Hockey is a just a game some might say. To me it’s more than that.
It matters how we play. Using crooked tools— physical and psychological— assaults our inbred conscience that orients social games towards fair play and justice. But for some reason our game relinquishes some of the better reasons for play. Play is pro-social, pro-active. It helps refine character and determination. When hockey sticks are crooked are the players made then in that image? Might our communities be suffering from an intense level of crooked play and how might we confront that or even better— prepare the next generation to overcome it?
Only through a lens of an intrinsic motivation might you begin to appreciate the road I hope the game travels down.