I haven’t played that much hockey in years. Here’s a recap for those of you who didn’t make it out to the rink.

We easily won Friday’s game versus the defending champs from our regular league. I guess that means we should have been the champions in the last session. Thankfully it appears that another session is going to start this coming weekend, so we’ll have to win this time around. After the game Friday a few of the guys from the team hung around the “bar” for a couple hours to eat some wings and have a couple of drinks.

I had to wake up early on Saturday morning to play another game against a team we’ve never played before. This team plays down south at the Pepsi Center and thus had home ice advantage over us. The game was really fast and mostly clean, making it one of the more fun games we’ve played in awhile. The end result was a tie and since the tournament was a round-robin style it ended that way. Phil and Todd made it out for the last five minutes of the game, just in time to watch us give up our two goal lead. This is totally unrelated but go check out the new design on Phil’s site! :)

Since we had another game later in the day our team decided to hang out at the 810 Zone for awhile in between games. We ate some food and watched the first few picks of the NFL draft. I’d recommend checking this place out for yourself if you are ever down in Overland Park.

Later that afternoon it was time for our second game of the day. We knew going into the game that if we won we would be in the championship game. Our opponent for this game was another that we had never played, a team from Omaha. You could tell that we were feeling the effects from our first two games, but we went on to win this game rather easily and moved right into the championship game.

Our opponent in the championship game would be determined right after our game when the team we played in our first game faced off against another team from our league. The second team was not themselves though. We quickly realized that they had added some ringers to their roster and thus they beat the team we had also beaten the day before. Knowing now who our enemies would be, we headed off to Johnny’s Tavern for a tournament sponsored party. We had a good time for a couple of hours and then decided to head home to rest up for the championship.

My Sunday morning wake up call came even earlier than the day before. Kim was participating in the Trolley Run along with her mom and a couple of her aunts. I dropped them all off at the starting line and then drove down to the plaza area to watch the finish. Kim ran the four miles easily and finished with a great time somewhere around the 28 minute mark. We’ll know for sure once the results are posted on the website. After everyone was finished running or walking we quickly got our things together and drove out to the rink for my game.

Since Kim was busy entertaining our guests most of the weekend, this was the first game she attended of the tournament. She could have picked a better one to watch, but at least she got to see me score a goal. We ended up losing the tough game 2-1. We stopped all of their ringers from scoring any goals, but in the process we never played enough offense to win the game. A second place finish is still worth the pain that I’m feeling today, and our team had a great time playing in the tournament. Hopefully there will be another one in the future.