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We even got some road hockey in on Sunday morning. Anna scored 3 goals! Woohooo! AND I just LOVE her Wings Jersey! Sweeeeeeeeeeeet!

Santa is not Neutral during the Stanley Cup Playoffs!

Ho Habs Ho!

Sad.

The Red Wings have been eliminated from the 2007 Stanley Cup Playoffs. Very Sad. They had a great run this year: finishing 2nd in the regular season and in the top 4 in the playoffs. Congrats to the Red Wings on an excellent year. See you next October!!! I can't wait!

Hey look Mom, I'm a Cartoonist!

After spending a day "researching" Internet cartoonists, I was inspired to create this cartoon describing my life!

We tied! What a close game!

With half our team present, we hussled like crazy and managed a tie against the 2nd place team in the league. 7-7 ... NICE! Glenn played awesome in goal even though he didn't even have a glove! Wild! Maybe that's the key to his success. I even scored the game tieing goal... off a beautiful pass from Mike. Two games in a row that I score. Lucky ;-)

I scored a goal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well... let me preface this post with the fact that this season in floor hockey the men have decided to play either as a forward or as defense instead of playing all over the court. So last year, I scored goals fairly regularly but this season I am a defenceman so I am barely getting any shots on goal. Well, last night in the second game of our double header I had a breakaway from center and went in on the goalie and scored in the 5 hole on my backhand. Wow! Was I lucky! That's my first goal of the season! Unfortunately, we ended up losing both games: 5-2 and 5-4. The second game I thought we carried the play and deserved to win. Bad luck I guess. So after last night's results we are now solidly placed in last place in the league. Nice! ;-)

Great game last night

Great floor hockey game last night despite being on the losing end by a score of 7-4. We were tied at half-time 3-3 so our hopes were up for the 2nd half. Unfortunately, they out hussled us in the second half and came away with the win. We played well in general and two standouts were Mark and Kevin. Both played really well. Kudos boys.

Big Al is my Hero!

In more ways then one.... but last night it was because of his willingness to buy Jen poutine at the Frontenacs hockey game. Jen couldn't finish her poutine so she offered it to Erin and me. Well, approximately 6 seconds later it was GONE. !!!Yummy gravy+cheese!!! Yum! Ok... well... hmm.... can you tell I am hungry while I am writing this posting? (*grin*)

Thanks to Michelle for organizing a great night out last night. Fronts over the 67s 4-1. Yeah! 16 people came out to the game: Mark, Tracey, Erin, Me, Jen, Alex, Glen, Rob, Kevin, Jen#2, Michelle, Marie-Claire, Noel, Margaret, Gabrielle, Georgia. Did I forget anyone? If so, let me know.

FebFeb-tastic!

I had a great FebFest weekend, despite Erin not being in town for most of it... boohoo. Friday night an outdoor concert with my on my favorite Canadian bands: The Trews. The set up a big heated stage between the bank of Montreal and the Keg right down in market square. The show was opened by BullMoose from Montreal and then The Trews rocked market square for over an hour and half a half. Despite the -15 degree weather they didn't let up. In fact half way through the concert they were working so hard you could see the steam coming off the top of their heads! I talked to the base player Jack the next day and he said the heaters on stage worked really well so his fingers stayed thawed the whole time. Impressive! (*smile*)

Saturday was the Limestone Classic. Mark, Kevin, Jen, Michelle (and only 3 kids... Gabriel was at a sleepover!) and I braved the cold in the bleachers to take part of the sights and sounds of ex-NHLers panting heavily on the new ice-rink in market square. Needless to say, it certainly lived up to my expectations. Kicked off by an appearance by the official Stanley Cup, this year instead of starting the round robin game right away, they had an all-star first game: All NHLers versus the military military hockey team and the final score was 4-4. Nice! Oh, I forgot to mention there was a fun addition to the ranks of hockey stars this year: GIRLS! Yup...we had girl hockey stats: Jayna Hefford, Vicky Sunohara from the Gold Medal Winning Olympic team. And joining them was Kathleen Kauth from the Bronze Medal winning USA team. After watching how great this lady skated I think she may have been the best hockey player on the ice the entire day. V.cool! We had yummy foods during the day including breakfast at Morrison's and lunch at the Brew Pub. Noel and I scored K-Rock tuques too. Sweet! And between Friday night and Saturday during the day, my toes almost got frotbite...but I don't even care! Great day weekend all around. Thanks Kingston for FebFest, it sure holds back the February blahs.

GreenMeanies Go Down!

Yes! We have won our 1st official game of this Winter's Floor Hockey season. It was a close one the entire time and we prevailed by the score of 8-7 against the GreenMeanies. We've got the their number this Winter. We've beat them twice. (But our first game against them didn't count as a win for us because it was the 2nd game of our double header.) Yeah! We're now tied for 4th out of 5 teams! Yehaaaa!

Frustrating Loss

Well, I think I experienced the most frustrating floor hockey loss so far. After leading the entire game we lost in the last 90 seconds. Final score 14-13. We're now 0-3. Ugh! Oh well, we're playing the Green Meenies next week. Watch out!!!!!!!!!!!

Eat, Drink and Be Merry!

Friday night we had the Eat, Drink and be Merry floor hockey Kick-Off party! It was really fun. Special thanks to Michelle for hosting it at her place. We did a BYOB potluck and all the food was yummy. The fun activity that we did half way through the evening was to distribute team awards for last season's performances. EAch attendee to the party was given a ballot and could nominate one player for each award category. Here are the winners!

Wayne Gretzky Award (Best Playmaker/Passer) - Kevin
Wonder Woman Award (Best Shot Blocker) - Glenn
Donald Trump Award (Most Penalty Minutes) - Doug
Leonardo DiCaprio (Best Sportsmanship) - Georgia
The Bud Light Award (Best Defenseman) - Melissa
The Toucan Award (Best Nacho Eating/Beer Drinking) - Rob
Gordie Howe Award (Best Elbow) - Mike
Richard Simmons Award (Most Enthusiastic) - Eric
Angelina Jolie Award (Sexiest Ankles) - Rob
Rookie of the Year - Cathy
Tom Cruise Award (Most Ambitious) - Tracey
Jennifer Lopez/Sir Mix-a-Lot (Best Butt) - Michelle

Congratulations everyone! That party was a great way to kick-off the new season that starts next week.