I played DIV 1 as a 40yrs old....no fun....I got 20yrs old failed junior B guys stomping around the dressing room lecturing us old guys about 2-way hockey. I now play Div 6....we just are having fun.
I played college hockey and can’t stand playing beer league for all reasons Sean said. Instead I play in a late night skate with about 25 guys in the area where we rent the ice for a season and choose sides and just play. No refs, no BS. Just a good group of guys having fun. It’s great
The one thing I noticed about beer league ice hockey and roller hockey. Roller hockey players take everything to heart. If you body them up or anything like that they get mad and try to destroy you every chance they get. Even when they are the ones who started it. Ice players leave everything on the ice.
if youre 60..then youre probably the type that always needs to grab at a jersey and/or put your stick where it doesnt belong when players are passing by you. this younger generation dont "clutch n grab" like you were shown by your coach in the 60s. honestly, i think its the "boomer ego" that kicks in and you old guys start diving and hooking..even during "pick up" hockey. guys in their 60s still "stepping up" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 hillarious... stop taking the viagara before hockey
The puck hog part is so true. And the guys who think they’re in the cup final with white Nike skates on. It goes both ways though. The benders who skate like they’re trying to walk on ice are moving those feet so fast while absolutely going No where at the same time. Learn how to skate first
That’s why i do stick n puck for an hour. Get a good skate, shoot some pucks, usually 2-4 guys who like to do little rush scrimages and passing plays. I’m on the ice for a full hour, no stopping, leave the ice drenched in sweat head to toe, it’s the most fun i know how to have, love it. Beer league and shinny is lame af, pass the puck and you never see it again, half the guys playing for a stanley cup half the guys not trying at all. Sticks up in the air. Which reminds me, just like in golf you don’t walk in somelines line, in hockey, keep your stick on the ice, or low! No reason to be skating around with your stick 6 feet in the air, but these clowns do, classless goofs.
I played College in Boston, never got a look but I grew up playing with and against guys like JR, Guerin, and many others. But I loved the game as a defenseman, and these beer league nitwits think they are Connor McDavid in game 7 dangling all over the place. When I started standing them up and just take the penalty, I knew it was time for me to quit playing in 2017. Either I was going to get hurt or more likely I was probably going to mess one of these kids up as half of them have their eyes down. The code is dying if not dead as I see it. I live in PHX and there are a LOT of Canadians here, northerners too. some good games...but yeah....I would rather not deal with that anymore either.
man me tooo it's the kids wearing the JR COYOTES AND ARIZONA STATE SHIT... THEY ARE CLUB HOCKEY PLAYERS MEANING THEY ARE NOT GOOD ENOUGH TO BE AN ACTUAL SUN DEVIL.
Sean, I played Beer League A at Chelsea Piers in the early 2000s when Tim Robbins was playing there. Out tean was a team of buddies, so we had no issues with puck hogs and even back then the league was rough. A lot of ex-D1 guys and Canadians, so the level was intense and we stood up for each other, nothing crazy though.
I worked for an ex NHLer for a few months and we were drinkin beers bullshitting and half of it was hilarious stories like this from beer league after his career.
and for fucks sake, don't be that guy that never washes your jersey. I get it, it's not ballet and hockey gear isn't going to smell like Fabreeze. But goddamn, during the warm ups when both teams I skating together, I don't need to smell some guys nasty jersey from 50 feet away because he hasn't washed his jersey in 30 games.
This guy basically embarrassed the NHL for years and is criticizing stupid on ice behaviour? I still have serious second hand embarrassment thinking about how he tried to screen Brodeur. Probably one of the dumbest moves in NHL history
Yes wash your gear! I can’t understand how people don’t wash their shit. The kids on my mite team stink like death. Parents don’t wash their gear either because they think that the stink is part of hockey. It’s just gross
agree.. but a lot of younger players dont have much respect on the ice anymore. kid dings our goalie in the head with the worse angled shot ever..then raps off to buddy on our team with dozens of fights in the "O". our guy says "lay off that shit" kid beaks back "what are you going to do about it" lets just say kid got rag dolled..absolutley "washed" on the ice. then has the nerve to tell his parents??? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 kid is 20...phkkn loser!!
