Will the NHL ever see a female head coach?

[Viqsi]

Exactly one side doesn't respect the other's opinion meanwhile GMs around the league respect our opinion as well and they want to have the best coaches possible for their teams. Just label everyone who disagrees with your opinion.

It would be difficult to elaborate further on the issue here without drawing the thread off topic, so I'll just point out that some of those particular labels have specific definitions attached to them, and just because there's immature whiny nitwits out there who like to jump to conclusions w/r/t applying them doesn't mean they're inherently meaningless.

 

[winnipegger]

The point is that if you have to go there, you already are. It's just a question of whether or not you can channel it productively.

Hockey is a very aggressive sport. If there happens to be a woman who can command a room of 30 guys dripping with testosterone good on her. I remain skeptical.

 

[Icarium]

Exactly one side doesn't respect the other's opinion meanwhile GMs around the league respect our opinion as well and they want to have the best coaches possible for their teams.

Not so sure about considering the same 40 or so coaches are switching from team to team and new additions are really rare. Also, I doubt that literally all great hockey coaches are born in only two countries.

 

[Finlandia WOAT]

If there happens to be a woman who can command a room of 30 guys dripping with testosterone good on her. I remain skeptical.

What about 100,000?

Boudica - Wikipedia

 

[Panthaz89]

Not so sure about considering the same 40 or so coaches are switching from team to team and new additions are really rare. Also, I doubt that literally all great hockey coaches are born in only two countries.

It isn't just the NHL there is the AHL, KHL, SHL, Liiga, and several other hockey leagues around the world this isn't simply just the NHL.

 

[Karl Eriksson]

Are there any female HC’s at CHL or AHL level? It will take that step-wise evolution.

 

[Canadienna]

I think female management jobs will come first. GM, assistant GM, head of scouting etc.

Women coaching and playing in the NHL may take a very long time/require a very special person. There are uncomfortable truths around what I see as necessary aggression and confrontational traits being skewed towards males, particularly so at the extremes.

I think as we bring more women into management the idea of a female coach will be less taboo, and lower level men's leagues may give a few a chance.

If they are successful there, then I imagine some NHL team will bring them in to work through the ranks.

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

What about 100,000?

Boudica - Wikipedia

I guess you ignored the part where her 100,000 warriors were defeated by only 10,000 Romans led by a man. Checkmate, atheists!

 

[Icarium]

It isn't just the NHL there is the AHL, KHL, SHL, Liiga, and several other hockey leagues around the world this isn't simply just the NHL.

True, I am just saying that NHL GMs tend to go with the safe choices, i.e. coaches who have already coached in the NHL.

 

[lottster14]

No. Men coach men (and can coach women), while women only coach women.

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

Men can coach women)

Why?

women only coach women.

Why?

 

[SoupNazi]

No. Men coach men (and can coach women), while women only coach women.

And why is that?

 

[lottster14]

Why?



Why?

Better on ice results.

 

[Tad Mikowsky]

No. Men coach men (and can coach women), while women only coach women.

lol can’t wait to see you explain this, but you’ll probably just bail.

 

[SoupNazi]

Better on ice results.

You don't have enough data to prove that, since there hasn't been a female head coach in the NHL.

 

[CanadienShark]

Better on ice results.

How could you possibly know this? Literally no NHL example to base this BS opinion on.

 

[winnipegger]

What about 100,000?

Boudica - Wikipedia

Want to talk about the ratio of military leaders between genders in the last 200,000 years? Ridiculous.

Not saying a female coach can't happen. But she'll have to work her way through the lower leagues. There's no freebies in pro sports.

 

[Killer Orcas]

Some day but I don't see it any time soon myself.

 

[lottster14]

It's pretty passive aggressive and condescending to call people "hon" when you're having a conversation. How would you like it if I prefaced everything with "sweetie".

Hockey is a very aggressive sport. If there happens to be a woman who can command a room of 30 guys dripping with testosterone good on her. I remain skeptical.

Exactly.

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

Better on ice results.

There's no freebies in pro sports.

 

[Finlandia WOAT]

Want to talk about the ratio of military leaders between genders in the last 200,000 years? Ridiculous.

No, I want to talk about this statement:

If there happens to be a woman who can command a room of 30 guys dripping with testosterone good on her. I remain skeptical.

 

[habsrule4eva3089]

Western feminism is such a strange movement. Instead of a movement meant to represent all women, it often centers on those who already have most of their needs met.

I feel so sorry for the day professional Hockey players have a Woman as a coach.

Oh wait we can't say that or joke about that apparently because Women belong with Men everywhere .

 

[SoupNazi]

Exactly.

Can you tell me how you know men get better on-ice results in the NHL than women?

 

[Jacob]

Kevin Dineen coached the women’s team.

 

[Icarium]

Hockey is a very aggressive sport. If there happens to be a woman who can command a room of 30 guys dripping with testosterone good on her. I remain skeptical.

Barry Trotz is less physically imposing than a lot of women and seems to do just fine.