I like reading the obits, even when I've never heard of the person. Never know what you might learn. Here'r two quotes from today's NYT obit of former hockey player Alex Shibicky, who died earlier this month in BC at 91 years of age:

"We had the best skating team," he (Shibicky) was quoted as saying by The Chicago Tribune last year. "We had the best fundamental team. When you're like that, you're loose as a goose. You play a lot better. You think a lot better. We scored goals that you don't even dream about on our line." ...

In his later years, Shibicky lost patience watching the modern game of hockey on television. "I sit and watch, and after a period and a half I fold up and go to bed," he told the Chicago Tribune. "All the hooking and spearing and stuff that goes on, those things are killing the game."