In the Dutch senior league, road trips and train rides are the norm, sending amateur players all over the country for competitive matches
[Ed. Note: While discussing the Austin hockey leagues’ coronavirus remediation plans, I learned that a former member of our Austin hockey community had moved to the Netherlands. Jeremy Derr, who was a player and an official at Chaparral and the Pond, has been in Amsterdam for three years, and the hockey experience there is significantly different from what we know over here. So I asked him to write about it…]
I slumped back against the wall in the locker room.