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Originally Posted by Poe969
Playing professional hockey is still a job. You have to be at work every day, you have to meet certain standards and you have to be held accountable. Players have hard lives but they get paid extremely well for it. The people who think they're going to make millions of dollars and do whatever they want whenever they want need to look at things more realistically.
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You also have to consider those who put in a similar amount of time, effort and risk to make it to the professional level but fall short of that. They do not get that big pay day and may suffer life-changing injuries.
Ultimately, though, I agree with your statement. Hockey is a job. A job that a lot of people would love to have. And like many jobs it comes with some risks that a lot of people would argue are worth the potential reward.