3pm Friday texts:

- wanna play in a tournament? first game 10pm tonight.

Uh, can't, but thanks.

- no? How about Sat at 3?

I have a league game at 2.

- come for the 8pm?

.... ok fine, lol.

She signed up for a tournament months ago, paid, and only put together barely half a roster the day of! #JennHockey ๐Ÿฅ…๐Ÿ’

Never great counting players in the room while the flood's on and you only need one hand.

Eventually got enough to not forfeit & goalie made it just in time! Everyone played great. Solid W; now wanna sleep for 2 days, lol. Gotta take sleep, stretch, and nutrition real srs in a hurry.

The next 5 weeks(!) are going to be pretty bonkers on the ice. Gonna have to be way better about taking care of myself to keep up! Oh, and do my actual job. Also critically important ^_^ #JennHockey ๐Ÿฅ…๐Ÿ’

Some shinny friends are going to the Ontario Senior Games and wanted a game vs. very strong players as a warm up. Thought everyone knew I agreed to play! Hit the ice for warmup and immediately hear "OH FUCK".

Hard to respond to that in the moment, lmao. You feel kinda bad but also flattered :D #JennHockey ๐Ÿฅ…๐Ÿ’

Coach, srsly, when can we get together to go over my gaps in the playbook?

"Cutter, you're playing great; real threat around the net. You're putting points on the board. Don't overthink it."

Then I buried one in the 3rd to tie the game so maybe I should chill like coach says, lol. I just wanna do get better tho.... #JennHockey ๐Ÿฅ…๐Ÿ’

Had a bit of break last week as weather always got worse around game nights and things were cancelled. Felt rusty af out there today, but when you finish +2 with two apples in a 2-2 tie you can only be so annoyed with yourself!

god lord my cardio needs help in a hurry tho <_< #JennHockey ๐Ÿฅ…๐Ÿ’

"Cutter's gonna play up-"
Cutter's gonna what??
"-because no other D is down to go forward and we need a Centre-"
beg pardon???
"- since we only have 4 Forwards today."
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so that went as well as could be expected, lol. Goalie stood on her freakin' head!! I am gassed. My cardio died in the third ;_; #JennHockey ๐Ÿฅ…๐Ÿ’

After a small break it was back on the ice tonight for the Sr. BB team. We're not the highest scoring team, so netting 4 is nice. Doesn't really matter tho when the other team scores more -_-

Yeah, yeah, we had a short bench 'n all, but next practice is def gonna be a bag skate ;_; #JennHockey ๐Ÿฅ… ๐Ÿ’

sentence I don't love hearing right before the flood: "Cutter, can you play net?"

Like, yes, but don't want to. I'm an hour away from my equipment and we can just hang a jersey over the crossbar. It's shinny!

(problem got solved, goalie walked in, thankfully! now I get to play D) #JennHockey ๐Ÿฅ…๐Ÿ’

Every single person walking into the room tonight: "WHAT'S THE SCORE?!?"

Then, because we are jerks, they have to follow up with "NOT THE LEAFS!!1!"

#JennHockey ๐Ÿฅ…๐Ÿ’

Woo, 1-0 win. Felt like absolute poop first period; stronger as the game went on. I made a great save from behind the goalie in 3rd, which always feels good. All good, no hands involved, just shinguard + stick.

We had two lines, so I'll take it! Tomorrow and Monday are the much much harder contests. #JennHockey ๐Ÿฅ…๐Ÿ’