Hockey's Greatest Insults Nelson recorded the absurdities and outrages of the nation's basketball courts and baseball fields in several highly successful anthologies of quotations, vignettes, and insults. Now he turns his ever vigilant eye and ear to the hockey arena, in a roundup of opinions as sharp as a skater's blades and as out of control as a runaway puck. Hockey Shorts contains 1,001 of the funniest quips, slams, and witticisms ever to hit the ice. From hockey legends to current all-stars, this funny collection of quotes really delivers. Several times a year, for several hours at a time, I enter a small locked area.
Guards stand at the ready to keep back screaming crowds.
I am joined by men half my age but twice my size, in evil spirits and carrying long sticks. Each comes reluctantly because they have done wrong for which they often refuse to accept responsibility. Many are in need of medical care. Some seem to be in need of psychiatric care. Though their time with me is brief, tension is ever-present.