Today my good friends from Germany are heading to New York City .... i had such a good time with Alex & Melanie this past week and i will really miss them :( . The other day i mentioned to my girlfriend that i feel like i am travelling when i am hosting people here... it keeps me busy and is alot of fun running around showing other travellers things to do , places to eat , and everything related to hockey in my home ...Toronto !
Over the weekend Alex & Melanie became Ghetto Blasters with 2 games ....Saturday night we had a 10 PM game vs. Easy Company . This season we have played alot of games against this team and have had no luck ..... Saturday was no exception as they scored a couple of lucky goals in the first period to go up 2-0 , we outplayed them and pressed hard all the way until the end... with a power play late in the third , i left my net for a 6th attacker . Six on three and Easy's goalie was standing on his head , this gave us the chance to get more bodies to the net . Alex got the puck on the point and blasted a shot which was deflected in to break the egg shell ... we ended up losing 2-1 but played a hard entertaining game , then went to the Midpoint and got totally demolished HAHAHA..... when i left Alex was dancing around to the hip hop music that is dj'd there on Saturday nights ! Melanie was working on her drink and i stumbled my way into Dave McCarthy's car for a safe ride home ( thanks Dave ) .
Sunday ( yesterday ) we had a game at noon .... good thing Chip lives across the road , some of us left our gear there . As usual i had to go early to get everything together ... basically dragged all the bags into a room from across the road then filled water bottles , got some snow in a bag for beer and answered a ton of last second phone calls and texts . We played a team in an exhibition game i had set up , organizing a referee ( thanks to Brian Spencer ) and a timekeeper ( thanks Keith ) renting ice time and finding a team to play .... originally the Saturday game was booked for the week before but was changed on us after booking this game .
All i have to say is that we had a good game and i would like to thank the Dirty Grips for coming out ... unfortunately for the Grips we won 7-0 . After the game we basically had a 2 hour dressing room party in which some of the other team even joined us , we had way too much beer LOL ! and Prosecco :) Afterwards we went to the Rhino for a bite to eat and went on our separate ways .... Today i have to work , but it is a prep day .... driving my own car . I might try to sneak some time to say bye to Alex & Melanie ...either way if i do or don't i will miss them .
If i don't see you guys today , have a safe flight to NYC ... have fun and be safe there , go for that skate in Central Park on Tuesday afternoon and i will see you both in Cortina D'Ampezzo in September to defend our championship . It was so much fun having you there , and if anyone else reading this wants to come here for some hockey just give me a holla . Like i mentioned in a few of my blog posts we have open arms to our foreign friends playing hockey all over the world in our little Ghetto . Peace Out !
Over the weekend Alex & Melanie became Ghetto Blasters with 2 games ....Saturday night we had a 10 PM game vs. Easy Company . This season we have played alot of games against this team and have had no luck ..... Saturday was no exception as they scored a couple of lucky goals in the first period to go up 2-0 , we outplayed them and pressed hard all the way until the end... with a power play late in the third , i left my net for a 6th attacker . Six on three and Easy's goalie was standing on his head , this gave us the chance to get more bodies to the net . Alex got the puck on the point and blasted a shot which was deflected in to break the egg shell ... we ended up losing 2-1 but played a hard entertaining game , then went to the Midpoint and got totally demolished HAHAHA..... when i left Alex was dancing around to the hip hop music that is dj'd there on Saturday nights ! Melanie was working on her drink and i stumbled my way into Dave McCarthy's car for a safe ride home ( thanks Dave ) .
Sunday ( yesterday ) we had a game at noon .... good thing Chip lives across the road , some of us left our gear there . As usual i had to go early to get everything together ... basically dragged all the bags into a room from across the road then filled water bottles , got some snow in a bag for beer and answered a ton of last second phone calls and texts . We played a team in an exhibition game i had set up , organizing a referee ( thanks to Brian Spencer ) and a timekeeper ( thanks Keith ) renting ice time and finding a team to play .... originally the Saturday game was booked for the week before but was changed on us after booking this game .
All i have to say is that we had a good game and i would like to thank the Dirty Grips for coming out ... unfortunately for the Grips we won 7-0 . After the game we basically had a 2 hour dressing room party in which some of the other team even joined us , we had way too much beer LOL ! and Prosecco :) Afterwards we went to the Rhino for a bite to eat and went on our separate ways .... Today i have to work , but it is a prep day .... driving my own car . I might try to sneak some time to say bye to Alex & Melanie ...either way if i do or don't i will miss them .
If i don't see you guys today , have a safe flight to NYC ... have fun and be safe there , go for that skate in Central Park on Tuesday afternoon and i will see you both in Cortina D'Ampezzo in September to defend our championship . It was so much fun having you there , and if anyone else reading this wants to come here for some hockey just give me a holla . Like i mentioned in a few of my blog posts we have open arms to our foreign friends playing hockey all over the world in our little Ghetto . Peace Out !
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