goalie41
08-01-2008, 11:21 AM
i took this summer off from playing in league play, but i am still filling in when ask for who ever calls me.
got a call to fill in for a team last night, they guy tells me the league has some good skill level to it, some youngsters from junior A and what not.
i was pretty pumped considering the last game i filled in turned out to be a D league game and well i dont find those to be a challenge, especially since i could out skate the majority of the team i was playing for in my goalie gear (and i did skate the puck through a crowd to center ice to take a shot on the other goalie lol).
so i look this team up.. they are in first place, but they have had over 6 goalies play for them through out the season, and have had loads of goals scored against them.
so, going in i suspected that not ever goalie they got sucked, but that maybe their D isnt as strong as maybe they think it is.
i head in to the game pumped and ready for an uphill battle.
the first period i stood on my head and made it out with one 1 goal against.
the second period i stood on my head for the majority of it, but towards the end i was running out of steam. they worked me over so hard to that point that i was becoming exhausted. my mind knew what it wanted but it was slowly starting to make bad decisions because i was too tired.
the third period started off as bad as humanly possible... guy came in alone right off the opening face off, took a soft wrist shot that i thought was going wide, so i made no save attempt at all.
turns out i was completely off my angle and it went in the goal short side.
literally like 7 seconds in if that. granted the dude should not have been able to come in alone off the opening face off --- but damn, normally i could have made that save wearing bunny slippers!
ended up getting 8 possibly 9 (i stopped paying attention to the score lol) against me.
that just does not happen to me... it was humbling, it was frustrating, it made me want to not play this damn game any more.
i just put in an order for new pads with Scott last week, and i literally had the thought, some point during the 3rd, "wonder if its too late to cancel that order?"
its frustrating because i was frigging one FIRE and then it went to hell in a hand basket.
to make matters more annoying... i have been working out since i started taking my hockey break to hopefully come back in better shape and what not and i didnt feel ANY benefit from it last night.
even though some of the goals going in werent softy type goals, i felt like if i had more energy i could still have possibly stopped more of them.
the only positive i took from the game is that out of all of those goals, only the one was a softy.
usually i can look forward to filling in or playing with my normal team and get that 'loving feeling' back, but since i have taken a break, my old team has been SUCKING badly, like they have only won 2 games and when they lose they are losing like 12-0.
and as luck would have it, i am filling in for them this sunday... a game that i was all ready expecting to require me to show up with not just an A game or even an A+ game, but i need to show up with other peoples A games and combine them with mine in order to be competitive...
got a call to fill in for a team last night, they guy tells me the league has some good skill level to it, some youngsters from junior A and what not.
i was pretty pumped considering the last game i filled in turned out to be a D league game and well i dont find those to be a challenge, especially since i could out skate the majority of the team i was playing for in my goalie gear (and i did skate the puck through a crowd to center ice to take a shot on the other goalie lol).
so i look this team up.. they are in first place, but they have had over 6 goalies play for them through out the season, and have had loads of goals scored against them.
so, going in i suspected that not ever goalie they got sucked, but that maybe their D isnt as strong as maybe they think it is.
i head in to the game pumped and ready for an uphill battle.
the first period i stood on my head and made it out with one 1 goal against.
the second period i stood on my head for the majority of it, but towards the end i was running out of steam. they worked me over so hard to that point that i was becoming exhausted. my mind knew what it wanted but it was slowly starting to make bad decisions because i was too tired.
the third period started off as bad as humanly possible... guy came in alone right off the opening face off, took a soft wrist shot that i thought was going wide, so i made no save attempt at all.
turns out i was completely off my angle and it went in the goal short side.
literally like 7 seconds in if that. granted the dude should not have been able to come in alone off the opening face off --- but damn, normally i could have made that save wearing bunny slippers!
ended up getting 8 possibly 9 (i stopped paying attention to the score lol) against me.
that just does not happen to me... it was humbling, it was frustrating, it made me want to not play this damn game any more.
i just put in an order for new pads with Scott last week, and i literally had the thought, some point during the 3rd, "wonder if its too late to cancel that order?"
its frustrating because i was frigging one FIRE and then it went to hell in a hand basket.
to make matters more annoying... i have been working out since i started taking my hockey break to hopefully come back in better shape and what not and i didnt feel ANY benefit from it last night.
even though some of the goals going in werent softy type goals, i felt like if i had more energy i could still have possibly stopped more of them.
the only positive i took from the game is that out of all of those goals, only the one was a softy.
usually i can look forward to filling in or playing with my normal team and get that 'loving feeling' back, but since i have taken a break, my old team has been SUCKING badly, like they have only won 2 games and when they lose they are losing like 12-0.
and as luck would have it, i am filling in for them this sunday... a game that i was all ready expecting to require me to show up with not just an A game or even an A+ game, but i need to show up with other peoples A games and combine them with mine in order to be competitive...