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Ginette Reno posted:In a lot of places in the US it's customary for goalies to either pay less or even play for free outright. It's a bit of a tradition because it's not always easy to find goalies and you can't well have beer league hockey without them. Also goalie equipment is more expensive than skater equipment, with good leg pads in particular costing a lot of money. Yes, it's the case in Canada. Goalie equipment is expensive as hell so there are fewer goalies in the age brackets where your parents don't buy your equipment any more, so there are fewer available. I've never heard of a goalie paying for ice time in a rec league. Also this thread is really interesting to read as a Canadian. I tend to think of the States as just a warmer, weirder Canada, but there are these little cultural differences that you don't notice until they're right in front of you. The idea that someone could grow to adulthood without extensive exposure to hockey is really weird to me.
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Baronash posted:Do you mean you're surprised that not as many people play it, or that not that many people watch it regularly? What is it like in Canada, is it something that every Dad signs up their kid for? Not everybody plays hockey in Canada (hockey equipment is expensive, league fees are expensive) but hockey is just so much part of the culture here. When I was growing up, everyone traded hockey cards. Everyone had a favourite player and a favourite team. Everyone had a game of road hockey on their street at some point. It's just bizarre to me that you could grow up without absorbing the language and culture of hockey literally everywhere. I guess it's kind of like, you know, I'm Jewish, but I still understand the basics of Christianity: I know the main sects within the religion, I understand basically what happens in a church service, I know the highlights of the New Testament and the principal beliefs of the religion. Why? Because it's everywhere; it's a huge cultural force. It's just there. Not knowing that beer league goalies get free ice time would be like not knowing about Communion. It's not sometime I personally participate in, but it occupies a huge amount of cultural space. (I'm not saying hockey is a religion in Canada, mind. I'm just saying that it occupies a lot of cultural real estate.) Also I have to laugh because as I'm typing this my husband is, you guessed it, watching hockey on the other side of the room.
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