Way to go, Goalie

On the heels of another blowout loss, I'm actually not moping and navel-gazing. Last night was another 6-0 loss for the Hawks and it certainly wasn't the best game I've ever seen us play (myself included). Two goals in particular stick out as ones I definitely should have had (ok, maybe three). From my vantage point, it seemed like we just couldn't get it together offensively. In the second period, with the score 1-0, one of the guys had a great chance on a wide open net but I guess he was going too fast and the shot was just a few inches shy of the mark. I don't usually do this but I let out a "ugggghhh!". No sooner was it out of my mouth when I thought, "Ooops. Probably shouldn't have done that. Now watch I'll get scored on." Ohhhh look, here comes a breakaway. I stayed with him pretty well but I guess I wasn't square because the puck hit the top edge of my pad and bounced in. CRAP. That should have been an easy one to take right in the flaming C logo.

The other one was another breakaway, with one of our guys coming back and almost even up with him, but the gravitational pull of my enormous 5-hole sucked the puck right off his stick and into the net. That one was just plain awful.

I did make some good saves, but overall I feel I could have played much better. Obviously, without anything on the board for us, none of those bad goals were difference-makers. But I can't rest on my laurels on that fact, because there will come a time when a goal will make a difference, and I can't be letting sloppy shit like that past me. (Naturally, I don't want to let anything past me, but really big errors feel worse than when you give it all you've got).

So either I finally have some perspective, or I'm just tired, but I'm kind of filing last night's game under "it is what it is". We have another game Wednesday night, right after QCat practice. It's a notable one for two reasons; we're making it "throwback night" and wearing our fancy blue jerseys, and we'll be playing the team we had that really nasty game against a few weeks ago. Maybe we should have someone film the game and make it pay-per-view. It'll help defray the cost of the jerseys we got one season's wear out of.