This weekend we have an off weekend. There are some kids on the team taking the ACT, which I'm glad I don't have to worry about anymore. It's fun to help them out with some of their problems when they're practicing, though. I've had 4 or 5 kids tell me they want me to take the ACT for them, kind of jokingly, because they all know I did really well on it. I'm going to use this weekend to get some rest because the next 6 games are huge for us, and after that we're in the playoffs. I've already played 16 games here and three game weekends get pretty tiring. I'm not complaining though. I've sat enough games this year. Now, I've played 23 games, more than I've played in each of the past 4 years, and I'm loving it and learning and getting better every time I step on the ice.
After practice today, the owner of our team told me that my skating is getting better. He can tell. It's good to know that people are noticing the effort I'm putting into getting better, and I think it shows a lot about me that I'm getting so much better so fast. Again, I stayed after practice, and instead of skating in circles and shooting pucks, like a lot of kids do, I did some drills that are going to help me progress. I can easily say that I'm a much improved player from the start of this year—I won't say I'm a completely different player, but it's hard to describe how much better I've gotten—and I think in the past month, I've taken some big steps in becoming a better hockey player. I've shown my strengths and my weaknesses have become more evident, which is a good thing because I know what I need to work on, and I have worked on and will continue to work on the things I need to. I'm really excited about these upcoming games and of course the playoffs because I know I can make a difference. I'm ready to keep climbing these steps to get better.
Tomorrow the guys on the team not taking the ACT are going to be refs for a Special Olympics floor hockey tournament before our afternoon practice, and then tomorrow night there is a Steelheads game we are going to as a team. It should be a good weekend. We have to stay focused, though, because in one week Fresno, our biggest in-division rival is coming into town, and we want to bury them.
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