Fredie:

So did I.  In fact when I started to play midget and  played on  indoor ice, I regretted when my buddies would give out my name to other teams to play on outdoor rinks or needed a ringer in some playoff game.  As i got older, and played more serious hockey, I stopped tending and played regular at center or defence for weaker teams .  When I managed, coached and played in college, junior  and in recreational "beer leagues"  I always maintained a great lists of my own goalies who played for the beauty of the game and didn't want money. However,  when the payola boys came in in the late 80s, we rarely used them. But i agree, playing shinny on outdoor ponds is not the same as indoors, when you don't have a real goalie in net.  What I took exception to, and occasionally I would put the pads on, so that the boys could have a better game, is the  constant pleading for money by players  who my teams weren't interested in using, but wanted to play on my team