[manwiches]

Growing up (early/mid 90s), my cousin and I were the only Asians I knew that played minor hockey. We had one East Indian guy on our team, and the rest were Caucasian. There were never any issues with any of us. We all were just kids and friends.

Beer league now (at least when I was in Calgary), My team was 50% Asian, and 50% Caucasian. In the end, I'm just happy that some of my closest friends are all guys I played beer league with in Calgary, didn't matter the diversity. We did love laughing at the fact that we could ice an entire Asian line up, including our goalie.

Almost every one of us played minor hockey growing up too. My cousin and I were just a few years older than the next guys on our beer league team now.

Speaking on 'stereo-types' when playing, I do find that Asian and brown guys (I mean this in no offensive way by the way for you sensitive folk) more easy to set off than my Caucasian counterparts. I find the ones that are ball hockey wonders that just picked up ice hockey, are the easiest to set off, as they think their skills should be transferable to ice hockey. Yes, they are demons on the boards, but the hacking and slashing is a little much.

Asian guys I tend to find suffer from small man complex on the ice.

I find ethnic players have a bit more lip to them, and elevate the trash talk to a point where it's almost personal.

For the record, I'm a 6'1" Chinese guy (humble brag. haha). I think I'm in a position to comment on ethnic beer league players.