-> On 13 Feb 09  05:17:00, PETER COGGON got back to DAN CEPPA 
-> Re: Taglines

 PC> University players are different from others, in that they are getting
 PC> an education and using their hockey playing abilities to accomplish
 PC> this goal.   They realize that the life of a prime hockey player is
 PC> less then 40years.    Ideal players in primier leagues are between
 PC> 18 and at 30 they are lucky to get a contract.  SO few play past 40.

Most pro s[orts careers are very short.  The average for football 
is, I think, only 3.5   It takes 5 years to get an NFL pension.  

 DC> It used to go back and forth.  The fights drew crowds not all that 
 DC> familiar with the game.  

 PC> Fights in games, and too frequent in hockey due to the speed of the
 PC> game brings the fans.   Not everyone is there for the fights.
 PC> In recent years , not to influence youth , the tv broadcasts have
 PC> stopped showing the fights...but I remember as a youth that these
 PC> were the game, or so I thought.

As I mentioned, they don't know what direction to take!  

 PC> I changed in later years while playing, using the fight to help
 PC> my team.   Control emotion, and you control the game.   I can
 PC> not even count the number of frustrated players I have pounded

I never played. I can skate, but I never skated enough to be able 
to do it backwards.  I'd think I could've made a good goalie as I was a
catcher in baseball.  Many of the pitches I caught were screened shots.  
And I'm serious about them being screened!  

 PC> part they only got the 2 minute ones, and I can remember the
 PC> referee telling me I was coaxing them to a fight then chickening
 PC> out ....but then they saw my idea.

I did similar in basketball.  Though, there never were any fights.  

 
 DC> And, as to fighters, I liked those 2 in _Slap Shot_.  :)  

 PC> The Slap Shot films, were taken from actual players dead and
 PC> alive.    I used to laugh at them, and I can remember watching
 PC> that first film before a game, and it was used as a coaching
 PC> measure.

I thought the movie was histerical.  

 PC> I think with fighting, I have noted this takes place mostly
 PC> on the smaller ice surfaces.   Not too many arenas are 
 PC> NHL Official, and well it may be said of the Europeans that
 PC> they have very large rinks which make it a necessary ability
 PC> that players skate, and they have less fights, due to

Ok, that makes sense.  There's to much room to watch to have a 
lot of close contact.  

As to rinks, have you ever been to the Boston Area?  No, not 
Boston Gardens.  



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