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.