text: I grew up in northern Ohio, and all winter long we played hockey on a little pond in the neighborhood.  In some places in the weeds behind the "goals"--which were nothing but little snow banks we built up--the ice was thin, so if the puck went back there we sent our little brothers back to get it in case the ice broke.  It was the price of being a rookie.\n\nOf course, that was 35 years ago; if I tried playing now, I'd be in the hospital before the end of the first period.