Summer Weekend

This weekend was awesome. I don't know why, but for whatever reason it seemed like a summer weekend, not a school weekend. I think it might have been because I did pretty much nothin all weekend. I golfed friday, watched college football saturday, and wandered around the house sunday while waiting for it to be 8:45 pm so I could leave for my hockey game.

Yep, a 9:30 hockey game. And to make things even better we only had 7 guys there (and one of the guys left in the 3rd period because he was really sick). We played the black team, which were 3-0, and have many good players who have a lot of goals. We had 7 players and our goalie. So...we had 5 on the ice and 2 on the bench. Our opponents had 2 full lines (10 people). Simply put: we were really tired come the 3rd period. And we lost a skater too (in the 3rd) meaning we could only bench 1 guy at a time. I think I skated the last 8 minutes of the 3rd period, no breaks. However, depsite being oober tired we won the game 6-3. The game was close in the first period, and we opened it up in the second, and just tried to hold on to it in the third after scoring an empty netter. We played really well. We passed the puck well, especially in the offensive zone which created opportunities. Next week will hopefully be just as good.

Another Game in Another Season

For all of you out there who contemplated going to my game yesterday, you missed out. Yesterday's hockey game was awesome. The other team scored within the first 8 minutes of the game. And that's how it stayed for the next 2 periods. There was only 1 penalty during the game. And it was on our team with 3 minutes left in the game. Not to mention, we were down 0-1 too. And for the thrid period instead of having 2 lines of forwards and rotating 3 D, we had to drop someone back to defense so we only had 5 forwards. We were winded to say the least. So this is how it played out: We were on the penalty kill, so we have 4 guys on the ice and about halfway through the penatly we use our timeout. We rest for 1 minute or however long it is, and then we put our 4 best guys on the ice with full intentions of scoring. So basically 3 forwards and a defenseman. With the face off in their zone, all I wanted to do was win the draw (I was playing center) which I did. I got the puck to the point-ish area, we got a shot on goal, the rebound came out to the right, and we were able to score on the rebound. It was a great play. And we were shorthanded. And there was only 1:20 left in the game. So it was even better. We were able to close out the final minute tied at 1-1 and took it to a shootout. Our first shooter scored, and our goalie saved all 3 shots from the opposing team. And that's how it ended. We got an exciting win.

Another Season

That's right! Summer hockey ended and Fall season has begun. It actually started last weekend. Our team is mostly the same as last season. We lost a few guys but got some new people too. Our roster has, I think, 13 guys. This season is cool though because we actually have jerseyes and socks. So we look like a team. Right now we are 0-2 on the season. Our game 2 days ago was really good. Except for the fact that we had 18 minutes worth of penalties. The refs sucked...bigtime. They called us basically anytime someone on the other team fell down... even when they didn't fall we got called. I think one of the refs doesn't like our team because of last season. Oh well. Hopefully we will get a win this weekend and we won't have the same refs.

How To...

I had fun this weekend. Robert and I went up to Cal's season opener against Sacramento State. Cal won 41-3. Go figure. Cal has quarterback issues, but other than that they're not too bad. The halftime show was good too.

Now for the quality part of the post. I got an ivitation to a wedding. Anyone want to to go crash it with me? No no, just kidding! So anyways, as I mentioned to Robert, I don't even know how to do this...attend a wedding. It sounds so difficult. I mean, c'mon ...it's me we are talking about. I actually have to get dressed up. And then there's the whole gift thing... yeah. And then there's probably more stuff that I am not aware of. This is gonna be fun.