What a day!

Well hope you are ready to read, this will be a long one!
This morning at 8:15am our Minor Peewee B's beat West Carleton 1-0 in a great game. Our defense was solid as usual, and our forwards were gunning it the whole game. It is so fun to teach these kids how to hit, and position themselves to make smart plays rather than smoking a kid. They are smart kids and this will be a fun season! For those of you who don't know, I am an assistant coach on this team. The other assistant is John, and hes a great guy who knows a bunch about hockey, and then there is the head coach, the great Marc Power. I have already learned so much from this man. For those of you who haven't googled his name yet, he is the skating coach of numerous teams, including the Senators, and the Olympic Hockey Teams. He has some how already made me skate better! Either way he lost it this game as there was a hit from behind uncalled. Good on Marc for sticking up for our kids safety, but even bigger props to the ref. Its nice to see young officials handle themselves as this one did. He did ding us for a bench minor for the chirps, but he came over, talked to us, didnt toss Marc, and after the game explained exactly what he saw. It was nice to see young ref's doing a good job like this man did. Good morning none the less!
After the morning and some delicious breakfast, I came home and tried to sneak some z's in. Didnt work so well. Of the planned 4 hour nap, I snuck 1.5... What can you do. Ref boss called, gave me a bunch of High School games ($$$$$$$$!!!!!!!) which is great. Unfortunately the start of the year is always Tier 2 Gals and Non Contact Lads. Not to be harsh, but I would much rather hand my dad the remote control so he can watch his weather network for 3 hours than stand at one of these games. I mean its great to see them having fun and playing hockey as it should be, but wow, sometimes its just not fun to ref! Especially when you get a bad team facing a horendous team, and the score is 14 to the power 3 vs .25. But money is money, and hockey is hockey, do the time, get better games down the road! (OFSAA is back in O-Town this year!)
Also got to watch some puck on the tube too! Well I will gloat while I can, because this probably won't last too long, but COLORADO is 2-o!!! Sorry Brad, but Duchene will WHOOP Tavares's butt any day! Anderson is finally emerging from his backup shadows and is showing he is a number one. Lets hope he stays consistent! But what a year it will be for rookies, SO many good ones. The race for the Calder may have a few obvious choices, but there will be some tough competition pushing from below. Niemi, Tavares, Duchene, Gustavson, Kane, Hedman, Myers, Varlamov, Karlson, ETC ETC ETC..., it will be good watching. I would put money on a potential Subban call up too for the Habs, (He can try his Spin O Rama's all he wants). Either way, quick end on the NHL, but its gonna be a great gritty year. Im going to love watching the Flyers, love em or hate em, they are scary. Emery is playing like he can, lets just hope his head stays in the game. And look at the goon potential on this team! Its nuts. No bench clearing brawls against these guys please! Emery/Pronger/Laperriere/Richards/Hartnell/Carcillo/Coburn. Its just a bit scary! Will touch on NHL on less busy days!
Either way my day ended with a AAA Major Midget Lines. What a mess of a game. Think it ended 7-2 or something, 84 minutes in penalties, and could have been many many more. Ref did a good job keeping it in control though, but what a bunch of idiots these players were. Now idiot is harsh, so I will take that back somewhat, but it wasnt a pleasent game for anyone. First of all, this is AAA, the "elite" of minor hockey. One would assume there would be a bunch of affiliated kids for these squads. The one team today dressed 10 players. 10! Come on! Its a waste of time for everyone dressing 10 and expecting to have a meaningful game. Wake up! There was two big hits into the bench though which was fun to see! Was a fun first time doing AAA though, hope to do a bunch more. (Dave! Get your son in there! Get him healthy! They need him!)
Either way, gotta hit the hay, gonna watch rest of the battle of Alberta, then nap, yes nap, it is currently 12:40 and I gotta be up at 6 for practice! These kids are gonna kill me! Battle of Alberta, along with a few other games are chippy! I love this hockey!
Keep your head up!