On my hockey team there is a weird seating arrangement but more of a superstition than a seating arrangement. When you walk into the room there is a bench on the right wall that can fit five people, there is a bench on the front wall that can fit 5 people, there is a bench that can fit 5 people on the left wall, and finally there is a bench on the back wall that can fit 3 people and we call it the goalie bench because me and the other goalie always sit there and one other person sits with us. Every game and practice the team always sit in the same spot and this has been happening for 4 years now so I don’t know if it is a superstition or a habit. There is also a superstition that if you don’t get dressed left to right or right to left you will have a bad game. Every game we listen to a song that no one knows the name too. On the persons I pod we use we call it pre game. We also listen to Herb Brooks inspirational speech that he said before team USA played the Russians in Lake Placid.
Every time I step into the locker room I can see the wet rubber and smell the stench from the hockey equipment. Once a week we go to the gym together and do a certain amount of workouts in a certain order that isn’t really a superstition but more of a habit. We also watch tape once a week to see what we can improve on and to see how our next opponent plays. We pay attention to the sweet buttery popcorn more than we do the film, which is kind of awkward, but we get done what we have too. After every game if we win we play the song "Run This Town" by Jay-Z and Rhianna but we don’t know why. Every game we go out of the locker room and on the ice in a certain order and 2 people stand by the door taping of us as we hit the ice. I love my teammates and I would do anything for them because they’re family to me.
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