DCHP-3

hockey dad

DCHP-2 (Aug 2016)

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hockey father

n. — Hockey

a father dedicated to his child's or children's hockey playing.

Type: 4. Culturally Significant — Compared to the terms hockey mother and hockey mom, the equivalent term relating to fathers is a generation younger. For more details see the information under hockey mom, which applies in equal measure to hockey dad.
COD-2 does not list the term.

Quotations

1964
We hear of all the problems caused by overzealous parents. Overzealous parents are seldom the workers, the builders. There is plenty of need for ice hockey leadership on the part of young hockey fathers. This is the great sport their sons enjoy.
1978
From the more of [sic] the same department this week comes a report about two hockey fathers fighting outside the Memorial Community Centre recently, complete with crying children for an audience.
1980
"Pick on somebody your own size," a hockey-jacketed spectator bellowed at the referee as a player was being ushered off the ice. "The kid's here to play hockey, not to study the insides of a dressing room." The chubby hockey father, sporting a leather jacket decorated with minor-hockey crests, was echoing the emotions of the crowd . . .
1986
If there's a rite of Canadian passage, it's surely getting up before dawn on a Sunday and driving to a stark, suburban, coffee-less arena to help a 10-year-old gear up in the gladiator's costume of a Minor Atom hockey league playoff. These championships mark the end of my third season as a hockey dad.
1995
Ferraro's father, who owned a concrete business, was the typical hockey dad, driving his son to practice and never missing a game. "He'd get home at 4 p.m. I'd have a game at 4:15 and he'd be there. He'd come home from the gravel pit, all black and dirty, but never missed a faceoff."
2006
A Stephenville man finally gets to live his dream to be a hockey dad when his three daughters take up the game of hockey. The catch: they didn't start playing until they were in their 30s.
2016
For the past three seasons as a hockey dad and major junior coach, Steve O'Rourke has had to adjust to the fact he was never in the same building to watch his teenaged son Ethan play the game.

References

  • COD-2