A Burning Desire for Hockey
Many people are drawn to many different hobbies. Ice Hockey just happened to be mine. It’s been almost twenty years since my mother and father took me Ice Skating. I was three years old. Before I move any further I would like to tell you that I come from a family that has a long history of hockey players. My grandfather on both my mothers and fathers side played hockey. I even had a grandma on my mother’s side that played field hockey in Duluth, MN. My biggest influence in the game of hockey was from my father, he and his brother played hockey for the university of Illinois. As a youth I wore my dad’s old hockey jerseys during my first few years of hockey. To say the least, I dreamed of being a professional hockey player. It wasn’t until I was playing at the high school level that I learned hockey is more than a game. It was always expressed that hockey was a very physical and dangerous sport and it really didn’t sink in until I started playing check hockey. A hockey player usually enters this physical state of the game around the age of twelve to fourteen. As I grew older the speed of the game got faster, thus made the difficulty of the game do a180. For me it was hockey, an exciting game that turned into a dangerous sport ev
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Approximate Word count = 955
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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