Going to Russia...

Well it’s official...I’m heading to Russia at the end of November. This past weekend our team played in the first round of the European Women’s Champions Cup and won, therefore we are moving on to the second round which will take place in Moscow. This tournament faces off the champions of each European country. As in our team won the Czech league last year so we were invited into the tournament this following year. It is actually pretty interesting as countries have placed teams in the Championship Cup where I had no idea they even had women’s hockey...a.k.a Norway, Romania, Estonia and so on. We will now face a club team from Finland, Russia and Kazakhstan in the second round. I have no idea what Kazakhstan will be like but I know Russia and Finland will be tough as most of Russia’s national team plays on the club team we are to face. As a team we got flu shots yesterday after practice, so I am all set to head to the “motherland”.