Practice is over and the coaches are off the ice, it’s time to have a good time! While seasons can be long, especially as we approach the end of the regular season, a good bit of ice time with your buddies with no purpose always turns into a ton of fun. After practice in Chicago, we like to play puck tag. The rules of the game are simple: one player is IT, and they are the only player allowed to carry the puck. To “tag” another player, the person that is it must hit that person in the skate with the puck. We normally start with the whole team on the entire sheet of ice. And there are guys jumping off the ice to avoid getting tagged it. However, puck tag is incredibly hard on your endurance. We could skate around all afternoon playing. So the team eventually thins out and we get down to a smaller number of players and eventually have yo play between the blue lines. We normally raise the stakes when we get to the smaller group. We set a timer and the last guy that is IT when we wrap up has to buy lunch for the boys. Its a great workout and a good bit of friendly competition among the fellas.