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Describe Ice Hockey

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To most people, an ice rink is a place to go to spend time with others while clinging onto a bruised wall for two hours. For me, the ice rink is my second home. A place that I’ve dedicated countless hours practicing, working, and teaching in a place where it is winter all year round. From the cold, bitter mornings where you can see your own breath; to the times you catch yourself running over a bump due to the humidity coming from the ceilings dripping on you and the ice every 10 minutes, I spend more time at the rink than my own home. The ice rink is not just a place that I practice, it is a place where have grown accustomed to the feel of the ice and what makes it distinguishable from all the other rinks I have been to. To someone that has never set foot in an ice rink it is slippery. The ice under your blades scrape with every move you make. When I was a kid …show more content…

The arena itself is considered Olympic size, large enough to fit roughly 10 blue whales. No other rink has the same history as the one I belong to. The battered up walls with marks from figure skating and hockey blades, each scrape is a different mistake. The four red circles in each corner guides new kids as they follow the red line adamantly in the hopes of getting better. The large blue and red circle sits in the center of the ice. The cold air bites at your skin in the beginning of practice, but by the end your body is as warm as the air in the lobby and worn from the work that was put in. The air can smell crisp in the mornings, you would not be able to tell the difference between out in the winter air or indoors. If one is unlucky the air smells like sweat in every corner from the hockey players. The smell follows you into every corner of the rink, there is no escaping the smell of feet. No other rink has the same bruises and cold air that feels like

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