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Originally Posted by Derek Sutton
Two separate points but both valid. We all know the toxic culture hockey parents create. Not one team, ever, has been able to avoid “those” parents. As for the locker room being used more then any other sport, this is 100% true. On top of all the dressing room time, there is also the bus time, even lower, younger levels of hockey are busing hours on a Saturday to play a single game.
Do other sports make the kids show up an hour to 1 1/2 hours early to go for a jog and then sit around till game time? Then 1/2 hour or more afterwards? The one nephews (Midget A) team had to “ban” showers and had 10 minutes to clear the room after games and practice because there was so much chaos in the room afterwards. Instead of trying to fix the issues and improving the environment, the parents all turned on the coach, and Lethbridge Minor Hockey for this decision, what a disgrace.
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This is simply wrong.
I volunteered as a coach for three years in minor hockey, without kids of my own, and for all three of those years the closest thing I had to an issue was one year, when one parent asked why we did not change positions at the end of the month as I said we would (Season was 5 months long, so I told the parents each kid would play each of the 5 skater positions for one month, in order to get a good feel for each position.) When I said I wanted to keep it for the last game of minor hockey week, he thought that made perfect sense and all was done.
That was the closest thing to an issue I had, as head coach, in three years, so it is not fair to say "every team has those parents".