Skate. Score. Bench. Repeat.

45-Second Shift #2 Yuppie on ice

How's the search for a job? Living off temp gigs? Unemployment?

Apply that to hockey and when you don't have a team to play for, you don't have a job. You don't have a life. And you have a hostile regular corporate world ahead of you. Yeah... if people think hockey is violent, they have no idea how brutal the job market can be for young professionals. It's pure massacre.

Good thing is that hockey free-agent camps are more friendly to newcomers than... regular job opportunities, you know?

45-Second Shift #1 Low level, high hopes

Hit rock bottom? Freeze it over and play hockey on it.

45-Second Shift is a webcomic series about Brendan Gajeiro, a hockey player for the Peterboro Pelicans, a semipro team in the North American Hockey Association.

I like comics and I like hockey, so I decided to make comics about hockey. A minor league scenario was chosen because I can, at the same time, draw stories where hockey is a main subject, but also focus on the everyday life of some regular guy. Like bills, and... you know, issues we all have in our bored regular lives.

At least my characters can hit the ice, shoot some pucks and check their problems away for a while.

45-Second Shift #11 A day in the life...

I guess it's not about how hard you check, it's about how hard you can get checked and keep skating?

Well, indeed, hockey is not just speed and skating and checking and passing and scoring, but also enduring hits, so I think that makes sense.

So is life, by the way?

Yeah, Rocky's lessons can be taken at any circumstances. Thanks, Sly!

45-Second Shift #10 Greased lightning

Going nowhere fast... or rather, going neutral zone fast.

45-Second Shift #9 An instant connection

Frozen minds think alike, uh... I suppose.

45-Second Shift #8 Back on the chain gang

Birds of a feather flock together — or something like that.

45-Second Shift #7 Pan et circenses

Another kind of circus or just another semipro tournament.

45-Second Shift #6 A small room for a small guy

Wait a second... 5'8" ain't short. I AM 5'8" 😡

45-Second Shift #5 Pelican without a nest

Came in search of ice. Ended up left out in the cold.

45-Second Shift #4 Meet the flock

A wonderful bird, the pelican. His bill can hold more than his belly can.

45-Second Shift #3 Put your John Hancock here!

The first day of the rest of your life.

Boarding Beavers #1

45-Second Shift #2 Go-Getter

Lower your expectations and you won't need much to be satisfied.

45-Second Shift #1 Draft Day

What good is a bad reputation league? Well, it can't be worse than not playing in no league at all.

The 4th Line #3 Boys on the trolley tracks

The all-Canadian rejects.

The 4th Line #2 One-timer!!

Young blood put to test.

The 4th Line #1 Boys hit the road to acceptance

It's a long way down to growing up.