Thursday, February 24, 2005
Hockey Playoffs
The time has come for the hockey playoffs here in the High School realm. My cousin plays for one of the local schools, which allows Katy and myself to go and watch and cheer them on. The league that he plays in is the Greater Nashville Area Scholastic Hockey.
The first game of the playoffs was this past Monday night. It was an exciting game that involved a lot of hard checking and a win for Hendersonville High.
This put us up against one of the top ranked teams in the league, Brentwood, for a Wednesday night showdown. Brentwood had just beaten Hendersonville in the last game of the season a little over a week ago. What a great game this was. When we arrived the game was 1-0 Brentwood, but it was hard to see how they had scored as Hendersonville was shutting them down on defense and holding them to almost no shots on goal.
In the second period, Hendersonville finally broke out and scored right before the end of the period to tie the game up 1-1. Both sides were playing a very defensive game at this time, with very few shots during the whole period. One thing I did notice is that Hendersonville started to get fired up due to the checks they were delivering to the Brentwood squad.
Shortly into the third period, Hendersonville struck first - scoring their 2nd goal against Brentwood. Shortly afterwards, though, Brentwood came back and tied up the game on a shot from in front of the net. Things were looking like overtime until Brentwood took a penalty with approximately 1:50 left in the 3rd. 30 seconds into the penalty, one of the Commandos fired a shot from close to the red line which caught the goalie offguard, and bouced off of his stick and into the back of the net.
Hendersonville then held off the Brentwood attack for the next 1:20 to secure a win and continue on in the winners bracket of the playoffs.
Next game is Friday night against Overton (undefeated and 1st seed in the South) whom Hendersonville tied 2-2 earlier in the season. This will be an exciting game, and hopefully Hendersonville will win to advance to the semi-finals.
I am lucky to get my hockey fix with my cousin playing. I really do miss the NHL, but those poor spoiled millionare players need to realize that Goodenow doesn't care about them. If he did, he wouldn't be telling NHL contracted players to go to Europe and sign for significantly less money - something that the league can use against the players association. It is hard to cough up big money seeing players that have multi-million dollar contracts play for quite less in Europe.
The first game of the playoffs was this past Monday night. It was an exciting game that involved a lot of hard checking and a win for Hendersonville High.
This put us up against one of the top ranked teams in the league, Brentwood, for a Wednesday night showdown. Brentwood had just beaten Hendersonville in the last game of the season a little over a week ago. What a great game this was. When we arrived the game was 1-0 Brentwood, but it was hard to see how they had scored as Hendersonville was shutting them down on defense and holding them to almost no shots on goal.
In the second period, Hendersonville finally broke out and scored right before the end of the period to tie the game up 1-1. Both sides were playing a very defensive game at this time, with very few shots during the whole period. One thing I did notice is that Hendersonville started to get fired up due to the checks they were delivering to the Brentwood squad.
Shortly into the third period, Hendersonville struck first - scoring their 2nd goal against Brentwood. Shortly afterwards, though, Brentwood came back and tied up the game on a shot from in front of the net. Things were looking like overtime until Brentwood took a penalty with approximately 1:50 left in the 3rd. 30 seconds into the penalty, one of the Commandos fired a shot from close to the red line which caught the goalie offguard, and bouced off of his stick and into the back of the net.
Hendersonville then held off the Brentwood attack for the next 1:20 to secure a win and continue on in the winners bracket of the playoffs.
Next game is Friday night against Overton (undefeated and 1st seed in the South) whom Hendersonville tied 2-2 earlier in the season. This will be an exciting game, and hopefully Hendersonville will win to advance to the semi-finals.
I am lucky to get my hockey fix with my cousin playing. I really do miss the NHL, but those poor spoiled millionare players need to realize that Goodenow doesn't care about them. If he did, he wouldn't be telling NHL contracted players to go to Europe and sign for significantly less money - something that the league can use against the players association. It is hard to cough up big money seeing players that have multi-million dollar contracts play for quite less in Europe.
Toronto bound
I will be heading to Toronto for work next week. It has been 5.5 years since I was last up there, and I am looking forward to visiting again.
