Crazy Game

Yesterday I played in one of the craziest games yet. We were supposed to play a home game against Triglav, Slovenia which is a team in the European League that we play in. The starting time was set for 3pm but we didn’t actually start the game until 4pm. Why you ask, well the team apparently went to the wrong rink which was in Prague. We are affiliated with a professional men’s team which plays out of Prague in a beautiful new rink that seats about 15,000. Unfortunately our average of 50 fans a game wouldn’t really fill that stadium, so instead we play in Kralupy a smaller city about 30min outside of Prague. It actually suits our team just great as we have our own locker room and it’s a fairly nice rink. So upon Triglav’s arrival we find out they only have 8 players. Chelsa was not scheduled to play in our game because we are only allowed 3 foreigners to play in the game so she was sitting out and letting a Slovakia girl on our team play. Well little did she know but our coach offered her to go and play for Triglav. So what became her day off became probably the most defensive game she has ever played as we won 12-1.

We are to play Salzburg today and it should be a good game as we only beat them 3-2. Then this Thursday we are off to Berlin to play in the second round of the European Champions Cup. We’ll be playing three games Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with teams from France, Germany and Switzerland. The competition should be good so it will be a real test for our team as we have not been tested so much this season, so I’m really interested to see how we respond. The top two teams move on to Sweden where the finals will be played at the end of January. I’ll keep you posted on our results.