Winnipeg Hockey Dad Banned From Rinks

[SportsJunky]

Deadspin is running the story as well.
http://deadspin.com/5984792/the-hock...m-10-years-ago

[Derek Sutton]

Originally Posted by habernac

Amonte wasn't allowed in the rink to watch his kids play when he was here. His son was AAA on the same team as one of my teammates kids.

Ha, I saw Amonte get tossed when he was "coaching" his son's Top Guns team, they were 8 yr olds at the time (2006 or so). A kid went down, Amonte chews out ref, ref tosses him. Other then that you just heard him screaming "pass it to Ty" the whole game.

[SeeBass]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

I know 2 people that made the NHL and one that was drafted then played in Europe before retiring (so a respectable hockey career), and it was the same. All had parents that were very vocal at the rink. The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

I have never heard a parent yell at their kid like Sidney Crosby's dad.

Even at the memorial cup you could just hear it from him. He would sit second level rail on the red and you could hear him over everybody.

Funny how you never hear those stories about his early hockey days. I guess they dont want parents to think that as a justification for their actions or as a role model.

[Vulcan]

When my kid was playing I remember asking him, " didn't you hear me and everyone else yelling at you to pass the puck, Leon was wide open". He said "all I hear is noise, I'm paying attention to what I'm doing". I found it was pointless to yell, that was hard to do.

[Ozy_Flame]

Parents are vocal at games partly because they're trying to live vicariously through their kids. It's what they would have done if they were on the ice. Not necessarily the kid.

Sometimes I think these loser hockey dads would abandon their kid in a heartbeat if they were miraculously given a shot in the NHL. A chance to capitalize on their own failed dreams if they could.

[Coys1882]

Parents in the crowd instructing their kids should STFU - if you want to be heard, volunteer to coach and help out. My two cents anyway.

I've coached my son in soccer since u4 and I've heard parents telling their kids to 'get stuck in' - at 4-5 years old? Crazy.

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

I remember when I was 14 I started to referee and I made a mistake in the game and it wound up being a big mistake or something and the team lost the game. There were parents who were livid and were up in my face, I am not tall now and I wasn't tall then but looking back on it I have to wonder what the heck was going through those parents head to yell at a 14 year old kid, especially over a game that was being played by 8 year olds at a low level. Parents who do stuff like that make me cringe.

[PIMking]

I had my baseball coach tell my dad (step dad but more of a father to me than the sperm donor that is my biological dad) to STFU and leave once because he was upset that I was pulled from the game after giving up 4 runs in the 3rd

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by PIMking

I had my baseball coach tell my dad (step dad but more of a father to me than the sperm donar that is my biological dad) to STFU and leave once because he was upset that I was pulled from the game after giving up 4 runs in the 3rd

Good.

[Vulcan]

When I was a kid and played baseball, it was rare for a parent to show up (other than the coaches). If we had an away game we'd all pile into the coach's cars and leave from our home field. In a way it was better because it was our game. I tried to stay out of my kids sports as much as possible but it's difficult these days because they require rides and sports cost, it requires a commitment, so I stayed for the games and practices and it became a part of our social life. So I'd volunteer to be time keeper or base coach or ump or track timer or soccer coach. My kids are all adults with their own families now and the oldest recently told me that his best memories were playing sports when he was a kid, so I guess I did something right. Hey it was fun for me too.

[Derek Sutton]

Respect in sport Program is a good start. Hockey Parents should also have to pass the refferee clinic before they are allowed to open their mouths. Lacross is another one that is bad that I've been a part of. The Parents have no idea what the rules are and they are yelling at the Refs at the top of their Lungs.

On a positive note. I spent Thursday and Saturday nights watching AAA Bantam play offs between (best of 3) Lethbridge and Medicine Hat. Med Hat was 1st playing 4th place Lethbridge. Lethbridge won game 1 in OT and won game two 4-1 taking the seriees. Anyways the Med Hat Parents were up dancing and cheering the whole game. Their team was down 4-0 in the third and they just danced, sang and cheered harder. When the game was over they cheered their team and offered congratulations and good luck to the Lethbridge parents, and players. Very Impressive, and I'm from Lethy.

