Hockey is my life. Everything i do is surrounded around hockey. Nothing is more relaxing, then gettin to the rink and chattin it up with the team. Some of the best times are just sittin there, talkin about life, girls, how much you drank the night before, best times of your life. There might be a little hate in the dressing room, but once you step out on that fresh ice, everybody does there job. from the goalies, to the tough defencemen, to the power forwards and goal scores. There is no other better relief than the end of 60 minutes, when your job is done, and if you do it well, you end up with the win. The after game is up in the air. A win can get the guys laughin and puttin in the lipper. A lose can involve in quiteness and failure. But in the end, everybody seems happy in the end. There is no other sport like it. And once you step out of that dressing room, life continues until you return to the lokcer room with the boys


The Hockey Dressing Room:

People on the outside world cannot understand what happens in a
hockey dressing room. The word chemistry is often used to
describe what lurks behind the walls of a tight knit hockey
room. If you talk to most players who win championships, they
talk of the blood and guts, the second efforts, but most
importantly they point out the chemistry in the room. From the
day training camp starts, players are thrown together from all
parts of the globe. Once the team is made, this is now your
second family. You will bleed with these teammates, you will win
and you will lose with them, but most of all they will become your best buddies in the
world. These are the guys you have to trust – not only on the
ice but off the ice as well. When your flying up the ice and you
hear a “heads up stewy!”, and you quickly avoid a train coming
at you, your buddies were there for you. When you are at the bar
unable to walk, your buddies are the ones to make sure you get
home ok. When you passed out on the couch, your buddies are the
ones that will tea bag you and then take pictures of it for all
the lads. You will taste the sweet flavor of
victory, and you will cry tears together in defeat. You Will Go Through hell
and high water for the next 9 months you will have a family that
will take care of you. Away from home for the first time, you
may feel homesick. Your boys will stick together and all of you
will have some of the best times of you life. Stories told in
the dressing room, end when you walk out the door. What happens
in a dressing room becomes a world of itself. If you respect
this responsibility you will reap the benefits of a great year.
Respecting the code of the locker room is more about life then
it is about what happens on the ice.Cherish these times in the
room boys, from sitting around having a chew after a game, or
pissing on a rookie in the shower – these are memories that will
stay with you for a lifetime. Embrace these rules, respect your
teammates, but most of all enjoy the dance. When it’s all over,
you will think back and smile at the golden moments of your
youth. Then you will wake up your son and take him to practice.
As you take a sip of your warm coffee, you can be gracious that
you were there – you played, you laughed, your cried –and got to the dance