I dashed to the front of the net, expecting Jacob to take it around and pass. I was right, or so I thought. He took the puck around, intentionally drawing some defense, then fired it through the crease, in front of which I stood. I fired it over the pads, and it hit the net, rolling around for a few seconds before the goalie swept it out for the ref to take.
GOAL!
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I think everyone has at least something at which they are good. Whether it be playing cards, writing books, or maybe surfing or painting, everyone has at least one thing at which they are good, or at least something in which they are confident. Hockey is that thing for me.
“I enjoy playing hockey, in fact I am great at hockey,” as Donald Trump would say, although I am not great. I am good, but have many things to learn; last year I shot pucks every day in my garage because I could barely shoot and pass, not to mention scoring goals; now I can score, pass, skate well, and stick-handle. It is something to which I can come back whenever I feel as if I am bad at everything I try to do, because I’m not bad at everything!
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That was against the Seahawks B team; the team that was formed with the second-best group of 16 players who tried out for the Seahawks for that age group. We then settled into our hotel rooms. The next day, after a few kids woke up early to run and others watched Syfy once they awoke, we drove —as a team— to the tubing place. We tubed for a while, won our game on that night, and watched some Jaws movies on SyFy channel, which after going through the cycle of Jaws, Jaws 2, Jaws 3, and Jaws: The Revenge showed their own “copies”, as we called them; short post apocalyptic human eating shark movies with horrible
GOAL!
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I think everyone has at least something at which they are good. Whether it be playing cards, writing books, or maybe surfing or painting, everyone has at least one thing at which they are good, or at least something in which they are confident. Hockey is that thing for me.
“I enjoy playing hockey, in fact I am great at hockey,” as Donald Trump would say, although I am not great. I am good, but have many things to learn; last year I shot pucks every day in my garage because I could barely shoot and pass, not to mention scoring goals; now I can score, pass, skate well, and stick-handle. It is something to which I can come back whenever I feel as if I am bad at everything I try to do, because I’m not bad at everything!
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That was against the Seahawks B team; the team that was formed with the second-best group of 16 players who tried out for the Seahawks for that age group. We then settled into our hotel rooms. The next day, after a few kids woke up early to run and others watched Syfy once they awoke, we drove —as a team— to the tubing place. We tubed for a while, won our game on that night, and watched some Jaws movies on SyFy channel, which after going through the cycle of Jaws, Jaws 2, Jaws 3, and Jaws: The Revenge showed their own “copies”, as we called them; short post apocalyptic human eating shark movies with horrible