Why I Love Hockey Research Paper

Why I love to play hockey When I was young, six or seven years of age, my mother gave me my first hockey stick(s), a pair of Fisher-Price goalie sticks. I used these to play street hockey with the older local neighbor kids in the cul-de-sac, where my buddy Eddy and I were the goalies. This was the spark of my interest in hockey, but I did not play it competitively on the ice for a few more years. In the third grade where I was already active in baseball, soccer, and basketball, I decided to learn to skate on ice and joined my friend Eddy’s in-house hockey team. Immediately it became my sport of choice, and picking it up seemed to come easy, too. I worked hard and played in the less competitive in-house level for three years when I decided
Going for about 45-50 seconds a shift, a player is moving constantly the entire time stopping on their edges, spraying ice debris into the air, and using the power of their legs to burst into stride again. To keep the pace of the game at a high speed, substitutes are done on the fly or at a stoppage of play. I like the fast pace of the sport because it keeps things unpredictable and it takes chemistry to score instead of a play call design. You act upon your instincts more often then doing what you practice, giving it a quality unlike many other sports. However, like any other competitive sport, it takes hard work to excel and get better. This hard work usually took place as practice three times a week for two hours a session. The drill usually opinioned as the worst was called the “60 second drill” later called the “45 second drill” as you got older. This drill consisted of skating to every line and back on the rink under that time frame, and if even only one teammate did not make that time then an extra would be added to the list. Another way of working hard and honing your skills was to attend various camps in the offseason. One could find a camp virtually anywhere, most likely at the local ice-rink if so desired, but like anything else, you get what you pay for. These expensive camps are usually well worth it with a week straight of intense on ice work outs and dry land workouts. A
In Northern Illinois, NIHL is the name of the club league where teams travel around Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin to play each other. Commonly at the older ages of youth level is when kids travel the most for tournaments. At the high school level, teams play mainly only in the state of origin, giving youth players the advantage of playing skilled skaters outside of their area. I have been all over the eastern side of the Mississippi River for tournaments including: St. Louis, Champagne, Kalamazoo, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. My most memorable tournament was played in Pennsylvania, where we won the championship against the state winning team that year. I was captain this year, my freshman year, and it was my last year before high school hockey. Our first game was against the state-winning team, and we played a physical defensive game resulting in a 0-0 tie. We won our next two games, but due to our tie, we needed a team to win the game verse another team to jump us into the championship game. Our chances looked dim with the game at a one to one tie going into the end of the third period with less than a minute left. Standing up and ready to leave in disappointment, the team scored with a tenth of a second left on the clock. This gave us the chance to compete for the championship the next day. We beat the team two to zero, and I had a game ending