Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:04:09 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:


Our pickup hockey games were played on a little lake north of Westville,
a suburb of New Haven. There were no rules there. The city's outdoor
skating rinks did not allow pickup hockey games, and the indoor old New
Haven Arena did not allow anything other than skating in a big circle to
music.

I was never good enough a skater to even try out for our high school's
varsity hockey team. Those guys could skate!

We didn't allow "lifting" in our pickup hockey games. No one wanted to
loose teeth or an eye. If you slammed the puck and it hit someone above
the legs, the opposing team got a point.

I never played hockey or basketball in high school.

Couldn't play one and hated the other. :)

My reasons were too cold out to play hockey. I didn't like cold even
when I was a kid, didn't care much for sledding and getting snow packed
in everywhere. I tried to play basketball, but wasn't tall enough. I
wrestled all through high school.