Just wanted to point out a stat that I'm pretty proud of . I have not had a single penalty in 3 years (9 seasons if you do the math). The last penalty I had was for covering the puck in the crease when a player on the other team faked out our goalie just to be stopped by my stick. This past season I was the only player in the top 5 in scoring with 0 penalty minutes.
-AJ
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
1\20-1\22 2008
I couldn't think of a creative title, so that is what I came up with. Sunday we went to Church and afterwards went to lunch. That night we played some Bubble Boy table hockey until 11:00 or so at night. The next day (monday 1\21) I woke up to the smell of Pancakes and Sausage. Soon after breakfast we headed down to the rink where we were able to get a good 2 hours of playing time in before it started to rain. Today nothing special has happened so far. I still need to do some chores and stuff. I also need to clean the house up for company tommorow when the Red Wings take on the Ducks. But before that game its Wings vs. Kings tonight. Should be a good one!
-AJ
-AJ
Saturday, January 19, 2008
So much to say, so little time to say it
Wow, I didn't realize it had been over a month since I updated this blog, so much to catch up on, lets see how I do. The Season ended off great for our team, after being 1-3-0 when we named our captain, we quickly moved to 3-4-1 at the end of the season. My last two games of the season were a couple of my best. Lets start with game 6. I started the game with a quick 2 goals heading into the second period. I got one in that period. A little bit of useless information is that my best two periods are always my 1st and 3rd periods. So headed into the 3rd I already had a hat trick, so what more can you do? I ended up scoring a goal and notching one assist early in the period. I wasn't paying to much attention to the scoreboard until I had that assist and when I looked up we were up 10-3. Its always nice to be up by that much. So being down by 7 what does the other team do? That's right, they pull their goalie. I was able to knock the puck off the stick of the eventual leading scorer and bank it off both posts and into the net for my 6th point of the game (5 goals and 1 assist). We ended up winning the game by a final score of 12-4. Going into game #8 we were obviously the underdog playing the 7-0 undefeated team in the division. I was able to get one assist in the game. Down 5-4 heading into the last few minutes we were all almost out of hope. So we were lucky enough to put another one up on the board and tie it 5-5. We were going to do a shootout, but the other team did not want to, so onto overtime it is. We spent almost all of overtime in their zone only to come away with a tie. 5-5 was the final score, but at least we soiled their perfect record. So if you do the math, 8 games in a season and we just finished game #8 you will arrive at the conclusion that it was now playoff time! We were playing the same team we beat 12-4 in the first round of the playoffs. So to start the game off they scored almost instantly. Towards the end of the 1st I had yet another quick two goals. Fast forward to the end of the game, because I can't remember to much more of the game. We won 10-7, but the score does not show how much we dominated. I walked away from the game with 5 goals and 2 assists. Probably my best playoff game ever! So we made it to the championship game against a very good team. This team was very smart and had great puck control. We jumped off to an early lead with an assist from guess who? Dissapointingly, that luck ran out quickly, we lost the game 8-2 and I had 2 assists. My best playoffs as far as I can remember notching 5 goals and 4 assists for a total of 9 points.
But what did I get on the season?
Now today hits. For those of you that don't know, we are no longer attending Calvary Chapel of Fullerton, because it is to much of a hassle to get down there on a Sunday morning and when we get back it is already afternoon. I will miss the fun times I had there with all of the youth leaders.
Anyways, we are now attending Village Bible Church in Garden Grove, so we had a new members class today. That started at 8:00 A.M. I had Hockey closing ceremonies at 10:00 so we had my assistant coach pick me up and take me there, because my parents had to be at the Church until 12:00 P.M. for the meeting. I am going to have to do the rest at another time with the Youth Pastor.
Okay, onto closing ceremonies. We get there and its Big Gay Soccer Day(Soccer Tournament) at the park, so there was absolutely no parking. We were luck enough to find a spot. When we got there I was placed on cone patrol, so I had to put cones wherever there was an empty spot. I was told to cheat a little bit and put cones in places where it said no parking and even next to a few parking spots where there was not a marked spot (ironically thats one of the spots where we parked). So when people left the lot we placed a cone in the spot they had just left and when there was no movement we went up to the front of the lot. When at the front of the lot we asked people what they were there for. It went sort of like this.
