This past weekend The Ghetto Blasters played The Flying Burritos ..... the Burritos are my old hockey team , you can only imagine the excitement going into this game . We had played them early last year in a couple exhibition games which were both tie games , but that was when i first scratched a team together and now we are much more refined .
There is more to this , and there always will be as i am still friends and hope to stay friends with most of the guys on my old team .... all was quiet leading up to the game , no facebook comments , no trash talk , kinda like the calm before the storm . Some of these guys play for another team as well which we had a rough game against so i am not sure if that had a hand in the eeery silence prior to game time . I was pumped and my team knew it .
Before game time i picked up Iain and drove over and we obviously chatted about this being a game i wanted to really win . We got to the arena early ( as usual ) so i could fill water bottles and get our room , etc.... said hello to some people at the rink and entered the room . The one thing i was worried about was the game getting out of hand ( physically ) , our league rewards teams for not getting penalties with a half point and rewards teams that get over an average of 5 minutes a game with being ejected from the season at playoff time :(
Right off the bat we scored , and we scored ALOT ! 6-0 after first period . On a personal note ( not that my blog is not personal at all LOL ) i don't like it when my team lets up , bad habit to pick up .....i told the team at the bench to keep it up but they decided otherwise and we let them back in the game with a quick goal to start the second . Right back down the ice and we made it 7-1 .... eventually we went on to win 8-3 . Best part of it all was that we did not get a penalty and the Burritos only got 1 , very clean game . Now i am not trying to take anything away from the Burritos performance out there when i say we let up abit . They played really hard and had a short bench ....good game guys !
This vengeance thing seems to fuel me though , now i have beaten my old team ....last year we put my team before that to rest in a tournament , now there is this team in another league that i used to play for . Hmmmm wonder how i can get a game against them ?
All in all it is for good fun , i love to play people i know . It seems to add a bit of energy to the game as nobody wants to lose bragging rights . I don't wish any harm to anyone i play against but i am really really happy that we won . This weekend we have a bye week so we are planning to go out partying as a team Friday night . One of our teammates is dj'ing with Hip Hop Legend Jeru the Damaja .... if you are in Toronto feel free to join us ....the party is at Crawford ( College St. & Crawford ) hope to see you there !
There is more to this , and there always will be as i am still friends and hope to stay friends with most of the guys on my old team .... all was quiet leading up to the game , no facebook comments , no trash talk , kinda like the calm before the storm . Some of these guys play for another team as well which we had a rough game against so i am not sure if that had a hand in the eeery silence prior to game time . I was pumped and my team knew it .
Before game time i picked up Iain and drove over and we obviously chatted about this being a game i wanted to really win . We got to the arena early ( as usual ) so i could fill water bottles and get our room , etc.... said hello to some people at the rink and entered the room . The one thing i was worried about was the game getting out of hand ( physically ) , our league rewards teams for not getting penalties with a half point and rewards teams that get over an average of 5 minutes a game with being ejected from the season at playoff time :(
Right off the bat we scored , and we scored ALOT ! 6-0 after first period . On a personal note ( not that my blog is not personal at all LOL ) i don't like it when my team lets up , bad habit to pick up .....i told the team at the bench to keep it up but they decided otherwise and we let them back in the game with a quick goal to start the second . Right back down the ice and we made it 7-1 .... eventually we went on to win 8-3 . Best part of it all was that we did not get a penalty and the Burritos only got 1 , very clean game . Now i am not trying to take anything away from the Burritos performance out there when i say we let up abit . They played really hard and had a short bench ....good game guys !
This vengeance thing seems to fuel me though , now i have beaten my old team ....last year we put my team before that to rest in a tournament , now there is this team in another league that i used to play for . Hmmmm wonder how i can get a game against them ?
All in all it is for good fun , i love to play people i know . It seems to add a bit of energy to the game as nobody wants to lose bragging rights . I don't wish any harm to anyone i play against but i am really really happy that we won . This weekend we have a bye week so we are planning to go out partying as a team Friday night . One of our teammates is dj'ing with Hip Hop Legend Jeru the Damaja .... if you are in Toronto feel free to join us ....the party is at Crawford ( College St. & Crawford ) hope to see you there !
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