Minor hockey players required to wear bottom layer to dressing room

[GullFoss]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-...licy-1.6985217

lmao

So you have to wear your sweaty bottoms to and from the rink. And can't shower after the games? Am I understanding this correctly?

Is this Canada wide or just Halifax?

Will be able to ID teens that play hockey from their acne and backnie. Actually "kinda" gross from a hygiene perspective

[Wastedyouth]

They just have to change in the bathroom or whatever.

It's weird, but inclusion can feel uncomfortable for older or more conservative people.

I always thought the whole idea around group dressing rooms and showers to be a bit odd. And I've played hockey and changed and showered in them for 3 decades.

I think it would be a little awkward and difficult for lots of kids.

[Saqe]

I wonder what these people think about Finnish sauna. Our traditions must be barbaric.

[undercoverbrother]

This season, all minor hockey players are being encouraged to wear the base layer they wear under their equipment to the arena. If they don't do that, they will have to change into their base layer inside a closed washroom stall at the rink.

My daughter did this through out her time playing boys' hockey.

The only thing I will say is that some washroom stalls in some older rinks are straight up nasty, Bentley I am looking at your, along with Dixon.

So in nice newer rinks this isn't too big of a deal, but in the older one......yuck.

[Moneyhands23]

So dumb. I can maybe understand boxers staying on. But the kids need to shower after a game.

[WhiteTiger]

This kind of seems backwards? If you are uncomfortable changing in a dressing room, go to a bathroom stall. If you aren't, then...it's not an issue?

Is this a tail wagging the dog sort of 'problem'?

[manwiches]

I get it, mixed teams etc. But for most kids, the furthest they're getting undressed is in their underwear, and then their underarmour.

I'm not going to lie. I'm going to be willfully ignorant on this, as locker room washrooms are effing nasty af. I'm not going to willingly tell my kid to change where 50% of the kids/adults that go piss in there miss the toilet and get on the floor. Kids changing too... their clothes will end up on the floor with said piss.

Gross

[3rd liner]

I have two kids in minor hockey in Calgary - haven’t heard about this policy yet. My 12 year old tells me some kids wear swim trunks in the shower in one program he is in - you get a mix of 12-14 year old boys and some kids have gone through puberty, some haven’t, so there is some self consciousness with the younger kids.
But I agree with manwiches, most kids keep underwear on and dressing room bathroom stalls are nasty…

[Hot_Flatus]

Originally Posted by Wastedyouth

They just have to change in the bathroom or whatever.

It's weird, but inclusion can feel uncomfortable for older or more conservative people.

I always thought the whole idea around group dressing rooms and showers to be a bit odd. And I've played hockey and changed and showered in them for 3 decades.

I think it would be a little awkward and difficult for lots of kids.

So we are actually now resorting to telling kids to change into a base layer at home or in the dirty, cramped arena bathroom (likely with a backed up disgusting toilet) prior to a game in order to avoid an uncomfortable situation of possibly seeing someone's butt or bare chest for 5-10 seconds ?

Players that aren't small children need to shower and will be naked anyway afterwards....are we mandating bathing suits in the showers now as well? This seems like another non-issue that is being blown up due to a minute number of players or players families having a problem.

[Bandwagon Surfer]

People go fully nude in minor hockey change room?

Back when I was in minor hockey the dressing rooms were always swarming with parents, coaches, and who knows. Heck, most of the time to door to the room was propped open. There was no privacy in there, and nobody was ever fully naked. Bathroom stalls were for privacy.

[manwiches]

Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus

So we are actually now resorting to telling kids to change into a base layer at home or in the dirty, cramped arena bathroom (likely with a backed up disgusting toilet) prior to a game in order to avoid an uncomfortable situation of possibly seeing someone's butt or bare chest for 5-10 seconds ?

Players that aren't small children need to shower and will be naked anyway afterwards....are we mandating bathing suits in the showers now as well? This seems like another non-issue that is being blown up due to a minute number of players or players families having a problem.

Just wait til the Karen's find out adults sit on those benches with their BARE BUMS. They'll be screaming from the rafters for sanitation methods, because poor Billy keeps putting his post game donut on the bench

[You Need a Thneed]

As the world become more aware of trans kids, this kind of move will have to be necessary.

[PepsiFree]

I have trouble imagining anyone actually cares about this beyond a don't-want-to-ride-in-my-van-with-my-smelly-teenager type of care.

So someone drives home to shower. So someone sits in sweaty clothes for an extra 20 minutes. People do this all the time. I see adults leave the gym in the same clothes they worked out in. "KIDS NEED TO SHOWER" Yeah OK. Seems weird to get upset FOR children on this one.

[topfiverecords]

A whole lot of missing the point already here.

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed

As the world become more aware of trans kids, this kind of move will have to be necessary.

Or they just get accepted naked and all. If they're eligible to be on the team by rule, then they're accepted.

This is another case of adults not adulting. If there's problem in the dressing room with kids being #######s to naked kids, deal with those issues.

[Red_Baron]

LOL, just imagine how that "Dry Clean Only" suit that some of the elite minor hockey kids wear is going to smell after the 3rd weekend road trip 3 hours away from home...

Some of these parents are going to need a 7th credit card.

Good luck finding a charter bus company as well!

[TurdFerguson]

Logistically, this is going to suck for kids and programs that are required to wear suits to the rink (agree with that tradition or not, it is a thing). Dressing rooms have 1 stall. That is 17-20 kids waiting in line to change into the under-gear before the game, then after the game waiting in line again to get the trunks on to shower, then back in line to get the underwear on before they can dress to leave. Rink attendants are already kicking teams out of rooms, as is.

No way my sweaty teen is getting into a suit without showering...

Maybe the whole dress code goes way?

Agree or not with the intent, I am having a hard time seeing how this is going to succeed in practice for all of hockey Canada age groups and skill levels. Timbits and U18AAA are not the same animal at all.

I'd also be curious on how this is being policed. Teams with kids that shower do not have adults in the room for one very good reason (mind you that can also leads to bad kids doing bad things).

[TheIronMaiden]

Seems like a good way to make kids insecure about their bodies.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by TurdFerguson

Logistically, this is going to suck for kids and programs that are required to wear suites to the rink (agree with that tradition or not, it is a thing). Dressing rooms have 1 stall. That is 17-20 kids waiting in line to change into the under-gear before the game, then after the game waiting in line again to get the trunks on to shower, then back in line to get the underwear on before they can dress to leave. Rink attendants are already kicking teams out of rooms, as is.

No way my sweaty teen is getting into a suit without showering...

Maybe the whole dress code goes way?

Agree or not with the intent, I am having a hard time seeing how this is going to succeed in practice for all of hockey Canada age groups and skill levels. Timbits and U18AAA are not the same animal at all.

I'd also be curious on how this is being policed. Teams with kids that shower do not have adults in the room for one very good reason (mind you that also leads to bad kids doing bad things).

A little OT, but I've always thought the wearing of suits to a hockey game was weird.

[TurdFerguson]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

A little OT, but I've always thought the wearing of suits to a hockey game was weird.

I don't disagree. It starts at the pro-level and trickles down from there, I think. You see leagues loosening up on that for sure. I can foresee a day when this is not a thing at all.