Six Games in 48 Hours: How I Survived a Beer League Tournament

Surviving a grueling hockey weekend

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So
here's
a
story
for
you.
A
middle-aged,
out-of-shape
beer
leaguer
travels
to
a
championship
tournament,
plays
six
games
in
about
forty-eight
hours,
doesn't
feel
terrible
afterwards,
and
actually
makes
it
to
work
no
problem
after
all
this
is
said
and
done.
How
did
I
do
it
this
year?
That's
what
we're
gonna
talk
about
in
this
episode
of
the
Beer
Leaguer
Podcast.

The reality of a beer league tournament

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So
you've
heard
me
talk
about
on
previous
episodes
going
up
and
playing
the
HA
Hockey
North
America
Championships
up
in
Toronto,
Canada.
I've
done
this
a
number
of
times
over
the
years.
And
uh
last
year
and
this
year
is
the
first
time
that
I've
gone
up
there
with
two
teams,
which
means
a
minimum
of
six
games
uh
within,
well,
really
just
two
days,
Friday
afternoon
and
Saturday.
Uh,
if
you
know
you
you
win,
you
win
your
kind
of
division
that
they
put
you
in,
then
you
might
play
on
Sunday.
But
it's
a
minimum
of
six
games
over
two
days,
like
I
said,
in
about
48
hours,
honestly,
a
little
bit
less
than
that.
And
yeah,
uh,
I
did
that
again
for
the
second
time.
Uh,
me
and
a
number
of
teammates
on
both
teams
did
the
same
thing.
And
I
did
this
last
year,
felt
awful
afterwards,
uh,
really
couldn't
move
and
was
insanely
tired.
And
this
year,
not
so
much.
So,
what
changed?
Uh,
well,
a
couple
things
changed,
and
that's
what
we're
gonna
touch
on
here
in
this
episode.
Uh,
just
to
kind
of
give
you
a
little
bit
more
picture
of
kind
of
what
all
this
was
that
went
on.
Like
I
said,
it's
uh
not
just
the
playing
hockey,
there's
also
travel.
Uh,
where
I'm
at
getting
it
to
these
tournaments
is
about
a
five-hour
or
so
drive
one
way.
So
it
is
a
decent
amount
of
uh
driving
up
there.
It's
not,
you
know,
a
half
hour
away
like
the
regular
local
rinks.
It
also
means,
you
know,
staying
at
a
hotel,
which,
you
know,
some
people
are
great
with
staying
at
hotels,
some
people
it
really
messes
you
up,
being
on
a
different
routine
than
you're
normally
used
to.
I
mean,
most
games
that
I'm
used
to
playing
are
after
9,
9.30
at
night,
uh,
for
sure.
You
know,
sometimes
10.30
at
night
uh
for
games.
And
these
are
games
that
are
starting,
you
know,
maybe
at
3.30
in
the
afternoon
or
even
9,
10
in
the
morning
sometimes.
So
very,
very
different
kind
of
stuff
all
the
way
around.
Um,
and
and
that
really,
I
think
last
year
really
kind
of
messed
me
up
having
all
those
differences
and
not
being
ready
for
it,
even
though
I
knew
it
was
coming,
just
not
preparing
properly
for
it.
Whereas
this
year,
I
think
I
had
a
better
plan
going
into
it.
Uh

