If you want on or off, just ask!
Posted on 01/20/2008 5:55:19 AM PST by rhema
Joe Soucheray ping
I grew up in northern Michigan where we skied and nobody played hockey. When I was about 12 my dad and step-mom sent me a pair of hockey gloves for Christmas. When I opened the present I had absolutely no idea what they were for, I thought they were some kind of new padded ski gloves.......LOL!
What is "hockey"??
--- Wings from GA...
*******
Even our local "AA" NHL franchise....
(I think they are called the Atlanta Thrashers...)
....have yet to instruct us poor, deprived, warm-climate dwellers on the meaning and answer to such a basics-of-life question....
For the record... it's 21 degrees --- wind chill 9...
In the SOUTHERN suburbs...
But alas...
We're on drought-based water restrictions....
(No rink in the yard!)
More coffee for the old guy please...
A peaceful Lord's Day to all...
Probably the reason that I still have all my front teeth is that we moved from Minnesota to Colorado when I was eight years old and nobody played hockey. There were hardly any places to even skate.
The closest we came was when I was in college and we would play broom ball (or "broom brawl" as we called it). Played on ice, but without skates and using sawed off brooms and and ball.
My 16 yo son is presently playing in the Silver Sticks tournament in Sarnia, Canada. We live in Northern VA. His travel team, the Northern VA Ice Dogs, beat two of the top ranked Michigan teams in the tournament. Lost to a Canuck team, though. The Michiganders were more than a little shell shocked by their loss to a SUTHREN team : )
Please tell him....WELL DONE!!
thanks! : ) always amusing to hear the reactions of the northeners.
“The closest we came was when I was in college and we would play broom ball (or “broom brawl” as we called it). Played on ice, but without skates and using sawed off brooms and and ball.”
That’s just so sad!
I noticed this morning the scar on my right knee I got 50 years ago on a back yard rink just up the street; sharp spot at center ice! :)
We skated every day after school until supper, then after supper “under the lights” someone’s Dad had put up until it was time for homework. We lived on our skates on weekends and listened to the Canadiens’ games in French on the radio. Good times! I doubt I could last 5 minutes out there on the ice now.
After my dad passed away we were going through things at the house and we found my dad's old hockey skates (which I had worn a few times as a teenager before my feet outgrew them). They are now hanging at my brothers house on a peg on the wall and I smile every time a see them. Dad was an excellent skater, even did some barrel jumping in his day.
My son played School hockey in a pair of ‘Old School’ skates I bought on line from Hockey monkey. He used them for 4 years until he wore them out and ‘took over’ my ‘Mission’ skates. (Son, have you seen my skates? Sure Dad they are in my bag, I’ve been using them all season!)
Talk about name brands like CCM and the make great skates, but off brands are pretty good as well.
The way I skated (not good enough to make any hockey team, any age, any level in the state of Minnesota, off brands were the only kind I ever bought. If I could skate forward and reasonably straight with them, they were good enough for me.
If you want on or off, just ask!
Lot's of hockey being played in the South these days.
I play every Sunday night................in Miami, Florida.
(Only four more hours till we drop the puck!)
Thanks for the ping
I grew up in L.A. My best friends dad owned a hair salon where a lot of the Kings went. So I got to go to a lot of games pre-Gretzky. I started playing in a rec league when I was 20, after he convinced me it would be fun. It is by for the hardest, most satisfying sport I have ever played. I can’t imagine there are better athletes than hockey players.
My friend now sells executive suites for the Ducks, as close as he can get to what he loves.
i know! i love watching hockey!
A good pair of skates, sharpened professionally, could actually have made a difference.
Accept my trade...gimmie Roberto!!!!!!!!!!!!
All in all, I think I'm slated to be on the ice about 6 days out of the next 8.
To be sure, there's hockey here in the South. We just need to grow it MORE.
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