However,
being the wet blanket that I am, if there was one thing that I would
complain about, and there's always something for me to complain
about, it's that I would love to have more time to scrimmage, or play
pick-up games. We spend about 75% of our 2 hours doing drills, which
are fun and very helpful, but I also really enjoy playing games.
Sometimes we only get 10-15 minutes to scrimmage, and it's kind of a
bummer, but nobody would complain because time with DD is time well
spent.
I looked
into playing in some of the lower level leagues, but the times just
don't work for me. The one that I was interested in played between
9-11PM on Saturday night, which is just too late for my sorry old
ass. I played in an adult league that played at a similar time and
it's very difficult to come home after a long day and then leave the
house that evening. I just want to take a phat nap.
One of
the guys we do LTP with, MB, plays on the weekends in the early AM.
While it's not always easy to wake up and get out the door at that
time, I could do it, and it would leave the rest of my day open to
take care of life stuff, like taking my son to his hockey games. I
inquired and he said the group was pretty full and they didn't want
to have too big of a crowd. I completely understood and was resigned
to just playing twice a week, which is still pretty good.
Well,
just the other day, MB mentioned that some of the group had stopped
coming and there was space if I was interested. Boy, was I ever. It's
a new crowd for me, though I know a couple of the skaters from LTP.
They are good and have a good hockey sense (way more than me), so
it's a challenge but I'm not too out of depth. And it's fun. I'm
pretty tired by the end but I'm hoping to continue until the ice goes
away, or until they kick me off the team because they're sick of me,
whichever comes first.
Until
then, thanks for reading, and thanks to Jason Kurylo for the pic.
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