Hunting for the elusive W

It is always nice to get that first win out of the way.

It is even better when it comes against the old team that you really didn’t like, and were more then happy to leave, and Hockey Player scores his first goal of the season.

I was really quite nervous before the game. To make it worse I didn’t get HP to the rink in time for the team warm up because of a screw up on my part about when the game was supposed to start.

But as I sat there I was worrying that maybe the old team had gotten a bunch of really good players? And maybe, just maybe the coach has suddenly gained a new understanding of how to teach hockey to a group of young players.

Naw!

HP’s team was on them right from the drop of the puck. I don’t think that the old team even got a shot on net in the entire first period. The final shot total was 41-9 in favour of HP’s team.

I thought that HP played a strong game. He was excited about playing his old team and skated hard right from the start of the game and made a number of smart plays. His game sense is improving. When he scored his goal, banging in a rebound, he gave an arm pump to celebrate. I could tell that he was excited to have scored that one.

Friends, whose son had played with HP for the last 4 years, called last night after the game wanting to know how the big rematch had gone. They were all glad to hear that the “good guys” had won. We talked for quite a while and we both ended up gushing about how happy we were with out current situations compared to last year.

It is like having been in a bad relationship and now you have gotten out of it, and have found someone else and you are very, very happy with the new situation. I am not exaggerating!

The boys have a practice tonight and then nothing until games next Saturday and Sunday.