It's Time to Dump the Dump and Change
In life, it can be easy not to notice when something is wrong when it feels normal. On a grand scale, it’s easy to forget the societal ills, the combination of social and political failings in healthcare, housing, labor markets, criminal enforcement, and welfare, that funnel vulnerable people into homelessness. In the home, we make excuses for abusers, sometimes blissfully unaware of just how toxic their behavior is until a casual slip of the tongue among friends reveals that, no, that’s not normal. Within ourselves, we can do the same thing, not realizing how harmful our own habits are until confronted with a better way to do things. You should drink more water and be better about brushing your teeth, by the way. Hockey is no different, being a strange, cold little microcosm of life itself. Luckily it’s not as high stakes as making sure that the world has secure housing, making sure that we separate ourselves from abusers, or even that we have healthy habits. A wiser man than all of...