Inside the dorm room

I often get asked a lot of questions regarding what goes on in a college hockey dorm room. Typically, my answer is, you don't wanna know. Not because of the crazy parties and drinking people may assume takes place but because of how weird/border line 3 guys can get in the same room. On a typical day from 11 am to 1 pm (the time after a workout or skate) if someone were to walk into my dorm room they would encounter at least one guy naked walking around, one guy from Finland making weird noises and another guy making fun of the finish guy or asking questions about the other guys naked body... Don't ask. This tends to happen in most of the hockey dorm rooms, no wonder we don't have friends.

My room in particular has been called the "weirdy room" this nickname came to be by the nightly meditation sensations, burning of in-scents and very odd yoga music that is played. Although not many guys on the team can handle the weirdness, we do have a few followers that I hope can carry on the chi. My old roommate who created this room with me was once quoted by saying "open your mind and let it go" I'll let you decide what that means. Other then our spiritual evenings, you can find most guys hammering awful American tv shows, doing homework, skyping, playing NHL on x box, flexing in the mirror (guilty), cooking gourmet meals and many other activities normal people do.

I guess another question is, what's in your fridge??
Our dorm room and a few others eat pretty clean as we like to say... A couple rooms on the team should be on the show the biggest loser, we're slowly working with them! Most guys shop at the organic grocery store. As you can see in our fridge there is lots of veggies, fruit, greens.. All clean.
I would imagine most college students don't have this luxury we do where we can store and refrigerate lots of fresh foods, which makes us very lucky. With the volume of training and working out we do it's so important to eat well and take care of the body. The last place you want to be on this team is the fat club.. You get teased constantly.

The hockey dorm is a 3 story apartment style building. There are 3 guys to a room, each with their own bedroom. If you live on the 3rd floor your either a freshman and no one cares about you (literally no one) or your a an older guy and no one cares about you.. These guys are usually referred to as the geek squad. As the weekend gets closer and classes for the week die down it always seems the rooms start to play their music a little louder, guys start to mingle a little more and the odd soda gets cracked at dinner. This is type of behavior is a warning that Sammy T's music hall is a few sleeps away!

College hockey seems to do this to people... Monday-Friday of tough skates, workouts and school... Leads to what is known as Weekend warriors.

A small first glimpse into the dorm life.