r/hockeyplayers

We had a dude show up last week who kept blowing his own whistle every time he thought there was an offside or a hand pass, not loud enough for the real ref to hear but loud enough to confuse everyone on the ice. Guys are stopping mid shift looking around like what's happening. The actual ref told him twice to cut it out and he just kept doing it then he got mad because nobody was listening to his calls. My brother you are not the referee , you paid the same fifteen bucks as the rest of us, nobody asked you to officiate, just play the game and shut up. anyone else run into this or is my rink just special.

The conversation came up the other day, do you wear socks on your feet or are you barefoot when wearing skates? My high school coach BEAT into us that we needed to be barefoot so it’s how I’ve skated since I was 14. My wife thinks this is ridiculous and does NOT want our kids to skate barefoot.

Am I crazy here or is it her?

D2 commit in a program that focuses on getting players to higher levels- I also had some club D1s as well. (I’m also female if that’s worth mentioning.) I’m a HS senior. These past four years my hockey experience has been terrible. I want to decommit and go military if I’m being truthfully honest. I don’t have the right family support and I hate it all. I just woke up and realized that I don’t really love it anymore. Sure, I enjoy doing it. But I honestly am unsure if it’s for me after what I went through in HS. I really don’t know if I want to go through with it or not. I keep hearing “you’ll regret not doing it” but I really don’t know.

Recently started getting more into hockey, I play in a women's rec league and play pick-up a couple times a week.

I have moderate nearsightedness and mild astigmatism (around -3 and 1 respectively for both eyes) so I need glasses usually to see confidently.

(Without I struggle with depth perception and seeing the puck which makes receiving passes and watching plays challenging. I can't really read names/numbers which isn't a huge deal but not ideal. I also get fairly bad headaches when I try to focus on seeing things without them.)

I really do not like wearing contact lenses and sports goggles are expensive, so I have been wearing my glasses while playing thus far.

Playing with is definitely better than playing without. However, the main two issues I face are:

1. Glasses fogging up making things blurry

2. Glasses sliding down my nose and causing the lenses to be off-center and thus distorting my vision

Does anyone have advice for either of these issues. A lot of the advice I've seen is to either use contacts/sports goggles but I'm trying to see if there are any other options before I resort to those as glasses are strongly preferable.

As the title says.

My 8U goalie wants some kind of contact sport as well; and he’s been watching goalie fight videos, so he’s leaning towards learning boxing.

Since not every conflict is on ice; I’m leaning more towards an MMA-type.

Any thoughts on what will benefit him the more on and off?