The cheering fades, the fat pay cheques stop coming and the last poker game is played on the back of the bus. So many nights on the road become a faded memory of a glory time when they were hockey heroes and super stars.
Now, they are just ordinary Joes, trying to figure out how to survive in a world that is foreign to them. After being coddled and cajoled for so many years, suddenly they are on their own. The fairy tale has come to a crashing halt.
For Tyson Nash, who spent most of his professional hockey-playing career with the St. Louis Blues and the Phoenix Coyotes, retirement from the game he loved was the hardest thing he ever had to deal with.
And he was one of the lucky ones. He had a hockey-related job waiting in the wings for him as a colour commentator for the Coyotes.
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Source: http://www.kuklaskorner.com/index.php/hockey/comments/retired_from_hockey_now_what/
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