r/womenshockey

Hey! I’m a 22F student who fell in love with hockey about 3 years ago and am finally going to start playing! I’m not the best at skating so I know that that’s where i have to start but I was wondering if I should buy a pair of inlines to try and get more practice and more comfortable or if I should just stick to prep workouts in the gym?

Any advice is appreciated !

With so little focus on girl’s and women’s sports, it’s refreshing to see that there’s one book series that’s fully dedicated to girl’s youth hockey. Slapshot Sisters has four books in the series and each one focuses on a different challenge that hockey teams face, and with all the major characters being girls, it’s truly the only one that treats girl hockey players as just regular hockey players and not some token character thrown in. If you’ve got a young hockey player at home, this is really the only chapter book series that she can really relate to. Check it out.

I have been wearing Warrior Ritual 5x pro men's small for a chesty and some men's small warrior shorts (not sure which) for a few years. I bought the chesty after I broke my arm on a slapshot wearing a less beefy chest protector and honestly I've hated it the entire time. The arms have always felt a smidge too long but there wasn't a smaller size.

When I heard there was a women's specific bauer line coming out for goalies I was instantly interested. I wore it last night to my 3 on 3 game. 3 on 3 is on small ice and I've never seen anyone take a slap shot at 3 on 3 so I can't speak to how well it handles super hard shots yet but dang this thing really fits so well.

It's much smaller, which is great for packing my bag, but it's also not a gimmick that it was designed for women's bodies. At least mine, obviously there's a ton of variation. I'll say the only downsides are that with the shorts the leg holes are much smaller and it's a little annoying to get your skate through. For the arms they fit SO much better - I'm 5'5" and got a medium, buuuut the like cuff is kind of weird and feels like it traps heat into your gear.

Overall I'm a big fan after one skate. I'm more than happy to answer any questions.

I’m an adult female player, playing rec league in a women’s C-league and a coed D-league. Women’s league is very chill, but in coed I feel like some of the players are really obnoxious to female players. Is this normal/are there any solutions for it?

For example, I played D in a game last weekend where one specific dude (winger) was on my case the entire time. The puck would be nowhere near us and he’d be aggressively stick lifting me—and not just one lift, but like repeatedly wrenching my stick above my head and trying to stay entangled until I could wrench away. He also was skating up and ramming his shoulder into me randomly, again puck nowhere near us. Also rammed me into the boards a couple times. My team was already losing and none of this seemed to benefit him/his team at all.

Ive also had guys seemingly go out of their way to just run into me head on as their “defense” strategy. They don’t often do this with the guys, as far as I can tell. I’ve talked to other female players in my league and they think the players ram into us because we’re smaller and they know they can bully us more than the guys.

My female friend who played hockey with guys growing up said the men on my team should have my back there, but they don’t 🤷‍♀️

It’s genuinely so annoying that I’m debating dropping coed next season and just doing women’s league. The vibes of women’s league are way better, but I do like the faster play in coed and extra game per week in general.

Anyone have any insight on any solutions to this?

Hi all! I’ve completely fallen in love with hockey over the last year, especially during the playoffs (go Canes!), and decided that I’d love to start playing!

I’m 23F and consider myself pretty athletic. I’ve never played before, but I can skate comfortably at a public skate for an hour without falling. I know my skating will definitely need work, but I’m not starting completely from scratch.

I’m signing up for a women’s Learn to Play program in September, and my goal is to join either a women’s or coed league afterward!

Between now and September, what should I be focusing on to set myself up for success? I’m willing to put in the work!

A few questions:

• Should I spend most of my time improving my skating, or should I also work on stickhandling/shooting off the ice? How do I go about that as someone who’s never touched a hockey stick? 😂
• Any gear recommendations for a complete beginner? I’m left-handed if that matters!
• Anything you wish someone had told you before your first season?
• Any YouTube channels or resources you’d recommend?
• Also, if you started playing as an adult, I’d love to hear what your first year was like and anything you wish you’d done differently. :)

Thanks so much! I’m super excited and up for the challenge!!!

Any goalies that I can ask a question too?

A friend of mine has asked me to help her design gear more focused on women. She isn’t a goalie though so I am a bit clueless in this department

Hi - my 12U daughter is 5'9 and 125# at 11 and rapidly outgrowing her skates. We're hoping that this will be the last big foot-growth spurt so looking to invest in some good skates.

She's skated in Bauer Vapors her who life (currently X5 pros) and we're considering the following:

Bauer Fly40
CCM JetSpeed FT890

She's tried them on in our local shop and likes them both so we're going back and forth.

BUT... the guy helping us mentioned the CCM FTW skates which he does NOT carry but says have increased in popularity with women.

My daughter has tried on alot of the FTW equipment in the past and prefers STARK, but wondering if anyone has tried the FTW skates and if they're truly "better suited" to a woman's body than the Fly40 or FT890. Or... if this is just a clever marketing tactic out of CCM.

Appreciate your insight!

i’m 19, completely new to hockey and have been starting to look at some teams i could join but i’m quite worried about the body checking/injury side of things. (particularly head injuries)

i want to know cause if there’s a lot then i’ll probably give it a miss, i also like my teeth where they are now
😅

also im in england if it’s relevant??

Hey, I am a new women's rec player (some men play to fill out the team - vetted friends of the female players only), First game last night was trial by fire. My team mates made it clear I was not liked at first in the locker room. The organizer welcomed me and taught me how to get into the gear she kindly loaned. Then beside the ice was told which goal to shoot for, and JUST GO. Loved it! After, team mates gave me great tips and talked to me. I guess I passed the first trial.

Questions follow.

There was zero checking, I managed to touch the puck in the right direction, fell over hard (got picked up and hauled to bench), got knocked smooth down, landed flat for unknown reasons and got cheers for getting up. I could barely move last night and am just a little sore today.

How do I not piss off my team mates?

How do I get good so no one has to play softly against me?

Does getting knocked down/falling over start to happen/hurt less?

Why does anyone need a mouth guard with a cage face mask?

I'm buying my gear as I can afford it, starting with a jill.