Good article. As much as Avery was a d-bag in the NHL (and I think much of that was simply a persona he created), he's pretty sharp. This part is interesting:
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In fact, on game days, your phone can’t even be in your hand from the time you get to the rink to the time you leave the locker room. So no iBooks, no reading financial news or answering e-mails. Some teams even extend this no-phone rule to practice days. The unspoken culture is “don’t think about anything but hockey.”
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Is this accurate? And he implies that it extends to reading books. I remember comments back in the day about Bobby Holik being a bit of a book worm and going to museums and stuff, and the tone of the comments suggested he was regarded as an oddball for doing that stuff. Hockey players seem like decent guys by and large, but the stultifying conformity and lack of curiosity about anything outside hockey strikes me as unhealthy.