The skating drill at tonight’s clinic was an important milestone for me: I wasn’t the last one across the ice in one of the drills. Yay! So skating drill tonight was goal-line to blue-line forward, then return backward; then the…
The boy-child’s draft skate was tonight, so we got to see him in context with the other players in his league again and there was some improvement over the first draft – which I didn’t blog about because it was…
Tonight’s clinic started in what I’m going to start calling The Bad Way – that is, goal-line to goal-line skating drills that I’ve described in two of the last three clinic posts. Not going to elaborate further again. However, they…
Last night’s clinic started much the same as my first one – that is to say, lots of end-to-end skating drills. This time, though, I seem to be in a little better shape – I’m still out of breath and…
Friday skate & shoot with the boy-child went well. I got some good skating in along with some practice handling the puck. Even practiced my tickle-shot a little … Okay, I’ll explain – some people have a slapshot – well,…
Made it to my second Monday clinic and it was a much better experience than the first one. Coach started us off with laps because no one had stretched – four times around, but I was able to stay with…
So after a break for the holidays I was able to get on the ice today with the new skates and the Super Feetinserts. Awesome result – the pain in the outside of the left skate is gone completely and…
Well, I didn’t make it to the lesson this week because I took the kids to dinner with my dad – holidays and all that – but I did make it to skate and shoot last Friday. I had a…
So … long time since my last post. Personal issues have kept me mostly off the ice and I won’t get into too many details except to say that if your marriage counselor ever recommends this book: Accept that life…
The Summer Youth League starts July 10 and T will be done with his lessons by then and ready to join a team. I, on the other hand, will be nowhere near ready. :( So the little snot’ll be playing…