Hat Trick Of Small Wins
The Gordie Howe hat trick is a goal, assist and a fight. Our little hockey family hat trick has turned into all three of our teams — the big Devils, the youth Devils, and the HNA Ice Dragons winning in the same weekend. Finally happened in the 24 hours between Saturday and Sunday nights.
With all of the calls for Elias to be a better leader, and for the Devils to play better, how about 4 points in 2 games, first star of the game on Friday, and two big wins against two teams that had some measure of momentum? Notch 2 W for C 26 (it’s neither Ray Borque-esque numerology or Kabbalistic interpretation of the sports texts, it’s just shorthand). Our little Devils lost a game that got away from them on Saturday, only to come back Sunday morning and win 7-1 in a game where 10 different players were on the scoresheet (not counting penalties).
Last night the Ice Dragons looked to even our record at 3-3, against a team that had beaten us last season 2-1 when yours truly missed his check twice for the tying and winning goals. 8 seconds into the game, our opponents took the opening faceoff in a 2-on-0 into the net against our backup (and rather helpful) goaltender. That was his warmup; he then pitched 44 minutes and 52 seconds of shutout hockey as the Dragons rolled 7-1 as well.
I ended up on the scoresheet as well, but not in the scoring column — a bit of bump and shove along the boards resulted in a hooking penalty (hey, good enough for Elias, good enough for me) and a few slashes across the left hand have made typing somewhat interesting this morning. In the worse for wear and tear department, though, is my living proof that there are no elastic collisions of meat: My one serious shot on goal came as I skated headfirst into a defenseman much more solid than me, and I literally saw stars after I bounced off of him and the ice. But chip in a little backchecking (I slowed down a 2-on-0 going the other way), sprinkle in two shots on net and my penalty and that’s enough of a hat trick for me.
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