Today was game day! Lovey had been looking forward to this all week and was pretty pumped up! The other 2 weren't quite as excited as she was but they did enough cheering to be annoying to the unfortunate souls sitting near us LOL
I'm not sure how much they explained to them in hockey school about the rules but we never went over any with her. I wasn't sure if she'd even know where to skate to when she went on. She floated around the ice for the warm up laps, enthusiastically smiling & waving to us each time she passed our section. Then the buzzer went and the keeners bombed over to the bench and were the first in the line up. Lovey got to their door just as the first shift was hitting the ice and was then part of the last shift. I was a bit nervous for her as I saw the first shift fly onto the ice, smoothly circling around, zipping into their positions!! How could she keep up with THAT??!?!? But Murray reminded me that the fastest ones on our bench would be on with the fastest ones on the blue team bench and as it went down the line, the slower the skaters and should all work out fairly evenly. (and of course it did).
I'm not sure how much they explained to them in hockey school about the rules but we never went over any with her. I wasn't sure if she'd even know where to skate to when she went on. She floated around the ice for the warm up laps, enthusiastically smiling & waving to us each time she passed our section. Then the buzzer went and the keeners bombed over to the bench and were the first in the line up. Lovey got to their door just as the first shift was hitting the ice and was then part of the last shift. I was a bit nervous for her as I saw the first shift fly onto the ice, smoothly circling around, zipping into their positions!! How could she keep up with THAT??!?!? But Murray reminded me that the fastest ones on our bench would be on with the fastest ones on the blue team bench and as it went down the line, the slower the skaters and should all work out fairly evenly. (and of course it did).
The other team was quite a bit stronger overall but the scorekeepers were very kind and kept the difference in goals at a difference of 3 points at all times LOL. Blue team stayed at 5 goals until red team "tied" it up and then they stopped again at 8 goals.
I was surprised that there was a girl goalie on each team. There were more boys overall than girls, but there were several girls playing. One day the university women's team came to do the coaching and Murray said they spent a lot of time with Lovey, helping her practice and encouraging her. She thought that was pretty cool!
Today, we ran into another family who had a baby in the NICU while we were there and had a chance to catch up with them which was neat! Their NICU baby was playing on the blue team and is in his 2nd year of hockey.
Lovey's team ended up losing the game but she enjoyed the whole thing regardless and was happy to have us there to watch her. :))) If you count Beanie Boos, she definitely had the biggest fan base!
By the time we got movie night done, she was a tired little player and is sleeping very soundly now!!!
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