Yikes, with the W shut down for next three weeks for Christmas, I woke up with the cold sweats and shakes this morning. Three weeks without hockey? Three weeks!? Gotta make a rink in the backyard or the church basement or the neighbour's driveway or a school gymnasium. This is crazy.
Category: WOHL
Blue
"There was a lot of character in our room. When we got down early in the tournament by losing that first game, we didn't panic. The guys all believed in one another and knew if we just dug down a bit deeper and stuck to our game plan and continued to believe in …
THE Tournament
The WOHL's annual Christmas tournament goes tomorrow night. Two hours filled with three mini-games for each of the league's four teams. Not exactly 16 wins required over 2+ months to bring home Stanley but a test of character and endurance nonetheless. I'm hoping (and pretty sure) the boys stayed in this weekend, mentally and physically …
Monday Night Hockey
I'm not sure I could live without a game tonight. So...off to the rink I go.
Hmmmm….
So...the Blue teams starts 41-0-1 (or something like that) and we're feeling pretty 1970's Habs-like, or 1980's Islanders or Oilers-like and then poof, we've haven't won a game in 2 weeks and feel like we may never win another. How does this happen? Last night was the latest thrashing, our fourth loss in a …
The Blue Team Meets Its Waterloo – Halloween
So this is how Dimaggio felt on game 57 eh? Or how Gretz felt after game 52. Or Ripken after game 2,131. Or perhaps the closest parallel in modern sport is how the Flyers felt on game 36 in 1979. Ok, you've probably read it elsewhere by now since this is the age of instant …
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Rants
A great rant took place in the dressing room last night in Elmira. Something about a poorly dressed guy driving a mazda at excessive speed who blew by one of our defencemen as he left work for the day in his own wheels. Like any good d-man, our guy then scrambled to catch up to …
Keeping the Bar at Just the Right Level
The Blue team opened with a 4-1 win in the W last night. Moose, our crafty keeper of the cage, finally had one get past him with less than a buck to go. Not discouraged in any way, his comment after the game was that winning by a shutout on opening night would set the …
Missing Hockey in the “W” No more
Hard to believe we're at that time of year again. The W season kicked off earlier this evening in Elmira in dandy fashion. It was fire-wagon hockey, with end-to-end rushes, lots of hitting, passing so crisp you'd swear it was mid-season and teams playing with such a grudge towards each other, you'd swear it was …
Lockouts
While I love the game, it doesn't much bother me that there is an NHL lockout. I may miss it in April / May time-frame if the entire season is lost but it's just the nature of the big $ sports entertainment business to have these kinds of disputes from time to time. Now …
Rink Tales 