The Goal
Every time I practice shooting, I work on two things. My not so hard slapshot and a wrist shot from the right side where I lift it about 1/2 way up the net, presumably over a goalie who has already gone down. This is the move for a rebound/deke kind of situation. In practice, without a goalie to shoot on, this is a suave move that I can land just about every time. During games, it's never quite worked out. Well, until yesterday.

After being sick all week, I knew I wasn't up for playing D or Center so I put myself at wing, the place for the most scoring chances requiring the least amount of hard skating. We were down in the offensive zone, Julie took a shot, the goalie blocked it and there it bounced, right in front of me, with nobody around. I took that extra second, rocked back a little to get some momentum as everyone stopped to watch, the other team included. The goalie still down, I went for it, getting off the wrist shot I'm always practicing. Whoosh, it went right over the goalie's head and hit the back of the net, halfway up. The netting actually poofed out the back behind her.

Andrea said that the way I acted afterwards, it was like I'd just won a million dollars. In a way, I had. This is what I had practiced over and over, finally, I pulled it off in a game, a real live game. We tied 3-3 but I'm still giddy over The Goal. It came from my new CCM Vector 110 stick, bought with the money I won in Vegas. Thank you Mr Slot Machine!