I can't blame him too much. Time can fly when you get into it and have nothing else to do. But with a promising career, letting it get in the way of possibly playing in the NHL seems pretty hardcore. A few years ago when I had really busy winters and really slow summers, a couple times I completely skipped a month of paying bills and didn't even think of it until the next month. But again I didn't really have a reason not to.
I still go on streaks of marathoning games or TV once in a while and time kind of blurs a bit. After another busy winter this sort of captures the last month or so for me:
