You aren't wrong to think that way. We've come across a lot of guys like that who could make newer players feel more welcome but would rather be jerks.

Close, but we are actually a team of guys who were all the individual sign ups that were thrown together on a team for the Winter season of a beginners league last year. We stayed together for this season because hockey is fun. Most of us have only been playing a year or less and in the 25 or so games we have played…