Hey guys, it's been a while. Let me catch you up.
The fundraiser held at Around the Corner in Lakewood was a great success. We had over 100 people come out and support our team, enjoying beer and pizza, and participating in raffle prizes as well. Proceeds raised will help offset the costs of our season. Many thanks to the crew that organized as well as all our friends and family that came out. I was tasked with helping Rhonda collect money from people on their way in, which was fine with me. Rhonda did the hard work, I literally just put money in an envelope and drank the beer, and ate the wings and pizza that Eric periodically brought us. Not bad eh?
Speaking of 'eh,' guess what? We have another Canadian on the team! I think it's cute that our say 15 person roster has 3 Canadians on it. And, I think it's great that a person can move to Cleveland, ask around and easily find a women's ice hockey team appropriate to the level of that individual. So, welcome Vanessa, can't wait to see you in action at our tournament this weekend.
Since our fundraiser two weekends ago, we've had three solid practices. Tonight was on synthetic ice at Ohio Hockey Academy. I'd never skated on synthetic ice, and it was certainly different but I encourage everyone to try to make it at some point. We have a few more practices scheduled there.
When I first got on the ice, I felt like my body wanted to move forward but my feet weren't moving. I did get used to it, but still of course there's nothing like skating on the real thing (by real thing I mean artificial ice in a temperature controlled arena of course).
That said, what was nice about the synthetic ice and tonight's practice was that it was a chance to work on skills. I absolutely loved working on simple puck handling and passing drills. The other thing I enjoyed was having an instructor reminding us of various tips throughout the hour long ice session. My favorite was probably the advice that if we just puck handle normally and get the D shifting weight to an outside edge (ie committing to a direction), and then just go in the other direction, we'd have a bunch of success and could forget the toe drags. Poor toe drag. Just can't get any respect.
Anyway, I really enjoyed it from a skills perspective. Maybe next time we'll learn how to do spread eagles. Do you know what that is? Sounds terrible. I guess another name for it is open hips skating, which also sounds terrible. But anyway: This. I want to do learn to do it. Who wants to teach me?
Ok, I think that's everything. See you guys on Friday for our first game of the tournament!
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