Well said. It is the Holy Grail. Just play hard....No Michigan bullshit, just play!,,,to those that have never skated a frozen puddle, ya haven't lived.
The same guys who don’t want people to do the Michigans are the same guys who wear mismatched smelly gear. And lean on opponents before face offs and play awfully physical in non contact.
Years ago we used to play a team mostly with CT State Prison Guards. Buncha big pissed-off frustrated guys who got spit on and sweared at all week looking to burn it off. Didn't enjoy those games haha.
For a few years I played in a canadian rugby league and Seattle had a team. When we played them in Seattle we had to play all the Tongan guys who did time in the US. Not ideal
60 year olds toe dragging their asses strait to the ER. Lunatics doing the Ogie Oglethorpe after they've watched replay after replay of Orland Kurtenbach vs Derek Sanderson. Loads of fun. Can't help but laugh...
No rules, but you can't mix and match colours for gear? Some of the guys i know can't afford to be picking up new matching pants or gloves. Jersey is a must but c'mon let the guys play. Other than that love the rest of the video!!
Yeah, this is the most deranged take of them all. The entire rant is about playing team hockey and not taking things so seriously. But then we need to get matching gloves? I play on 3 nights a week on 3 teams - yellow, blue, and orange. My gloves are blue and from high school. I’m not buying two more pairs of gloves. Most guys are playing in gear from the end of season gear exchange. Take your matching outfit requirements back to your high school mean girl club
Guys that think they are still in the game???? They never were in the game....hence why the attitude in those leagues. I played for the Allen Cup in sr hockey. Hard hitting and fights. But not crazy dirty. I played one game in beer league after that and it was a hard no. All I wanted to do was enjoy the game have fun. Not much fun in guys wanting to take your head off because you are a better skater than them.
Oh hell yeah well said Sean! that's why I stopped playing way too many dillusional clowns 🤡 & Kamakazis.All of the hacking & wacking became all I could stand anymore 🏒💂🔨🤡🤡🤡
Sean I miss you playing Hockey 🏒 I hope you do come back to the NHL and maybe work in the front office at some point because of ya knowledge of the game is so incredibly amazing dude.
“Guy wants to send a message he’s got 2 different color socks on” … nailed it
I played DIV 1 as a 40yrs old....no fun....I got 20yrs old failed junior B guys stomping around the dressing room lecturing us old guys about 2-way hockey. I now play Div 6....we just are having fun.
ha ha ha...
40?...
thats old to play div 1, did you graduate at least?
@@kYA00h lol he's saying in beer league div 1 is top! Div 6 is lowest,
@@benmccaffery6001 thx
Ur probably not playing a two way game bud !!! Lol.jk
I played college hockey and can’t stand playing beer league for all reasons Sean said. Instead I play in a late night skate with about 25 guys in the area where we rent the ice for a season and choose sides and just play. No refs, no BS. Just a good group of guys having fun. It’s great
The one thing I noticed about beer league ice hockey and roller hockey. Roller hockey players take everything to heart. If you body them up or anything like that they get mad and try to destroy you every chance they get. Even when they are the ones who started it. Ice players leave everything on the ice.
😂 Great! Thank You! I’m 60 and been preaching your message for years!
if youre 60..then youre probably the type that always needs to grab at a jersey and/or put your stick where it doesnt belong when players are passing by you. this younger generation dont "clutch n grab" like you were shown by your coach in the 60s. honestly, i think its the "boomer ego" that kicks in and you old guys start diving and hooking..even during "pick up" hockey. guys in their 60s still "stepping up"
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
hillarious...
stop taking the viagara before hockey
Way too many heroes out there for me to play beer league. I’ll stick to my 2 pick up skates a week with the same group of guys both night
Please don’t stop making videos!!! Absolutely loving it!!!
Worked in a rink for years. Can confirm beer leaguers are giant babies.
I stopped playing beer league any organized sport 15 years ago. I do kickboxing now. No sparring.
The puck hog part is so true. And the guys who think they’re in the cup final with white Nike skates on. It goes both ways though. The benders who skate like they’re trying to walk on ice are moving those feet so fast while absolutely going No where at the same time.
