Monday, December 7, 2015

Winter Hockey - Games 7 and 8

In the last week of November there were a couple of opportunities to play hockey.  I had a really bad cold, but hoped that the exercise and a good hard skate would help me shake it off.  Not sure if it really worked, but I'm finally feeling better now.
We had a chance to go and play an exhibition team against a team from St. Albert.  They are a pretty skilled team and it always has ended up a fast and hard played game.  This time was no exception.  I was hoping for a fairly easy skate as the cold that I was fighting was really coming on.  Only seven players and a goalie showed up and it ended up to be much more of a workout that I hoped.
We played game 7 or our regular season against a team called the Spiderpigs.  This was on Friday November 27th up at Castledowns Arena.  We ended up winning this game by a score of 7-4.  
Then last night we played a game against a team called the Clansmen.  This section of our schedule includes a number of teams from Division 7 of the other conference in our league.  We have not played these teams before and will not play them on a regular basis.  We jumped out to an early 4-1 lead but then got into penalty trouble.  We managed to hang on for a 7-6 victory.  It was a late game, starting at 10:30PM on a Sunday.  By the time I got home, got to bed, and unwound enough to fall asleep, it was nearly 3:00AM.  Sure made it tough to get up for work when the alarm went off at 7:00AM.

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