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Hockey is about class, dont be an ass
Blog — By grayser12 on November 13, 2011 10:53 PMHockey is an emotional game, we all know that. Everything that happens on the ice, in the dressing room, and on the bench dictates our behaviour for the 60 minutes of stop time; and that’s where it has to end. Everything that happens in those 60 minutes is irrelevant once you leave the dressing room. That doesn’t mean you can’t be stoked about a multi goal performance, or maybe a tilly where you dummied a guy bigger than you, but chat about it with your friends and don’t go searching for extra attention from the other team. Remember that once the game is over, that’s it. It’s done. There’s no need to have any of that extra emotion spill outside the rink. Let me tell you about why this is on my mind:
After pluggin up Jr.s for a few years, I’m livin the dream in rec hockey. Pretty fast paced games with friends and beers, can’t complain. We play this team that has a similar record as us, so it’s an important game (or as important as they come in rec) so the atmosphere in the dressing room is pretty eager to get out there and play. We do, and it’s a sick game. Had a Jr hockey pace about it, excellent reffing, unusual for a rec game at 10:30 at night. There are a few bumps; some chippy plays, few PIMs get handed out, but from what we all thought it was a solid game, and a big W for our team (yours truly with 1g 2a…no big deal haha).
As is tradition in the beer league, we all sit around with some cold ones and reflect on the ups and downs of the game. It’s getting late; everybody either works or has class in the morning so we call it a night. By now it’s just past midnight and the parking lot is scattered with a few vehicles and the other team is having a few pops at a vehicle and we decide to do the same to finish our case. A few drinks to go and some plug from the other team starts chirpin a few cars away, and we do our best to ignore it until he chucks a glass bottle where were standing. Apparently he was pissed about us “running up the score (we won 7-2…not that bad) and apparently it took a few bevies to work up the courage to tell us what he thought. Were a couple deep as well and aren’t really in the mood to put up with this plug throwing glass bottles so as he and a few others (who are trying to stop him) walk over we let him know how dumb he’s being and that he should take off. He takes a last drink from his beer before throwing the bottle at the guy beside me (who has been aching for a reason to tilly all game) who has had enough. My guy tells their guy to f*ck off, their guy takes a swing, our guy ducks and KOs the duster with two right on the button.
Now I know that our guy did the real damage (found out by talking to a guy from their team two days after that buddy has a hairline fracture in his jaw), but despite that fact our guy also let all his game emotions go, and was just having a beer with the boys at the end of the night. No harm, no foul. It was the fat f*ck who couldn’t let a rec hockey loss go that initiated the whole situation.
This was a situation where luckily the only damage was done to the person who deserved it, and he will have a few weeks off of puck to think what he’s gonna do the next time he acts up, but the point of the story is that no good comes from post-game grudges. I’m sure buddy doesn’t feel any better now about getting upset from a loss than he did while he was conscious in the parking lot, and I’m glad that only one person had to go to the hospital that night and that nothing escalated.
Always keep in mind gongers that you never know who is on the other team and what they might have with them. It’s a scary thought, but you never know what is gonna happen in those sort of situations, so just avoid them all together. Keep your anger on the ice and in the dressing room. Nobody likes the guy who thinks he has to make up for his dusty on ice play buy acting like a tough guy after the game. Keep it in ya, and use it as fuel for the next night.
Thanks for the read, dont forget to comment and earn those gonger points!
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87 Comments
say no to beer kids…
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Just remember, “Guns don’t kill people, dangerous minorities do”
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Ha ha, that was the situation on one roadie 2 years ago with my buddy getting threats from the other team’s minority…
lots of losers out there that take rec hockey waayyy too seriously. losing sucks, but in rec hockey, you should get over it pretty much as soon as the gear comes off. guys got family’s to go home to and work the next day.
good read guy, keep it up
Enlightening read keepem comin. WSP
I remember hoping that when the competitive lowered (beer leagues) so would the bull like this. Unfortunately that doesn’t seem to be the case.
End of the night we all shake hands and have brews at the same bar, none of us are getting paid to play, we just love the game. Some guys are just still upset about getting cut from the high school team, chirp all night and back it up by having worse hands than a snake.
Once the game is over. It’s done. whatever emotions are left over use them for fuel for the next game.
awesome
good read
I guess there’s one in every bunch. Thanks for sharing this!
must of been a nice punch
just some people
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My buddy’s beer league has tons of guys like that, that want to go in the parking lot. We usually get the guys to leave, but there’s always one that swings
just enjoy the game. and tha pints.
hockey and beer that’s all.. gotta leave them emotions in the locker room and on the ice. kinda glad that guy got popped. Maybe he’ll remember that next time.
there are a lot of classless hockey players out there now
The price is wrong buddy!
i remember my first beer. what a plug
lol funny!!!
hahaha, nuff said
thats great
solid read soo true !!!
Great Read!!!!!!!
ghh
couldnt be more true
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great read, thanks
what an idiot
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good read, what a shmuck
totally agreed , guys a dud
very good article, and someone needs to tell the guy that was mad about losing… it’s okay to be mad, but dude.. it’s just a game… What’s the main reason you play for? it’s for fun and the love of the game, be happy you can play while some who want to, can’t. It’s a fun game that we are lucky to have the priviledge to play, and I try not to take that for granted.
beauty read
true!
Good Read….Buddy deserved what he got, it’s rec league forget about the loss and move on
So real i had the same situation with a guy who dont even know me outside the rink but when he see who i was outside he want a brawl just bcz of me beating him in the playoff!!loll such an a**hole
There’s a couple in every beer league
Awesome
so tru
great read
agreed
Good read guys and completely agree with ya!
deserved it.
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just tap it in, tap tap happy tap lol
good read !!
Loove it
Some guys do take it way too far but I mean at the end of the day we’re all competitors and we all wanna win. But you could have run the score up or caught me with a stick and I’d be more than willing to go for a beer with you right after.
Definitely true, wish that more people were gongers so they could read up on this stuff to give their head a shake.
Beer League hockey makes saterday nights very enjoyable
awesome!! always enjoy beer league
Regardless of what league you’re playing in, whether it’s a beer league, or the NHL, or anything in between, you’re playing a game, and you have to respect it. You’re not only making yourself look bad if you do something stupid, you’re making your team, and the sport look classless. Sure, the grander the stage, the worse you will look, but that comes with the territory (and the money haha). But always respect the game. No matter how bad the guy on the other team is chirping at you and getting under your pads, he’s a hockey player just like you. Beat him on the scoreboard. Light the lamp, dangle around his dumb ass, or lay a clean hit on him. Don’t be a fool.
^so true
true
leave it on the ice, boys
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unreal!
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beaut
def see those guys every game.
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nice stuff!