Raymond Bernard's Journal #5

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514 words, claiming week ending 8/11

 

#5

 

Wednesday, August 6th:

 

There’s been a lot of new additions to the league, some high talent and high upside rookies have gotten picked up right before playoffs. It’s a tricky thing to balance, because these new guys seem to have a lot of skills, but I wonder if they have the experience to immediately help their teams. We have picked up a few guys, and I’m super excited to welcome them to the team. I know if they put in the work like the rest of the guys have over the course of the year, they will really start to impact our results. 

 

Speaking of results, damn this team has been firing on all cylinders! I think we’ve won like 14 games in a row (with a couple of those being overtime wins sprinkled in). The Reapers and us are more or less a class ahead of the rest of the league. We are at 86 and 85 points with us in second, while Minnesota is back at 73. Don’t get me wrong, Minnie still has a great shot; really,  any of the teams in like the top 6 have a reasonable chance. Now, would I bet that anyone is likely to win that’s not Philly or us? No comment on that brother. But I don’t know, I don’t want to be too optimistic. Hockey is such a difficult game to predict, that it’s really stupid to even pretend like we know what will happen. All I gotta say is even though we are just one point back, I know most of the  pundits are going to have us losing to Philadelphia in the finals, so I think it will be motivating to be considered the “underdog.”

 

It’s weird thinking we might be the underdog (at least in that matchup) though, considering how good some of our guys are scoring right now. We have the top 3 points leaders, with another in the top 10. And that number one points leader is Zeno Miniti. Wow. What a player. He’s at 106(!!!) points right now, at 50 games played, which is higher than just about any points total I have ever seen. Don’t get me wrong, there might have been some better totals in history, but not that I know off the top of my head. What Zeno is putting out right now is absolutely incredible. It really is a pleasure to watch him play, and to be his teammate for it. And I’m going to be honest, it takes a lot of pressure of me as the goalie when my 1C is putting out over 2 points a game on average, I can tell you that. 

 

Our next game isn’t looking like it will be too difficult, we are playing a Mississauga team that isn’t doing to hot. I really like their goalie, Block Buster has been performing well, but it’s hard to carry a team that has only put up 75 goals in 49 games. We still have to take them seriously, but here’s to hoping for another result going our way!
 

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