[Minnie]

Anyone remember this story?

That is one thing I have really appreciated about almost all our kids' coaches, when they were involved in minor sports, particularly when my son played football in high school. Their coaches really set the tone on everything and they absolutely would not abide poor behaviour from anyone associated with the team, playing on it, or from the parents in the stands. It was always made abundantly clear at the beginning of the season, that parent hectoring in any fashion, whether it was toward the team or the guest team, was not tolerated.

[Minnie]

Originally Posted by Minnie

Anyone remember this story?

Update to this - coach receives 15 days of jail time

Link

A Vancouver pee wee hockey coach has been sentenced to 15 days in jail for tripping a young player during what was supposed to be a post-game handshake.

Martin Tremblay stuck out his foot while shaking hands with an opposing team player, and his fit of anger was posted on the Internet, garnering two million views.

The 48-year-old pleaded guilty to one count of assault in November.

Richmond provincial court Judge Patrick Chen gave Tremblay jail time, saying he wasn't satisfied that time served in the community was enough to denounce or deter the man for his actions.

Chen told Tremblay that he may have some anger management issues and that the man must take responsibility for what he did because society will not tolerate children being assaulted by adults.

[polak]

Never saw any of this in 7 or 8 years of Taekwondo. Guess that I know what my kid will be enrolled in.

Didn't see it in 3 years of Soccer either to be honest.

I tend to find a lot of hockey players that are actually decent to just be annoying people overall so I'm not surprised that (based on this thread) this tends to be common in hockey.

[cam_wmh]

Originally Posted by polak

Didn't see it in 3 years of Soccer either to be honest.

Where did you play? League? even with that small sample size..

I've played, Fusion, Calgary Co-Ed, & mens/minor for north of 25 yrs.
I've also coached adults, and young goalkeepers.

I've seen as many idiots yelling their heads off in soccer as I do in hockey. Idiocy isn't exclusive to certain sports.

[cam_wmh]

Waitaminute. Polak, you're a polish soccer fan, and yet you've never seen yelling from crazed parents/fans?

uhhhh.

[polak]

Originally Posted by cam_wmh

Where did you play? League? even with that small sample size..

I've played, Fusion, Calgary Co-Ed, & mens/minor for north of 25 yrs.
I've also coached adults, and young goalkeepers.

I've seen as many idiots yelling their heads off in soccer as I do in hockey. Idiocy isn't exclusive to certain sports.

I only played three years as a kid here in Calgary. For Shawnee. I think it was div 5 the first year and div 3 and 2.

The thing with TKD is that it really must have pushed parents. At least a couple kids got knocked out or hurt every tournament and I never once saw any sort of reaction besides running to the mat and crying moms.

Originally Posted by cam_wmh

Waitaminute. Polak, you're a polish soccer fan, and yet you've never seen yelling from crazed parents/fans?

uhhhh.

Woah Woah Woah. I thought we were talking about children leagues here. Polaks kill each other over pro soccer. Google the Wisla Krakow and Cracovia rivalry.

[valo403]

Originally Posted by polak

Woah Woah Woah. I thought we were talking about children leagues here. Polaks kill each other over pro soccer. Google the Wisla Krakow and Cracovia rivalry.

They do the same over youth soccer

http://deadspin.com/5893229/polish-u...erally-go-nuts

[polak]

Originally Posted by valo403

They do the same over youth soccer

http://deadspin.com/5893229/polish-u...erally-go-nuts

Nah you see, it's all part of the training regiment to prepare these kids for the big leagues where this stuff happens every game

[speede5]

Originally Posted by nickerjones

what a winner that guy sounds like...

Here is something from the comments section about him.
"This is the same guy who fired an employee in '03 @ a pizza joint in Selkirk who decided to run out and help a person outside who just got shot!


"We feel just as bad as the next guy but we don't pay employees to be EMTs, which she isn't," Jason Boyd, a supervisor at Frank's Pizza in Selkirk, told a local newspaper last week. "She wasn't dismissed because she was at the shooting scene," he said. "She was away from her job for no good reason."


Most people would have given her a medal and a raise!"

"You're a real jerk. You wasted eight f*#%ing aprons on this guy."