Last night the 2014/15 Winter Hockey season finally got underway. I have been off skates since our summer season wrapped up back in July. I've spent the last month or so collecting league fees and getting our roster filled up for the upcoming 30 game winter season. We will be playing hockey more or less once a week from now until April. Our roster remains mostly unchanged. A couple of guys did not return to the team for this season. Some guys swtiched between full time and spare positions, and a couple former members of the team returned for this season. Our first game was on Saturday night at 11:15PM at KofC Arena. We were the visiting team against a team of fast young guys called the Thunder. I had a full roster and all the lines set up for the game when the puck dropped at 11:15. I immediately got tossed into the penalty box on my first shift with a 2 minute minor penalty for tripping. Shortly into the game two of our guys fell sick with nausea and had to leave the game. We had to juggle the lines a little, but kept battling. The game was close until early in the third period and we kept trading goals with the Thunder. Finally, in the last 8 minutes we scored three goals and a solid lead. I actually got an assist on one of them. We ended up being outshot by the Thunder, 39-31, but the more important statistic, the scoreboard, showed our 8-5 victory.
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