A recent dressing room policy update states “Hockey Canada requires all participants to always wear ‘minimum attire’ in a dressing room or in dressing environments where more than one participant is present.”
However, this policy is both in its early stages, and ‘nothing new’ according to several local hockey associations.
Hockey Canada’s policy change affects all associations under its umbrella, but may be targeted at some more than others, in the opinion of Dan Gillies, Grand River Mustangs president.
Gillies says while the Mustangs are working with higher-ups to plan this change out, most of it won’t radically shift things from how they are right now.
Gillies reminds those involved patience is in this case, a virtue.
Centre Wellington Minor Hockey, in an email to The Grand at 101, stated this policy must still be reviewed by the Ontario Hockey Federation. They said a series of webinars is also in the works.
Another rule discussed in the new legislation was the rule of two, that a minimum of two trained supervisors must be in a minor hockey dressing room at all times.
