Hi Dan

 -=> Quoting Dan Ceppa to Peter Coggon <=-

 -> On 13 Feb 09  05:17:00, PETER COGGON got back to DAN CEPPA 
 -> Re: Taglines
 
 DC> Most pro s[orts careers are very short.  The average for football 
 DC> is, I think, only 3.5   It takes 5 years to get an NFL pension.  

  Very true for the average.  In 1- to 15 years a player must try
get as much as he or she can to have anything for later on...barring
a accident.    

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

  After watching for the first time in a long time an NHL game
I noticed the changes they are trying to make to make it attractive
and even after a goal...this stupid lineup with glove touching
at the bench by players in my day would have been a bench penalty
for delay of game, as after a goal...we slap each other for a great
job...but we are expected at center for a faceoff....whereby today
they have this skate by...punk rock music pumping, and it seems
a show and way to get fans and players pumped up...

Hard to figure out....just where the NHL and hockey are going
but then I like the Eurpoean leagues and their setup.
 
 DC> I never played. I can skate, but I never skated enough to be able 
 DC> to do it backwards.  I'd think I could've made a good goalie as I was
 DC> a catcher in baseball.  Many of the pitches I caught were screened
 DC> shots.   And I'm serious about them being screened!  

My days were started on the pond at the farm.  My father was military
and never made a game easy.  Never was easy I lost and I had to work
to overcome his knowledge of the game.

To help me skating, I was given a coach who taught me power skating
and speed skating, and while I never got to hockey school, it
didn't matter, as I was lucky to play future NHL stars who
were in the OHL at the time, before the drafts took them to
the NHL citys ..where ever.

Skating backwards.   I don't think with my damaged knees and not
from hockey, I could do that, but then I had to do it as a defenseman
and even as a forward.

Goaltenders are a breed apart.   Even their skates are not sharpened
the way ours are.    I can not remember what other sports the
Goalies played to help them..just saw them throwing the ball back
and forth or off a wall.   Yeah being a catcher in baseball would
have helped, but then thats for a Goalie to say.

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

Yes...most catchers had comments for the poor guy up at bat, with
the team looking at him to save them.

It never got me.   My focus was always the puck and the body connected.

 DC> I thought the movie was histerical.  

Yes... number 1 Slap Shot was great.  A keeper.   My wife doesn't
share my comments on slap shot or hockey.
 
 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

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

 Exactly.   The Europeans love to play North American teams.
They think sometimes they have the advantage with the extra ice.

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

 Most of my games in the US were in NY, OHIO ,INDIANA and a few
others, and of course I could go see relatives and friends.

Boston Gardens is small.   I have no idea what the area rinks are
like, and the only thing I remember about the area, was that
killing over hockey.   Certainly not worth dieing over.

With work to do ...I better get to it ... C U later.

Peter



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