Jim Bob
RIP RJ
http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2015/01/game_misconduct_the_assault_on_the_state_of_hockey.php
I loved this part:
I loved this part:
Young players entering Sheehy's Edina office will see evidence of his own success. A Harvard degree on the wall. Photos capturing his days as a pest for the Calgary Flames.
He greets these kids with a time-honored test: two words written on a piece of paper, flipped over on his desk.
"Why do you play hockey?" he asks.
The query is usually met with confusion as the player looks to his parents, scrambling for an answer.
"Don't look at your parents!" Sheehy barks. "This isn't a trick question. What's the first thing that comes to your mind?"
"Because I love it."
"And why do you love it?" he asks.
"Because it's fun."
That's when he flips the paper over and slides it across his desk.
"LOVE" and "FUN," it reads.
"Understand this: This is why you play," Sheehy tells them. "Understand if you're going to be an NHL hockey player, these two things will have to be same, and if and when either of these are gone, your career is over because you can't fake it."
