I posted a somewhat pissy update on twitter yesterday before our pickup hockey game last night….

RT @Brydon: there should be some set form of humiliation for you if you bring gray, red, yellow etc to #pickup #hockey…dark or white!!!… — 20Skaters (@20skaters) March 17, 2014

Maybe it’s just a personal pet peeve but if you know you’re playing pickup hockey, leave the yellow, reds, and grey’s at home. Make sure you have a dark, as in black, and a white with you. Put one on and bring the other to the bench in case you need to flip teams to balance things out.

It’s a subtle difference but it actually makes for a better game of pickup when you can clearly delineate teams. There’s nothing worse that having to contemplate “red’s dark or white?” everytime you lift your head to make a pass.

While I seriously doubt anyone read my update, I will report that we somehow ended up with only dark and whites last night and it was a lovely skate!