Holy Crap what a fantastic weekend of hockey. We played outside for what may be the last time this year being that they stop flooding and maintaining the rinks after this weekend, which is crazy being that we have a month of cold weather at least. But there you have it. My gods we had a huge snowstorm in what...April last year? And March is always good for a storm or two. I love winter, I really do. But it's like anything else. I mean, I love a good scotch, but even I'd be lying if I did not admit that 3 of them or so are pretty awesome. But say....15 of them? Not so much. Thats kind of the way I feel about the entire month of March; to much of the winter I love so much. I guess that's what drinking is very helpful regarding.

Our AK Bars game was an 8-0 drubbing of the poor Bruins. We outshot them 37-8 and pretty much everyone scored a goal, including me. Actually it was a pretty good shot; hit the keep in the left shoulder and sort of fluttered up and over him and into the goal. I was getting rather irked with a teammate but it really didn't bother me much, figured that he's just denying himself the immense enjoyment of team comradarie by being--shall we say--not costructively critical. I'll give a more play by play account in a later post because, well, I kind of need the byline from the AHA to get the facts straight and they've not yet posted our game yet the bastards. BUT....I have to include this link because it's pretty funny and should make Trevor pissed but it's pretty good read.

http://diablohockey.blogspot.com/2008/01/diablos-4-ak-bars-2.html

Lets just say that it's an interesting--and different--take on our game with them :) And I swear to god to read it before we play them the last game of the season.

What else is going on here in my little world that nobody is going to read about? (It's funny, being that even as I tend to sadly trend in this direction, how breathtakingly self absorbed this "blog" phenomenon is).

I had another one of those fantastic well rounded days. After our skate this am...where I played shitty being that I was SPENT after our game last nite. Discovered a new thing tho. If I have a Chipotle burrito for lunch on game day I've got way more energy. They are about 1200 calories but they must be really bioavailable.(the rice probably) because I felt pretty good. However, I was dying this morning and could barely skate. Must be why the pros get on stationary bikes after games to work out the lactic acid. It was great tho, really, really great.

Then tonite was Book Club Nite. These are pretty new people to me, but I really like them. I facilitated our discussion of the book A Short History of Nearly Everything and even tho half the people read half the book it was still lively discussion-wise. Like I've said in RL a bunch of times (to parahrase) One Cannot Live On Hockey Alone. So this has been great for me so far and I encourage everyone out there to read more and find a group to get together with. Plus...it's nice to be hanging around nice smelling women for a change. The locker room stink has a certain manly authenticity but, well...you know. I'm sure there's a few hockey fans in the book club, maybe I should invite them. Never can have too many fans and I think Madame Boyko and the Ah-Nye-Hilator's gal are getting lonely up there. Schultzie's gal comes sometimes too, but as we keep saying, he's gone way too soft with all this feminine attention, so it's best she probably skip our games :)

Keep hitting the corners!

-Kai #10