He is also somewhat awkward in social settings due to a lack of self-confidence and obvious anxiety. In one of his first appearances on Degrassi , Cam actually shows a normal stereotype of junior hockey players: Hockey is more important than education. When the truth is revealed that Cam was talking with Tristan, and not Maya, he gets upset and he says that he will never be friends with them.
Even though Cam has apologized before for being a bit of a jerk, especially since he is so far away from home and the team is like his family, this outburst comes as a shock. Thankfully, he forgives Maya and they become friends again. In one Degrassi episode, Cam is about to sit with Maya at lunch when he is intercepted by Dallas and brought over to where the hockey players are sitting. Dallas teases Cam for wanting to sit with girls. This is perplexing. Junior hockey players are used to having a lot of girls sitting with them, co-mingling with their friends.
That is actually something not seen so far this season on Degrassi. Such homophobic teasing would not be tolerated, especially with recent sanctions in the OHL over homophobic and racial slurs.
Cam has been shown to be quite homesick at Degrassi, something that does affect several junior hockey players, albeit mostly imports. He is approached by Bianca Alicia Josipovic with whom he had a rather forgettable experience at the mall.
Cam and Maya have developed a relationship and have started dating. It is not unusual for junior hockey players to date girls from where they play; in fact, even several European imports in the CHL date North American girls. Despite it all, there is one glimmering inaccuracy with Cam and his presence on the Ice Hounds.
If the Ice Hounds are a tier II junior A hockey team, he could only be called up for three-game periods at a time, despite his obvious talents, since year-olds are not allowed to play full seasons in tier II junior A hockey anymore in Ontario.
Furthermore, Dallas tells Cam — who later tells Bianca in an effort to impress her — that he will be in the NHL in two years. This does not take into account if Cam has a late birthday that would cause him to have to wait for an extra year to be drafted. While practicing his stickhandling in the gym, Cam says some commentary, which includes him saying that he could pass the puck to Dallas; it is quite rare to see a rookie play with the team captain so quickly. Additionally, on tier II junior hockey teams, underage players must wear protective cages.
That lapse in character development aside, Degrassi really created a believable character in Cam. He reminds me of several junior hockey players I have met over the years, especially when they were rookies. His development, both personally and professionally, can be spread over several seasons, something that makes him even more relatable to many real junior hockey players, who grow as people and athletes as the seasons progress.
Ever since the suicides of Rick Rypien and Wade Belak in , the hockey community has awakened to the issue of depression, now with former NHL player Stephane Richer also admitting that he has suffered from it.
Dallas may be a local but he billets with the Torres family, allowing him to become closer friends with Drew Luke Bilyk. Many times, however, Dallas seems almost mean to Cam, who is the youngest member of the team. He teases him about silly little things, which seem to make his rookie teammate feel uncomfortable, but he claims it is all in fun. That being said, hockey captains should be the ones to make sure that their rookies feel comfortable on the team and with the other players.
There is no denying that some hockey players can be that way, especially since they know that they are doing whatever they can to make their dreams of playing professionally come true.
Junior hockey players, however, can be very humble individuals, giving of their time off the ice just as much as giving their effort on it. Just like in real life, though, there are some people who are not going to be impressed with such arrogance. Fiona Annie Clark really put Dallas in his place on their first meeting; refusing to believe that Fiona was a lesbian, Dallas asked her to kiss her girlfriend Imogen Cristine Prosperi in front of him and his teammates to prove it but Fiona retorted by doing so only if Dallas kissed one of his teammates first.
From my personal experience, I do not deal well with cockiness so I make sure that, if a hockey player tries to be cocky around me, I employ my quick-witted nature to let him know that his attitude is not necessary.
During his first weekend at the Torres family home, Dallas throws a kegger in which several people from Degrassi attend. This is remarkably quite accurate. Some junior hockey players do tend to enjoy partying when they do not have games. Underage drinking is also quite prevalent. As well, many teams enforce that substance abuse, whether drugs or alcohol, will not be tolerated but, somehow, there are still many times when keggers and parties of this nature are still held.
That is something that Degrassi definitely does not sugarcoat in its representation of junior hockey. With Dallas being the captain of the Ice Hounds, he should know better than to allow such transgression of team rules to happen.
This is something that can be considered partly true. There is no doubt that girls gravitate toward hockey players. The social status that they exude, especially here in Canada, is undeniably an attraction.
It is not always the case, even though stereotypes would think otherwise, that hockey players are willing to jump into bed with every girl they meet. Online messageboards and forums revile hockey players, especially juniors, for being unfaithful to their girlfriends, saying that they are frequently cheating and sleeping around; most of these respondents are girls who claim to have caught the players in the act and some even go so far as to say that they were the girls that the hockey player was cheating on his girlfriend with.
Handle this subject pertaining to your house rules. Please notify the club if problems arise from this. Junior hockey players may go through several girlfriends during their careers but, during these relationships, many remain true, faithful and monogamous. A hockey player may travel hundreds of kilometres to go to the prom with his girlfriend from where he plays during the season. In the case of European imports, they revel at the opportunity to allow their girlfriends to come over to their home countries.
Safe to say, infidelity is not always an issue with hockey players, especially at the junior level. One thing that is very encouraging, despite all of the embellishment of character, is that a player of colour is the captain of the Ice Hounds.
Sadly, hockey is still a sport dominated by white players and even more underwhelming is the fact that the number of ice hockey captains of colour or ethnicity is not very high either. In the OHL last season, no player of colour wore a C. Degrassi must be lauded for allowing Dallas to be the captain of the Ice Hounds based on that fact. Luke and his family moved to Toronto from Florida after he was signed by the team.
A born player, Luke is, remarkably, one of the more accurate junior hockey player characters on this new season of Degrassi. School's Out! Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Toronto Ice Hounds. History Talk 0. Do you like this video?
Play Sound. Former Members Campbell Saunders ; deceased. Owen Milligan ; graduated. Mike Dallas ; cut for new talent. Luke Baker ; removed after being arrested on sexual assault charges and expelled. Bo Andersson ; from Sweden, billeted with an unknown family along with his twin brother.
Ingvar Andersson ; from Sweden, billeted with an unknown family along with his twin brother. Opposing fictional teams include the Sarnia Stallions green jerseys and Hamilton Apex yellow. One of these "hockey teams" was made up entirely of Degrassi writers. Their first ever appearance and mention was in the first episode of Season
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