Tomorrow is opening day for Labatts and I am getting excited.  I was pretty nervous about having to skate out for the tourney, especially after Saturday's practice.  I was on the ice more than I was on my feet and I am supposed to be playing center or winger.  Last night in class a kid wanted to try goalie, but out teacher didn't show up to open up the locker with the extra helmet and other goalie gear so I let him use my gear.  He did a really well for his first time in the crease! It gave me an extra opportunity to play out and skate.  It was a lot better experience this time out.  We had short benches so our shifts were long and arduous and since the benches were short we played whatever position we had to when the time arrived for someone needing a break - pick up hockey.

I started doing things naturally as opposed to trying to remember how to shift my weight over the rocker to make my swivel turn, or making my C-cuts when skating around the puck and defenders.  I can't deke very well, but trying not to be too hard on myself since I have never really done it much.  I still have a long way to go, but the hockey is the easy part.  It's skating and the hockey at the same time that is difficult.  I might try and skate one more time on the ice before Thursday, or maybe on our off day Friday.  We are playing two on Saturday, so I don't want to lose my confidence going into a big day like that.

We are in a small division, so if we win at least two games, we have a fair shot of making the championship game.  Though I agreed to captain the team on the grounds that it was for the simple point of having fun, my competitive edge doesn't prevent me from having a burning desire to win games and see my team do well at the same time.  I am a playmaker by nature, so we'll see if I can keep my skates beneath me long enough to make it happen a little bit, I'll be okay with that!  =D

Rush'n Attack - Rush the Puck. Attack the Net.

Just under a week before Labatts!  I'm excited and so is my team!  We had jerseys made and they look pretty good!  We are a bit of a team of misfits, but we are all about having fun!!!

Rush'n Attack - homage to a great international team style of play, as well as an 80s Nintendo Game

 

Who doesn't want to have their name on the back of their Jersey???

Hunger Games

Finally got to see Hunger Games with Joaquin.  I was waiting and bugging about it for days!  Of course, I made him promise to take me.  Joaquin is a buddy of mine that I met while here in Alaska.  Though, most of our friendship was forged while he was serving in Afghanistan.  Since we became instant buds here in AK, we continued to keep contact in between his missions.  Now he's preparing for a civilian life elsewhere in the United States, but we made plans to do things before he left.  Hunger Games being one of them.  We clearly disagreed on the awesomeness that is Peeta, but that's okay.  He hasn't read the books, so he doesn't know how awesome Peeta is.  =D  He was probably annoyed that several times during the course of the movie I leaned over and said, "I love PEETA!" 

Obviously, the movie was a Reader's Digest version of the book which is fine.  It was fast paced and worth watching.  I could have watched it for hours if they had put more stuff from the book in it.  There was no Madge, not a lot of bonding with Cinna's workers, and they didn't show a few other things, but oh well.  It is what it is and it wasn't terrible.  Glad they kept it PG-13 as well.  They could have easily made it R if they wanted to get gory.  Though, they could have shown more fighting and kept it within the ratings I think. 

At any rate, the movie was good and company was as well.

If I had more time, I would re-read the books!  I plan to eventually, but not this week!  There's that part about just starting a new school term and such.  Now that my computer is fully functional again, I can actually do homework and study!  Woo hoo!  Thank you, Dell!

JoFred