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“I never thought I’d want a girl on the team, but Amanda was pretty good, actually. I’d never tell her that, but she is. She’s fast with the glove and really flexible. She can practically hang a split in front of the goal and no puck can get under pads that are locked to the ice. She’d be okay looking too if she ever took that goalie mask off so you could see her face.
She has brown hair that she always ties back and green eyes, but she has about $5,000 worth of metal in her mouth. Yeah, braces; it’s a good thing we have to wear full face masks. I bet Amanda’s parents would flip out if she busted a tooth.”
― Danger Zone
She has brown hair that she always ties back and green eyes, but she has about $5,000 worth of metal in her mouth. Yeah, braces; it’s a good thing we have to wear full face masks. I bet Amanda’s parents would flip out if she busted a tooth.”
― Danger Zone
“I like playing defense, but sometimes I think it might be fun to score the goals. It would be nice to be the good guy for a change.”
― Danger Zone
― Danger Zone
“Hockey has too many rules if you ask me. If I didn’t love the game so much, I wouldn’t be here. They make you remember everything. Equipment, penalties, strategies, you name it. But I guess that’s partly why it’s so much fun; it’s not easy, you know? So you feel awesome when you do really great.”
― Danger Zone
― Danger Zone
“After the sprints, which left my knees feeling like vanilla pudding, Brad let us grab a drink from our water bottles and rest for a minute. Practice wasn’t even half over and I already felt ready to quit.”
― Goon Squad
― Goon Squad
“I’d worked plenty hard in practice before, but never had I come off the ice and had every single muscle in my whole body ache with tiredness. All I wanted was a hot shower and about 30 tons of food. My stomach felt like it was eating its own lining. I sure hoped there were groceries at home.”
― Goon Squad
― Goon Squad
“I keep my red-brown hair bristle short so it doesn’t curl. Put it on top of a face full of freckles and a nose that isn’t exactly small, I don’t think I have career options in TV.”
― Goon Squad
― Goon Squad
“Dad was a big part of my hockey, that’s for sure. He really wanted to see me succeed. He helped pay for me to play even when money was tight. Having him totally gone was going to be weird.”
― Goon Squad
― Goon Squad
“I glanced over at Zach. He didn’t look thrilled to work with me, either. I guess I can’t blame him. I used to give him a pretty rough time. That was before I got sent to this special class because I was always picking on other kids. I had to go there for a month or so before they’d let me come back to school. It was just like regular school, except every day I had to talk to a bunch of people about being angry and junk like that. I wasn’t angry.
When people ticked me off, I let them know. And if they wanted to cough up lunch money instead of telling me where to get off, who was I to complain? Yeah, so I was a jerk. Tell me something I don’t know.”
― Danger Zone
When people ticked me off, I let them know. And if they wanted to cough up lunch money instead of telling me where to get off, who was I to complain? Yeah, so I was a jerk. Tell me something I don’t know.”
― Danger Zone
“Scrimmage is one of the most intense parts of a practice. Its a chance for the coach to really analyze how skilled a played. For a first practice with a new coach, you want to show off a bit, impress him. There was no way I was going to impress anybody, not after the gruelling workout I’d just been through.
I could hardly believe that I’d only been on the ice for 45 minutes with a half-hour still to go. It felt like I’d been doing hard labor for hours.”
― Goon Squad
I could hardly believe that I’d only been on the ice for 45 minutes with a half-hour still to go. It felt like I’d been doing hard labor for hours.”
― Goon Squad
“The Fire-Eaters were a special elite-level team that played after the regular season ended. They had top-notch training and the off-season games added a lot to a player’s performance when the regular season rolled around. Problem? You can’t join the Fire-Eaters. They have to pick you.”
― Goon Squad
― Goon Squad
“Everybody knows you don’t hit from behind. It’s the number-one rule in hockey. We even have stop signs sewn on the back of our jerseys to remind us. More kids have gotten hurt being checked from behind than anything else in hockey.”
― Danger Zone
― Danger Zone
“All I’ve ever wanted was to go pro ever since my dad first put me in hockey when I was 7. Some of the other kids go to fancy hockey camps in the summer and practice with the best coaches, but I never could.
My folks are divorced and even working two jobs, my mom could barely keep up with the rent, so my hockey fees were partly subsidized and my dad paid the rest. There was no money available to help my performance. I had to earn my chops on the ice by myself.”
― Goon Squad
My folks are divorced and even working two jobs, my mom could barely keep up with the rent, so my hockey fees were partly subsidized and my dad paid the rest. There was no money available to help my performance. I had to earn my chops on the ice by myself.”
― Goon Squad
“See, I’m pretty big for a guy in PeeWee. I’m thirteen. If the new age categories had come down this year, I’d already be in Bantam. Even then, I’d still be one of the bigger guys. Parents on the other team don’t like me much because I’m always clobbering their kids. I’ve already had five complaints this season about how I’m too big and aggressive to play PeeWee and I should’ve been moved up. But I can’t help being bigger and my coach likes hard-hitting defense; he keeps telling me to go for it. Besides, I’m still the right age for PeeWee, no matter what those parents say.”
― Danger Zone
― Danger Zone
