Budapest Road Trip

Well I was back at it with games this past weekend after having the previous weekend off. We took a road trip to Budapest after practice on Friday as we played them on Saturday at 12:30pm. The road trip was pretty uneventful compared to other ones that I have been on. Granted I must say that I still have not gotten used to watching Czech movies. The Czech movies are pretty crazy, but they do throw in a couple of English movies dubbed over in Czech, and if we’re lucky we get English subtitles. It was a crazy road trip in the sense that we got our hotel in Budapest at about 2:30am, woke up at 9:30am then went and played our game at 12:30pm. Needless to say we did not get to see much of the city. It did look beautiful from the bus with a huge river flowing through the city. We won the game 4-1 which was good, probably could have won by about 10 goals but we were having trouble scoring. Then after the game I thought that we would eat in the restaurant like we have done in the past. Word had it that we were going to stop in Bratislava, Slovakia for super which was 3 hours away. Hum...that is totally different from any other team I have played on before where they pretty much shove food down your face after the game, especially when you play the next day. I had asked if we were going to stop at a gas station to get some snacks, our coach said we were going to, so I decided not to grab some food at the rink. Well two hours later we finally stopped for a “snack” at a gas station. Then we didn’t eat in Bratislava but in Brno which is only like 2 hours away from Prague. They must think we need to lose some weight.

The next day we played Kladno, a team that is in our Czech League. Back in October we lost to them in a shootout. It was our first and only loss of the season. Well we came out hard and beat them 12-3. It was pretty crazy and I really don’t know how we ever lost to them. Our coach was pretty pumped after the game and actually said some positive things which doesn’t happen very often. I have to mention also that we will not be going to Russia any more. For some reason we have switched pools and no longer in the Russian pool but the one in Berlin. I was kind of disappointed in a way cause I was pumped to go to Moscow and maybe get a chance to see a couple of sights, but Berlin is pretty great as well. Granted I’m not sure how much sigh seeing well get to do, but I guess we have a better chance in this pool so should be are going to be in a different pool of teams and instead we are headed to Berlin in a couple of weeks. Apparently we have a better chance in this pool of making it to the next round. So I can’t complain too much as the finals are in Sweden and it would be awesome to go there!