Hockey Diary: March 8/11

Hi all,
I've decided to incorporate various "diaries" into my blog. My hockey diary, my golf diary, and my music diary are probably three diaries you'll see here in the near future.

So tonight is my first entry into "my hockey diary." I was busy at the rink tonight with three games. First my son Cameron's novice team had a house league game; they won 5-0; but they usually do win their house league games. I have to say that Cameron has been playing hockey for three years now, and he's a pretty good little skater, but I tell ya, the kid has absolutely no hockey sense, and it drives me crazy! Tonight for example; he could have had a breakaway; but he chose not to chase the puck because he was playing defense! Ugh! The really hard part is when I try to give him advice (I'm the team's assistant coach) he just rolls his eyes at me like he knows everything!

Second was my son Andrew's atom house league playoff game. We played a team who beat us 5-4 last week; and I really wanted to win one tonight (I'm the team's head coach) So I adjusted the lines a bit and told the kids that I wanted to see more passing and a more "dump and chase" kind of game. I have to say the kids played really well; and I think we deserved to win but the game ended 3-3. Andrew didn't get any points but he played very defensively for us. He's dying to score a goal so I think I'll put him at forward for Wednesday night's game.

Finally, I played my own game with the Sioux Aces oldtimers; we have ice on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursay nights. I usually play Tuesday's and Thursday's but tonight I made it out for a monday nighter. We were short in numbers (6 on 7) but it was a fun skate. I'm not sure what the final score was, but our team lost by one. I didn't score any goals, but I did help our team with a few assists, but when there's not a lot of guys out, everybody usually gets a point! Hopefully there will be more guys out tomorrow.