Hockey Alberta makes it official - winter minor hockey season has been cancelled. Although the province is slowly opening things up a little bit, youth sports outside of school would only be open at the earliest for March 1 (and even that is far from a guarantee). Season ends at the end of March, so they decided they had just run out of time.
We're basically back to normal now in NC. We had been playing the past few months with nominal COVID protocols (expanded dressing rooms, no guests, no hanging out after games, etc) and that has all been dropped at this point.
I can't think of anything that's still different from pre-pandemic, other than that guys don't seem to spit water as much.
If there is one protocol I'd like to see kept is the expanded dressing rooms (well in our case you now get two rooms for your booking instead of just one). Who doesn't like having more room to operate while strapping on the gear.
Yup!That was exactly my thought the first time we went back to the normal rooms. I had gotten used to having some actual breathing room and not sitting practically on top of people’s gear.
Yup!
One of the rinks I play at has a 8 player max per locker room sign taped to the doors. They have a handful of seats spaced outside the lockerrom as well.
I’ve seen this from many people who play sports and just people in general. We just had almost 18 months where you couldn’t do much and worked from home, how hard was it to workout? Run, walk, push-ups, sit-ups, body weight strength stuff take no equipment or special gyms.Was back on the ice last night. Dressing rooms were back to normal - so cramped. Fantastic to see all the guys though.
My "skills" weren't too badly degraded, but my fitness sure was. I was just gassed by the end.
I’ve seen this from many people who play sports and just people in general. We just had almost 18 months where you couldn’t do much and worked from home, how hard was it to workout? Run, walk, push-ups, sit-ups, body weight strength stuff take no equipment or special gyms.
I've been working out from home during the pandemic. I've kept myself in good shape. I will say, though- even when I was working out at the gym- the first few games of hockey still wiped me out. I don't know if it's the cardio or just the muscles used are different, but damn- it takes me a couple of games to get back into shape.I’ve seen this from many people who play sports and just people in general. We just had almost 18 months where you couldn’t do much and worked from home, how hard was it to workout? Run, walk, push-ups, sit-ups, body weight strength stuff take no equipment or special gyms.