Overheard at The Bean: Hockey is the Best

• Every team has the kid who scores all the goals, the kid who never gets off the bench, and the kid eating his mouthguard. Sometimes it’s the same kid.

• You know it’s minor hockey when the goalie waves at his mom mid-play.

• The best part of atom hockey is when both teams skate to the wrong end at once and nobody notices.

• My grandson asked if I played hockey growing up. I said yes. He asked if they had ice back then. I said yes, son, we invented it.

• Canadians will watch a hockey game in July, in a heatwave, in a bar with no air conditioning, and call it relaxing.

• Hockey is the only sport where you can lose three teeth, get a concussion, and the coach asks if you can go back out next shift.

• A good hockey fight settles more arguments than the United Nations.

• You can take the boy out of hockey. You cannot take the hockey out of the boy.

• I’ve watched a 70-year-old man yell at a TV referee for ten straight minutes.

• There’s always one old guy at the rink who’s been there since 1962 and knows everyone’s name, every score, and every rumour. Treat him well. He’s the historian.