Right after the game, I looked to the southeastern sky to see a huge blast of light. It wasn’t raining, so it was a little weird. I thought it was either a lightning bolt or a nuclear explosion. HA. My dad said it was humid, but I couldn’t tell when I got out of the rink, ’cause I was already hot and sticky from the game.

Shortly after we got home, the lightning was picking up so Shia, moO and I got some Carl’s Jr. and went up to Parker Ranch in the Saratoga Hills to check out the lighting storm. Apparently everyone already thought of it cause people were leaving the top, and when we got there we were greeted by the Saratoga Sheriffs. We turned around and stopped halfway down the hill and parked on the side of the street with a decent view. I wish I brought a camera ’cause it was a nice sight. It must have been pretty far away, because up in the Saratoga hills, I only heard one little rumble.

After finishing out Carl’s junk food we went home. While trying to sleep, that’s when the rain picked up, and finally in came the thunder. I liked the lightning, but I don’t think moO appreciated it. Thunder and lightning is scary.

Quite a game we played last night. This was a team we beat one time in the pre-season but lost to TWICE in the season. We had quite a struggle during the game. After the two goals scored on us early in the first period, it had to dampen some spirits. But, not to worry, we had enough juice to score three unanswered goals in the second period. One goal was scored by our center, Mike, while he was on his ass. Nice goal. It still wasn’t over yet when the other team scored the equalizer in the third. This brought us into five minutes of overtime. Nothing extravagant happened in the overtime period so it was all down to a shootout. Hrmm… can someone recall the shooting order? It was all a blur from all the cheering. All I can recall is Byron, our first line right winger, scored the winning goal.

On a totally unrelated subject, I just noticed a big amount of bruises all over my legs and arms. HA, I’m getting too rough out there. I guess it’s time to check my gear again. Right now in both arms my ulnas hurt, I believe that’s what it’s called. Someone in the locker room after the game, was it Jay, said it might be a stress fracture. Bah, back to the hospital, maybe. At least I have a few days, maybe a week, before we have to play in the finals.

Next is the championship game! Who would have known we would gone this far? What will the outcome be? When or where is it going to be? Will Adam get a playoff goal or even a hat trick? I don’t know. But keep looking here for exact details.

I’ll keep it quick ’cause despite my being unemployed still and I rarely ever wake up early (especially the morning after a hockey game), i have to wake up early tomorrow… er, today… In a few hours. Lazy sits in when you don’t do sh*t with your life. But, tomorrow I have a allergy/asthma study appointment and a dentist appointment both actually scheduled for 30 minutes apart and the study takes like 2 hours. So, I gotta wake up early tomorrow to do the study early.

Oh, the game. Playing the second place team may be intimidating; for us, we worked hard to make it seem like we’re fearless. After being let down early in the first period by a goal from the other team, we wouldn’t let it completely stop us in our tracks, and after 7 unanswered goals we were on top of the world… for now.

Grabbing an assist in the second to my center, Mike, he was nice enough to return the favor in the third period when he gave me the puck where I shot a no-looker off the back hand and scored.

Having my lady finally in the stands after a long time of no shows, makes me play better =). Or worse, depends on what you think. On top of my 2 point game, I managed to grab myself 2 penalties, roughing and hooking. Hey, Sean kept his cool and didn’t get any, LOL. The hooking I can’t really explain, the guy just skated into my stick and got stuck. I should have dropped my stick, but I didn’t – my fault, bah. However, my roughing penalty was pretty lame. I guess somehow we connected and he didn’t like it and took a shot at my head and I stood there and talked sh*t like, “what’s your problem?” I don’t really know why I got a penalty. The guys said I caught myself basically in mid swing. You don’t normally take a swing at me without me beating the sh*t out of you. Consider yourself crazy lucky. I’m not sure, but I think he was the guy who got kicked out in the middle of the 3rd period and we were on a 9 minute power play, LOL.

So, on to round three. Can the team who started out the season 0-5 make it all the way?! I hope so. Tune in next time, Mon, Aug 25 @ 9:30PM Logitech Ice – South Rink

Something to learn, don’t play in the playoffs with DQed players or if you don’t know if your players were DQed. Although, I think we played just about the same people anyway. Only THIS time we had many of our absent players and were ready to earn that “W” fair and square.

We started out fiercely with a 2-1 lead in the first period, one being mine =). It was a big mess in front of the opposing goal, I got the puck, took a shot, basically hit the goalie in the shoulder and it some how ricochet behind him crossing the goal line, yay goal for me.

