Game 2 : Pearl Harbour

Another early day , this time it is for hockey . Game 2 was vs. Cutters .... kinda embarrassed by the first goal i let in as it was a softie . We were already up 1-0 and i guess i was being way too confident on a shoot in which i played lazily with one hand on the stick , didn't drop down to a knee to control it properly and i feel like an idiot because i shouldn't be doing this on ice surfaces i don't know too well . So yeah the puck hit my  stick and started to do an inward spin and kinda curled itself into the net .... yeah it was a shitty feeling seeing the puck spin in off my stick . Game is now tied 1-1 and i felt like a total heel .

Making up for my mistake was the main concern and not giving up any other goals any time soon . Cutters wanted to and they tried .... not even 5 minutes after the goal there was a breakaway , and yes i stopped it ! We skated down the ice and scored to make it 2-1 . It was a good game in the end as we went on to beat Cutters 5-2 , with the win we qualified for the Championship game on Wednesday as only 2 of the 4 teams in our division will go to final . This morning we play the team which has lost there games so it should not be too hard on the body .i hope.

After the game we decided to go to Pearl Harbour as it is only a 5 minute drive from the arena . Everyone should go pay their respects and learn more about history ! Some people i know gave me the ho hum stories about how boring it is but it isn't if you put it into perspective .

When we arrived there the parking lot was jam packed full of cars . I drove our vehicle around for a good 15 minutes looking for a spot and got one WAAAAY at the end of the lot . Andi , Vooch , Tim ( significant others ) and myself had a great day in the beautiful sun there . For $10 we got to go on a submarine and check out how people functioned on these underwater monsters . Not exactly the life for me as i did not see an ice rink there :)

After roaming around looking at memorial plaques trying to find Vooch's uncles name ( he died on the USS Arizona ) we got into line and waited to get on the ferry to go to the memorial grave site where over 1100 men are buried still to this day in their watery graves . It was an eery feeling knowing all these men were just below me all dead underwater .... i think it really struck a chord with Vooch and we all were very respectful towards his families loss .

When all was said and done we jumped into the rental car and drove back to our hotels . When i got back i ate and relaxed for a few hours then we headed out to our teammate Matt's house here for a team BBQ . Our team is actually 2 teams representing ECG Scanning . I am on the A team and there is a team in the B division , all great guys .... will have to do a writeup on our teams organizer John Nasuti as he has been over the top gracious .

We ended our evening early as we all have to play this morning , our game is at 830 AM and right now as i write this it is 620 AM so i should probably get ready to go kick some ass .... you can bet your bottom dollar i won't be playing any pucks in the lazy fashion i did yesterday ;)