Journey to Sunday nIght Ball Hockey in East York

  It has been experience playing ball hockey for many years. I have 3 championship trophies with 2 different teams in 1995 (story for another day)

 On this night January 15th we had great turnout of players and it was Game on! as Peter says in his emails

  We had two teams with 4 subs each which was welcomed news for the new year!

   It was a competitive game between Team Dark vs Team White.

   Team Dark won the 1st game 10-9 with yours truly scoring a few nice goals.

  The second game was more intense game with lots of holding and light bumping and little controversy on few goals in the end Team Dark edged out Team white 10-9  to win both games.

   Amazing night of ball hockey between competitive players burning some much needed calories.

 Thanks to Gordon So for the amazing pictures below.

Team Dark in the offensvie zone

Jason and Dan and Shayne in net

                                         

Jim Pagiamtzis and Peter watching from Bench

                                         

Lessons from the Rink

I was always fascinated in learning how to skate for many years watching Saturday night hockey. I had ventured out to skate in my neighborhood rink at Christie Pits rink. 

From early December to late February I have been going skating at Christie Pits to improve my abilities and to have some fun playing shinny hockey. Below are some insights on some of my experiences.

Every day week would be different experience, mainly because of  the weather, it would affect the ice conditions. There was a Zamboni that would come in the morning and evening to clean the ice.

December and January we had very mild conditions so the turnout was big at the rink. I would say “there coming out of the woodwork did I miss an email?”.

We would play five a side and have 15 more on the bench, it worked out well and the players would change often.

We did have some days where the snow would come down and we would be pressed into service. There were four shovel on site and lots of enthusiastic plays who wanted to play hockey! 

In true team spirit we shoveled and using our sticks  to make it happen.

There were great passes made, goals scored and team building moments shared.  

On the bench we screamed  We want a goal!  to  Look at the guy skate!

We had some amazing women who came out to skate and put on some great moves on the guys and have fun!

Huge thanks to Germaine and Alex for keeping everything in order.

Below are a few pictures:

                                    Jim  Pagiamtzis at Christie Pits Ice rink

                                                           Shinny at Christie Pits