The Canadian women’s hockey team should of kept their celebration in the locker room. It will blow over, and it should blow over, however whatever happened to representing, your country, your sport, yourself? For the very young girls, that see the pictures, why does alcohol and cigars, have to be part of celebrating?
I’m a Canadian, I coached and played for 25 years. I expected my players to represent their sport, their community and themselves.
One time after a big win, a parent brought champagne into the dressing room. For 14 year olds. Even though many parents didn’t mind. I wouldn’t allow it, I’m still the coach in the dressing room. I think it is a big deal to associate celebrating and alcohol to children.
I’m not against alcohol, but why is it such a big deal?
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Hi dillin257. Good morning. I agree. And this is so representative of today’s youth, a very drug and alcohol oriented group. Good for you to stand up to the parents who encourage the celebration drinking, shame on them. Children that are exposed to drinking at an early age (specially by family members) will be a child that starts drinking and often becomes an addict where the substance causes problems. I’m glad the Olympics officials have said OH NO. It might send a message to our youth that says “you kids may delude yourselves into thinking well . . that’s what everybody is doing. But not everybody is doing it and in this case you aren’t going to either without consequences.” In youth Krews, usually the cigars are laced with something. This is a subject I could easily build my own grandstand and scream to anyone who’d listen. Don’t mess with alcohol or substance of any kind. You never know who will begin to use it as a coping mechanism. Sometimes I’m surprised that any of them make it.
It really makes me wonder. This generation of young adults has probably received more education on the detrimental effects of alcohol, etc. than any other generation in the history of the world; yet, they probably have the highest rate of use in history. I just don’t understand.
me neither, I wish I did. I understand addiction, I understand peer pressure, I understand wanting to escape, I understand how educating our youth hasn’t been as effective as we’d hoped for. But I’ll never understand what to do about it. It breaks my heart!!
I totally disagree with you. The press has made this a huge issue when it was not a huge issue. These are women, not girls, and if they want to celebrate, so what?
The fact that they went back onto the ice, after the celebration to take more photos, is totally understandable to me. And they weren’t expecting it to be a photo session from the press. I’ve read in different places that it was 30 minutes to 2 hours after the event that they went back on the ice.
They are hardy, healthy athletes. Do you think the men’s locker room is any different?
The fact that the young goalie drank under age in a province were the legal drinking age is 19 and she is 18, is hardly relevant. She lives in Alberta were the drinking age is 18.
A lapse of judgement, maybe but hardly a sin and hardly makes them hard core addicts.
Did not see the event, but I agree. Have you ever seen anyone complaining about the big boys filling the Stanley cup with champaign?!? Or opening up a few bottles after a big football win? They are adults!!
As for the fourteen year olds, good going coach! What was this parent thinking??? And we blame it on our children!!! I have never had my children drink underage, even at home as a lot of parents say it is O.K. that they will drink anyways. They just might drink anyways, but I in no way, shape or form have ever infered that it was fine to drink before the legal age. Including having them drink at home. Even Cristmas wine.
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The press has made it a big issue, and whether it was 30 minutes or 2 hours, I feel they should have kept it in the locker room. Why ask me if the men’s locker room is any different?? of course not, Keep it in the locker room, that’s it. I wasn’t making a call on the 18 year old drinking, as much as the younger hockey girls associating a win with drinking and smoking cigars. I don’t think any of them were actually smoking them they were, just a keepsake. I didn’t call it a sin, nor did I call them core addicts. How could they be, I just think, they should know they are in the lime light and make huge impressions.
A tempest in a teapot.
It’s not worth all the wrath and holier than thou spouting that has been put forth by so many keyboard warriors.
Who are you to judge.
There was one girl who was 18, she’ll be 19 next month. In most provinces that’s the legal drinking age in this country, others such as Alberta, Quebec, Manitoba their legal drinking age is 18.
If they’re old enough to vote, drive a car or go off to war, then surely a celebratory beer or swigs of champagne shouldn’t incite this much negative press.
Somebody’s always more than willing to rain on your parade I guess eh
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Boy, did you miss the point.
obviously I misunderstood.
ah well, as Rosanna Anna Danna used to say, never mind.
I can see the celebrating away from the watching eyes if they want and they are of age. There are rules governing the Olympics and I’ll bet that it’s stated somewhere that there is to be no alcohol on the premises. A little research on the subject. So, it’s not just a matter of a moral issue, it’s also a law put in place for sound reasons.
dillon257, my two youngest boys played for years and my husband and I played on a mens C league. He played Goalie. I started when I was 48 and when I scored my first goal, both sides cheered me on. It was great fun. I miss it.
I really miss it too, i miss the excitement when a player discovers what they can do, like scoring your first goal. For me it’s not about the win, or the best players. But being part of the game, part of the team.