Misc Hocky

Isaac's team was scheduled to play two games on Sunday morning in Cincinnati's Indian Hill area. We drove up the night before and stayed, thank you Priceline. We rolled up to the ice rink at 7am for the 8am game. Nice place. It is a country club with an ice rink. So, Isaac headed to the locker room to start getting ready. By 7:30am we learned that it was not just a bad Zamboni job that made the ice look so bad. The compressors had been turned off. There was a quarter inch of water on top of the ice and it was not freezing. They opened up all the doors to let in the cold air from outside in to help. By 8:30am they were calling other rinks in Cincinnati trying to find some ice for them the play on. What a long shot... But it came through, they found some. Our boys got to play one game at 10am in downtown. After all that, the game didn't go real well for our boys. They got beat pretty good. These other boys played a lot more physical than what our boys have been taught. By the second period our boys figured out that they had to put their bodies into the game and they did a lot better. Isaac ended up full on checking a kid a couple of times. I need to edit the video that I have to see if I can get it better to watch.

So, I don't have much for pictures from the game, so here is the team picture. And this is a pre-game pep talk from Coach Phillips, at home in our locker room.

So, to go with the story at the top of this post. I am thinking that we need to travel with Butch. He keeps the ice and facility so nice at our home rink that we need to take him on the road to make sure that we have good ice to play on when we are on the road.