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Hockey Sunday!

M4 vs M1: 0-1

Peter and I were sitting around glaring at Quickbooks this afternoon when I got a phone call from Jen, a captain in the Maroon division.  She'd had a last-minute cancellation and would I like to sub in Maroon?  Does the Pope work Sundays?? So we shoved all my stuff in my bag and hightailed it over to Fremont, where I subbed for the Flip-Flops.  

I had a Great. Freakin'. Time.

I played D with Marci, Cara, and Sharon, and had a total blast.  I was particularly proud of one turbo boost run down the ice to catch up with a breakaway -- it was one of those awesome Robby Glantz runs where everything just worked well and I wasn't even short of breath despite hauling ass all the way down the ice.  I love it when that happens!

One skater on the other team looked at my red socks during a faceoff and said, "you're not really in Red, are you?", which totally made my day/weekend/season.

Anyway, totally awesome kickass fun.  Any doubts I had about trying out for Maroon again completely flew away after that game.

Drunken Pirates vs R1: 1-3

After the Maroon game, I got dressed super fast and we drove back across the bay to Belmont for my Red game.

It was a decent enough game but felt very "thwappy", especially after playing the Maroon game.  It was pretty physical, not always in a good way, and one of our D hit her head pretty hard during her first shift.  I had been playing wing before that, but she decided to sit out the rest of the game a few shifts later, so I switched to center.

It had been a while since I'd played center, but I did OK.  I tweaked my back somehow in the beginning of the game and it made it really hard to stand up straight.  Skating wasn't really a problem since I don't stand up straight then (yay!) but getting over the boards was a pain in the..well, in the back.

Anyway, I had a couple of decent plays and a few good pokes, but the game was otherwise uneventful.

Scorpions vs Desert Foxes: 2-3

Tonight was my first Thursday night game at Ice Oasis.    Apparently playing on two regular teams wasn't enough, so I added a third: the Scorpions!

Well, Scorpions might be the official name for the team, but a more accurate name might be Team No One Shows Up.  Last week, there was only one skater and the goalie (to be fair, Peter and I were two of the no-shows since we were in Wisconsin); this week we did slightly better with four skaters and the goalie.  We wound up with four subs, though, so it wasn't a total death slog.

We had the 7pm game and I haven't skated since the end of July, so I was a bit rusty.  In fact, I'm pretty sure my legs weren't actually connected to my brain for the first period.  I warmed up nicely by the third, just in time for the game to be over. ;)

I had one good breakaway which I totally whiffed; Rob (the goalie) intentionally gave me back the rebound, and I whiffed that too.  Doh!

There was lots good about the game, though; it was a fun speed -- at least once I warmed up! -- and definitely more physical than I'm used to.  I was a little like "woah! ack! yikes!" at first but was having fun with it by the end of the game.

I'm going to try to blog more about hockey this season; I was having trouble last season seeing improvements in my game, and I'm hoping that blogging more about the individual games will help me look back and see whether I'm doing better. ;)