Will Puck was an ordinary kid who had the dream of one day becoming a professional hockey player. Both Will’s Mom and Dad had played for the USA hockey teams, and Will wanted nothing more than to do the same thing.
One day after a hockey game, as Will and his parents were coming home, a drug crazed man came out of nowhere and shot and killed his parents right in front of him. As his Mom and Dad were dying he promised his parents that he would get revenge and become the best hockey player in the world. From that day on, Wil devoted his life to becoming a professional hockey player and stopped at nothing to achieve his dream. Then one day Will's dream was reached when he was drafted by the Mine City Miners, a professional hockey team located in Mine City, Alaska.
After several weeks of hard work, opening day was finally here and the Miners had been playing terrible hockey. By the end of the first period the Miners were trailing 3-0, but by the end of the game the Miners had lost 8-1. Even though Will had scored the only point for the Miners, he was furious. He had never lost a game that badly, and planned to do whatever it took to never lose that bad again.
About a month after using them, Will was three times bigger than he used to be, and was stronger, faster, and he could hit a puck faster and farther than anyone, but he continued to grow. He was now able to shoot pucks through walls, and had steam coming off the puck when he would hit it.
After year of using the steroids, Will was caught and suspended from the league. Since he was unable to play hockey anymore, he decided to devote his life to crime, going back to his parents being murdered. Since he was unable to get into the police force do to steroid use, he d...
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...eg with the blade of his hockey skates. The Crusher was mad and Hockeyman knew it, but at the same time he was injured and couldn't move. That is when Hockeyman realized that the ceiling above them was poorly built, so he it an explosive hockey puck into the air and made the ceiling fall down on The Crusher. By this time Lois had gone unconscious so Hockeyman decided to unchain her and call the cops.
By the time the cops got there Hockeyman was gone. When Lois awoke, she had no idea what happen other than she was kidnapped by The Crusher and taken to this abandoned building and that before she passed out she say someone trying to rescue her. The cops also found The Crusher knocked unconscious under a pile of debris. The Crusher was then put back into a newly built prison and was told that he would never get out again, but if he did Hockeyman would be waiting.
To fully understand this book, people must go behind the book and find the true state of mind of the author. Unfortunately in this case, the author is the one and only Jose Canseco. Jose Canseco is what I like to call, “The black sheep in the family of baseball.” Canseco’s history can be related to such incidents of drug using, heavy drinking, numerous sexual encounters with hundreds of partners, and unreasonable acts of violence. This book goes into grave detail on how steroids have changed his life and how it is currently changing baseball.
It took a disciplined mind, strategic, and vision to pull a team with this composition, these ego’s, to put aside their self-interest and egocentric tendencies to play as one, play for a nation. The term miracle on ice is one that will forever be linked to Her Brooks’ legacy, the fabled 1980 U.S. Olympic team which won the gold medal at Lake Placid, NY. According to Coach Brook’s, the team was mentally tough and goal-oriented. They came from all different walks of life, many having competed against one another, but they came together and grew to be a real close team. He pushed this team really hard. But they had the ability to answer the bell. (Herb Brooks Foundation, N.d.) Here Coach refers to the team or they, as the team they came together for a common goal. For anyone who has watched the movie or read the book it was obvious that it was his leadership was the cause of the team coming together to play as one. He addresses the team in a positive light and himself as the catalyst.
The Web. 6 May 2010. Fainaru-Wada, Mark, and Lance Williams. Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and more! the Steroid Scandal That Rocked Professional Sports.
He experienced joy, pain, satisfaction and disappointment through it, but ultimately, he let social pressure overcome his spirit and change who he was meant to become. Hockey allowed him to physically and mentally mature as a person, but it was the sport itself, at the end, that led to his destruction. His journey as a player is a clear representation of the racism that is still unconditionally present in our community and that has to be overcome in order obtain social equity in sports and other recreational
People consider the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team to be one of the greatest things to happen in U.S Olympic history. Their game against the Soviets is known as "The Miracle on Ice." The world was stunned when the United States defeated the Soviets in the semi-final game of the 1980 Olympics. The Soviets hadn't been beaten in the gold medal game in years. This miracle game is still greatly known around the world and will not be forgotten by Americans any time soon.
As a youngster, Jessome played hockey with the stick on the local pond. “I was a goalie and I thought it was a goalie stick,” he said. “I played with it for years.”
