The Bet :)

A couple friends from Germany seen in the picture above are here visiting Toronto , and me i guess :) Alex and Stephanie are from Regensburg . I met Alex in Cortina D'Ampezzo , Italy at a tournament while playing for the Rainman Allstars ...we won that tournament , and you know the saying when you win a championship you and your teammates are forever linked . This is so true :)

Alex & Stephanie just popped over here after visiting Cuba . There were no plans for Alex to get on the ice with me but when he got here one of the first things he wanted to do was to go buy some equipment . I took him to this great place called Toronto Hockey Repair ( THR ) and buy some equipment he did !!! Of course he wanted to try them out LOL. So the next day ( yesterday) we went to McCormick Arena where i hold my Ghetto Classic tournament and we got on the big sheet of ice .

Big smile on Alex's face playing with his new gear ... he bought skates ,sticks and gloves . There was gear that he left in my garage from last year when he came over and shopped til he dropped . To be particular he left his old pants and helmet which he needed to get on ice , and to top it all off i gave him his Spiders hockey jersey which he gave me when i visited him in January .

The gear worked well and he wanted to have a "game" with me .... so Alex asks me how many out of 10 will i score on you . I said you won't score 4 , and he laughed ..... now i have been through this before with a former DEL coach when practising with the team he coached ( Mitch Pohl ) he ended up doing push ups in front of his team :)

So the first breakaway he scores , i watch him skate away with this cockiness ... i stopped the second one and as he skated away he reminded me it was 1-1 ... i stopped the third and he scored on the 4th shot so we were still tied up at 2 .... stopping the 5th and 6th he scores on 7th to pot his 3rd goal .... it seemed close but really there was no way i was going to let him score that 4th goal . Down to the 10th and final shot and wouldn't you know it .... he missed the net , i won and celebrated . We were playing for lunch which immediately i told him he didn't have to pay for .....

We went to Island Foods for some roti which is Caribbean food mmmmm!!!! i payed for us ... this is what you do when friends visit :) today is their last day here , my vacation in Toronto is coming to an end as it always feels like i am revisiting my own city when i have visitors . Hopefully i will have more friends visiting in the near future .