Just the old Johnny Cash song, Hockey Player's team is going down! We are the only team without a win in the "Tournament of Loosers". You might almost say that we are the #1 looser in the Tournament of Loosers.
Oh well. Just a couple of more games and then a practice or two and then try outs.
I have been making calls on behalf of Hockey Player and finding that a surprising number of the other teams and coaches remember him and are interested in him playing for their team next season. I am going to be calling a couple of them to come out to one of the team's last couple of practices and they can watch there.
I love the irony of coaches from other teams coming to our practices to watch Hockey Player so he can play somewhere else next year!
Monday, March 10, 2008
Friday, March 7, 2008
Ups and Downs
It’s kind of funny how the world seems to be brighter, or not, depending on how well hockey player does.
For instance, last night he was at shooting practice, something that we have only just started doing, and he was looking really good. He is developing a really nice swing. And this is on top of him being on a 3 game goal-scoring streak. So it is now with a sense of “we’re getting somewhere” that we were driving home last night and it was a good feeling.
An example of when the world is not bright was on the weekend in our first“Clancy” game.
The team came out very flat against a team from the other division, who incidentally finished with the identical record as we did, and lost 3-1. They were a very beatable team and we should have won. Hockey player got the goal for our team and could have had two others- one was a breakaway where he shot at the goalie and another on a one timer that he didn’t get good “wood” on.
I came away from that game really down, feeling like I had been misled, teased, thinking that we should have had a better result.
The second Clancy game was a better effort. It was a physical game played at a fast tempo, everything that you would want in a play-off game. Unfortunately, we lost 3-2. We, the team, have too many weak links in our chain for them not to just be so blatantly glaring. But it is an old story- we have too many kids on the team that really don’t belong playing at this level.
Hockey player scored the first goal on a nice bit of hustle to get to a rebound. He got rocked a couple of times but got right back up. He will take a hit to make a play but he won’t, or is very reluctant to, initiate contact.
For instance, last night he was at shooting practice, something that we have only just started doing, and he was looking really good. He is developing a really nice swing. And this is on top of him being on a 3 game goal-scoring streak. So it is now with a sense of “we’re getting somewhere” that we were driving home last night and it was a good feeling.
An example of when the world is not bright was on the weekend in our first“Clancy” game.
The team came out very flat against a team from the other division, who incidentally finished with the identical record as we did, and lost 3-1. They were a very beatable team and we should have won. Hockey player got the goal for our team and could have had two others- one was a breakaway where he shot at the goalie and another on a one timer that he didn’t get good “wood” on.
I came away from that game really down, feeling like I had been misled, teased, thinking that we should have had a better result.
The second Clancy game was a better effort. It was a physical game played at a fast tempo, everything that you would want in a play-off game. Unfortunately, we lost 3-2. We, the team, have too many weak links in our chain for them not to just be so blatantly glaring. But it is an old story- we have too many kids on the team that really don’t belong playing at this level.
Hockey player scored the first goal on a nice bit of hustle to get to a rebound. He got rocked a couple of times but got right back up. He will take a hit to make a play but he won’t, or is very reluctant to, initiate contact.
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