It had been years since the team was together for a game of road hockey, it is weird because at one time a week would not go by without getting together at least once to shoot the ball around. As is the way with growing up, the neighbourhood kids who once only thought about their next game now had to concentrate on university, working, and their wives. No longer was there endless time in the day to invade a local...
This day finds us with the usual suspects assembled for a game, with one interesting addition Teege. Teege didn’t come out often to play road hockey with us, he was more interested in chasing girls, but on this day he came to even out the teams.
We were shooting around waiting for Teege and he arrived in style: riding his bike with his stick draped over his shoulder. Smiles beamed on our faces as...
It’s impossible to pick a single favourite out of a lifetime of street hockey memories, so I’ll just start from the beginning:
My love-affair with the game began at the tender age of 7. My family had just moved from a busy street in the city to a house way out in the ‘burbs. I vividly remember spending my first night in that house, surrounded by scary stacks of cardboard boxes. In the morning I was...
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