"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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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. :)

I never played hockey in high school. No frozen ponds 10 blocks from San
Francisco Bay. Was an ice rink in Berkeley. Female neighbor went there
every morning at 6am to practice skating so she could be in the Ice Follies.
Her uncle owned them. She did do the IF for a year. Loved basketball.
Just slow and in those years could not hand check. If you touched someone
else was a foul.