In hockey your team is just not a team but a family. Your together 6 months out of the year and always together. Sometimes it gets a little bit overwhelming but in the end it is worth it. By the end of the season you come out with life long friends.
When you think of coming on this hockey team you look at how they did in the season and if this will be the hockey that you want. Not once do you really think about how close you become with everyone. So you show up for try outs and your nervous and all your focused on is just doing your best on the ice. The day you find out your on the team your so excited and then it hits you that you don't know anyone and now you have to make friends too. On the North Stars there was not a problem with making friends. Everyone was open and open to getting to know you.
When i first came to the team I already knew the coach for two years. So i knew his daughter that is on the team. I came up and I was still nervous but it ended up going good. I played against these girls that now i have to call them team mates. I won't even lie I didn't like some of them and they didn't like me. In our first practice no one really said anything. After that we went on a team camping trip. This was a great ice breaker because we all were so tired and didn't want to be there.
Our first tounament was to Ohio. There is nothing worst then a long bus ride when you have no room to even sleep. So we all just shared about our lifes and why we came up to Traverse. After that we all became close.
The funny thing is even if we have a weekend off we all still do stuff together. It does not matter what we are doing we just all like being with eachother. On other teams that doesn't happen. Your together on the ice and thats all it is going to be. Which is something you don't want to happen because if your team is close off the ice you will play better on the ice.
My best friends are on my hockey team and i would do anything for them. I wouldn't call them teammates or even my best friends they are my sisters. This bond that you get for being on a team like this is limited. Thats why were just not a team were a family.
When you think of coming on this hockey team you look at how they did in the season and if this will be the hockey that you want. Not once do you really think about how close you become with everyone. So you show up for try outs and your nervous and all your focused on is just doing your best on the ice. The day you find out your on the team your so excited and then it hits you that you don't know anyone and now you have to make friends too. On the North Stars there was not a problem with making friends. Everyone was open and open to getting to know you.
When i first came to the team I already knew the coach for two years. So i knew his daughter that is on the team. I came up and I was still nervous but it ended up going good. I played against these girls that now i have to call them team mates. I won't even lie I didn't like some of them and they didn't like me. In our first practice no one really said anything. After that we went on a team camping trip. This was a great ice breaker because we all were so tired and didn't want to be there.
Our first tounament was to Ohio. There is nothing worst then a long bus ride when you have no room to even sleep. So we all just shared about our lifes and why we came up to Traverse. After that we all became close.
The funny thing is even if we have a weekend off we all still do stuff together. It does not matter what we are doing we just all like being with eachother. On other teams that doesn't happen. Your together on the ice and thats all it is going to be. Which is something you don't want to happen because if your team is close off the ice you will play better on the ice.
My best friends are on my hockey team and i would do anything for them. I wouldn't call them teammates or even my best friends they are my sisters. This bond that you get for being on a team like this is limited. Thats why were just not a team were a family.
So why do you think you guys are so close especially if some teams aren't? What's the difference for you guys? Are you on the same team as last year? Are there a lot of the same people? Is that the reason you're so close--you've been together for longer than some teams? Or is it just the positive mix you have with the girls on your team? I'm sure lots of teams don't really get along. What makes yours different?
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