first game of the year!

well well well... it sure feels good to be back at this.
had our first game of the year on sunday morning at... WHAT!! 9am!!!
yea, you read that correctly, 9 in the morning, after a night of crappy Karma Lounge in Oshawa and bottle service. needless to say, some of the players on the team were feeling a little crappy.

we're playing this season (spring season) at a stellar facility in scarborough, about 20 min drive from ajax. its a really nice arena though and the playing surface is great. its a special surface with these tiny holes all over it, kind of like a rubbery texture and its not bad for running, stopping and pivoting if you got some nice basketball shoes on.

this season, since its a different facility we have different hours. whereas last summer it was any time between 5pm and 10pm games, this season its anytime between 9am and 4pm games. so the exact opposite. hopefully we dont have too many early games. if we do i've made the decision to take it easy on saturdays and watch while everyone else gets sloppy as hell on a saturday and ill be the sober one. my train of thought is that we need atleast one person who doesnt feel like shit at every game.

ok so, now onto the game. first off, i wake up at 8am, look around and everyone else is still passed out, so i wait a bit longer and finally have enough willpower to get up. i rise and luckily i had all my hockey gear at the house the night before so i dont need to go grab it at home. hackett comes downstairs and starts yelling hockey at people at like 8:25 (35 minutes till game starts), and people start to get up. it takes some more convincing for some but we finally get everyone ready and some people take off to go to the arena and im still waiting with johnson and brawls for vernoy. we leave at 8:45... not a good sign, we show up 7 minutes late and get dressed in 3 so the game is only 10 minutes late to start. the refs are dicks though and give us a delay of game penalty to start the game.

we started something new this year, me, smiley, stabs and brawls are centers. everyone else is a winger or defence. i still need to get used to running the most out of anyone on the floor when im on.

the other team looks decent, but how quickly first impressions can be wrong. turns out they're not very good at all. our entire team feels like crap and we dominate the first period. no goals though, but its in their end the whole time.

second period is a bit better, we get on the board on a nice move by johnson and its 1-0. a couple shifts later its me, brawls and johnson in their end and i feed one of them a beauty pass and we go up 2-0.

third period we're still domnating but we let them get back into the game by getting a goal and making it 2-1 and it looks like they're starting to feel confident. we shoot that confidence out fo the sky with a heat seeking missile the very next shift when stabs gets a nice goal and pretty much puts the game away. we end the game keeping the pressure on and dont give them any chances.

final score, 3-1 for the Minivans. first win of the season, many more to come.
on a side note, we got a bunch of penalties on sunday, some of them unwarranted. and we only got one powerplay. that shows that we can play well on the penalty kill because we got some nice scoring chances when we had some penalties.

crappy play-by-play this week, the game isnt fresh in my mind. next sunday will be better.

new scouting report to come soon also.

Cheers

GO MINIVANS!!!