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Just for the record, Abe Vigoda is still alive http://www.abevigoda.com/

Got the slump-buster tonight. Last game of the regular season, a 24 shot shutout, with my team winning 6-0. Two games being played on Sunday will decide our final position which is anywhere from first to third. Bring on the playoffs!

heres my new open hockey/practice jersey. anyone guess why its numbered 76? now i just need to go down to the Army/Navy shop and pick up some silver and black flag patches

The stars aligned with my EMS schedule and I found an 11-week clinic that only cost $21 (including a goal cut jersey). It is more geared towards raw beginner skaters (who have to pay $250 to skate out ) although there are some individuals who play D-level beer league or have been to the camp before. I couldn't beat the price, so I decided to give it a go. Coming from the caliber of player I've been facing since I started, it is definitely an adjustment. I'm not sure if it's for the better yet. The nice thing is, the skaters and shots are so slow I have a lot more time to work on getting my technique perfect. They also do a real warmup with the coaches hitting us in the pads and leading us through movement drills before we start facing shooters. Facing hundreds of shots a night should be pretty decent cardio as well. The potential issues are that there is not really much goalie-specific coaching, and the drills are so fast I don't get a lot of time to focus on tracking my rebounds and recovering properly. It looks like I will still be self-coaching quite a bit. If anyone has tips for things to work on when the coaches just want to use you as a target, which I understand is the norm at many levels of hockey, I would really appreciate it. In other news, I just unloaded a bunch of stuff on eBay, and I'm pretty sure that is going to turn into a Bauer Reactor 6000 trapper, and maybe a new blocker as well (looking at the Reebok P4).

Just had my runners done up at NoIcing with a 90/75 and a 8/14' combo radius. FBV is noticeably better for me than ROH ever was. I'm kind of in shock.

Great 14U girls games this weekend. Awesome competition, with no games won or lost by more than two points. One new team to the league is comprised of all female Squirt/Peewee/Bantam players, and this was the first weekend all their girls were at home and available to play. Our girls went 2-1-1, with an 0-1 loss and a 1-1 win with the above team. Their goalie was incredible. She was stopping a lot of shots taken on quick passes and the only one that went in was a shot from point where my daughter was screening her and had a tiny deflection into the net. They had 2-1 and 4-2 wins over the other team at the festival. I finally got to see my '03 on the ice for the first time since November as her Peewee schedule has conflicted with our 14U schedule. She's gotten strong. Really smart D player. Its fun to watch her skate and play. I take no credit for her skills, but I feed her a lot. My '01 continues to improve after missing last season. We put her back at D in December and she HATED it. Now she LOVES it. Great backchecking speed and confidence, and she's the team's unofficial "big sister". After losing a teammate for the season due to her concussion, I was more happy than anything to see my girls take some hard falls and keep their heads off the ice. And even more exciting, we got a dog last night. My wife and I have had Labs for 19 continuous years and lost our oldest and last dog at almost age 16 in April. We made it 8 months dogless and the girls begged us for a pup. We rescued a gorgeous, sweet 8.5 year-old Lab mix.

A Zuc One95 and an APX pro. Take care of those! Especially the former!