Hockey...

I just realized that I haven't exactly blogged anything on how hockey is going over here. Well I guess to me traveling is just so much more exciting and interesting to talk about. So hockey is going pretty well. We are undefeated in our Czech League games and have two losses in our European League games. So we're doing fairly well. It is frustrating although as only three foreigners can play in those Euro League games and those are the best games of course to play in. So that means that there are usually three of us sitting out as we have four Canadians and two Slovaks on the team. Of course there are the usual ups and downs that go along with any hockey season especially when playing over in Europe. Our coach is not the greatest and doesn't exactly have a wealth of knowledge on the game. He tends to yell...alot really and then doesn't exactly correct the girls on what they have done wrong. So really frustrating on both parties. The girls over here have quite good individual skill just have no coaching to help make them better and therefore have no hockey sense.

About a month ago we played in the first round of the European Cup. We played teams from Turkey, Hungry, and Slovenia. We killed all of them as all of us imports can play making our team much stronger. Then this weekend we're hosting the second round of the tournament. That means we play Finland, Kazakhstan and Denmark. We play Finland today and it should be a really good game. We'll most likely struggle in our defence zone as that's our weakness. But it comes by honestly as we usually kill the teams in the Czech league so are never in our own end and then we never work on it in practice. So how are you supposed to get better or have any sense of what to do? Let's just say our goalie needs to be on her game. We need to be one of the top two coming out of the weekend in order to make it to the finals which will take place at the end of January in Sweden. I've always wanted to go there, so hopefully that will happen! I'll let you know how we do at the end of the weekend!