Raymond Bernard's Journal #3

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#3

 

Monday, July 22nd: 

 

The last few weeks have been crazy. Some of the result have definitely gone our way, but simultaneously some of the games we didn’t show up and dropping. It’s really discouraging to beat the leaders of the league, Minnesota (spoiler alert), and then drop games against worse teams! To be fair, the team we lost to (twice!) is Halifax, and they have had our number all season, at least we’ve split the games.

 

Speaking of which, who is making these schedules? We’ve played Halifax 6 times so far, and play them next again. That's 7 times, and I don’t think we’ve played any other team more than twice! It’s absurd. The games have been weird, all over the place. We’ve each dominated, and there’s been close games too, including a shootout today that unfortunately we did lose, but neither team has really taken control of the season series. When you look at the standings and the performances, I think we are the better team, but at the end of the day when we lose focus we are really susceptible to hemorrhaging goals. 

 

Despite being in third place right now, we have let in more goals than any other team in the top six. And I know that Acyd always says its a team game, and that everyone needs to pick it up on the defensive end, but I can’t help but feel responsible. My save percentage has been way too low. On the other hand, I do feel like my skills are really improving. Working week in and week out on hockey has let me focus so completely that I think I’m really taking strides at improving my game. 

 

Before I get ahead of myself though, I just have to say, playing against Hali so many times has led me to really respect their goalie. That dude is a brick wall, I swear. This is his second season in the VHLM with Halifax, and he really is insane. Right now, he is putting up a save percentage just north of 90%, which is good, but when you consider that he has played against us 6 times already, and we have, if not the most, then damn near the most shots per game in the whole league. He really is nuts. Gunnarsson really puts in a shift man. 

 

Anyway, on to the most exciting part, we beat Minnesota! The first ones to do it, but since then Yukon has too. But damn if that didn’t feel good. I’m still a little disappointed letting in 2 goals on only 12 shots, but hey, they were both while we were down a skater, so I’m not gonna stress it too much. Let me tell you, it certainly didn’t stress us out too much that night celebrating. In fact, we may have partied too hard. I don’t quite recall everything, but there is this bit about a zamboni and a Burger King drive through that I can’t seem to get out of my head. So that might have had a little bit of an adverse effect on our game the next game, but hey, what are you gonna do? 
 

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