The A-Team suffered another loss, and had some on-ice drama to boot last night. The other team's goalie decided to whack one of my guys in the face while he was down on the ice (after a different A-Teamer had drawn a penalty on a guy, then laughed as the guy was carted off to the box, then the penalty guy went a little crazy and started swinging so the ref put him in a half nelson (I am not shitting you, I was standing right there, mouth agape) while the A-Teamer stood there watching). Immediately following the goalie swipe, first one, then two then 3 then 4 of the other team's players all descended on the A-Teamer who had been attacked by the goalie. This, I've recreated from witness accounts, I wasn't really paying attention when it all started, I just looked up to see our guys in the middle of a gigantic brouhaha. I went off myself, shouting "STOP FUCKING FIGHTING! THIS IS NOT WHY I STARTED THIS TEAM, IF YOU WANT TO FIGHT, GO SOMEWHERE ELSE!!"

Later I learned that in this instance the A-Teamers did not start the fight or do much to participate in it (though they did stand there in the mob rather than leaving), so while I may have been off-base with that, at least now the team knows how I feel about fighting, which is that it's a waste of time.

I was up most of the night stressing about this, maybe too much, I don't know. It's frustrating because we're not doing very well and I'm trying to make it better.

But at least I have blue pants.