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HOCKEY RULES ... not The Rules

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Preface It's 2024 and I'm 77 years old. I’ve got lots of hockey in my head ... My wife used to say, "hockey rules" and I don't think she meant that as a positive exclamation. But, we have both come to understand the importance of staying active. Mine is hockey ... I don't play golf or tennis and I stopped running 35 miles a week several years ago when my knees started to ache. When I retired 19 years ago, I started to play more than 200 games of organized shinny hockey a year -- every week from Monday to Friday, in Toronto and Florida unless we're  booked on a cruise boat, which happens occasionally. I bought identical equipment for each location so I didn't have to get re-acquainted with the stuff when I moved from place to place. The following story started out as an essay about my hockey playing. While writing it, one name led to or reminded me of another and my essay morphed into this "book". If you can spare the