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Questions cloud camp

With less than a week to go to the opening of training camp, questions continue to swirl around the status of one of Sunday Morning Road Hockey's founding fathers.

Notorious gameshow host gone bad, Wink, has been conspicuously quiet during the off-season; he hasn't been heard from since the waning weeks of last season, missing both the Stanley Stick championship series and the annual midsummer evening scrimmage in August.

But that doesn't mean he hasn't been busy. Roadhockey.net has learned the veteran defenceman got married over the summer, embarked on a honeymoon and then moved into a new home, only blocks away from the road hockey courts. Curiously, none of the roadsters, some of whom he shared Sunday mornings with for 16 years, were ever officially notified of these events, let alone invited to participate in any of them.

That's led to speculation that he may be turning his back on the game.

But one roadster who went through the same thing last summer says it doesn't have to be that way.

Pig Farming Goalie, who achieved officially-sanctioned sex just over a year ago, says the road game and married life can co-exist.

"I can say that it's mostly pretty easy," says the veteran shotstopper of his ability to tear himself away from his marital commitments to play up to three games on any given Sunday. "Sometimes they just want you out of the house."

In fact, about half the roadsters are married; some of them also have children. But while familial life may be all about compromise, PFG says it's important to maintain some semblance of independence.

"It's just like anything else; you get to keep what you want to do... the more foot rubs you give."

Posted by jaysuburb at September 18, 2007 07:22 PM