Hockey

Team Work

Hockey is a great way to socialize and to meet new people. Hockey teaches you to work in a group, to get along with others and work as a team.

Leadership Skills

Hockey helps with leadership skills, it helps you be the one to step up and be a leader to help others to be better. It helps you learn how to take success and how to overcome a loss and become better as a person.

Ethics

Hockey makes you work hard. It teaches you that for the thing you want you have to work hard and it won’t be handed to you in life. For example, say you want a new a car and you don’t have enough money it teaches you instead of giving up to work harder to push more to get enough money to get that new car. For me I didn’t have a good slap shot and I was giving up. Then I decided to work harder and practice slap shots until l  got my slap shot to how I wanted it to be.

Dark Side

Some dark things about hockey is bullying, verbal abuse, and racism comments. I feel disappointed about this dark side of hockey. My community has placed punishments for these things such as suspensions or getting kicked off the team but there is still some stuff going on they are trying to get rid of it but it is still there.

Addressing Comments

Some say that hockey players are extremely competitive, take things to serious and are angered. My response is yes hockey players are very competitive and take everything seriously. We should chill more about that, it’s just we take everything as a game to win which is good sometimes but can also be bad depending on the situation. “Hockey players are too aggressive”, hockey players can be aggressive yes but we can also not be I think that people think that because there is hitting in hockey and fighting.

Some websites that can provide more information on hockey are provided below.

Fischler, Shirley W., et al. “Ice Hockey.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 1 Apr. 2020, www.britannica.com/sports/ice-hockey.

“The New Ice Age: Hockey for Everyone.” Topend Sports, Science, Training and Nutrition, www.topendsports.com/sport/icehockey/information.htm.