So we just lost ANOTHER game. This time 9-0. Since I was sick and not in school today I wasn't allowed to play, but I was allowed to be bench manager, and in between giving one of my teammates medical attention, attempting to coax an edge out of another teammate's skate and making sure water got to all the people who needed it I got the chance to REALLY watch my team play. And oh god do I wish I hadn't been givent he opportunity.
It's not that we're a team of bad hockey players, we really aren't. We're a team of good hockey players that haven't synchronized ourselves to each other yet. I just wish I couldn've been the one to tell my team what was wrong, because I saw stuff our coaches didn't see. I kept it to myself, of course, I didn't want to incur my coaches wrath. But I think our biggest problem is we've got a team full of centers, and not enough wingers.
One of our biggest problems is that we don't have enough practice time. The school will only give us so much money and our genius mangers decided to waste it on games. That might have worked with last years team, but so many players graduated last year that we're basically a brand new team. To make matters worse next year ice time is going up by 20 bucks and hour (from 245$/hr to 265$/hr) and the school won't fork over more money. So now it seems as though it's up to me to jump in and set up some fundraisers (sure, leave it to the only girl *sigh* men). Our goal is 2000$ which shouldn't be too hard to raise if we can get the boys to go for it.
To top it all of the school's going to try and force us to move up to tier 1 next year (Varisty, we're tier II right now, Jr Varsity). Where Gonzaga will (to use my current team Captain's words) Anally rape us, then take our heads, put them on our sticks and display them to the world to see why JV teams shouldn't move up before they're ready.
The good thing is that my work on extending our season for two months makes me look good for the position of Captain. Yay! If I get the position I'll be the first girl captain my ice hockey team's ever had! GLEE!! This'll make me look good for University of California, Pennsylvania, and it'll make me look really good to their hockey team!
Ah well, I shan't bother you with my problems anymore,
with love,
AcidRayne
Posted by AcidRayne on 2008-01-25 21:56:42 | Rating: n/a | Views: 60
i dont know much about ice hockey but i thought that like with other sports you have certain number of people on both ofence and defence and that type of thing
Why aren't they out there? They are, it's just that you sort of have to "feel" your teammates, you can't really look for them. When "the feeling" clicks, it's amazing.
For example, I just recently "clicked" with one of my teammates, and now we're always out on the ice at the same time and whenever he has the puck, I'm wide open and he doesn't even have to think about passing, he just passes and I'm there.
This time 9-0. Since I was sick and not in school today I wasn't allowed to play, but I was allowed to be bench manager, and in between giving one of my teammates medical attention, attempting to coax an edge out of another teammate's skate and making sure water got to all the people who needed it I got the chance to REALLY watch my team play. And oh god do I wish I hadn't been givent he opportunity.
