Last Saturday my alarm clock woke me at 4:30 AM. That would give me time to shave, shower, get dressed and drive the 44 miles to the ice rink where I had been assigned to officiate two youth hockey games. The first game would start at 7 AM. I arrive at the rink in total […]
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Play Like It’s the Stanley Cup
When I first heard these words I was all of 11 years-old. I was playing youth hockey and it was my first year playing. Back then (1962) we played on outside rinks in Kenmore, NY, a suburb of Buffalo. The temperature often hovered in the single digits at our games and when it would snow […]
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I’ve always been a proponent of learning new things and doing new things because sometimes, we just get stuck. We just get in a rut and do the same stuff day after day. Weeks go by, months go by, and even years pass – and we are right back where we were the year before […]
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