On Thursday May 21st I set out from home to play hockey. It was a morning game with my Vintage League. Things quickly went to hell in a hand basket. I arrived at the rink early, and listened to the radio in my truck for a bit. Then I grabbed my gear and went to go in to the dressing room, only to realize that I'd forgotten to put on my contact lenses, and was still wearing my glasses. I rushed home to put on my contacts, and then rushed back to the rink. I made it into the dressing room shortly before game time, but the dressing room was pretty full by this point.
I rushed to put on all my gear, and then snapped a lace on my skate. Fortunately I had some spare laces in my hockey bag, but re-threading it took up even more time, and I was barely ready when the game started. Then I forgot my water bottle in the dressing room, and had to wait for a break in play to go and get it.
The distribution of guys onto two teams wasn't very good and it was quite the mismatch. The group that I ended up playing with seemed to have all the older guys, and none of the forewards back checked. So we lost all three games that we squeezed in to that 90 minute ice slot. To add insult to injury I got clipped by another wrist shot, this time on my other thigh. Once again this turned into a big ugly bruise.
What a shit show...! Hopefully next time around things go better. There are only five games left in the Vintage summer season and I hope to make it out to most of them.
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