Change of Season

Northwood playoffs ended with a pair of shutouts, no controversy, no overtime and much less drama than recent seasons. After the tightest round robin since we moved to the current format the final games were sort of anti-climatic. I've come to expect wild, crazy games with last minute goals and very loud crowds. It was loud but really tame.  The losing teams just could not score, just didn't make the connections that sometimes result in a lucky goal. Ahh.... but it's good to have it all wrapped up for another year.

Sunday saw each line play an hour exhibition game, with wanna-be goalies including one Ginko R. Kendall donning the pads. He actually made it out onto the ice this year and despite a bunch of goals he made some nice saves. Hopefully that cures the goalie bug that he caught a few years ago, it's just not that easy. I loaded the car with 6 sets of sweaters and all the spare goalie gear I could find. On the return to storage I had an extra bucket and 4 more sets of gear, so much that the back of the car was loaded right to the front seats and the rear view mirror gave me a nice view of trappers and blockers. 

A few more things to take care of, banquet and trophies, and then it's on to baseball. Fact is that already started about a week ago.