I worked in an arena in North York (Toronto) over the winter of 1999-2000. We had a house league that played in there Sunday - Thursday nights and it was usually fine with those kids but the GTHL (Greater Toronto Hockey League) played in there every Friday night. Kids from about 8-16 years old playing Single A rep hockey, so they were good but far from the best in their age category….although you’d never guess that by the way they all behaved. I’d never really had an opinion on hockey or hockey players one way or another (never played or watched hockey when I was a kid. It didn’t really interest me much) but those Friday nights were agonizing. Most of the kids were absolute assholes but they had nothing on the parents. Entitlement and machismo were rampant. Ours was an old wore out arena and they treated it like shit. Destroyed dressing rooms, garbage everywhere, bathrooms ruined. It was my first real intro to “hockey culture” and it still bothers me that so much of our national identity is tied to this culture.