Hockey Lessons Learned

The game of hockey is the cruelest, yet the best experience I have ever encountered in my life. The lessons that I learned from playing will impact my life tremendously and I thank the great game for teaching them to me. To a certain degree, life is like a hockey game. The warmup period is the time when a person grows up, the first two periods are the adult life and the third period is the final stage of life. People get hit hard in life, and have to make comebacks when down.In my game, I got hit in the warm up period, but I won’t let it affect me in the actual game.

For as long as I can remember, I always went to the largest complex in northern New Jersey for practices and games. At first, it was all about going on the ice and simply having fun. Eventually, at the age of ten, I made my first ever travel team, and after some adapting, I enjoyed playing travel hockey, more to it, it was the one thing I always looked forward to. But that would all change when I entered high school, when my passion for playing the game became a race for gold.

It means that I have to compete with my teammates for virtually anything that was up for grabs. In other words, I had to have the best discipline, skill and work ethic on the team. Maybe I had the best discipline and work ethic but the skill was too much for me to