Player Discussion Adam Fox

[TheWrongWay]

I was a pretty good ref. I had players request that I do their games often. With that said we all make mistakes and I screwed up really badly once. There was a penalty and I raised my arm for a delayed call when the wrong team had possession of the puck so the wrong team pulled their goalie lol

Regardless, it's cool you got to experience that aspect of the game. And we're all misfits. If that was the worst screw up you had that week, it was likely a damn fine week.

I can appreciate also that you coached. I fill-in player/coached one game and knew it was not for me midway thru the first period. MUCH harder job than it looks like.

 

[NickyFotiu]

Regardless, it's cool you got to experience that aspect of the game. And we're all misfits. If that was the worst screw up you had that week, it was likely a damn fine week.

I can appreciate also that you coached. I fill-in player/coached one game and knew it was not for me midway thru the first period. MUCH harder job than it looks like.

Reffing could be stressful especially in chippy games. I found as a ref if you screw up just say so. Almost all the players/coaches stop being angry about a missed call if I just said sorry, I screwed up.

I'm surprised you found it hard to coach. I enjoyed it for the most part. Definitely way easier to coach than ref. Far less pressure.

 

[TheWrongWay]

Reffing could be stressful especially in chippy games. I found as a ref if you screw up just say so. Almost all the players/coaches stop being angry about a missed call if I just said sorry, I screwed up.

That seems like the most noble way to go about it. We're all human and insanely fallible. What can any player say to being honest about that?

I'm surprised you found it hard to coach. I enjoyed it for the most part. Definitely way easier to coach than ref. Far less pressure.

I sucked at that one bad attempt at player coaching and did not like it. And it's not that surprising. I've sucked and failed at plenty of things during my years.

 

[NickyFotiu]

That seems like the most noble way to go about it. We're all human and insanely fallible. What can any player say to being honest about that?



I sucked at that one bad attempt at player coaching and did not like it. And it's not that surprising. I've sucked and failed at plenty of things during my years.

You are probably too hard on yourself. How bad could it have gone?

 

[TheWrongWay]

You are probably too hard on yourself. How bad could it have gone?

I just didn't like that one instance of coaching or enjoy it at all. I loved playing.

Hard on myself? I dunno. I sometimes revel in the things I suck it. As an example... art, like drawing and painting, came easily and naturally to me. Won contests as the best artist in my NYC school district. I got bored with that form of art and felt unchallenged by age 20 or so. Then, I tried photography. I utterly sucked and could not grasp it with any ease. And I have, for decades, loved trying to improve at photography.

I think it's more a matter of feeling humbled and endlessly challenged by something that I truly love doing. No harm in trying new things and sucking at them while you try to learn the fundamentals and nuances.