Expect the Unexpected

What a day. Thursdays are one of the days that I coach 4-6 year olds at the local rink on Commercial Drive. On average, there's usually 2-4 coaches on the ice with 15-25 kids. Today, it turned out none of the other coaches showed up... it was just me... with 17 little kids. It was hilarious! I have no idea where the other coaches were as... to put it bluntly... our head coach is a little disorganized and nobody calls anybody when they're not coming. If I hadn't been there, those 17 kids would've gone home disappointed as they aren't allowed to skate without a certified coach on the ice. Anyway, it was kinda crazy as I had to come up with exercises to keep them busy for 1 hour. I had a really great time, felt really good about it, and the kids seemed to have fun. We did some skills drills for a while and then I let them play a game for the last 20 min. Ha... pretty good considering I could only scrape up 5 pucks... Afterwards a lot of the parents were complimenting me on how well I did considering the coach-to-kid ratio was 1:17. Yikes. It was a great experience and I figured it would happen eventually where I'd be the only coach there!

That went until 5:45 and at 8:00 I headed to Surrey with my roommate Erin to watch her play a game. The team she plays for is also the team I'm a spare player for, so I always throw my gear in the car just in case someone doesn't show and they need me to play. Well, it turned out that someone was sick at the last minute so out came the gear and into the lineup I went! It was great. Talk about last minute changes... I even got a lot of ice time and we won 4-1.

Crazy day of hockey... I'm tired.