We're not last! We're not last!
Final game of the season, we were playing in the consolation match, for third and fourth place of the four teams.
Our captain decided to just roll the bench, so each player yelled their position when they go off and whoever is next comes in at that position.
Surprisingly it worked pretty well, with the help of the refs not noticing that time we had too many skaters for about thirty seconds. I think having our slower guys not always on defense helped. Or maybe the guys in the team just play better without the intense pressure of being in contention for that coveted beer league championship. Either way, we somehow scored some really nice passing play goals and nice deflections and stuff, as well as playing pretty solid defense most of the game.
I personally played well through most of the first two periods before letting in a really weak one, luckily we were up by three already.
Then we scored again before they set up a very nice screen to get a second. We scored after that before they got one off a rebound I was horribly slow to move over for the second shot. Then they scored off my head from behind the net and another that I'm not even sure how it went in while my ear was still ringing a bit from the one off my head.
That tied it at 5, late in the game. One of our sub players then finished a nice shot to the far corner with about 50 seconds left and got another goal just throwing it at net as time expired to avoid last place with a thrilling 7-5 victory.
I was happy with my play for about two periods, which is frustratingly less than I would like. But since I wound up skipping my afternoon nap to do some shipt shopping and make a bit of money I was even more happy we scored those late goals to avoid overtime or a shootout because I was ready to get home and go to bed.
Pictured bus in the parking lot is unrelated.
