Taking Inventory
Even though we have been playing well, Jerusalem Pizza was 1-2 going into last night's ganme against Outsiderz. When we played them last time, we were badly outplayed, and lost 9-3. But this season we are playing better, and thought this was a game we could get.
They added a new player for this season, a guy who must be 6'6" and weighed about 300, maybe 325. He was huge, and he was in my zone, and being that it's a hockey game, it got a little physical. Nothing out fo the ordinary, just hard hitting hockey.
I thought we outplayed them in the first period, but a late goal gave them a 1-0 lead heading into the break. We kept pressing and pressing, but could not break through, and when the second period ended, we were trailing 3-0.
Goals 4 and 5 came quickly for them, and trailing 5-0, we called timeout.
After the timeout, we came out strong. I scored, to cut it to 5-1. We scored a few more, but when the final buzzer sounded, we had lost our third game in a row, this time 7-4.
When you win, you never feel the pain from the game. But when you lose, you take inventory. And complain.
Thumb - Black and blue under the nail from a slash - Should turn yellow and grow out within 6-8 weeks.
Ankle - Cut open, bruised and bloody - This one was a surprise. I didn't realize it until we were driving home.
Upper thigh - large bruise, probably from pushing and shoving around the boards.
Plus various puck marks which will turn black and blue and disappear after a few days.
But we do love this game.
They added a new player for this season, a guy who must be 6'6" and weighed about 300, maybe 325. He was huge, and he was in my zone, and being that it's a hockey game, it got a little physical. Nothing out fo the ordinary, just hard hitting hockey.
I thought we outplayed them in the first period, but a late goal gave them a 1-0 lead heading into the break. We kept pressing and pressing, but could not break through, and when the second period ended, we were trailing 3-0.
Goals 4 and 5 came quickly for them, and trailing 5-0, we called timeout.
After the timeout, we came out strong. I scored, to cut it to 5-1. We scored a few more, but when the final buzzer sounded, we had lost our third game in a row, this time 7-4.
When you win, you never feel the pain from the game. But when you lose, you take inventory. And complain.
Thumb - Black and blue under the nail from a slash - Should turn yellow and grow out within 6-8 weeks.
Ankle - Cut open, bruised and bloody - This one was a surprise. I didn't realize it until we were driving home.
Upper thigh - large bruise, probably from pushing and shoving around the boards.
Plus various puck marks which will turn black and blue and disappear after a few days.
But we do love this game.
posted by Air Time at 9:50 AM
2 Comments:
Dear, I love you, but see "Veevs Believes...3"
i wish i had answers as to what we did wrong last night...i keep thinking we play well against these good teams, but i look up at the scoreboard during the 3rd period and see us down 5 - not a close game. we don't get blown out, though - we get chipped away at.
i guess we looked a step slow last night, and for some reason, our passes were not going through. i feel that teams don't think we will shoot from the point that much so they collapse back to guard against the pass, but just the same, we get very little time to get our shots off from the point when we do send it back. i thought you did have some really nice shots that just didn't make it through, although i'd like to see the nice hard slapshot that you have a little more often, rather than the wristshot.
i don't know where we stand. i like our team much better this season, primarily because we actually play like a team. even when we lose, i don't feel as hollow as i did last season. however, i can't believe we will ever be more than mediocre until we beat a top 3 team. i think we should be able to, but it just hasn't happened. i guess we'll just keep plugging away.
thoughts?
mo
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