Are you here for Soccer?
-Yes
Sorry the lot is full
And when they'd say now, then we'd pick up some cones and let them park there. Lots of people were greatful.......well at least the ones that were there for hockey were.
So onto the cermony itself. We finally got a trophy with the Village Idiots Franchise as it has come to be known. So that's always nice. But before they anounced the trophies or raffle prizes they put up the scoring chart! I ran over to go check it and the scorers were as follows
1. #27 20's and the 9 -28 points
2. #10 Bloodline-our team - 25 points
3. #55 I cant remember their team name-23 points
4T #19 I cant -22 points
4T #14 ME!!! - 22 points with 12 goals and 10 assists!!!
So there you have it, my most assists in a single season in quite some time. A top 5 finish in scoring is never bad. Including the playoffs I had 17 goals and 14 assists for 31 points. I know you don't care, but as far as my rough estimation goes (excluding playoffs of course). I currently have 295 career goals, 5 more for the mile stone.
And ontop of that I won the grandprize in the raffle! A $50 shaft that my dad was going to buy for me, but I had him buy the neighbors used iPod instead. The used iPod broke and thanks to Apple Care became a Brand New 30 Gig iPod!!! Thanks Apple Care!
We also had an allstar game today that I got to play in. I had 2 goals and 4 assists in that. Those are also always fun. I can't wait until next season, it should be fun. I will try to update this blog more then once a month from now on, sorry about that.
Sorry for the longgggggggg read.
-AJ
But what did I get on the season?
Now today hits. For those of you that don't know, we are no longer attending Calvary Chapel of Fullerton, because it is to much of a hassle to get down there on a Sunday morning and when we get back it is already afternoon. I will miss the fun times I had there with all of the youth leaders.
Anyways, we are now attending Village Bible Church in Garden Grove, so we had a new members class today. That started at 8:00 A.M. I had Hockey closing ceremonies at 10:00 so we had my assistant coach pick me up and take me there, because my parents had to be at the Church until 12:00 P.M. for the meeting. I am going to have to do the rest at another time with the Youth Pastor.
Okay, onto closing ceremonies. We get there and its Big Gay Soccer Day(Soccer Tournament) at the park, so there was absolutely no parking. We were luck enough to find a spot. When we got there I was placed on cone patrol, so I had to put cones wherever there was an empty spot. I was told to cheat a little bit and put cones in places where it said no parking and even next to a few parking spots where there was not a marked spot (ironically thats one of the spots where we parked). So when people left the lot we placed a cone in the spot they had just left and when there was no movement we went up to the front of the lot. When at the front of the lot we asked people what they were there for. It went sort of like this.
Are you here for Soccer?
-Yes
Sorry the lot is full
And when they'd say now, then we'd pick up some cones and let them park there. Lots of people were greatful.......well at least the ones that were there for hockey were.
So onto the cermony itself. We finally got a trophy with the Village Idiots Franchise as it has come to be known. So that's always nice. But before they anounced the trophies or raffle prizes they put up the scoring chart! I ran over to go check it and the scorers were as follows
1. #27 20's and the 9 -28 points
2. #10 Bloodline-our team - 25 points
3. #55 I cant remember their team name-23 points
4T #19 I cant -22 points
4T #14 ME!!! - 22 points with 12 goals and 10 assists!!!
So there you have it, my most assists in a single season in quite some time. A top 5 finish in scoring is never bad. Including the playoffs I had 17 goals and 14 assists for 31 points. I know you don't care, but as far as my rough estimation goes (excluding playoffs of course). I currently have 295 career goals, 5 more for the mile stone.
And ontop of that I won the grandprize in the raffle! A $50 shaft that my dad was going to buy for me, but I had him buy the neighbors used iPod instead. The used iPod broke and thanks to Apple Care became a Brand New 30 Gig iPod!!! Thanks Apple Care!
We also had an allstar game today that I got to play in. I had 2 goals and 4 assists in that. Those are also always fun. I can't wait until next season, it should be fun. I will try to update this blog more then once a month from now on, sorry about that.
Sorry for the longgggggggg read.
-AJ
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