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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Day 18: The Last Day in Fussen

Woke up nice and early still feeling the effects of our first day in Fussen but finally ready to play . Not much of a choice to eat in this city for breakfast so i am off to McDonald's AGAIN.When i arrive back at the arena i watch the ending of HC Sittertal (we play them later that day ) vs. Nitro Karpat (Finland) Nitro wins easily 11-3 and the guys from Switzerland are already drinking. Paul comes out and we begin joking about our game later on that day . At this point we decide to pull a gag on everyone before our game and fake a fight when the teams line up .



The day goes on and some of our teammates are playing for other teams ( Swiss Selects , i think ?) Timo gets inured and is out for our game . Andi and Sybille have to leave that day as well. Then i find out that Dom has a problem he has to take off to deal with at his home , this other guy plays for other team then asks Rainer ( apparently ) if he can skip our game . Rainer told him we had a short bench so he stayed ...the guys that were injured or had to leave were all great guys and i look forward to playing on the same hockey team with you all !

We head to the dressing room to find out that another player ditches us after telling Rainer that he would be paying him on the last day ( personally i thought this was low as i heard him with my own ears say this ) , i mean the guy must have come into the room while we were partying upstairs at the bar grabbed his equipment and disappeared into the night ???? Our weak D is not there and we have just enough skaters , was happy he was not there and we were up 1-0 vs HC Sittertal until he shows up ! Once he stepped on the ice we became a different team and promptly we went down 1-2 . HC Sittertal were mostly drunk and they were beating us and my frustrations were kicking in as we were being outplayed .

Oh and the fake fight Paul and myself wanted to do never happened as Pauls coach apparently wanted a serious team to come out to play us .They wanted to win ....some of us wanted to win too but not enough of us ! Somehow we tied the game 2-2 and ended up 5th out of 7 teams . After the game we wanted a team photo and one of our players left the ice and waved us off like a DICKHEAD . He had the nerve to try to say bye to me after but i ignored him .

After our game our hopeless d tells Rainer he will pay him at the banquet . The jerk was a no show , really do people that do this realize that they have no class ?So basically there were only 4 of us at the banquet representing the Rainman Allstars ( Rainer, Timo, Rob and myself) so i accepted the team trophy .Then we went to dinner at some other location .We ate a decent meal and Timo took me to see the castles ( one which is the logo for Walt Disney) amazing sights but it is night time so not much for photo ops....heading back to the restaurant i bump into Chucky the goalie ( French Canadian ) he was playing for Madrid Veteranos . Totally a class act !!! During the tournament he even helped me fix my mask and was always sharing great stories of his times at other tournaments .

Rainer is looking for me AGAIN ( LOL ) , show up at the restaurant and he and Timo are hanging out with the Dancing Bears ( Calgary) we begin drinking ! Head over to Moskito bar and kept drinking and at some point i realize that the morning after is Oktoberfest ( i thought we were gonna go early ) , so i go back to the camper without Rainer and without the key . Realizing this when i get to the camper i begin to devise a plan to get in , found a loose window grabbed a twig and opened window. Found a bunch of empty cases of beer ( in Europe cases are hard plastic not cardboard boxes like here in Canada ) piled them up and had a staircase to the window .....my fat ass won't fit through the window LOL ! Rainer pulls up in a taxi , i did not know it was him so i hid behind the camper thinking that i don't want to spend a night in prison here , and i was glad to see him and he was surprised to see what i was doing . In his amazement he asked me for some money , i asked him for the key ....i went to bed and he went to the disco ( which i never went to ???)  Tomorrow is Oktoberfest

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