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Originally Posted by fleury
Meh, talk is cheap. I'm skeptical of all this as it comes across as grandstanding and showing how progressive he is as an executive. There are other issues at play - namely the hockey culture in the dressing room and all the verbal insults thrown around. How would a woman behind the bench take to that? Right or wrong, it's probably going to be an issue for awhile. I don't know if any of the old boys clubs in any of the big major league sports will take the chance in the near term. Is there even a black coach in hockey right now?
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this made me chuckle. have you ever been out to a women's hockey game? i score kept for the local 'beer league' here in kelowna a couple seasons back and every once in a while i'd get sunday night games - which is when the women play.
some of the stuff i heard on sunday nights was just 'wow!!' i've heard a lot of stuff on the ice when i play but some of the most "did you just say that?" moments i've had were score keeping the women's games.
i got to know most of the refs during my score keeping season and we'd talk about stuff like that. there was resounding agreement that the stuff the women say on the ice is usually waaaaaay worse than what you hear when the men play.
i'm pretty confident any woman that gets a coaching position would be just fine, especially since she would be 'well versed' in hockey culture