I didnt play hockey when i was young, and growing up in Saskatchewan, I never had an NHL team to watch. The only real concept I had of hockey was playing floor hockey in gym, skating on ponds (no sticks or pucks), and the San Jose Sharks logo that was on my friend Benjamins birthday cake.
My dad obviously was a regular guy and would watch sports etc, so i had seen hockey in passing not knowing much about it. One day he mentioned something about someone "going to the box". I asked him and he tried to explain it to a small child who knew nothing about hockey. He also had said the phrase "the sin bin" at some point.
Now, the movie Hook had recently come out, and this scene was engrained into my brain:
I literally thought that when you got a penalty, you were stuffed into a TINY ####ING BOX AND LOCKED IN IT.