Hydration and nutrition strategies

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so
what
did
I
do?
First
thing
I
did,
kind
of
the
week
or
so
leading
up
to
it,
is
I
really,
and
this
is
something
people
always
say,
and
I
think
people
just
don't
do,
and
it
makes
a
big
difference,
is
I
tried
to
drink
a
lot
of
water.
Um,
I
know
that
they
say,
you
know,
if
you're
drinking
water
day
of,
not
really
doing
any
good.
But
I
really
was
trying
to
load
up
lots
and
lots
and
lots
of
water
uh
for
the
week
or
so
before.
Uh
also
a
good
amount
of
like
sports
drinks
uh
for
things,
lots
of
sugar-free
sports
drinks,
uh
just
so
I
wasn't
loading
up
on
sugary
stuff.
Uh,
but
really
just
trying
to
get
as
many,
as
much
water,
as
many
electrolytes,
any
of
that
kind
of
stuff
in
me,
knowing
that
I
was
gonna
sweat
a
bunch
of
it
out
and
probably
gonna
drink
enough
stuff
while
I
was
up
there
necessarily,
but
making
sure
I
could,
I
could
give
myself
the
best
chance
possible.
Um
so
definitely
doing
that.
Um
tried
to
have
as
many,
as
many
foods
as
I
could,
uh
like
snacks
and
stuff
beforehand
that
I
knew
were
gonna
be
good
for,
you
know,
prevent
cramping
and
things.
So
uh
things
like
bananas
and
a
lot
of
fruit
and
stuff
like
that,
that
really
just
to
try
and
prevent
cramping
and
getting
super,
super
sore
from
things,
uh,
playing
that
much
hockey
up
there.
Uh
this
is
also
in
the
middle
of
summer,
so
you
know
it's
hot
outside,
makes
it
kind
of
a
weird
thing.
Um,
you
know,
the
rinks,
their
rinks
are
gonna
be
cool.
Uh,
but
you
know,
like
Saturday
afternoon,
they've
been
having
a
hockey
tournament
going
on.
The
rinks
aren't
usually
as
cool
as
you'd
expect
them
to
be.
So,
you
know,
that
that
can
also
put
a
little
bit
of
a
hindrance
in
there.
Uh,
I
will
say
uh
I
did
have,
I
mean,
not
really
an
issue,
but
kind
of
more
of
an
inconvenience,
I
guess
would
be
the
right
way
to
put
it.
Uh,
for
our
second
set
of
games
on
Saturday,
our
locker
rooms
were
hot.
Not
warm.
They
were
hot.
You
get
in
there
and
you're
just
sweating.
And
I
was
trying
to
put
on
uh
all
of
my
like
under
garment
stuff,
like
some
people
call
it
a
gitch,
uh,
underneath
uh
that
I
wear
under
my
pads
and
everything.
And
I
was
having
some
trouble.
You
know,
it's
all
like
compression
gear
and
everything,
and
I'm
just
here
like
sweating
like
crazy.
Also
kind
of
tired,
didn't
help.
Uh
but
yeah,
so
that's
not
something
you
could
prepare
for,
but
that
was
that
was
definitely
a
thing
that
happened.
Uh
also
leading
up
to
all
this,
I
I
was
really
trying
to

Stretching routines for beer leaguers

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make
sure
that
I
was
stretching
a
lot.
And
when
I
say
stretching
a
lot,
I
think
people,
when
you
say
stretching
for
hockey,
they
think
you're
doing
like
full-on
20-minute
stretching
routines
and
yoga
and
all
this
kind
of
stuff.
No,
I'm
I'm
just
talking
about
like
little
stretches
for
things.
Uh,
especially
for
me,
it's
always
my
legs
that
kind
of
get
cramped
up
or
will
get
super
tired
from
something
like
this.
So,
you
know,
kind
of
any
chance
I
got,
you
know,
trying
to
stretch
out
my
calves
or
my
hamstrings
or
something,
you
know,
just
sitting
at
my
desk
and
kind
of
like,
you
know,
lifting
up
my
toes
to
kind
of
stretch
out
my
legs
a
little
bit,
or
uh
when
I'm
getting
in
and
out
of
my
car,
just
a
little
bit
extra
of
a
stretch,
uh,
mostly
that
kind
of
stuff.
Just
a
little
bit
of
stuff
here
and
there,
but
all
throughout,
which
honestly
is
probably
stuff
I
should
be
doing
all
the
time,
anyways.
But
I
was
very
conscientious
of
doing
those
types
of
things
uh
leading
up
to
this
uh
for
it.
Uh
also
when
I
was
on
my
drive
up
there,
every
time
I
stopped,
usually
for
me,
a
five-hour-ish
drive,
I
could
do
straight.
You
know,
I
might
stop
once,
maybe.
Uh,
I
tried
to
stop
a
little
bit
more
often
uh
just
to
get
out
of
the
car.
Uh,
again,
kind
of,
you
know,
stretch
my
legs,
but
really
kind
of
stretch
my
legs
uh
while
I
was
out
and
about.
Um
and
and
again,
drinking
a
lot,
uh,
trying
to
really
just
overload
on
uh
like
water
and
everything.
So
there
was
a
lot
more
stopping
than
normal.
And
same
thing
when
I
got
into
the
hotel
room,
uh
trying
to
make
sure
that
I
was
able
to
stretch

Essential gear for tournament survival

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out
uh
and
everything.
And
one
of
the
things
that
helped
me
with
that
when
I
got
to
the
hotel
room
is
this
year
I
brought
with
me
my
little
massage
gun,
you
know,
one
of
those
percussive
massage
guns
uh
that
you
use.
And
I
think
it
helped.
Definitely
didn't
hurt
anything.
Uh
I
used
it
before
and
after
games
for
stuff,
you
know,
just
for
a
couple
of
minutes
while
kind
of
I'm
sitting
there
watching
TV
or
whatever,
uh,
just
kind
of
on
my
legs.
Uh,
nothing
else
on
me
really
gets
that
super
sore
from
things,
uh,
but
really
it
was
from
my
legs
using
it
and
using
it,
I
think,
on
Thursday
before
stuff
started,
uh,
using
it
before
games
on
Friday,
after
the
game
Friday,
uh,
using
it
before
and
after
games
on
Saturday.
I
think
that
did
uh
help
out.
I
like
that
definitely
didn't
hurt
anything.
So
that
was
a
thing
that
I
brought
with
me.
Uh
another
thing
that
I
brought
with
me
that
I
think
was
uh
was
useful,
and
a
lot
of
the
stuff
for
what
I
brought
with
me
was
trying
to,
like
I
said,
plan
out
how
these
games
were
set
up.
And
like
I
said,
the
games
were
set
up
with
uh
we
had
all
back-to-back
games,
which
was
super
helpful.
So
it
was
back-to-back
games
on
Friday
in
the
afternoon,
back-to-back
games
Saturday
morning,
and
then
back-to-back
games
uh
like
early
Saturday
afternoon.
Uh
there's
like
maybe
two-ish
hours,
three
hours,
something
like
that
between
games.
So
some
amount
of
time,
but
not
a
crazy
amount
of
time
uh
between
games
there.
So
one
of
the
things
I
brought
with
me,
I'll
thinking
of
that,
uh,
that
was
actually
really
a
nice
luxury
item,
is
actually
my

