If you did not know i will let you all know , i am an early riser ....so i got up and wandered around grabbed a coffee ,got bored and started to bug Rainer to wake up . He was not happy ,but for the life of me i will never understand why some people need to sleep 12 hours???? I am not saying that Rainer sleeps 12 hours but he truly enjoys his time with his eyes closed !
On the road again , we stop for a bite to eat. Over in Europe for some reason they consider cheese and ham on bread breakfast...me no likey ( seriously i am missing bacon ). I take the opportunity to take some roadside pics and we continue our drive to Fussen. Once we arrive i wander around to check out the rink, after that we set up shop in the arena parking lot. One by one our teammates arrive and i finally get to meet Rob Carter . Rob is a Newfie ( Canadian LOL) living and playing hockey in Qatar. Exchanging stories i find out that he is the guy that scored the tying goal against me in Dubai when i played for the Malta Pirates in 2005 .Now i have a face to go with that nightmare LOL!Our first game is against Nitro Karpat ( Finland) , now remember we are a mixed team of guys that have never met each other ( aside from me knowing Dr. Timo Koerner and Andi Tanzer ) and Nitro Karpat are a team of ex- pros from Sm-Liga in Finland . Needless to say we had 2 guys playing D for us that i feel should not be playing hockey . They made some really good passes to the other team , it was embarassing to lose 6-1 , gave it my all but it was not good enough .
Game 2 is immediately after game 1 , no rest just stay on the ice . Tournament has a crazy format , 30 min games , 1 period ! Now we play Golem Team ( Slovakia) . These guys were the best team at the tournament hands down , our d made them look better . So yeah we got thumped 8-3 . Finally we have a rest before we play San Diego ( USA )
Most of you already know that i can play well under the influence so i decide to gets me some spinach like Popeye . Chug 2 beers and back on the ice ! Rob and myself being both Canadians swore to each other that we will not lose to the Americans , and we didn't ! This was my best game , making saves and really yelling alot . Huge glove save with under 3 minutes left and a flurry of shots pepper me , have to mention the crossbar that saved my ass , we win 3-2.
Let the celebrations begin ! After our win i must have had 2 or 3 more beers just sitting in the dressing room . Leaving about 1.5 hours after our game to meet some people . Upon going outside i bump into some Swiss guys from HC Sittertal ( coolest , most fun groupl at this tourney BY FAR !) amongst them is this burly man still in his underwear named Paul Loretan . Paul is a Canadian , with a swiss accent that has been living in Switzerland forever. He originally moved there to play hockey and eventually opened his own bar Yambalaya . Paul brought about 30 kegs and a beer fridge to the tournament and promptly invited me into their room for a beer . After a while we headed out to enjoy dinner with Timo , Andi , Rob and Rainer and then went to Moskito Bar , which the owner opened just for us . It got kinda wild , i got pretty drunk and got the keys for the camper off Rainer , for some reason i left the keys somewhere for Rainer but he could not find them and i basically locked him out . Yes Rainer slept outside .....can't wait for tomorrows hangover to kick in , early game vs. the Dutch team ....
Nothing heal´s hangover as well as sleeping outside =)
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he did not sleep outside too long :) , he ended up crawling into Dom's camper for some sleep too, the whole time the keys were just on top of the tire ....sorry Rainer !
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