AWSOME HOCKEY DAY: Let me tell you it

monster · 12-27-2010, 08:43 PM

Thor's hockey team (a house "Squirt" team) have yet to win a game this season. They drew a scrimmage a couple of weeks ago, against another team with no wins, but have lost all else. They are all first year squirts (you stay at each level for two years) and this is the first squirt team hosted by our rink and the first time in the Little Caesar's League which is MUCH more competitive than the league we were in last year as Mites. it's been a bit of a rude awakening for them.

Our rink hosts a holiday tourney, there are three other house squirt teams, so it's a round robin format followed by two semi-finals -Seed 1 vs Seed 4 and seed 2 vs seed 3, then a final.

Unsurprisingly, we lost all three RR games -although only by 6-3, 5-2 and 4-0 ....which is not bad going for us. (more often than not, they stop counting the opposition's score....) So, seed 4 into the semis this afternoon.

WE BEAT THEM!!!!1!1111!!!1

they got one, we got two, they got one, we got one, they got one with less than a minute left. tied 3-3. no score in overtime. shootout. We won 2-1.

WE BLOODY WON!

They played like kids possessed, they just did not give up and they did not collapse when the other team put the first goal in, as they are wont to do.....

GO BLADES!

Now we have to get up early to go to the finals, and I had to cancel an appointment I was too superstitious to cancel before we made it........ and we'll probably lose 0-20. But we did it. We won a game and made the finals in a tourney. the other team's parents were really pissed and used some very bad and unsportsmanlike language, but I can honestly say our boys (and girl) simply outplayed theirs -no bizarre lucky breaks, no bad reffing, sheer determination and all the practice and drills finally coming together. fucking awesome.

Shawnee123 · 12-27-2010, 08:52 PM

I love when kids show that competitiveness, and when they are doing what they've been practicing, and really enjoy doing, and it all comes together.

Bravo Thor!

Flint · 12-27-2010, 08:57 PM

Cool!

Griff · 12-27-2010, 09:15 PM

Awesomeness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

monster · 12-27-2010, 10:46 PM

thanks for sharing my happy, peeps

kerosene · 12-28-2010, 10:56 AM

Very nice, monster! Sorry I am late to see it. Congrats to Thor!

monster · 12-28-2010, 05:35 PM

Well, they lost the final 6-2 -which still isn't bad going- they played well and they still got to be official runners up with trophies and an award ceremony and everything. Then we watched the Whalers and they won. Awesomes.

xoxoxoBruce · 12-29-2010, 09:38 AM

Granted it's nice to win, but as long as they're having fun, everything else is moot. Congratulations.

12-27-2010, 08:43 PM	#1
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	AWSOME HOCKEY DAY: Let me tell you it Thor's hockey team (a house "Squirt" team) have yet to win a game this season. They drew a scrimmage a couple of weeks ago, against another team with no wins, but have lost all else. They are all first year squirts (you stay at each level for two years) and this is the first squirt team hosted by our rink and the first time in the Little Caesar's League which is MUCH more competitive than the league we were in last year as Mites. it's been a bit of a rude awakening for them. Our rink hosts a holiday tourney, there are three other house squirt teams, so it's a round robin format followed by two semi-finals -Seed 1 vs Seed 4 and seed 2 vs seed 3, then a final. Unsurprisingly, we lost all three RR games -although only by 6-3, 5-2 and 4-0 ....which is not bad going for us. (more often than not, they stop counting the opposition's score....) So, seed 4 into the semis this afternoon. WE BEAT THEM!!!!1!1111!!!1 they got one, we got two, they got one, we got one, they got one with less than a minute left. tied 3-3. no score in overtime. shootout. We won 2-1. WE BLOODY WON! They played like kids possessed, they just did not give up and they did not collapse when the other team put the first goal in, as they are wont to do..... GO BLADES! Now we have to get up early to go to the finals, and I had to cancel an appointment I was too superstitious to cancel before we made it........ and we'll probably lose 0-20. But we did it. We won a game and made the finals in a tourney. the other team's parents were really pissed and used some very bad and unsportsmanlike language, but I can honestly say our boys (and girl) simply outplayed theirs -no bizarre lucky breaks, no bad reffing, sheer determination and all the practice and drills finally coming together. fucking awesome. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

12-27-2010, 08:52 PM	#2
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	I love when kids show that competitiveness, and when they are doing what they've been practicing, and really enjoy doing, and it all comes together. Bravo Thor! __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

12-27-2010, 08:57 PM	#3
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	Cool! __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

12-27-2010, 09:15 PM	#4
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Awesomeness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

12-27-2010, 10:46 PM	#5
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	thanks for sharing my happy, peeps __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

12-28-2010, 10:56 AM	#6
kerosene Touring the facilities Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: The plains of Colorado Posts: 3,476	Very nice, monster! Sorry I am late to see it. Congrats to Thor!

12-28-2010, 05:35 PM	#7
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Well, they lost the final 6-2 -which still isn't bad going- they played well and they still got to be official runners up with trophies and an award ceremony and everything. Then we watched the Whalers and they won. Awesomes. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

12-29-2010, 09:38 AM	#8
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Granted it's nice to win, but as long as they're having fun, everything else is moot. Congratulations. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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