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Originally Posted by FAN
A lot of hate there. A lot of people like to get to know their favourite players better. And are you sure you are watching player features on NHL hockey players? Most player features I have seen focuses on how they grew up and their family: childhood photos, parents home, sibling rivalries and love, their life with wife and kids. Very identifiable stuff. As for their wives, most definitely are attractive but your generalization about how they gauge their pockets is a great disservice and sexist. Most hockey players don't grow up living in a life of luxury. Even if they come from money they don't have time to enjoy it. They have beautiful wives because they are elite athletes and women are drawn to that. But for NHL players in general, many of them marry at a young age to their high school or college sweethearts before they really came into money. I say there are more NHL players who married at a young age than those who enjoyed the rich bachelor lifestyle.
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I'll be honest: I found most jocks in high school to be d-bags. NHL prospects are the uber-jocks of the bunch. Especially these days when they focus 24/7, 12 months a year on becoming elite hockey players. From age 10 up, they have very little real-life experience outside of being feted hockey stars.
And in Canada anyway, the elite players are
increasingly drawn from the ranks of the wealthy, who can afford the enormous time and expense that goes into grooming an elite player. I'd guess the median family income of the Canadian kids drafted into the NHL this year is over $150,000. And of course they often marry young. That's because a 20-year-old soon-to-be-multi-millionaire is a great catch for an ambitious young woman.
A lot of players probably mature as they get older. So of course there are good guys in the NHL. There are also good guys working at your local Home Depot. Call my a cynic, but when I hear that a player in the NHL is remarkably down-to-earth and one of the good guys, I interpret that to mean he has the demeanor of an average person, rather than the entitled millionaire jock that most of his teammates are.
I love the game. But the less I see about the people who play it professionally, the better.