My 40+ starts Sunday.
I joined a new team this year after sitting out most of last year because my previous team was a disaster. They’re always pretty good, and I usually enjoy playing against them. I play pick-up with a bunch of them and they’re old school- definitely some old time hockey with beers after. I’ll probably only skate with them for a year as we’re trying to put together another team for the league, but it will be fun.
That said, we grabbed an underage player (35), which isn’t a huge deal if you’re cool about it, except he played 10 years of pro hockey in the minors. There’s a handful of good players in the league- a few ex minor leaguers, bunch of guys who played in college, elite HS players, etc. But those guys are over 40...had a guy on my last team who led the Swedish second division in scoring, but 35 years ago. This dude (who I’ve played with) is going to lay waste to the league, and while he’s a great dude (legit- great guy to have a beer with, coaches 7 days a week), it’s kind of dumb. We open Sunday with the presumably worst team in the league...sucks. Could be real ugly.