A few of the guys on the Icemen- Justin, Ryan, and Jeff- also play on a team in another league called Puck Dynasty. Ryan set up a practice and scrimmage for them last night and had a few open spots, so the 2 Mikes, Dwight, Ben, a couple of other guys they play with, and I joined them. We played at Joy Burns arena. We had 90 minutes of ice, starting at 9.15, so the plan was to do 30 minutes of drills and 60 minutes of scrimmage. When we got to the arena, there was a game going on. At 8.30 the game was only in the middle of the 2nd period. About 5 minutes into the 3rd period there was a fracas in front of the net we were all standing behind. A couple of guys went to the box, but the discussion... about whatever... took forever. We ended up starting closer to 10 then 9.
We ran a couple of breakout drills, which were pretty damn good, and frankly probably the most important thing we can work on- as teammates- in our league. Then we broke into teams for a scrimmage. Since it was a Puck Dynasty practice, and they wear black and orange sweaters, we Icemen and couple of PDs wore light sweaters. There were about 20 of us, so it was 10 a side. Because we only had two defensemen, we decided to go drop in style... which was tough. With half the team on the ice and the other half on the bench, we were rotating really fast. Too fast for a fat 46 year old beginner... We finished up at about 11.30, which couldn't come quick enough for me. That said, it was fun and valuable and I hope to do it again. Oh, I put a slight tear in my pants... which somehow makes me feel a little more legit. Weird, huh?
In Icemen news, Big Bear got their shit together and corrected the scores and standings. We're in 3rd place right now, tied on points with Realty Source, with goal differential giving us a slight lead. Our last regular season game is on Wednesday against Low Down Dirty Shame. They're the only team we haven't beat and the team we had all the bad blood with a few weeks ago. Regardless, I really hope that we end up playing the first game in the playoffs on the 17th, because we have tickets for the Avalanche on the 18th. I've already decided to skip the AVs game if we play on the 18th, though. First season is almost in the books!
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