During some of his more soul-crushing worker drone moments, The Hater has played out the scenario many times in his head.

He would stand up in the press box, on deadline, and walk out while saying nothing. He would shut down his cell phone account so frantic editors calling to inquire about the status of that story would get the disconnect message. No one would ever hear from The Hater again.

Yes, The Hater would be kind of a jerk for doing this, but he would also feel alive. And he would be a legend.

So The Hater was inspired when he saw the video above. (UPDATE: The YouTube video has been removed but Deadspin has a copy). Yahoo Sports blog Puck Daddy provides the context:

A strange moment occurred in a Minnesota High School hockey game Tuesday night, and when I say strange, I mean absolutely flipping insane. Trailing Farmington by one goal with just over three minutes to go, Chaska needed a break to knot things up. Then they got one.

That's when the disgruntled Farmington goaltender Austin Krause decided it was time to make a statement by costing his team the victory. He casually walked the puck out from behind the net and into his own goal to tie the game, then gave the finger to his coaching staff, saluted the crowd, and left the ice.

Follow The Puck, a blog focused on Minnesota high school hockey, offered further details about Krause's bitterness:

Senior goalie, on senior night, got the start, hadn't been starting, a sophomore had been, the senior showed how he felt about it.

Follow The Puck later reported: “Source says this has been a season-long competitive feud mostly between goaltenders and their families. Competition caused team division.”

There is so much awesomeness contained in those two sentences: hockey-parent ugliness, intrasquad squabbling, the fact that there's a blogger following Minnesota preps hockey who has sources.

Ironically (?), this story has motivated The Hater to keep grinding with a smile on his face.

The Hater is in the house.