Monday, October 24, 2005

Defense ain't my thing, man

It's Monday, I'm tired....

Last night we started hockey league for the winter. I obliged my buddy who is our GM and agreed to play defense. Now, see, until this past summer I had never, ever, played defense in my life. In the summer, it was beginner league and I thought I'd try it out a few games. I did ok there, but again, that was beginner league, I had time to fuck around with the puck without some speed demon stealing it from me. Intermediate league is a whole different story. I felt panicked, screwed up hundreds of times, got totally deeked out of my pants by this kid... it was ugly.
But, there was a happy ending. We came from down 4-3 to win 6-4 and I managed to pick up an assist and despite being on the ice for 3 of their 4 goals, I was also on the ice for 4 of our 6 so that made me a +1! One of our other defenseman, Jeff, scored 4 goals. He's a lunatic. 6'100" or so and a laser slapshot. I think he could score whenever he wanted to but he's complaining about being out of shape and tired. He's 30 for shit's sake, how can he be that tired. Wait till you're 40 bro...

On Saturday, I continued my trend of bowling like an idiot followed by moments of brilliance. 205, 148, 254. How's that for consistent? In a 4 day span I had 4 200 games (including a 279 and 254) and 2 games around 150... All I can do is shake my head and laugh.

2 comments:

Rod said...

+1 baby!! lookin good. I did not know that was a hockey stat. Those niche' sports are so crazy!

WHAT - no Packer talk? Or are they "the team that will not be named".

The only good thing is maybe Longwell will rethink leaving since he can't hit a fieldgoal.

adubya said...

What can you say about the Packers?
I don't think there's anything to talk about, they're a non-issue, season's over.