When I was 3 my old man taught me how to skate. I think it was the same year I learned how to throw a baseball and football and throw a punch, but hockey is what's stuck in my mind as my first athletic skill because with skating and puck-handling I was also shown how a man can handle pain. I grew up in a college town in Vancouver, BC. About a five-walk from our townhouse was an ice rink where my dad would play some pretty competitive beer league hockey. 'Twas an old rink when we lived there. It [...]
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