Becoming a great hockey player is hard.
While being bad is easier, it doesn’t just happen overnight. It takes work. If you are truly aspiring to be awful, here are a few things you can do:
- Abandon your position
- Lose your cool
- Hesitate along the blue line
- Stop moving your feet
- Screen your own goalie
- Take your stick off the ice while in the slot
- Skate with your head down
- Arrive late
- Give up when someone gets by you
- Rely heavily on your stickhandling abilities
- Be lukewarm
- Neglect to play the body
- Fear shooting
- Blame the refs, your equipment, your poor eating/sleeping habits
- Take long shifts when you are “feeling it”
- Think you are too good to practice
- Spend $ on useless equipment
- Take ice time for granted
- Celebrate excessively
- Assume your teammates will provide tape
- Leave the game without shaking hands
- Tease someone who is striving to improve
- Ignore open linemates
- Avoid learning the rules
- Hog the puck
- Eat too much before a game
- Forget to bring water
- Forget your cup
- Act like an all-star in warm-ups
- Lose focus
- Lose control
- Force it
- Shun advice from your coach and linemates
- Think you are too old to start/break a habit
What would you add to this list?
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