Hockey

[crappiekid24]

Seeing as we have a bunch of hockey threads, who plays hockey? I will be joining the intermural league at my school next year. I have only really played pond hockey before so I am looking forward getting in a fun league and playing.

Who else plays?

[Jigfishn10]

I started playing when I was 5 until my mid 30's when I was playing at least 4 nights a week. I got out of "playing for fun" leagues when I separated my shoulder 1 too many times b/c guys took it way too serious and "forgot" they were no-check leagues.

Trust me, I hated walking away from playing, but missing a day or 2 days pay b/c of an injury while playing hockey got expensive. I won't lie tho, I miss playing.

[bilgerat]

Played much pond hockey as a kid, never organized though. Where I grew up, street hockey was king. Enough kids to have complete teams, shifts, backup goalies I'm not kidding. We would play for hours on end until it was too dark to see. This was before a lot of towns built street rinks. We played on the street or schoolyards.

If you're old enough to remember street hockey from the 70's, you'll laugh at this. I'm about 11 years old. It's the dead of winter and we're on the lake playing ice hockey using regulation pucks with street hockey gear. I'm in goal with my Mylec pads and my paper thin Tony Esposito goalie mask. I'm Bernie F*in Parent....until this 14 year old kid takes a slapshot. I stop the puck...with my face. Lights out. Call in the backup goalie

Those were the days.

[Jigfishn10]

Street hockey is what made the winters go by.

Bilgerat, your about my age, back around high school when the rinks shut down, they used to convert the rinks for street hockey, no skating, but steet hockey on the concrete floor of the rink, and had leagues during the summer. Did you guys have that?

[GTrombly]

I started playing a couple months ago with a few buddies, we play fridays from 10-midnight usually. It is fun but everyone is starting to get better and faster, so we're going to full pads soon before someone gets hurt.

[erau618]

I played form 12 until my senior year of high school. After that, I went to Southern Illinois, where there isn't an ice rink within 30 miles of Carbondale.

[bilgerat]

Street hockey is what made the winters go by.

Bilgerat, your about my age, back around high school when the rinks shut down, they used to convert the rinks for street hockey, no skating, but steet hockey on the concrete floor of the rink, and had leagues during the summer. Did you guys have that?

Nah. We had a few rinks around but they never did that. Our last games as a group were in a local elementary school playground. It was about then some towns started building street hockey only rinks. It was about when roller hockey started to kick in. By then we had pretty much fragmented and there wasn't enough interest

It's funny, my 14 year old daughter and I were just laughing remembering when she was about 3 years old. I got a set of miniature foam hockey sticks and a foam puck. My wife had rolled her eyes and said "She's not a boy"...we used to smack that puck around the kitchen for hours. She is a rabid hockey fan now....

[zero limit]

Started skating around 6-7, I remember my mother putting black shoe polish on white girls skates for me and getting teased quite a bit untill my dad bought me a pair of CCM Tacks,So 40+ yrs. and counting Still playing today in mens no check leagues and Rat hockey a couple times a week at the age of 50. Played high school hockey also played in several tournaments in toronto and Detroit back in the early 80s.

[ROCbass]

I played all through high school. Now I only play on the pond and go to the occasional skate and shoot. I really want to get back into it, but its tough finding a beer league that fits my class schedule.

[zero limit]

Played much pond hockey as a kid, never organized though. Where I grew up, street hockey was king. Enough kids to have complete teams, shifts, backup goalies I'm not kidding. We would play for hours on end until it was too dark to see. This was before a lot of towns built street rinks. We played on the street or schoolyards.

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Ya street hockey too!We used to buy mens size white t-shirts

And a big box of colored markers and make our own jeresys At that time I think there were 12 team's in the NHL and we made all the teams

[JoePhish]

Grew up playing on a frozen pond or in the warmer months, in the street, pretending I was Billy Smith, Mike Bossy or Bryan Trottier. Ah, the Glory Days.

Since organized youth hockey wasn't that mainstream on LI back then I put my hockey gear in the back of the garage and went on to play other sports. Years later, when I was in my 30's, I picked it back up again to play in-line hockey. I'm a goalie and my knees are shot now, so I don't play any more. I gave away all my gear before I moved to Florida. Figured there wouldn't be much beach hockey going on.

[trevor]

I love to play dek hockey, never had the opportunity to ice skate.

[Sam]

Sorry, grew up in south Louisiana and we really did not get enough ice or snow to play ice hockey.

We fished!!!