Longest time without playing?

[kosydar 0]

Whats the longest you guys have gone without playing? I haven't been on the ice since the end of May, and frankly I'm not dying to be back on the ice. I don't think I've ever not played for this long before, and I'm really enjoying it. Taking a break can be really nice, I finally have time to do things I never could before. Is anybody with me on this, or are you all the types that need to be on the ice 3 times a week, 52 weeks a year? Hell, I don't think I've even looked under the Ice hockey equipment forum in over a month.

[Jason Harris 31]

The longest time was thirteen years but, since I've gotten back into playing, I'd say no more than one week if I'm in town, two weeks if I'm on vacation or five weeks when I had an injury.

I just don't tire of the sport, even though I don't have the skills to prove it...... :lol:

[Chadd 916]

I like having a couple weeks off between seasons, it's probably a good thing as we usually lose in the first round when we actually make the playoffs. I only wish I had been able to get out on the golf course and play a round or two.

[Bruin88 0]

almost 3 months ,concussion

[notorious#29 0]

Actually, these last few months (since mid June) have been the longest I have gone. I usually play roller in the summer, but this year I took the summer off. I have to agree, I did enjoy taking the break, but I'm glad to be playing again.

[Sven 1]

7 Years

[Hipster 5]

15 years for me. Once I got married and moved to a non-hockey rural area, I just didn't stay involved. Then kids came along and I was busy trying to feed them and keep a roof over everyone's head and a minivan in the garage.

Luckily, I got into coaching a few years after my son started playing tiny tot hockey, and by the time he reached squirts I realized how much fun I was missing.

I knew it was time to join a men's league when I just got tired of shooting puff shots at little kid goalies.

I've lost 37 pounds in 8 months and got back down to my high school weight and I've spent a fortune on equipment. But hey, I figure I've only got a few years left where I can still play with the young guns...so I may as well go out with great looking gear.

[Jason Harris 31]

I was given an interesting perspective on time off from skates, but it has a cute introduction.

We had a great game one night in which the first place team tied us with three minutes left, then with 2 seconds left they blasted a slapper that my goalie snared, but it popped out of his glove and dribbled into the net. The next day was the start of our summer mini-mite program, and it looked like the guy who scored the tying goal was coaching also.

I skated up to him to talk about the game, and asked if he played in the RMHL. The what? I figured I had spoken too quickly, so I said the Rocky Mountain Hockey League. "No," he said, "actually, I play in the NHL."

"Oh, wow, I'm sorry, man!"

"No, don't worry. Actually, there's a funny story when I first met my wife at Bowling Green, she was on the tennis team and I told her I was on the hockey team. 'You play field hockey??,' she asked me!" :lol:

Well, it turned out it was Ken Klee. By the end of the summer, I had wanted to see just how much better NHL guys are than the rest of us, so I asked him if he'd come out to our Saturday night drop-in. He told me that he never skates in the summer, that he had only did so this summer because his kids were old enough to skate so he was helping with the coaching.

He said the reason he takes time off is he just gets tired of lacing his skates. I thought about and I realized how guys that skate that much, and with such intensity, could want a break. I'll play two or three times a week, and don't get tired of it, but these guys probably skate 8-10 times a week with drills and coaches' whistles. I could see that getting old.

[Shorthanded67 0]

I'm almost 28 and have literally been playing 5-7 games a week since I was 18. Currently I play in 4 leagues on 3 nights and I'll say that it's OK with me. It's spaced out throughout the week so it pretty much gives me 24 hours to recooperate. Usually I only take off around the Christmas/New Year's holidays when my rinks are closed for a week or two.

[2-Keys 1]

im one of the ive got to play at least 3 times a week, 52 weeks a year! lol taking a break is good but id rather just keep pllaying

[A_Steeves12 0]

almost 3 weeks this summer. i hated it i was itching to get back out on the ice.

[tokes 0]

Last time I hit the ice was May, and I'm probably hitting the ice next wednesday for the first time.

I have a rant though. The college I'm going to has an arena. The hockey team has an early morning practice once a week. The rest of the week? Ice isn't open till 9 o'clock. The time when people are most likely to go and play? Lunch time, obviously. What is the ice reserved for? That's right, skating (no sticks or pucks!) from 11:45 till 1:15. I have never seen a person at the rink during this time, period. They said themselves they don't even need to have a person at the rink to supervise earlier, they just don't feel like redoing the schedule and the time-carded access keys to let us in there earlier. Pretty stupid, but whatever.

[Hockeyman9621 0]

Probably when I was little, I didn't know there was ice in the summer. :o Probably been playing 52 weeks a year since I was ten. I play roller too. (injuries held me back a little.)

[Fonya 0]

Whats the longest you guys have gone without playing? I haven't been on the ice since the end of May, and frankly I'm not dying to be back on the ice. I don't think I've ever not played for this long before, and I'm really enjoying it. Taking a break can be really nice, I finally have time to do things I never could before. Is anybody with me on this, or are you all the types that need to be on the ice 3 times a week, 52 weeks a year? Hell, I don't think I've even looked under the Ice hockey equipment forum in over a month.

Im playing houseleague this year opposed to rep and I know what your saying. I have time to go to my drum lessons instead of practices and I am going to go snowboarding alot in the winter. Plus I can go on vactions in the winter instead of playoffs. To balance it though I am going to be playing high school hockey.

[ponty 0]

I was cured from Hockey for about 5 years. Then I got the bug again when I moved to Colorado. 5 years off plus the thin air made for one tough comeback :)

[2-Keys 1]

almost 3 weeks this summer. i hated it i was itching to get back out on the ice.

your just like me lol. i cant stand not playing for a long time.

[RadioGaGa 162]

I play pickups pretty much year round (sometimes twice a week, usually once). Our summer skate finished the last week of Aug, and we start again in a couple weeks. That is my longest non-playing stretch.