Keeping your gear dry in the summer heat

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boot
and
skate
dryer.
Uh
I
have
a
it's
it's
an
old,
I've
talked
about
it
here
before.
It
is
an
old
shock
doctor
skate
boot
dryer
thing.
I
mean,
you
can
buy
these
kind
of
boot
dryers,
uh
skate
dryers
for,
you
know,
every
winter,
every
store
puts
these
things
out.
They're
like
boot
dryer,
skate
dryer,
whatever,
same,
same
sort
of
thing.
Uh,
this
one's
kind
of
nice
because
not
only
is
it
just
like
a
heater,
but
it
also
has
some
ozone
uh
that
goes
into
your
stuff
that
helps
it
from
not
smelling.
Uh
so
I
always
use
it
when
I'm
home,
but
I
thought,
hey,
why
not
take
it
with
you
and
have
dry
gloves
and
boots
for
your
games,
which
again,
luxury
item.
It
was
nice
to
have.
Uh,
it
was
a
very
nice
thing
to
have
uh
when
playing
that
much.
Uh,
I
also
made
sure
that
I
had
a
hotel
room
that
had
access
to
a
washer
and
a
dryer,
because
I
don't
have
so
much
uh
like
undergear
stuff
that
I
could
bring
that
for
all
the
games.
And
I
like
having
that.
I
don't
like
just
wearing
like
a
plain
t-shirt
or
something
like
that
underneath.
Uh,
but
I
definitely
have
two
full
sets
of
that
gear.
So
I
was
able
to
wear,
you
know,
like
set
A
Friday,
go
back
to
the
hotel,
wash
it,
and
then
wear
set
A
in
the
morning
and
set
B
in
the
afternoon
and
have
that.
And
that's
everything.
That's
socks,
you
know,
like
the
pants
they
have
underneath
and
the
and
the
shirt
and
stuff.
And
having
that
extra
set
of
things
and
planning
ahead
to
have
a
hotel
room
that
access
to
a
washer
dryer
was
uh
again,
more
of
a
comfort
thing,
but
really
nice
because
putting
on
wet
gear
is
one
thing.
Like
I
don't
hate
it,
I
can
deal
with
putting
on
wet
gear
if
you
have
to,
uh,
but
putting
on
any
kind
of
wet
underneath
stuff
is
a
that's
a
complete
no-go
for
me.
Um,
so
it
was
a
little
bit
of
planning
on
on
my
part
to
make
sure
I
had
enough
stuff
for
that,
along
with
a
way
to
extend
the
life
of
that
stuff
that
I
had.
Um
I
also
had
uh
a
balcony
on
my
hotel
room
that
I
fully
utilized.
The
there's
a
little
table
and
chair
setup,
perfect
for
drying
my
hockey
gear.
And
again,
kind
of
thought
of
that,
planned
that
out,
worked
great.
Uh,
because
it's
over
summer,
no
rain
this
year.
We
have
had
rain
in
the
past
for
these,
which
kind
of
messes
up
some
plans
for
drying
gear.
Uh,
but
I
was
able
to
dry
all
of
my
hockey
gear
uh
in
the
bed
of
my
truck
on
Saturday
between
games.
Was
there
anything
perfectly
dry?
No.
Uh
was
it
mostly
dry?
It
was
dry-ish.
Uh
again,
skates
gloves,
no
problem
with
the
dryer.
Uh,
all
the
other
stuff
doesn't
get
that
soaked
uh
because
the
underlayment
stuff
gets
soaked,
uh,
but
it
got
dry
enough.
Um,
so
that
was
uh
a
nice
thing
to
have.
Um
in
years
past,
a
lot
of
people,
what
what
you'll
see
on
Saturday
afternoons,
you
will
see
people
uh
laying
stuff
out
in
parking
lots,
hanging
stuff
there
is
like
chain
link
fences
kind
of
around
the
parking
lots.
You'll
see
people
hanging
stuff
off
of
that.
Uh
there's
trees
around
which
people
hang
their
stuff
in,
which
I
don't
really
get
why
you
hang
your
stuff
in
a
tree
because
it's
not
in
the
sun
as
much.
So
it
doesn't
make
as
much
sense,
but
it's
something,
I
guess.
Uh,
but
yeah,
this
was
great.
I
was
actually
between
games
on
Saturday.
I
was
with
Mason,
you
guys
know
from
other
episodes,
and
we
just
took
my
hockey
sticks,
laid
them
over
the
back
of
uh
the
bed
of
my
truck,
and
that
gives
you
like
two
layers
to
put
your
gear
on
and
let
it
sit
out
there
for,
you
know,
it
was
about
two
