Old Geezers are Just Boys with Wrinkles
(Hockey Player Magazine, May 2020) I’m getting older. I guess my friends are getting older too. “Get on the list,” he texted. “What list?”...
Beer League Hockey Has No Free Agency
(Published in Hockey Player Magazine, April 2019) Zero, ten, two isn’t a bike lock combination. It was last season’s hockey record. My Blazers suffered...
Doin’ Time in the Penalty Box
(Hockey Player Magazine, May 2018) “It’s improper to criticize someone 30 years later.” Bobby Clarke, Philadelphia Flyers If I found Darius Fooberman on Facebook...
Even Hockey Coaches Have Hearts
Published in the Chico Enterprise-Record, Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph & Hockey Player Magazine Readers, a prologue: This article previously appeared in several newspapers and...
Old Hockey Player Forgets About Scoring Stats
(Hockey Player Magazine, October 2017) “A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.” Wayne Gretzky Some scoring statistics are best...
Young Referee Whistles While He Works
(Hockey Player Magazine, April 2017) “You can’t applaud a referee.” Alex Ferguson, Coach, Manchester United They are jeered, never cheered. It’s black and white....
The Dork
(Hockey Player Magazine, December 2016) Every team has one. Whether its baseball, basketball or badminton, there’s always that one guy who doesn’t quite enmesh...
Playoffs Are All That Matter
Hockey Player Magazine, May 2016 It’s only an eight game schedule but my body thinks otherwise—the season feels like 80 games. My legs burn...