Life As A Healthy Scratch

I really enjoyed Sean Pronger's piece on life as a healthy scratch over at his Insider's Blog at The Hockey News. Here's an excerpt:

Being a healthy scratch for a home game is a little easier because you can usually find a place to hide. You prefer not to see anyone, you don't want anyone seeing you and you certainly don't want to have to answer the question, "Why aren't you playing tonight?"

This is about the time I fake a limp and tell them, "Tweaked my knee in the last game," and they're thinking to themselves, "How do you tweak your knee on the bench?" Oh, it can happen....

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