hours
uh
that
it
was
able
to
sit
in
the
sun,
which
really
helped.
I
think
all
that
stuff
was
pretty
well
dry.
Um,
I
also
had
my,
like
I
said,
the
dryer,
I
have
a
little
power
bank
thing
that
that
was
able
to
be
plugged
into,
and
that
was
sitting
under
all
that
running,
uh,
getting
the
skates
and
stuff
real
good.
But
yeah,
uh
made
things
a
lot
more
pleasant,
made
things
a
lot
less
uh
squishy
and
gross
uh
from
how
it
can
be
uh
in
years
past,
even
when
I've
only
played
on
one
team.
Uh
sometimes
if
you
have
games
that
are
super
close
together
and
stuff
doesn't
get
properly
dried,
or
like
I
said,
we've
had
years
where
it
rains
a
bunch
and
stuff
definitely
doesn't
get
dried
in
the
rain,
and
it
just
kind
of
makes
it
gross.
You
know,
I
mean
it's
totally
playable.
You
have
fun
playing
and
everything.
But
if
you
can
uh
have
a
nice
warm,
sunny
weekend,
that
really
helps
out
with
things
like
that.
So
yeah,
so
getting
to
know
what
the
what
the
weather's
gonna
be,
uh
that's
a
big
help.
Um,
I'd
say
if
you're
doing
something
similar
to
this,
if
you
are
planning
on
a
big
uh
weekend
of
hockey
where
you're
gonna
go
do
something
like
this,
I
would
say
it's
a
general
format
for
most
tournaments
that
I've
been
in,
uh,
usually
seem
to
be
like
three
games.
Uh
that
seems
to
be
the
general
thing,
maybe
four,
but
it's
usually
like
three
games
over
two
days
with
it
is
looking
ahead
of
things,
like
looking
at
weather,
uh
looking
at
your
schedule
and
trying
to
plan
that
stuff
out.
That
makes
such
a
huge,
huge
difference
in
paying
attention
to
that.
So
you
plan
out
kind
of
how
you're
gonna
do
stuff,
how
you're
gonna
handle
your
gear
and
and
all
these
things.
Uh,
but
also
helps
planning
out
on
how
you're
gonna
eat.
Um,
I
am
not
one
that
loves
to
eat
a
lot
before
a
game.
Uh,
I
usually
during
the
regular
week,
you
know,
when
I
have
a
game
at
like
nine,
ten
o'clock
at
night.
I
will
kind
of
forego
dinner
and
have
a
very
large
late
lunch
usually.
Um,
just
because
I
don't
like
eating,
you
know,
three,
four
hours
before
a
game,
that's
maybe
okay,
but
definitely
not
like
two
hours
or
so
before
a
game.
Uh,
so
that
was
also
something
that
I
tried
to
take
in
consideration
of
when
I
was
eating
stuff
and
kind
of
what
I
was
eating.
Um,
super
easy
on
Friday
when
our
games
were
kind
of
in
the
early
afternoon.
It
was
easy,
you
know.
You
have
breakfast
and
and
maybe
a
small
lunch,
something
that
you're
gonna
have
dinner
afterwards
Saturday.
It
like
I
said,
kind
of
was
in
the
middle
of
the
days
there.
So
I
had
a
little
bit
between
games,
uh,
but
knowing
I
was
gonna
eat
later.
Um,
but
just
kind
of
playing
that
stuff
out
and
and
knowing
so
you're
not
starving,
but
also
so
you
don't
feel
gross
uh
if
you're
somebody
that
can't
eat
a
lot
right
before
games,
um,
something
to
think
of.
And
again,
like
I
was
talking
about
leading
up
to
it
during
this
whole
weekend,
still
drinking
uh
just
a
crap
ton
of
water,
um,
sports
drinks,
stuff
like
that.
Uh
brought
a
lot
of
that
stuff
up
with
me,
had
stuff
up
there.
Of
course,
while
I'm
playing,
uh
drinking
stuff,
probably
a
lot
more
than
I
normally
would
uh
during
a
regular
game,
uh,
especially
by
the
end
there,
just
consuming
more
and
more
uh
stuff
during
games.
Uh
so
just
being
prepared
for
that
as
well.
Another
big
factor
that
you
have
to
take
into
consideration
if
you're
going
to
some
kind
of
tournament
like
this,
and
you
have
any
kind
of
control
over
things,
is
just
knowing
how
many
skaters
they're
going
to
be.
Uh
this
year
it
really
helped.
Like
I
said,
playing
on
two

