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I came across an article on a really great hockey web site the other day, beerleaguehockey.com (shameless plug) which described the average cost for a player to suit themselves up. Being a new goalie I have often wondered how much a players equipment cost compared to the goaltending gear I have purchased. According to the article, the average gear setup will run about $750, or, $550 for you less than 5% alcohol by volume drinkers directly to the south of me.

I should also mention that the small article following is full of personal and corporate plugs; I do this not in hope of financial gain but as my way of thanking those who in varied ways, introduced and took me down the path of beer league goaltending. The jury is still out as to whether I should be thanking or hunting them down. What I mean will become painfully obvious as you read on…
continue reading "Why Goalies Play For Free"

Selling beer in the dressing room is about trying to raise a little cash to make the financial strain of belonging to a group a little easier. We’ve all done it in the past as kids with our school, sports team or association. But we’re a little older now and we may have a problem motivating the team of thirty-something year-old men to go door-to-door selling chocolate covered almonds.

All we want to do is trim a bit off the top of our league fees and have a little left over to throw a kegger at the end of the season. Here are some observations about selling beer in the dressing room. No guarantees, just life experience and a little bit of bullshit put down on paper. Because after all, if we can help you raise some cash for a kegger, we might get invited.
continue reading "Dressing Room Beer Sales"

In this first fundraising series we’ve been discussing the age-old tradition of making money through beer sales. So having an article about free beer may seem contradictory at first, but only to those that are thinking of free beer as free, as in beer, and not free, as in speech.

The term “free beer” is sometimes misunderstood–it has nothing to do with price. It is about responsibility. A beer is a free beer if:
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