Get your pucks in a row

Will you be carrying a bunch of pucks into training camp this year? Rather than let pucks roll loose within hounding bags or plastic tubs -- increasing the risk of damaging the logos -- you might want to consider this system.

Using a box from a previous order of pucks, I create four rows using three dividers from a cut-up photo enlargement folder. Then, using scraps of paper, I create file cards, so to speak, for each player, listing the pucks I have for them. This box holds 36 pucks.

Standing the pucks on edge, rather than letting them lie flat, lets me slip the file cards between each players' pucks, creating what I believe is a quick, alphabetical and easy-to-use system. The cards creating the rows keep the pucks from rolling back and forth.

Once signed, I put the pucks in cases for protection and use that, as the rows thin out, to fill in the gaps.

I'd be interested, too, in hearing what others do. Especially, so, if your idea makes it even easier.