Word: rinks
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...also foreign, at first. "Man, they'd cheer an offsides call!" says rink announcer T.D. Smith (who has taken to lighting his cigars with the propane torch the players use to curve their sticks). The club hired a stand-up comic to pull volunteers from the audience and demonstrate each penalty, from high-sticking to cross-checking. And in a place that had no youth hockey, Gators players held clinics and helped organize 15 youth teams...
...this lady at the rink who offered to work as my agent to look into finding a job with a show...
...hometown was not friendly to hockey. We had no local team—minor league, high school or otherwise. The ponds didn’t freeze in the winter and the nearest rink was an hour’s drive away. The local sporting good store had no hockey equipment, save little plastic hockey sticks marketed at the pre-school crowd. And so, during the summers and warm winters, we settled for roller hockey—a slow, clunky substitute that always ended prematurely after our only ball fell into the rain gutter. To the neighborhood kids, we were heroes...
...Here at Harvard, life for the pickup hockey player is little better. For one thing, the Charles does not freeze. And although the rink is a short trip across the river, it becomes an awfully long trip when schlepping a heavy bag of equipment through slush and snow. Harvard’s intramural program is woefully inadequate, throwing experienced players (Canadians) and novice skaters (hacks from small, hockey-hating suburbs like my own) together on the same line. Ice-time is scarce, and we’re usually meted out the poorest of the poor—ice that...
...Indulgence mounted the stage to rile up the pit. They did not have to do much. Sporting some of the largest, strongest, angriest, most steroid-filled men and women in New England, the pit was the most violent this side of the Running of the Bulls. Filling the entire rink floor, the predominantly shirtless Centrum patrons ripped into one another, forcing EMTs to rush to the aid of injured pit fighters within the first half hour. Springfield locals Staind shook some more red in front of the bulls, who were then calmed down by the following showing of "Spike...