Hockey: Pro’s and Con’s

By: Thomas Symons

Pro’s

• Fitness

• Hand-eye coordination

• Entertainment

• Fun

• Teamwork

• Health

Fitness

• Doing dry-land

• Skating for an hour and ten

• Runs

Hand-eye Coordination

• Stick handling

• Catching a flying puck

• Balancing puck on blade

• Batting the puck from the air

• Tipping

Entertainment

• Amazing goals

• Big hits

• Sick sauce

• Good fights

• Hard shots

• Sweet snipes

Sweet Snipes

Fun

• There is recreation

• Getting to skate

• Shooting pucks

• Playing with friends

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Teamwork

• Together

• Everyone

• Achieves

• More

Health

• Being fit

• Eating well

• Non-greasy food

Cons

• Headshots

• Concussions

• Travel

• Money on gear

• Money on gas and hotel

• Smell dressing rooms

Headshot’s

• A shot to head from opponent

• Can cause major concussion

• Can take you out for half a season

• The league is trying to eliminate them

The headshot on Crosby

Concussions

• level 1:Temporary forgetfulness , no knock out, symptoms clear up in 15 minutes or less

• Level 2: Temporary forgetfulness, no knock out, symptoms are there for 15 minutes or more

• Level 3: Loss of consciousness. For seconds or minutes.

Concussion

Travel

• Going down island almost every weekend

• Staying in the car is tiring

• My ankles hurt after awhile

Money on gear

• A good stick is $100-200

• Chest protector is $175

• Helmet is about $200-300

• Gloves are about $150-200

• Elbow pads and shin pads are $100-150

• Pants are about $150-200

• Jock is around $50

• Skate’s are $150-550

• Socks are $15

Money on gas and hotel

• Gas is from $0.95-$1.50

• Some people stay hotel for about $125-225

• I stay at family’s houses

Smelly dressing rooms

• When you get whole teams in there they stink

• And febreeze sucks

• You can air it out and it won’t smell as bad

Go Eagles Go!!

Thanks for watching

Sources

• http://inthepen.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/the-elephant-that-crashed-the-party/

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-v GuHLIPoc

• http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_levels_of_a_concussion

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF1Ang3DLEQ

• http://canoland.blogspot.com/2010/06/run-612010.html

• http://howtohockey.com/how-to-do-the-sidney-crosby-move

• http://www.motifake.com/2845

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewn58g9p7sg