Brockman said.

The Saskatoon Blades are 10-17-2 after 29 games and are out of a playoff spot by 8 points and just lost 8 of their last 10 games.

Source: Vice Sports