Grade 12
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Hockey Player
This is for the stars in the show and the guys going to the show, the boys in
the juniors living the dream and the die hards lighting up the beer leagues.
This is for the snipers, the playmakers, the grinders, the fighters, the power
forwards, the blue chip d-men, the bottle fillers, the men in the pipes, the men
on the bench, and the boys in the box.
This is for sniping ginos, chizzling apples, throwing sauce, undressing tendies,
banging home rebounds, making big glove saves, and burying OT winners.
This is for the dirty dangles, sick toe drags, backhand toe drags, spin-o-ramas,
bar downs, top cheese, One-Tees, snappers and clappers, big-time celly's, poke-
checks, pad-stacks, big hits and hip-checks, troller tracks, and toe-to-toe
tillies
This is for the long bus trips, the early morning practices, the bag-skates, the
battles in the corners, the bad dental, the sweet flow, the playoff beards, the
chews, the beers, the tears, the laughs, the team shakers, the beauties wheeling
hot broads, and the gongers wheeling swampers.
This is for the wins, losses, and ties, the end-to-end overtimes, the gruelling
training camps, the pre-season exies, the regular season battles, the playoff
wars, and raising the championship trophies.
This is for anyone who knows what all this means, because you are a part of
the greatest game on earth.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, a vision