The most important thing in my life is ice hockey. Ice hockey is my life. Each week I spend six hours on the ice, along with another nine hours at the rink, or conditioning. I have played ice hockey since I was four, and have been ice skating since I was three. Not only have the people that I grew up playing with become lifelong friends, but the memories I have gained will be lifelong. One of my best memories came when I was a sophomore. I played on a Junior Varsity team, and I was selected to be the captain of the team. We weren’t expected to win many games, and were booked for many teams’ senior nights. We began the season pretty rough, playing against varsity teams we were out manned, out sized, and out played. After starting our
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After losing our sixth game by a score of thirteen to two, I decided to rally the depressed team in the lock room after the game. I told them that ice hockey is not about how much skill you have, it’s about how much work you do. Our team was going to have heart, and the first step in the right direction was by cutting up a skate lace and attaching it to each of our arms forming a wrist band. We would wear those all season to show that we were a band of brothers. In our next game I started a tradition that we have used ever since on the varsity team; banging your sticks on the boards before every faceoff. We found that by doing this, not only does it pump up the guys tapping their sticks, but also the guys out on the ice. We would stand up and cheer more from the bench, as well as communicate and begin to trust each other out on the ice. After three games of this tactic, and three wins against some tuff teams, our head coach stopped me after practice one night and asked me how we got to play like we did all in the sudden. I’m not the type to brag, or put myself ahead of anyone else since this was a team effort, and I was just leading the push, so I told him that we had a team meeting and decided to implement these changes into our game. He approved, and
After losing our sixth game by a score of thirteen to two, I decided to rally the depressed team in the lock room after the game. I told them that ice hockey is not about how much skill you have, it’s about how much work you do. Our team was going to have heart, and the first step in the right direction was by cutting up a skate lace and attaching it to each of our arms forming a wrist band. We would wear those all season to show that we were a band of brothers. In our next game I started a tradition that we have used ever since on the varsity team; banging your sticks on the boards before every faceoff. We found that by doing this, not only does it pump up the guys tapping their sticks, but also the guys out on the ice. We would stand up and cheer more from the bench, as well as communicate and begin to trust each other out on the ice. After three games of this tactic, and three wins against some tuff teams, our head coach stopped me after practice one night and asked me how we got to play like we did all in the sudden. I’m not the type to brag, or put myself ahead of anyone else since this was a team effort, and I was just leading the push, so I told him that we had a team meeting and decided to implement these changes into our game. He approved, and