This weekend we had one game in Ogden, Utah. It's nice to have some shorter road trips this year...a 5 hour one day trip is much more manageable than a 10 day cross country trip. But those long trips are fun too. Ogden has a pretty nice setup themselves in an old Olympic rink, and they drew quite a big crowd. We were all excited to play; I could tell from our warm up that we were ready to play. That's usually the way it goes. Good warm up = good game. We came out fast and went up 3-0 quickly. The Olympic-sized ice rink was pretty fun to play on, but personally I think I like the more physical style of play on an NHL-sized rink. I scored our 5th goal on a slap shot from the point to go up 5-0. It was a laser if I do say so myself. Then things wen downhill from there. The other team started to get really frustrated, cheap, and stupid, yet somehow we still managed to get some bad calls called on us that took us out of our rhythm. We ended up winning 6-1--a win's a win, I know--but I still don't think we've played a full 60 minute game yet. Watch out when we do, though.
It was a fun one-day roadie (we got back into Boise at 4:30 AM), but next weekend we play Fresno, our archrivals, so we better be ready to play at our best and be ready to sacrifice for some wins. It's going to be a battle, like always in that hostile environment.
My knee is still feeling a little uncomfortable from last weekend, so I might take one or two days off this week to try and figure out what's wrong with it. But I'm excited about next weekend and challenging ourselves this week in practice.
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