What do you mean ‘Too Much Hockey’?

Too Much Hockey

As we finish the long stretch of season planning meetings, equipment distribution and team selection it is indeed appropriate that I see an article in today’s Globe and Mail by Dwight Chapin in his Health Advisor column titled – ‘How much hockey is too much’?

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/health-advisor/how-much-hockey-is-too-much/article20620807/#dashboard/follows/

It’s a good primer for parents to help them monitor the physical, mental and emotional aspects of the game and to make sure they are staying in touch with their child’s development

But there is another side to this…the experience of a Hockey Volunteer.

When is it too much hockey for a Hockey Volunteer?

It’s too much hockey when you spend 2 hours dissecting the clauses of the A team policy that defines the angle that the stick must be held by players when sitting on the bench and its different for players with Green helmets versus Black helmets.

It’s too much hockey when you find yourself asleep in your bed with your coaching outfit on – whistle in your month-  periodic tweets as you snore. You wake up to see the cat staring at you and ready to pounce on the bird in your mouth!

It’s too much hockey when you get to practice and realize you forgot your skates, you don’t have a whistle and your wife is at Yoga with your pucks and cones in the back of the van. Ohmm…Ohmm.

It’s too much hockey when you get you new allotment of pucks for the season and you channel Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now…..”Ahh, I love the smell of vulcanized rubber in the morning”

It’s too much hockey when you hear Hockey Anthem songs playing on your iPod and you hear the lyrics– ‘Na, na, na…na, na…na……hey hey hey..get a life”

Its too much hockey when parents don’t think you have hair because you are either wearing a ball cap or a helmet all the time

It’s too much hockey when you spend all day limping and can’t lift a beer from injuries sustained in falls on the ice – as the kids all laughed uproariously while you tried to jab a protruding rib back in your hockey jacket.

It’s too much hockey when you are more excited by a contract extension given to Wade Redden rather than the end of the Teacher’s strike.

“Yes, Mr. Pratt, you should have come to the office for this much earlier. You have sustained a Hockey Brain injury”

“How long do I have Doc?”

“Oh…..probably the end of the season”

“Darn”

Horton hears a When?

Interesting to see in the Globe and Mail this morning a story about how the Burger King – Tim Horton’s deal came together over a six month period involving trips to see Warren ‘Food’ Buffet and equity players like 3G capital.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/streetwise/tim-hortons-faced-real-risk-of-hostile-bid-from-burger-king/article20637835/#dashboard/follows/

It only took 6 months to get the deal done………..I think I have sometimes waited longer in one of the Tim Horton’s line-ups around the country.

Remember…..’you always have time for Tim Horton’s’!