A Return To A Past Subject

Some of you may have noticed the glaring absence of posts about my hockey team on this blog. For all my claiming to be a hockey fan, perhaps more of this blog should have been devoted to the play of that sport. Not So! Some of you may remember my impassioned plea to my sisters to stop praying for my team to lose because they were in dead last place. Well, things have improved dramatically since then, so dramatically, in fact, that I was afraid of them redoubling their efforts when they heard how well our team has been doing since then. They are now in contention for first place in their division and are steadily moving up the ranks in the rest of the conference! Let me tell you a little bit about what has been happening with out team. On Thanksgiving Day, they fired their coach (I’m sure that the chants of “fire Hanlon!” from the crowd had something to do with that). Since then our team has been on fire! Their young superstar has the most goals out of everyone in the entire NHL. Their rookie was named the NHL rookie of the month for December and was the first rookie ever to post 4 points in consecutive games. Another player who has been playing on the minor league team but came to the NHL recently is one of the top 40 players in number of shots blocked and he’s only played in half the games that the other top 40 have. One of our young defensemen has the most goals out of all defensemen. They swept the number one team in the east, winning all four games. And last, but not least, the Caps have won us free wings! (one of the sponsors of the caps, a restaurant, have a promotion where if the Caps score 6 or more points in a home game, anyone who has a ticket can take it in and get some free buffalo wings. The caps did it once before the turnaround of the team, but it was a Saturday night, and Sunday isn’t the day for us to be getting buffalo wings. The second time they did it, however, was a Wednesday and those Thursday wings were good!) Also, Chris and I were able to go to the Caps meet the team party which is held every year for season ticket holders. It’s kind of neat to see all the players close up (they’re much bigger in person than they appear from our seats and on tv) and get autographs and everything, plus this year they gave us free tee-shirts and snacks and it was at the party that they announced that they had signed their superstar for 13 years. But don’t worry Jeaneah and Jenn, the playoffs (should we happen to make it that far) will be over in time for our trip!