Learn how to skate first
My 1997 Bauer Supremes still scare my young opponents..lol.
@@nicknewman4175what a great hockey skate...
has the orange in the lettering
@@nicknewman4175ok boomer
@@Citizen__X1ha ha ha...
these were 1990s skates..not 1970s...SALLY
@@kYA00h tell me about the great world war…
Do pond hockey players need to wear matching socks? Would that disqualify them from playing pond hockey?
That’s why i do stick n puck for an hour. Get a good skate, shoot some pucks, usually 2-4 guys who like to do little rush scrimages and passing plays. I’m on the ice for a full hour, no stopping, leave the ice drenched in sweat head to toe, it’s the most fun i know how to have, love it. Beer league and shinny is lame af, pass the puck and you never see it again, half the guys playing for a stanley cup half the guys not trying at all. Sticks up in the air. Which reminds me, just like in golf you don’t walk in somelines line, in hockey, keep your stick on the ice, or low! No reason to be skating around with your stick 6 feet in the air, but these clowns do, classless goofs.
I honesty do not understand why guys sign up to play when all they do is hack and try and fight, its like why not go to a kick boxing class instead?
Dude half the people in beer league would be better off in mma classes, its nuts
I played College in Boston, never got a look but I grew up playing with and against guys like JR, Guerin, and many others.
But I loved the game as a defenseman, and these beer league nitwits think they are Connor McDavid in game 7 dangling all over the place.
When I started standing them up and just take the penalty, I knew it was time for me to quit playing in 2017.
Either I was going to get hurt or more likely I was probably going to mess one of these kids up as half of them have their eyes down.
The code is dying if not dead as I see it.
I live in PHX and there are a LOT of Canadians here, northerners too.
some good games...but yeah....I would rather not deal with that anymore either.
man me tooo it's the kids wearing the JR COYOTES AND ARIZONA STATE SHIT... THEY ARE CLUB HOCKEY PLAYERS MEANING THEY ARE NOT GOOD ENOUGH TO BE AN ACTUAL SUN DEVIL.
I really enjoy your takes. This is so true.
Sean Avery should be the last person anyone would want hockey advice from
ill admit when i played they called me "shane dont pass"
Sean, I played Beer League A at Chelsea Piers in the early 2000s when Tim Robbins was playing there. Out tean was a team of buddies, so we had no issues with puck hogs and even back then the league was rough. A lot of ex-D1 guys and Canadians, so the level was intense and we stood up for each other, nothing crazy though.
When you puttin' out a new book?! 🤪
We had dudes dropping them in the handshake line.
I'm dying about the dirty laces 😂
Wasn't that guy in Oppenheimer?
And a lot of rinks don’t even allow the damn beer anymore. Shit is turning into Vape League.
Oh man, I would love to play beer league on Avery's line! Just imagine, like he's mic'd up but doesn't even need a mic! Every shift!!!
Love this Sean! It’s Larry Brehm. Love ya brother
I worked for an ex NHLer for a few months and we were drinkin beers bullshitting and half of it was hilarious stories like this from beer league after his career.
In USA we play dek hockey and dudes show up stoned or drunk and fight 16 year olds and play dirty af
Yeah man ANY beer league hockey gets nasty
and for fucks sake, don't be that guy that never washes your jersey. I get it, it's not ballet and hockey gear isn't going to smell like Fabreeze. But goddamn, during the warm ups when both teams I skating together, I don't need to smell some guys nasty jersey from 50 feet away because he hasn't washed his jersey in 30 games.
Everyone should be wearing base layer, you have to wash that after every skate, doesn’t hurt to throw in your jersey.
That ending is priceless. Prime beer league examples.
This guy basically embarrassed the NHL for years and is criticizing stupid on ice behaviour?
I still have serious second hand embarrassment thinking about how he tried to screen Brodeur.
Probably one of the dumbest moves in NHL history
You're describing the NOSHO.
BUT SEAN, THE SCOUTS ARE WATCHING!
Why can’t I try a Michigan?
