Minor Hockey Talks - Hockey Forum

I have been involved in hockey for 10 years with my oldest. This year there was new coaches and board members for my younger 2 (u11 and u9). I seen/experienced some pretty poor behavior this year among coaches and parents. Some examples; my kids coach gets drunk with the clicky parents and gossips about other kids/parents. She made comments about me and one of my kids which weren't true stating I always miss games and practices (I maybe missed 3 house league games this season and then weekend practices we miss due to out of town rep tournaments almost every weekend, I literally live at the rink, I'm there everyday almost. She made a comment that another mom wanted to sleep with her husband. I watched her yell at another coach from the stands, she threw a hissy fit about the score of a game being 24-0 and not 21-0 (u9 house league), I heard her make rude comments about the kid refs, she is super obnoxious and developed this following of other obnoxious hockey moms who sit around gossiping and bad mouthing kids and their parents while at the rink.

On another note, the other day I overheard the new VP of hockey - also a coach and parent, tell a u11 kid that he won't make the rep team next year and better hope he isnt on his house league team either.

Myself, I mind my business, strictly there to watch my kids and don't socialize much. Other parents have been expressing similar concerns about this coach (she is also a parent and on the board). 2 other parents told me they no longer go to hockey because of her. The boys on her team have now been bullying other kids. Ad I said, I have been involved in minor hockey for some time. My kids play rep, spring all of it and I have never seen this before in someone who is coaching or on the board. I have seen it with the overbearing parents but being she is a coach, I want her nowhere near my kids. I talked to the her directly after I heard she had been bad mouthing me but that didn't change anything. I am debating on putting in a complaint on both these people, thoughts? I only encounter them in house league right now, not rep but I am worried this will spill over into other teams they are on if these people are allowed to continue taking over minor hockey here.

Totally the norm. Shameful isnt it.

Wait until you have to deal with favouritism, parents who kiss butt or pay $$ to get extra ice time for their kid. Our coach is a parent and his kid isn’t that great, he was cut from the Aeros, he gave his kid first line centre position and the most mins. The kid can’t even score. So many loser parents in this sport.

Ohhh.. ok so normal for people to act like this and just move along?

Gossiping about kids is real classy.