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Originally Posted by RedMileDJ
Following the Wild game the other night, I caught the end of a conversation that Strombo, Kypreous (sorry for the spelling - on the road) and a couple other dudes were having. They were talking about how most guys don't know what to do with themselves, post NHL career.
I thought it was a good conversation and something worth discussing further, here on CP. Probably warrants it's own thread.
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I saw that too and it was an interesting discussion. Corey Hirsch was one of the guests and was basically saying that once he left hockey and lost his coaching job with (I believe) St. Louis, no one called him to hire him and he came to the realization that he had no other skills to fall back on. He said that players need to do things to earn those skills during their playing career so they have something to fall back on when their career wraps up. Colby Armstrong was the other guest and echoed the same sentiments. Armstrong said he recently asked Crosby what he was going to do when he retired and Crosby said he already had in idea that he wanted to start some sort of hockey school after his playing days were done.
Found a link here.
http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/l...sch-armstrong/
Just goes to show that even though these guys dedicate their lives to the game with training and playing time, they need to have life and work skills that the rest of society has and that we usually take for granted. We see these guys are millionaires who make way more then they should and that they are set for life once they are done playing. But they are human beings just like us.