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teams.
Uh
both
teams
had
a
decent
amount
of
skaters,
uh,
both
teams
had
over
10
skaters,
which
makes
this
so
much
easier.
Uh
last
year
went
up
and
one
team
had
I
think
nine
skaters,
uh,
and
the
other
team
I
think
had
10.
I
mean,
they
were
both
pretty
low
numbers.
And
we
had
a
lot
of,
again,
a
lot
of
crossover
people
between
the
two
teams,
and
that's
just
tough.
Um,
no
matter
what
you
do,
having
that
few
skaters
is
really
tough.
Um,
so
you
kind
of
have
to,
I
think,
be
aware
of
that
and
plan
accordingly.
Uh,
I
went
up
a
couple
years
before
this
with
just
one
team,
and
we
hit
we
only
had
eight
skaters,
and
I
was
dead
just
from
playing
on
one
team
with
only
eight
skaters.
I
could
not
have
played
for
two
teams,
no
matter
how
many
skaters
the
other
team
had.
I
just
could
not
have.
Um,
there
was
there
was
no
way.
So
I
think
that's
another
important
thing
to
kind
of
know
beforehand
and
put
into
your
planning
uh
to
figure
out,
uh,
you
know,
and
also
kind
of
help
you
know
when
you're
playing
how
hard
you're
gonna
have
to
go
with
stuff.
I
mean,
if
you're
playing
on
what
if
one
team
has
a
ton
of
guys
and
one
team
has
very
few,
you
know,
you
might
have
to
uh
later
on
in
the
tournament
kind
of
make
the
decision
of,
well,
this
team's
doing
good.
I
gotta
really
go
at
it
for
this
team,
but
this
other
team's
not,
you
know,
hasn't
like
won
a
game,
so
maybe
don't
go
as
hard
for
them
or
something
like
that.
Uh
it
sucks
to
say
that,
but
you
might
have
to
make
a
decision
like
that
for
things.
So
it's
something
you
you
do
need
to
be
aware
of
going
up
there
and
kind
of
planning
how
you're
gonna
do
all
this
stuff,
but
also
while
you're
up
there
planning
how
everything's
going
kind
of
game
to
game.
So,
how
did
everything
wind
up
turning
out?
Uh
well
both
teams
did
fine,
pretty
average.
One
team
uh
went
what
we
went
uh
oh
one
and
two,
the
other
team
went
one,
one
and
one.
Um,
so
very,
very
middle
of
the
road
for
both
teams
uh
for
things,
uh
which,
you
know,
not
great,
but
neither
team
uh
did
terribly.
How
did
I
feel
uh
from
like
game
one
versus
game
six?
Honestly,
not
terrible
after
game
six.
Uh
I
was
tired.
I
was
definitely,
definitely
tired.
Um
while
playing,
I
actually
didn't
feel
too,
too
bad.
Uh,
you
know,
I
could
tell
I
was
I
could
tell
I
was
getting
slower,
I
could
tell
I
was
a
little
tired.
Um
I
didn't
feel
awful.
Uh,
but
definitely
after
game
six,
that's
kind
of
when
it
hit
me
is
sitting
down
in
the
locker
room,
having
to
get
all
my
stuff
off.
That's
when
kind
of
like
the
tiredness
really
hit
afterwards
was
just
the
sitting
down
of
it.
Uh
it
again
didn't
help.
Like
I
said
before,
those
locker
rooms
were
so
hot,
um,
which
did
not
help
uh
anything
for
it.
So
those
those
were
insanely
hot
locker
rooms.
Uh
so
having
to
sit
in
the
super
hot
locker
room
after
playing
uh
really
didn't
help
my
motivation
to
kind
of
get
undressed
and
everything.
But
no,
I
did
not,
I
did
not
feel
terrible.
I
felt
better
than
I
did
last
year.
And
I
think
a
lot
of
that
I
marked
that
up
to
the
prep
kind
of
beforehand
with
things.
I'm
definitely
not
in
better
shape
than
I
was
last
year,
but
I
think
I
was
better
prepared
for
it.
Um
I
think
the
things
like
the
massage
gun
uh
really
helped
with
stuff.
Um
I
think
the
like
trying
to
stretch
and
drink
a
bunch
of
water
really
helped.
Uh,
I
definitely
took
advantage
of
the
uh
hotel
shower,
which
means
you
could
take
a
super
hot
shower
for
kind
of
long
to,
you
know,
really
almost
kind
of
like
take
like
a
steam
uh
to
try
and
feel
better
uh
for
things.
Definitely
did
that,
would
probably
not
be
doing
that
as
much
at
home,
uh,
but
definitely
did
that.
Um
it
was
really
nice
to
you
know
go
back
to
the
hotel,
take
a
super
hot
shower,
come
out,
use
the
massage
gun
for
a
little
bit,
and
then
I
would
go
take
a
cold
shower
after
that,
because
I'm
a
cold
shower
guy
normally.
But
yeah,
that
actually
was
really,
really
nice.
Um