The most memorable moment in hockey history came thirty-four years ago with the 1980 Miracle on Ice. The Americans defeating the dominant Soviet team at the Olympics was not only an important triumph for USA Hockey, but for the entire nation. Contrary to popular belief, the underdog win was not only the result of a miracle; it was also the result of a hard-working team led by Coach Herb Brooks. With increasingly negative views on the position of the United States in the Cold War, the Miracle on Ice and the gold medal win lifted the spirits of the nation and brought hockey into the American spotlight.
Originally born in Moscow, Russia, I came to the United States fourteen years ago with my parents along with my unrelated brother as their newly adopted children. Transitioning to a new country can be hard, but not knowing the language is even harder. For the first few years of my life, I struggled to speak, write and read any English. Since then, I have become acclimated to the American culture and state of mind and learned English proficiently, but, lost touch with my mother tongue because I spoke minimal Russian. I have always been proud to acknowledge and tell others that I am adopted from Mother Russia. However, over the past several years my curiosity and desire to learn about my native homeland have increased significantly. My interest in the Russian language reignited last year when I overheard a Russian and Kazakh having a conversation in Russian. I soon found myself listening to anyone anywhere, who spoke Russian.
Associates). Crosby was able to excel in the NHL Because of his exceptional talent. He was able
Coffey, Wayne R. The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team. New York: Crown, 2005. Print.
The hockey puck has revolutionized the game of hockey to make it prosper from years to come. I feel like it has come along way from just being a rubber ball that was cut in has to all the improvement it has made. Who knows where the sport would be without the hockey puck. It has given people the chance to play a sport that they might love and might be able to make a living from playing it.
The era in sports from the late 90s and into the 2000s has often been nicknamed “The Steroid Age” due to the raging use of anabolic steroids and other PEDs (performance enhancing drugs) by professional athletes. The usage of drugs in sports has never been more prevalent during this time, and many people are making it their goal to put an end to the abuse. Influential athletes such as Lance Armstrong, Alex Rodriguez, and Roger Clemens, who were once held as the highest role models to the American people, now watch as their legacies are tarnished by accusations of drug use. The American population, and lovers of sports everywhere, have followed in astonishment through recent years as many beloved athletes reveal their dark secrets. As organizations such as the USADA (United States Anti-Doping Agency) and BALCO (Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative) attempt to halt the use of PEDs, both the drug users and their high-end suppliers work diligently to avoid detection. The use of performance enhancing drugs in recent years has proven to be cancerous to the honesty and competition of modern sports. Although some strides have been made over the past few decades, the use of steroids is in full swing in Major League Baseball, The dangerous side effects of the drugs are often overlooked and many do not realize the message this sends to the youth. The support for halting the usage of PEDs is in need of attention or professional sports will face the loss of all progress made through the past two decades in its war on steroids.
The character this film is primarily centered around is Will Hunting. Will lives in a tattered house in a bad neighborhood in the city of Boston. He grew up in foster care where he sustained continual physical abuse as a child. Will has a few close friends he is always with but never opens up about anything below surface level. Will is incredibly gifted with intelligence however he works as a custodian at the highly prestigious school, MIT. Professor Lambeau teaches advanced mathematics at MIT and is the one who discovers Will’s incredible talent for solving advanced mathematical theory. Professor Lambeau has high hopes for Will and pushes him into getting jobs with prestigious employers so that his gift is not wasted working as a custodian. Chuckie Sullivan is one of the closest of Will’s friends. They’ve known each other for years and Chuckie drives Will to work every day. Chuckie cares for Will and realizes the gift that he has and tries to convince Will he should be doing something of greater importance with his life. Skylar is a college stu...
Will Hunting epitomises a punk prodigy. The 20-year-old delinquent works as a janitor at MIT, solving impossible equations, meant for students, in his spare time. He is soon recruited by one of MIT’s professors and made to participate in a rehabilitation programme with the hope of being employed by the university. Rehabilitation is made challenging as Will is a troubled individual; having grown up in abusive environments and jumping from different foster homes.
It began to drain our energy and flood our minds with frustration from the referee’s terrible decisions. The frustration mentally affected our positivity and dampened our performance. I could hear groans and moans from members in our team sounding like dying screams of wounded war heroes. My muscles were in agonising pain from fighting for possession and constant sprinting, putting my body on the line. I needed to surrender but couldn’t give up. I needed to continue the second half and inspire the team by helping us to gain victory. After a few strong words from the leader, we started the second half of the battle on top form. Using our young beginners to tire out the opposition, we had the advantage of more troops. It was finally our time to make the final play of the battle count, to overrule Albany and claim the