NHL provides environmental role models

[sleung]

Good article i found on how sports is trying to become greener

Many of us grew up playing hockey on the streets and still remember the calls of "CAR". We would then move our hockey nets, watch the cars go by and then resume playing. When I was one of those kid’s we were imagining we were Lafluer, Esposito or Dryden. These days the game is the same but the players the kids are emulating are Crosby, Ovechkin and Iginla.

Each player in the National Hockey League generates about 10 tonnes of carbon emissions each season with the bulk of it coming from air travel but also from driving between arenas and airports. Andrew Ference spearheaded an initiative where players purchase carbon offsets to cover their air travel and hotels while they are on the road with the NHL...

http://www.globe-net.com/blog/listing.cfm?type=6&ID_News=3768

 

[June_Jones]

loved playing hockey on the street or on the driveway. for my brother and i it was more trying to be like federov or jagr, who were just electric to watch a few years ago. cannot wait for hockey to start up

 

[sleung]

your younger than me as kids we wanted to be the Great One, Messier, Coffey, Ray Bourque, Lanny MacDonald or Ron Hextall no one wanted to be Mario

I personally wanted to be Wendall Clark

 

[June_Jones]

HA nice i remember wendall clark when he was at the tail-end of his career with the leafs

 

[VegasVic]

You want to talk old?

During my street hockey career I was Dean Prentice!

 

[VegasVic]

Great story sleung...I heard Ference on XM the other day. They asked him about the new schedule and his response was, "glad for the fans, but unhappy with the increased plane miles and subsequent effect it would have on our environment."

Very well spoken and sharp character.