Back on the court for the 4th game of our floor hockey season. At 2-1, we were sitting in second place heading into this matchup. We were up against the team we beat 3-1 to open the season. This team hasn’t won a game all year, which is shocking to me. They are a pretty good team. We couldn’t take them for granted, that’s for sure.
One of our best players will be on vacation for the next 2 weeks; lining up the excuses already… haha. Last week, every kid on our team wanted to be goalie; this week when I asked who wanted to start in goal the first period… crickets. Kids are funny. We picked somebody and away we went. This week would bring a season’s first, and of course, it had to be my son. He was called for a high sticking penalty; I didn’t even know they were calling penalties in this league. Both my son and I had confused looks on our faces. Oh well… he marched off the court; I was told that he could come back in 2 minutes. It wouldn’t take that long. The other team immediately scored, and we faced an early 1-0 deficit. The period ended that way.
As the kids came off, they seemed a bit down; I encouraged them. We were right in this game. Our biggest problem in the first was on offense; we weren’t going after the puck. You see, the kids had figured out if they sat back, they could intercept a clearing attempt vs going after the defender, trying to take the puck from them. I made sure I told them that between periods; we were a little better from then on. I also had to repeat what I told our best goal scorer before the game. I told him… take the puck to the net, don’t immediately shoot it when you’re 20 feet away. He didn’t listen in the first period. He listened in the second period…. and he scored to tie it up… he scored again to give us the lead. I love it when a plan comes together; makes me look halfway smart…haha.
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It’s awesome. We have now won more games in the first four games of the floor hockey season then we did in the previous 2 seasons, baseball and basketball, combined! Crazy… a good type of crazy. Where we go from here, who knows, but we’re having fun, and that’s what’s most important. And oh yeah, winning makes it even more fun. Go Sharks!
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