Smooth Ice Narrative

If you do, keep reading. Today, I’m going to tell you some things about ice hockey. Hockey was invented on March 3, 1875. The game hasn’t changed too much over the years. The point is still trying to hit the puck into the goal. How is hockey set up? In hockey there is two teams of six players each. The players are required to wear protective equipment. The ice has four lines that run sideways across it; one red thin line at the end of each side in front of the goalie’s net, two blue lines about one third of the way towards the middle, and one center red line. At the start of each match both teams play three forwards, who are trying to score and assist goals,

We were then asked to stand in lines and start warming up which was essentially just jumping up and down while moving our hands like bird’s

Four minutes later 13 scored to make it four to three. The cheers of the crowd echoed in the arena. Then we went 10 minutes without scoring. With 5 minutes left. I skated around the defensmen went to my forehand, backhand. Score! It was four to four. Now it was tied.

We got changed in the locker room, listening to music that would get our adrenaline pumping. The game started with a tip-off with us getting the ball and scoring on the first play, but so did the other team. The game was very close. We would score, they would score. No one ever got ahead by more than four points. At the end of the second quarter with ten seconds left, it was their ball and we were down by two. They did a nice play and a girl got a wide open three pointer. Then the buzzer went off and we all looked at our fuming coach and knew what was about to come at half time. You know that scene in the movie, “42” about Jackie Robinson, where the other teams coach is yelling at him saying rude things? And then there’s the heartbreakingly beautiful scene where Jackie goes into the dugout and breaks his bat and screams and cries. That’s what our halftime was like. The coach yelling and us wanting to scream and cry, but still we had determination to win this game. We came back out ready to play and immediately tied it back it up. The game kept going back and forth, until the fourth quarter with a minute left and us up by four. The other teams coach called a timeout and our coach gave us a speech about if we wanted to win, we needed teamwork. Teamwork just like Jackie Robinson and the Brooklyn Dodgers. We came back out and held the game at four points until the buzzer went

The players skate up and down the ice shooting or passing a hard rubber disk called a puck with sticks. They score points by hitting the puck into the net.

The next game was early in the morning against region 3 who is known to have some of the best players around nut after the end of the 2nd period we were tied 3-3. “Lets rush the the nat and try to score”, Matt our top scorer said. “No, let's just stay in our own zone and just play defence and not then them score. after we see a weakness we just rush ahead and attack!” said Joe, another player on the team. I didn’t think much of Joe and I voted for Matt’s idea. I shouldn't have. The nest period we got swept off our feet the the south in the dust bowl. We lost

We were playing Fond du lac, and they were good. So our teams gets on the ice and we start playing. We score two goals right away in the beginning. They were starting to get mad. After we scored to make it 3-0 they started sending out kids that would hit our players. Our team then started to retaliate. So we were getting penalties and before you knew it the score was 2-3. We started to realize that it wasn’t worth retaliating. There was about two minutes left in the game, and we played shutdown defense. Nobody was getting a shot on our goalie. The game ended 3-2 us so we were on our way to

Finally the game started and we played well and so did they. The game was close the whole way threw and we came to the final inning tying them. We were the home team so we got to bat last. Two of the three outs

It was the middle of the second period I was losing pretty bad so I gave up. I thought to myself I'm not gonna win so I gave up. But with my little bit of energy I had I tried to stand up. I tried with little effort which was the worst mistake of the match. All of a sudden I look up and I seen the black sky. Then I came back down with tremendous force. The force of gravity took me down directly on my head. I was really startled and confused.I hear from the opponent's side ooooo and I was still

    It took about 10 minutes for our whole team to arrive. The coach gave us soccer balls to use. We started to play keep away, it was three in the middle

These rules set up the use of a puck replacing a ball and decided the number of players to be nine per team. In the 1880’s the first organization of the first amateur hockey league was created. Over the next several years, ice hockey's popularity spread over all of Canada. It was around 1893 that ice

Half time was over so we started to get stretched out. They kicked the ball off. Misa got it again and ran to the 35 yard line. Offense was out now, they took the ball down the field but then they picked the pass off. The whole other team was celebrating. We were all very mad at the other team.

After a scoreless first period, Thatcher Demko’s shutout streak looked impenetrable, but fittingly enough, our feature faceoff matchup came to a head when Mackenzie MacEachern raced down the ice and beat Demko to end the streak and tie the game at one. MacEachern’s goal came just 11 seconds after Boston College opened the scoring, on a goal by Colin White (OTT), who would go on to score a second goal to take a 2-1 lead heading into the third period. Ryan Fitzgerald (BOS) and Alex Tuch (MIN) added goals to extend the lead to 4-1, before the Spartans woke up by scoring three straight goals in less than two minutes to tie the game late. Miles Wood (NJ) snapped home the game-winning goal and Fitzgerald added an insurance marker as Boston College defended home ice successfully with a 6-4 win. MacEachern’s goal was his only point of the game, and Demko stopped 33 of 37 shots to improve his record to 9-1-0.

The game started like any other game, no one being able to create chances, and mainly sizing each other up to find their weaknesses; a pretty typical first period. When the second period came around we were penalized meaning we were a player down (5v4) for 2 minutes. They took advantage

We passed all the security guards who all wished us good luck in our game. We finally arrived to our locker room where we all picked out a spot according to our position that we played. Our coach told us that all the defense and goalies should sit together and all the forwards should sit close. The second the team opened up their bags the raunchy stench of body odor filled the room. I set the stereo up and started playing the Rocky song that we would always listen to before every big game. The players were all dressed in our uniforms when the coach told us that he had a surprise for us. He yanked a box form the hallway and pulled out our new jerseys that he ordered for the great accomplishment. This reward reminded everyone of our unbelievable journey to the state game. Coach handed the jerseys out telling us the pride we should feel as we slip the sweater on. We had twenty minutes until the challenge when our coach ordered everyone to be quiet for his pre-game speech. He started out telling us how proud he was to be our coach and whatever happens in the next two hours he commends us. The rest of the speech was the strategy he wanted to use if we encounter any problems. In his final words the horn rang telling both the teams that it was time to take the ice.