My name is Connor Tedstrom. I played high school hockey in Colorado for 4 years, and during my senior year, I decided I wanted to pursue playing junior hockey and Division I college hockey. This is the story of going from Colorado High School Hockey to junior hockey from my perspective: my thoughts, experiences, and lessons learned along the way.
Saturday, September 10, 2011
First Game Tomorrow. Finally!
It's been a while since my last real hockey game, and I'm super excited to get back into games every weekend! I had a great practice today--I was more physical than usual and I just felt good on the ice--so I'm feeling ready to go. Before practice we had a team video session, where we watched a little of our game against the St. Louis Junior Blues at nationals last year. That was definitely our best game of the year, and it was fun to relive it for a few minutes, but tomorrow we start a new season. I'm going to have a new role as a leader, and I am so ready. I think we have a chance to be even better than we were last year...we'll see though. It is only the second week of the season.
After practice, our coach stressed the importance of starting the game off well tomorrow. We win the faceoff and hard rim the puck into their zone, and then we chase it and pound them physically on the first shift. It sets the tone for the rest of the game. That's what we need to do tomorrow. We did a good job of that last year, but again, it's a new season and a new team. Nevertheless, it is an important thing to do because the rest of the team usually responds with more good shifts to follow the first shift when people are flying right when the puck drops. Not only is it important to set the tone tomorrow on the first shift, but it's also important that we start the season off on the right foot. We have the potential to be a really good team, however, we take the test tomorrow. Our assistant coach has stressed to us that all during the week, we prepare and study to take the test, and then on the weekend, when the puck drops, we take the test and we have fun. I'm ready to have some fun tomorrow.
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