My Renegades hockey team played our last game of the summer regular season last night. Lots of our players have been away in recent weeks and we've had to play with a really short bench the last couple of games. Last night we only had nine skaters for a game against the Mugslingers. With only three defense it meant that I was on the ice for two-thirds of the game. A little much for an old fart like me and I'm feeling really tired this morning as I write this. We played the entire season in Division 7. There are 16 divisions in the league this summer, but that is not completely accurate. The first division was combined to a Division 1/2. And, partway through the year, as a result of some teams being moved up and down, Division 6 was eliminated. Effectively we played in the 5th division out of 14. We had the best record in our division with 13 wins and 5 losses. The league moved a lot of teams around during the course of the season, and not all teams play exactly the same number of games. As a result the final standings are based on our winning percentage against teams that remain in our division at the end of the season. On that basis we finished with a record of 7 wins and 5 losses, for a winning percentage of 0.583. This was good enough for third place.... The playoffs start next week and if we can string together a bit of a winning streak, we could keep playing hockey for another month or so...
Despite the short bench we won the game last night. We jumped out to an early 4-0 lead, and then moved ahead to 6-1. We started to run out of gas at the end but hung on for an 8-6 victory.
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