T’s Second Game

This morning’s game for T was a league game, the first league game of the new season. Period 1 – Shift 1 It looks like he took what his coach and I told him about skating harder to heart, because he really did pick up the pace today.  He skated hard on all his...

Junior Hockey

After T’s game today there was a Metropolitan Junior Hockey League game between the Florida Eels and the Space Coast Hurricanes. I saw the Eels play a couple weeks ago at the Kissimmee rink, but I couldn’t stay for the entire game.  This afternoon I was able to...

T’s First Game of the New Season

So T had his first game of the new season this afternoon and we got to see whether the extra skating he’s done over the last month and a half has really improved his skills or not.  It wasn’t a league game at the rink his team’s at – one thing I like about his...

Friday Skate & Shoot

A simple skate & shoot last night and I practiced some of the things I need to work on. First I worked on something I noticed at Monday’s clinic.  From a standing start, I can start moving forward or backward pretty well, but at Monday’s clinic I was trying...

I’m not the Slowest! (except sometimes)

The skating drill at tonight’s clinic was an important milestone for me: I wasn’t the last one across the ice in one of the drills. Yay! So skating drill tonight was goal-line to blue-line forward, then return backward; then the same to the red-line; then the same to...