Game Day, Game 3:  Wednesday, September 24, 2003 at 7:15pm versus the Katz

 

The answer is 11.  After a two week layoff, we were back on the ice again, but the same old story,

no defence, except Calvin, as Val, Heidi, Leanna and even House! were all missing in action. 

So, Jenn and Dickie (again) and the new girl Cobi volunteered.  Cobi was supposed to be out at

our last game to replace the players we lost when Irena and Tania went missing in action after the

first week and so on and so on.  This week, we did welcome Midder to the team (well, she's not

really new as she has made many guest appearances with the Lightning in tournaments at 8 Rinks

and Whistler), and a belated welcome to another newcomer Maija, and Dickie brought out a player

that she said was from Holland (and I was wondering, do they play ice hockey there?), and then we

find out she is actually from Slovakia, thank goodness, didn't their men's team upset someone at

the Olympics?  Things looked good for the other team as we had our normal fantastic warmup. 

So, the Katz got on trackz by scoring in the first period, not much happened in the second period,

well, unless you counted how many times players fell down because of the chipped ice, but then

we jolted (get it) back in the third period to score three unanswered goals for a 3-1 victory. 

Marlene scored her first goal of the season on a rebound from her knees again (Chad, is that why

you like her?), and then Maija popped in her first goal in the First Division on a pass from Petra,

the Slovakian Streak, and then Linda M. scored her first and probably only goal of the season on

a wrap around because she can't shoot.  The highlight of the night though was Calvin breaking out

of our end, making a pass (to the other team), and at the same time losing an edge to go sliding

into the boards by our bench while the other team's player skated in for a breakaway.  Good work,

Sue (did you like the standing ovation we gave you when you finally showed up for the game). 

Next up are the Burnaby Bandits at 9:30pm on Wednesday, October 1 ... let's not let em steal

a game from us, ahahhahaaah.

P.S.  Thanks to Chad for opening and closing the gate again.