The Best of Times...

I want you to read that title like it was sung by Dennis DeYoung. High Pitched Singing. No one read  "A Tale of Two Cities", Reggie.

I feel like this past week was in a word: frustrating

Look guys, we made many mistakes. Countless actually.  We gave them many scoring chances. And then we let them capitalize on those chances. And if they couldn't score for themselves I did my best to help.

The Turtle Named Alliance.

As bad as we all played,  we had the chance to win. We should have won.

Think about what we had:

A lead with 1 minute to go.

A lead with 1 minute to go and we had developing 3 on 1 with our best forwards with ball control.

A lead with 1 minute to go, a developing 3 on 1 with our best forwards with control of the ball, while also shooting at an empty net.

And we didn't score. Choke.

It happens (to us only?). I get that. The loss is not on that play. The loss is on the 29 minutes before that.

I bring up that play because it epitomizes what we are. I think if that exact same play happened, but we were already up 2 or 3 goals, we'd score the worthless point. We needed the point so we collapsed. We needed the defensive stop and we crumbled. The team that wanted it more won.

 And frankly, that's just sad.

So it leads me to a poll question this week.

Is the issue physical or mental?

I know what you're thinking, "cant we choose both?"

"Crap teams will always be crap teams until they decide not to be crap teams"

Hockey this Sunday, 6:00. Inside Rink

Hi guys,

Let me know who can play this Sunday.

In: John, Billy, Joe, Lenny, Steve (G), nick, Dale, jaz
Out: brendon

Hockey This Sunday?

Hi guys,

I will be away next week, so we can either plan to play this Sunday, or the Sunday after Thanksgiving.  Let me know who can play this week and I'll know whether to plan it this Sunday or the other one.


Update: We'll plan for the Sunday after Thanksgiving. On the bright side, season stats are finally updated!

It's looking like the Sunday after Thanksgiving will work out better, but here's what we have so far:
In for this Sunday: John, Brett, Billy
Out: Steve, Lenny, Joe, Jared