'Minimum attire' rule from Hockey Canada drawing mixed reaction
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There’s a new dress code coming to hockey rinks across Manitoba this season.
There’s a new dress code coming to hockey rinks across Manitoba this season.
"Hockey Canada's Dressing Room Policy, which will be implemented for the 2023-24 season, was designed to enhance the safety of all participants through proper supervision and minimum attire requirements," Hockey Canada said in a statement.
"All participants have the right to utilize the dressing room or appropriate and equivalent dressing environment based on their gender identity, religious beliefs, body image concerns, and/or other reasons related to their individual needs."
The "minimum attire rule" requires that players be wearing a base layer in a dressing room when surrounded by at least one other person.
"I think it’s kinda silly. But some of us have been playing on the same for a while and I don’t know, we’re kinda used to seeing everyone like that but it won’t be hard to adjust to,” Reese Talbot, a hockey player and U-15 referee, told CTV News Winnipeg on Friday.
The policy, which applies to all minor hockey teams sanctioned by Hockey Canada and its member associations, recommends that players arrive at the arena wearing that base layer.
"I’m still on the fence about it but other guys I know some will blow up and some will just you know be completely on board with it,” Talbot explained.