In the second period (I think), I decided to get up in the goalie’s face, ’cause he was in mine. Basically, I was pushed into him, he bitched, I bitched back to him saying I was pushed into him, he further bitched that I should have stopped, I bitched even further saying how could I stop if I was pushed. Yeah… We both got unsportsmanlike conduct penalties for that. I think it’s lame that goalies don’t have to serve penalties, why should they not do the time if they do the crime. So basically I totally got under his skin, ’cause in the penalty box, I still taunting the goalie and I know he saw me. To further acknowledge that I got under his skin, he came to me at our bench and try to explain he wasn’t complaining about me, or whatnot, I don’t think he got his point across ’cause I still don’t think I did anything wrong. I still just wanted to go at it with the goalie, ’cause you don’t just get in my face when I know I’m right. I wonder if I could kick out a goalie that way… Ah, the possibilities…

It’s funny, because for a long while Sean and I haven’t had a penalty, and somehow we served both of our penalties roughly the same time. HA. Too bad they don’t note the penalty minutes on the Logitech Ice webpage. I don’t even think they have my points right. I’m missing a goal. Ha, I’m obviously a points junky.

I managed to end the game with 2 goals and a +1. My second goal was kinda awarded to me ’cause it was another mess in front of the goal, only this time the goalie was on top of the puck and was basically in the net and the puck passed the goal line. The goal was awarded to me by our captain, Kelly, ’cause he said I was the last one to touch it. After the goalie got in my face, I so wanted my first hat trick in this league to be on him. But, alas, it’ll have to be another day.

So what’s the moral of the story, boys and girls? Don’t play if you don’t know if you have DQed players. Maybe next time we won’t be so nice and give you another chance. HA. Next game, Sunday 8/24 8:15PM North Ice.

Good v evil in lair of white worm

Well, my prayers have been answered. We still have a chance in the playoffs. According to the league they did play with ineligible players. We had a choice to DQ them or play a second game. We chose to play a second game to earn our way to the next round. So, come watch it, Fri Aug 22nd 10:45PM South Rink, your Misfits vs. The Force part 2.

And that ALMOST officially ends our summer season… Almost, with a score like that? It’s only single elimination, but supposedly the other team had a bunch of players that may or may not be eligible to play in the playoffs. (You have to play a minimum of 6 games in the season in order to play in the playoffs.) The refs said if you go on the ice and your players are not qualified, your team gets DQed. They played anyway. It was bad enough that we were short benched again, but even after we had a few relief players, 2 more offense, we seemed to let things go and let at least 5 unanswered goals get by. I did managed to grab a powerplay goal in the first, high glove-side. Man, I really felt a hat trick today too…

There were a bunch of penalties throughout the game, and I actually managed to stay out of the box. I think Sean did to, HA. I did seem to aggravate my non-injury to my side twice in one game. The first, I had just got on the ice then I’m cross-checked high and somehow land on my side, and manage to hurt in two places. Second, last POSSIBLE second, I have the puck skating on the boards past the blue line I’m basically tackled from behind, I take him down with me, he’s basically laying on me, and proceed to pound on him with the butt of my stick. He’s lucky I couldn’t reach his head, because his legs were tangled with mine. Now that I think of it, I shoulda taken my stick and taken a good swing at him. I think it was the same guy who took me down the first time. He got thrown out of the game, so if they don’t get DQed, he better not be on that ice when the time comes… Well, all I can do is wait for the email telling me to dress up next week, or wait for call back for the winter season. Wish us luck.

Either way, we played a DAMN good season, and really came back from basically nothing and stuck in it to be nicely placed tied for fourth in the season. I think everyone did an exceptional job, and we actually grew better as a team as well as individuals. Too bad we didn’t win the points tie breaker. I thought I calculated it to be in our favor, oh well. Until next time, guys.

Despite my better judgement I decided to play our last season game. It’s not like my doctors said, ”don’t play hockey” or anything and they knew it was a hockey related injury. So, anyway, before the game I still wasn’t sure if I should play. But I’m glad I did. I finally got a worth while goal by scoring the winning goal. Not just any goal, but right in front of the goal I kicked the puck with my skate to my stick and shot it in. HA, aw the controversy. The other team obviously bitched after the refs made the call. What are the to do? I shot it with my stick. Note: You can’t kick the puck into the goal. Hell, I think you can kick it to the goalie and have it ricochet off of him into the goal.

I had two other chances that didn’t go as planned. One was when I took a shot right in front of the goal and piled one of their D’s on their goalie, they had to pull the D and goalie to see if the puck was over the goal line, it wasn’t damnit. The second try was when I had the puck and deked the goalie but managed to either skate too fast and/or lose control of the puck and over shot the goal. If I JUST had control of the puck a split second longer I would have had a wide open net.

With both teams having short benches, you know the game play was going to be slow. HA, my excuse is that I was injured but I decided to go out there ’cause I knew we’d have a short bench. But, BOY am I going to feel it tomorrow! The adrenaline is already out of my system and am starting to feel it. Well, excuses or not, we got the job done. Good job guys. We gotta get this streak going for next week. Playoffs! Come watch!

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My sister has a weird sense of humor. KDKA: Man Cuts Off, Eats Own Penis Reminds me of the second episode of Nip/Tuck a little.