if
either
team
had
gone
and
advanced,
or
if
both
teams
had
advanced,
could
I
have
played
a
game
seven
or
eight
on
Sunday?
Yes.
I
think
I
totally
could
have.
I
would
have
would
I
have
been
tired?
Yes.
Uh
would
I
have
been
too
tired
to
play
or
anything?
No.
Definitely,
definitely
not.
Um
last
year
I
think
I
would
have
been
uh
just
a
pile
of
goo
trying
to
play
on
Sunday.
This
year
I
think
I
I
would
have
been
tired,
but
I
would
I
would
have
been
able
to
uh
to
to
get
it
together
for
a
game
or
two,
no
problem.
Um
would
I
continue
trying
to
do
this
if
I'm
able
to?
Yes.
Uh
it's
a
ton
of
fun.
Uh
it's
a
ton
of
hockey
in
a
short
amount
of
time.
And
like
I
said,
it's
exhausting.
You
you
don't
really
get
to
do
much
else.
I
think
that's
an
important
thing
to
point
out.
And
I
I
try
and
tell
people
when
they're
going
up
to
do
like
this
tournament
in
Toronto
and
people
that
bring
their
families
and
stuff,
is
uh
if
you're
playing
three
games,
it's
tough
to
kind
of
get
in
a
vacation
really
around
that
during
that
same
time,
let
alone
trying
to
do
six
games
uh
in
just
a
couple
of
days.
It's
really,
really
hard
to
do
that.
And
so
I
think
you
kind
of
have
to,
if
you're
gonna
do
something
like
that,
kind
of
punt
on
trying
to
have
any
kind
of
vacation-y
stuff
while
the
games
are
going
on,
you
know,
and
and
just
kind
of
do
those
before
or
afterwards,
not
when
there's
games.
I
think
that's
an
important
thing
to
do
uh
and
something
to
note.
But
yeah,
I
would
totally
do
it
again.
And
if
I
get
a
chance
to
do
it
again,
is
there
things
that
I
would
change?
I
don't
think
so.
I
mean,
there's
stuff
I'd
love
to
say,
like,
yeah,
I'm
I'll
try
to
be
in
better
shape
for
next
year.
Yeah,
probably
not.
I'd
love
to
think
that.
Um
I
think
the
prepping,
like
I
said,
for
stuff
I
think
was
really
good.
Uh,
I
think
uh
having
the
stuff
for
the
the
like
the
boot
dryer,
I
think
was
really
a
great
thing
to
have.
The
massage
gun,
I
think,
helped.
I
don't
know.
I
think
it
did
though,
um,
considering
my
legs
uh
didn't
feel
a
complete
uh
jello
on
Sunday.
I
think
that
that
had
something
to
do
with
it.
Uh
so
I
would
I
would
totally
do
that
again.
So
I
don't
think
there
was
much
more
I
would
change
with
that
if
I
get
a
chance
to
do
this
again.
I
think
that
was
kind
of
a
good
lock-in
kind
of
thing
to
do
with
it,
and
I
and
I
liked
that.
So
I
think
that's
how
I
would
handle
it
again
in
the
future.
So
there
you
go.
There
was
my
take
on
playing
six
beer
league
games
in
two
days,
no,
two
days
uh
for
it.
Have
you
ever
done
something
like
that?
Have
you
ever
gotten
a
chance
to
do
something
like
that?
Have
you
ever
done
like
three
games
in
two
days
thing,
which
is
kind
of
a
normal
beer
league
format?
How
did
it
work
out
for
you?
Do
you
have
any
tips
or
tricks
to
share
with
people
of
things
to
kind
of
help
you
get
through
it
and
make
sure
that
you're
okay
to
play
uh
for
things
and
that
you're
not
uh
the
person
on
the
end
of
the
bench
that's
so
cramped
up
they
can't
play,
or
the
guy
on
the
other
end
of
the
bench
that's
so
hung
over
he's
throwing
up
on
the
bench?
And
neither
one
of
those
extremes
are
great.
Your
teammates
uh
don't
don't
ever
appreciate
either
one
of
those.
Uh
so
do
you
have
any
way
to
not
be
that
person
uh
for
stuff?
Like
I
said,
this
is
my
second
year
in
a
row
of
doing
this.
I
definitely
felt
more
prepared.
Uh,
definitely
kind
of
had
a
better
idea
of
what
I
was
doing
going
into
it.
So
I
hope
if
you
do
something
like
this,
then
uh
hopefully
this
helps
you
out
a
little
bit
as
well.
As
always,
if
you
have
any
comments
for
anything,
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uh
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can
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Go
check
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always,
thanks
a
lot
for
listening,
everybody.
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you
in
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