Stupid Grin

Well, I still can’t get this stupid grin off of my face! It is Monday morning and I am still basking in the glow of the game Sunday night. Hockey Player’s team played one of the perennially strong teams and not only did they win, they won big by a score of 5-1.

This was only the second meeting of the season between the two teams, "Perennially Strong" won the first one 5-1 and our boys played horribly that game, but Sunday night it was our team that came out on top by an identical 5-1 score.

HP skated hard and added to his scoring total with a goal and an assist, which gives him 12 points for the year (8 G, 4 A). His goal was actually the game-winning goal!

The boys played well. They passed the puck much better then they have in a long time and they skated hard and it looked like they wanted to win that game.

A practice tonight and then it is another kick at his old team- stats padding all round!!

As I was watching the game I noticed the name on the back of one of the kids on the other team and remembered two brothers that I used to play hockey with who had the same name. It is not a common name and I wondered if the player “belonged” to one of those two brothers. I walked up and down past the parents on the other team and spotted someone who looked like what I thought that this guy would look like, 20+ years later.

I went up to him after the game and asked if he was one of the brothers, the one I thought that he looked most like, and it turned out that he was the other. I introduced myself and I am not sure if he really remembered me, or even playing on that team, but we chatted briefly.