GOLD haha, I play beer league, I couldn’t agree with this more HAHAHAHAHA
Yes wash your gear! I can’t understand how people don’t wash their shit. The kids on my mite team stink like death. Parents don’t wash their gear either because they think that the stink is part of hockey. It’s just gross
not when you have good people lol is always super chill
better watch some Shorsey Bruh! lol Both Seasons!
I like my gear to smell like shit.
He's not wrong.its not fun
agree..
but a lot of younger players dont have much respect on the ice anymore. kid dings our goalie in the head with the worse angled shot ever..then raps off to buddy on our team with dozens of fights in the "O".
our guy says "lay off that shit"
kid beaks back "what are you going to do about it"
lets just say kid got rag dolled..absolutley "washed" on the ice. then has the nerve to tell his parents???
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
kid is 20...phkkn loser!!
Well said. It is the Holy Grail. Just play hard....No Michigan bullshit, just play!,,,to those that have never skated a frozen puddle, ya haven't lived.
The same guys who don’t want people to do the Michigans are the same guys who wear mismatched smelly gear. And lean on opponents before face offs and play awfully physical in non contact.
@Mcgee833 I played an old school style, no fancy crap, no showing off...apparently you like the "wallflower" style.
Is he on his own now, he used to have 2 other guys with him?
I hate so many of the crazy stuff Avery did while in the NHL. It pains me to say so, but this video is so true, 100%.
But this is what makes beer league fun lol
Can Trump please make this guy head press secretary
Oh my gawd this was gold.
Years ago we used to play a team mostly with CT State Prison Guards. Buncha big pissed-off frustrated guys who got spit on and sweared at all week looking to burn it off. Didn't enjoy those games haha.
That's like a reverse field of dreams
For a few years I played in a canadian rugby league and Seattle had a team. When we played them in Seattle we had to play all the Tongan guys who did time in the US. Not ideal
60 year olds toe dragging their asses strait to the ER.
Lunatics doing the Ogie Oglethorpe after they've watched replay after replay of Orland Kurtenbach vs Derek Sanderson.
Loads of fun. Can't help but laugh...
No rules, but you can't mix and match colours for gear? Some of the guys i know can't afford to be picking up new matching pants or gloves. Jersey is a must but c'mon let the guys play.
Other than that love the rest of the video!!
Yeah, this is the most deranged take of them all. The entire rant is about playing team hockey and not taking things so seriously. But then we need to get matching gloves? I play on 3 nights a week on 3 teams - yellow, blue, and orange. My gloves are blue and from high school. I’m not buying two more pairs of gloves. Most guys are playing in gear from the end of season gear exchange. Take your matching outfit requirements back to your high school mean girl club
Sean is losing it
This is very funny! lol
It's true guys just wanna fight or they think they didn't peak yet.
Not everyone but some guys yeah lol
Beer league rule no shoulder pads....stamp it!!
Why? the fat guy want to take of some weight but not from his belly?
@@Mcgee833 lol
Legend I tell ya. Legend
Guys that think they are still in the game???? They never were in the game....hence why the attitude in those leagues. I played for the Allen Cup in sr hockey. Hard hitting and fights. But not crazy dirty. I played one game in beer league after that and it was a hard no. All I wanted to do was enjoy the game have fun. Not much fun in guys wanting to take your head off because you are a better skater than them.
So true.
Guys that come out and don’t try to make plays or sweat. Play with some passion or don’t play at all.
Agree w all except, the wardrobe comments, u aint at vogue any more
I agree
I’m British Canadian. Never played hockey. My 3 kids are playing and love the game. I love Sean’s no prisoners take on everything. Long live the Ovary
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Ta farme tu ta criss de yeul seantu fait pas peur a personne
Hey sean just so you know kamikaze pilots weren't used until the end of the war lol think you need brush up on your history lol
reading and comprehension are not this guys strong suites
Played in AZ ..... horrible hockey atmosphere so many beer league heroes shit is pathetic..
Oh hell yeah well said Sean! that's why I stopped playing way too many dillusional clowns 🤡 & Kamakazis.All of the hacking & wacking became all I could stand anymore 🏒💂🔨🤡🤡🤡
Sean I miss you playing Hockey 🏒 I hope you do come back to the NHL and maybe work in the front office at some point because of ya knowledge of the game is so incredibly amazing dude.