All the Troubles of Hockey

Everything about adult league is terrible. I can't believe how unfair the teams are and how my team is the only team that is a true C League team. Then the scheduling. Its bad enough we have to start games at 10 PM, but we can't even keep games the same night of the week.

Next, all the players are playing dirty. There is always that "guy" or "girl" on the other team that "everyone" hates. Why do they take it so serious. All me and my teammates do is try and play fair and have fun but the other team always wants to play dirty and cheap. It seems to all work out, because we just retaliate to show them we won't back down.

Now, what about the refs? Are you kidding me? Why do we have refs? What do they have against our team & our players. They never see the other players start the chipiness. They only see what they want. Do they even know the rules? All we want to do is play a fun game and they ruin it every time.

Finally, all these new rules take the fun out of the game. 3 minutes penalties, blue line icing, stop clock in last 2 minutes & a 3 goal max? Again, I thought hockey was supposed to be fun, instead our play is obstructed by all the rules.

Bad times to play, stupid rules, inexperienced refs, unfriendly players & unfair teams make hockey seem like work. I'm just going to keep complaining about this game and this league because its making my life so difficult and miserable.

Pictured are Rocky Kinney (left) & Fred Mersberger (right) both currently stationed in Iraq. As you can see from their jerseys, they played for Bearing Group last season, but needed to take the summer off to serve our country. I bet they would rather be out in Iraq in the nice hot weather. They are probably sitting there right now reading this blog laughing and smiling that they don't have to go through all these problems that we have to deal with in our league. I'm sure its much better for them to not play, than to put up with all these critical hockey issues we deal with every week.

So next week as you sit up in the lounge drinking that overpriced $2 pitcher of cold beer, just think of how lucky we all could be if WE were the ones over in Iraq not worrying about anything and laughing at all these issues.

---Hopefully everybody got my sarcasm. Fred & Rocky, hope to see you back real soon (your team really needs you back). Thanks for reminding me that in the grand scheme of things, all the issues really don't matter as long as we're playing. Thanks for serving & see you soon...we'll save you a $2 pitcher.