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- First year playing hockey (a squirt) was not really clear on the offside rule. I thought as a defenseman on the blueline that I could not touch the puck until it crossed back over the blueline, then I could bring it back in.
First time I actually find myself in this position…. I wait for the puck to cross the line, confidently skate back into the zone with it. Whistle goes, perfect. Because I had executed the play perfectly the other players have to stop playing and I get a free chance on the goalie. I proceed to skate poorly into the zone right towards the goalie. A few teammates and coach kinda yell, yay they are cheering for me, time to do something fancy, so I go for the best play ever at the time, the wraparound! I actually pull it off and pot it. Victorious I raise my hands and look up, surprised to see most people not even paying attention, one person is though, it is the ref and he is laughing his head off.
- I also thought that all the players in the NHL would try to knock the water bottle off of the net when they scored ALL THE TIME rather than just trying to score in general because only the really good players could do it, that and it was the coolest thing ever.
- I didn’t get why the goalie would slap the ice with his stick towards the end of a power play for his team. i just thought he was impatient… ”hurry up and score already!”
- I was at a Sabres/Lightning game when I was about 9 or 10 and someone on the Sabres did a wrap around goal. I thought this was the most genius play in the world since the goalie couldn’t cover both sides of the net and also could not see behind him. I couldn’t figure out why they would not do this miracle play more often.
- I actually grew up listening to Detroit Red Wings games on the radio for about 3-4 years before I ever saw a game on TV or in person.
I was totally messed up on how the game was played. In my imagination guys with light Sabres (sablar) skated around on what looked like butcher knives, had jet packs (The announcer liked to say ”He has his jets going tonight” when somebody was skating fast) They got into fights a lot and I couldn’t figure out why they called the ball they played with a ”Puck”.
I really wish I had the picture I drew in 1985 or so with ”Steve EYEzerman” who I drew as a cyclops because of his name, killing somebody with his light Sabre while kicking in the winning goal with his jetpack on.


