I broke the glass

[crazylegs_9 0]

During warmups for our game tonite, I was shooting on goal and the ref came in the put in the pegs. As he was doing this I saucered some pucks at the wall. One went a little high and hit the glass about 4 inches over the wall. The glass shattered, but I coudnt have hit it too hard, because the puck came to a rest on the dasher.

Needless to say the rink employees are quite pissed at me and it delayed the game about 20 minutes. They feel the puck was shot much harder than it actually was. The bigger problem in all of this, is I am a part-time rink employee there. I don't know at this point if I should pay for the broken pane of glass or what. I am also considering quitting at the rink after this event. I'm not really looking forward to going to work on Saturday.

[M-Cohen 0]

Sounds like the glass was weak anyways.

I doubt you should or will pay, but I hope you helped clean up. That crap is maddd heavy.

[crazylegs_9 0]

Yeah, I was on skates so I helped gather the glass that had scattered on the ice.

[TheBert 0]

You could've shot the puck 102.9 mph and it's still not your problem. I think your shot was just the last straw for the glass.

[ean 0]

your rink staff should be thanking you. Assuming you're telling the truth, and you just flipped the puck up on the glass, what if it had been a real slapper and their had been spectators there?

[crazylegs_9 0]

Naa, mens league game. Everyone asked me what happened. My brother who is a scorekeeper just informed me that they thought I hit the top of the glass, which is buttshit due to the fact there was a clear area you could tell the puck had hit.

[LkptTiger 1]

Glass is like just about everything else you find at the rink - it breaks. Unless you were repeatedly swinging your stick and actively trying to break the glass, I fail to see why it would be an issue at all.

[mack 44]

Yeah, other than feeling bad about causing a delay or having a mess to clean up don't worry about it. Shit happens.

[hockeymom 2]

Last year a parent standing behind the net, slapped his hand on the glass to celebrate a goal scored... the glass shattered.

The rink people tried to say he was excessive... but, as he was behind the net, I had caught it on video tape. He wasn't pounding the crap out of it... the glass was weak, likely from all the missed shots on net.

I don't think I'd offer to pay for the glass.

[-brady2 0]

Don't worry about it.

One of the kids on our team broke the glass this year in practice. Most excited i've ever seen him

[bbruins8 0]

What's one of the tall panes of glass go for anyways?

[gxc999 7]

It's pretty foreseeable that the glass is going to break. As someone previously mentioned, it was probably already weakened. Don't offer to pay for anything or admit fault, just explain it was a regular shot and that you weren't even taking a slapper.

[Jake 0]

Like someone else said, it doesn't matter how hard you shot it, it's glass at an ice rink. It should withstand any shot it faces.

[sabby47 2]

What's one of the tall panes of glass go for anyways?

At the rink I work for we get them for $350/each. We've never made a player replace the glass unless they did something to break the glass on purpose.. like swinging their stick and breaking off the top part of a pane of glass...

Glass breaks just like anything else in the rink and unless you go out of your way to cause damage the rink shouldn't make you pay for it.

[mack 44]

That is a big-ass siggy with some fail in it.

[Patrick67 1]

As long as you didn't swing your stick at the glass, deliberately trying to break it, it's not your fault at all.

Just be glad there wasn't anyone behind the glass.

[indaslot 0]

It was an accident and it will eventually be forgotten.

[Spreedizzle 1]

Complete accident, and honestly....a good thing that it broke when it did. Had this occurred during a game and a check, someone could of seriously gotten hurt with the broken pane. I wouldn't say that you did them a favor, but it broke at a very good time. Not even close to being your fault.....you were simply the final cause of the destruction. Go to work, do what you do....and don't worry about it.

[bbruins8 0]

What's one of the tall panes of glass go for anyways?

At the rink I work for we get them for $350/each. We've never made a player replace the glass unless they did something to break the glass on purpose.. like swinging their stick and breaking off the top part of a pane of glass...

Glass breaks just like anything else in the rink and unless you go out of your way to cause damage the rink shouldn't make you pay for it.

Vagina power eh? Never heard of such a thing

Back on topic...wow that's really expensive for a f'in pane of glass.

[Spreedizzle 1]

What's one of the tall panes of glass go for anyways?

At the rink I work for we get them for $350/each. We've never made a player replace the glass unless they did something to break the glass on purpose.. like swinging their stick and breaking off the top part of a pane of glass...

Glass breaks just like anything else in the rink and unless you go out of your way to cause damage the rink shouldn't make you pay for it.

Vagina power eh? Never heard of such a thing

Back on topic...wow that's really expensive for a f'in pane of glass.

Tempered (glass that breaks in chunks as opposed to slivers with sharp edges) is a very expensive material.

[JR97 2]

I wouldn't worry about it and I sure as hell wouldn't quit working there over it.

I've broken glass twice. The weird one was when I hit the thin strip that runs along the tops of the boards. The glass "spider webbed" from that point on out. It was at the end of a drop in as everyone was leaving. I felt pretty bad and I went into the office to tell the owner. He was cool about it and was glad it broke then instead of a game causing delays or possibly a danger.

[crazylegs_9 0]

Thanks everybody, reading your comments helped me get over it a lot more, plus it was only a couple hours after the fact when I posted the topic. I have not been back to the rink today, but I will tomorrow. Like most of you said it is much better to happen then, than at a Youth game this weekend.

[Wolfpack_1986 154]

ha, reminds me of a Hurricanes practice story. Kevyn Adams, who is one of the most congenial people you'll ever meet, was flipping pucks at the glass where a little kid was standing... just playing with him, little light floaters. Well, the second one shattered the glass and scared the ever loving shit out of the kid. He was crying and all that, so Adams came over and made sure he was ok and chatted to him for a little bit. Signed the puck that did the deed and gave it to him.

[mrusse01 0]

High school game I was in once, home game and the fans were going pretty nuts in warm-up getting on the other team. So some kid on their team finally has enough I guess and winds up and shoots a huge clapper right at the glass (pretty low glass too, on the sideboards, coulda killed somebody) and boom...glass explodes everywhere.

I gotta admit it was pretty badass, shut up the ENTIRE arena for a few seconds...but I think the kid got suspended for the year, and rightfully so.

[zales17 0]

A little late on this one, but yea man, dont feel bad. It was bound to happen sooner or later (that pane breaking). I too am a rink employee, and I broke a pane at drop in. It was no big deal, just sucked to clean it up. The funny thing is that later that night, after it had been replaced, the same pane broke again in C league during warm ups. Then about a week later (after we got more glass cut) another one of our guys at the rink broke the one next to it. Needless to say that was an expensive couple of weeks for the rink. Moral of the story, anyone can break the glass if the time is right, and it no persons fault (as long as they werent intentionally trying to do it). Now you can just walk around the rink like this B) , (haha, joking)