What is more important to you

tonyoua · High School Joined: 24 Jan 2006 Posts: 10

I would like to know what is more important to you winning or playing your hardest.please state why you choose your answer

cerberus · Peewee Joined: 10 Feb 2006 Posts: 7 Location: El Paso, TX

I think that winning comes after playing hard... I mean, is nice to win, everyone wants to win, but most of the time if you play hard you will win... unless your team really sucks or you have a very unlucky day.

Also sometimes you can win but is one of those games where the puck is going to be on the other half of the rink all the time, and you can take a nap while the game is in progress... so can you really tell that you participate in that win or you even play? Not even hard, but did you play at all?

The topic question is kind of retoricall, I think after playing hard the winning game will come and the satisfaction of doing both will be great

rod · Squirt Joined: 10 Feb 2006 Posts: 3 Location: Chicago, IL

I've just posted that playing hard is more important to me. However, if I were to sub for a team (I was asked to tonight, but had already played in the afternoon), I think winning would be more important to me in that situation. Would anyone agree?

pucking_goalie · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 8:39 pm Post subject:

Perhaps I've played on too many crappy teams, but I've played hard a ton of times only to get railroaded on the score board. If you never win, and I've been i the situation before, you don't feel like there's any reward for playing hard. But that's just my too cents.

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IntoGear · Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 5:36 am Post subject:

Winning is just the result of playing hard.
But even if you somehow lose... as long as you still exhausted every option, everything you had to stop them pucks.... that still feels good cause you went 110%

If your not sore the next morning... you did play hard enough the night before.

manimal · Squirt Joined: 10 May 2006 Posts: 3 Location: New York

I chose playing hard because you can win even if you have a crappy game but If you lose and you know you gave it all you had you get almost as much satisfaction as a game won in the same way. I don't get paid for playing hockey and my job doesn't depend on a winning record so it's all about being happy with my own play.

goaler31 · Squirt Joined: 01 Oct 2006 Posts: 3

The most inportant part of the game is having fun. The best way to have fun is winning! Shocked

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next_noronen · Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 1:45 am Post subject: Winning for me.

I have played for two teams this year, one very strong team and one very weak team. I started out playing very hard for the weak team and making lots of saves. But we kept losing and after a while its hard to put in a good effort when you know there is no D in front of you. The strong team I play for has won most of teh games but lost a few. I find it easier to play for a team that can win. At the end of the day I feel that it is my fault if we don't win. Saying that I like winning better because no matter hard I played I got the job done because we won.
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montreal961 · Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 3:50 pm Post subject:

sames here :D
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Liko · High School Joined: 21 Jun 2007 Posts: 23

I feel better after a game, win or lose, if I know I couldn't have done any more to help my team win. That's true whether I'm playing goalie, defense or forward.
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montreal961 · Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:55 pm Post subject:

i play my best, but if i lose than i feel no matter how good i played. i guesse winning would feel better for me, but playing hard is more important .
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SHGoalie5 · College Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Posts: 66

Too me it doesnt really matter how you play as long as you get the job done. I dont care if you do it backwards with figure skates on get the W and thats all i care for
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Liquid_Beaver · College Joined: 17 Jul 2007 Posts: 67

The personal satisfaction of being the reason why the team won because you played hard is an amazing feeling.

However, I think that the games that I played as hard as I could, and we still lose, is a wonderful tool for aspiring goalies out there. Everyone goes over that one miss-step that cost a goal, or how they reacted perfectly to that 2 on 1 the first time, but let out that big rebound on the next. When you play well and win the game, it sort of eclipses the mistakes you made during the game. No one ever, ever, ever, never, plays a completely perfect game, there are always minor mistakes that go unnoticed because they don't directly effect the play, but they easily could have, had the situation changed.

Few people, or coaches, go back to review how they played during games they won, instead they focus on the bad games only. I think this is detrimental to good progress, as analyzing and breaking down good games as well will help you pinpoint just what you are doing wrong. When they are many things you are trying to look at for a bad game, sometimes thing are overlooked. It would be better to go over games where the mistakes were more obvious and few, where you knew you might of done something incorrectly, but you didn't focus on it because it didn't change the play.

Also, the attitude you have when you play hard and lose games really shows what kind of person you are, much more than how you handle a win.

I know a lot of goalies that got on a high horse early on in their hockey career, and their skill plateaud because they thought so highly of themselves they didn't think they needed to improve, and didn't.

I know I just ranted, but I get that way sometimes. Sorry Razz

BISH00 · Hall of Fame Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 1543

jeez, Beaver sometimes you sound like an old geezer the way you actually know what you're talking bout Smile

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