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June 09, 2004 / Wednesday
Insane Puck Posse Game 7: Red Fury
Yeah! We won! Another shutout! Those are the best!
Final score: 2-0. I finally scored my first goals of the season. Yes, goals plural. 
Not without help, of course. Julie (goal queen) and I (assist queen) switched roles, and she got the assist on both of my goals tonight.
The first goal was a fairly straightforward rebound try. There was one sweet little bit to it, though. I saw the puck and saw opponent sticks about to get to it, so I made one little backhanded push to get the puck into a little patch of open ice (maybe 4 square feet?), turned the blade over, and took the shot. Five hole! Yeah!
Speaking of goals, Marci had one, but unfortunately the refs didn't see it. The puck came out to her, I yelled "Shoot!", she whacked a backhand, I jumped to let the puck get by, and when I turned around, I swear the puck was over the line. My teammates who were right at the goalline said it was over for a good 2 or so seconds, but there were no refs in place to see it. The final score should have been 3-0, darnit!
Okay, this being my blog, back to my goals. Goal two was pretty sweet too. We had a little over a minute left on the clock, and one of my teammates got a penalty. The other team pulled their goalie. 6-on-4 with a faceoff in our zone. Somehow, we got the puck out to the other end. Julie tangled with some of their players, the puck came out to the front of the net, I tangled with some of their players, I fell on my ass, and as I was on my back, I saw the puck, so I took my stick, which was, at this point, flat on the ice, and pushed the puck toward their goal. It sliiid... into their goal! I think that's my first ever flat-on-my-back goal... shorthanded, too! WhoO!
Frustrating moments of the game: watching my some of teammates on the ice just stand there. Pleeease don't just stand there watching the puck! Move those feet! It's okay to skate in circles! Keep up your speed! Please please please please please!
That, and go for that puck! It's yours! Yours! Funny thing about pucks: usually they don't come to you; you have to go to them. Just don't hurt anyone trying to get to it, that's all.
For the most part, though, my team played hard (we got 31 shots off!), and it's nice to see that we've been listening to what our coach has been telling us all season (and in seasons past, for those of us who have gotten to play for him before this season). I think he spends a decent amount of time between games thinking about what we need to work on. The best part is, it really shows. Would we be doing as well this season without him? Definitely not.
On somewhat of a side note, we had our team photo taken tonight. I brought my camera in and Wendy (the league photo coordinator) very graciously took mug shots of everyone on my team for our website. We're gonna be all cool and stuff and have our pictures on our player pages. Raaad. Thank you Wendy!
June 9, 2004 10:46 PM | Insane Puck Posse