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Originally Posted by 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.
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I think with the non-caucasian players they get set off more easy is because most of them (myself included) didn't grow up playing organized hockey and such as a kid. So we aren't as used to the type of 'contact' to expect from a 'non-contact' league.
When I play I don't mind people laying their weight on me when we are skating for a loose puck. It's part of the game to use your body to trying to get position etc. What I don't like is when players start hacking and chopping me for no reason, or laying out body checks. Then of course if they want to play like that I'll play like that too.
I may also be stereotyping here but I find a lot of Caucasian teams get pretty chippy once the all Asian/coloured people team starts winning with speed and skating. They start throwing the body, throwing cross checks and such.
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I wanted to play hockey growing up but my family didn't have the resources to put me into it. I started playing ice hockey in my mid 20s to mainly be part of a team and for exercise. I just wanna go out there and play. Sometimes it's just a bit tiresome running into beer league all stars who play like there are scouts in the arena or like they are still in some sort of triple a junior hockey.