For two reasons, this was the most disappointing classes in the course so far.
First, the 50 minutes went by like 30 minutes. After a week of waiting to get back on the ice in full equipment it just seemed to go by too, too fast.
Secondly, I don’t think I took one good shot during the drills we ran. Hell, I even had a couple of fluffs in there. It was brutal.
Still there were three highlights:
- I had my first real parallel stop. By this I mean my first stop that was on instinct rather than practicing stopping. It happened during a shooting a drill. As I drove to the net with my head down, I took my shot, lifted my head to watch the puck flutter along the ice only to see somebody a couple of strides right front of me. Christ! Full stop! A good amount of snow, and I avoided creaming this guy.
- During the 10-minute scrimmage at the end of class I back checked nicely and took the puck from a player after deftly lifting his stick. A veteran move!
- And I received my first complement! A nice cross-ice pass into space drew a ‘nice pass’ from one of the coaches.
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