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ice hockey a game to remember by dennis shiraev james w robinson junior secondary school fairfax virginia
My hands were
shivering from nervousness as I applied friction tape to my stick
blade and proceeded to put on my shiny Robinson varsity ice hockey
jersey.
I could barely control the puck on my stick during warm-ups. My club team’s games usually had about a dozen parents in attendance; nobody had told me that there would be hundreds of screaming fans from my school watching this Friday night mark key match up. The noise was getting to me, and I could barely hit the net with my practice shots. When I got to the bench, I knew that the coach had noticed my sloppy rhythm. I wouldn’t be getting much ice time this game. Our team captain Ryan managed to put an exclamation mark on my tribulations when he commented, “Hey frosh, if you ever do get out there, try not to blow it for the team.” Maybe he was joking around, but my morale sunk to a new low.
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into the second period I finally got onto the ice. The puck dropped
and went back to one of our defenders, and we began a calculated
break out from our end. I took off for the opposing zone. The
numbers on my jersey must have started flying off as I accelerated
past two defenders. I reached light speed just as I caught a
juggernaut pass from my center man and started closing the
forty-foot gap between the opposing goaltender and me. I faked
a shot, sent the puck between my legs to the backhand of my stick,
and then roofed it into a small crevice above the goalie’s glove.
The siren screeched as the fans erupted into a uniform chant and started dancing to the music of “Zombie Nation.” The beat pulsated through my body as I triumphantly raised my stick to the scoreboard and skated by my teammates to receive congratulatory fist pounds. |
I looked like a gladiator who had just notched his first kill. The monkey was off my back, and I was ready to light the lamp some more. We went on to win that game, and many more after that. I had the privilege of being on our school’s first state championship team.
I was forced to quit hockey two years ago because of repetitive body trauma, but it’s still my favorite source of nostalgic reflection. I’ve calculated that between the ages of seven and sixteen, I played in no less than three hundred officially refereed ice hockey games. I can’t even remember half the cities that I traveled to or teams that I played against, but I’ll always remember that cold November evening when I notched my first high-school goal. Being the little guy on a big team, I discovered that chasing down your dreams is not enough. I learned to chase down my dreams, catch up with them, beat them to a pulp, and then keep skating forward even faster with an unyielding pursuit of rugged achievement. I’m going to college to find more mountains to climb, more peaks to summit and impossible challenges to face. For me, the rigor and excitement of the journey is as good as the final destination. Ice skating, is a sport in which participants wear steel-bladed skates and slide around on outdoor or indoor ice rinks. The sport of ice skating originated in the Netherlands and Scotland and was brought to the United states by Scottish immigrants in the1700s.
Ice hockey is also considered to be one of the fastest growing women's sports in the world. The main difference between men's and women's ice hockey is that body checking is against the rules in women's ice hockey, because women in many countries do not have the body mass or size seen in North American players.
NCAA and JUCO Ice Hockey College Recruiting.
The game is very popular in Canada and in some regions of the USA. Namely the Northeast, Alaska and the Northern Midwest. There are a total of sixty four members in the International Ice Hockey Federation.
There are plenty of ice hockey camps held every year throughout the USA. Camps usually offer Intense training in power and speed skating, coaching in the fundamentals of defense-offense transition and development of skills in stick-handling, shooting and scoring and team play.
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