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Originally Posted by Wolven
Aside from the 2-4 month break that sounds like any regular Job + Wife lifestyle.
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Really? Your job dictates your diet? When you have to sleep (and no being up at a certain time isnt what I'm talking about. I mean it's 1 pm you HAVE to go to sleep. It's 9 pm, you HAVE to sleep)? That you have to be in extreme physical condition? Requires your focus all the time? Not just when you're there doing your stuff, but all the time. Does your job have you consistently travelling to the point that your really don't have a "home" anywhere? Hockey is ALL NHL hockey players do and have done their entire lives. Is your job literally ALL you do? Not to mention the eventual physical toll it takes on your body. Even the softest of professional athletes leave their games with life-long debilitations. Some minor, some more severe. But you dont have a decent NHL career without walking away with some bruises.
Again, yes they get to play a game for a living, yes they make a lot of money, and yes they get a couple months off after doing their job almost 24 hrs a day for the last 8-10 months. No, it is not for everyone. If Howse looked at what he would have to do in order to even have a shot at the NHL and decided that he could not commit himself in that way than good on him for figuring it out sooner rather than later. He's still 22. He has plenty of time left to make a life for himself doing something completely different.