Brampton

So every year my hockey team goes to Brampton, ON, Canada (just west of Toronto) for the largest women’s hockey tournament hosted by the Brampton Canadettes on Easter weekend. This year I was told that there were slightly over 450 teams, mostly youth programs.

The Chicken Legs were very excited that they would get to go, they had never seen a hockey game before, let alone one this large!

We left Friday afternoon, running ahead of a snow storm which, very happily we entirely missed. Unfortunately most of our team got caught up in it and didn’t make it to Brampton until after 10 pm.

We arrived around 6:30. Our hotel room was nice, it was a suite. And as usual we had the same problems of getting they type of room we specified, but that seems to be normal when dealing with hotels overflowing with girls hockey teams all over Brampton. The Chicken Legs were impressed though.

After we checked in we (ah…I didn’t remember to tell you that “we” meant me, 3 of my team-mate that car-pooled together and of course, The Chicken Legs) found that 2 of other team-mates arrived Thursday and that Scrappy was out eating dinner at Boston Pizza. We hooked up with her and had a yummy dinner.

Unfortunately, our game schedule pretty much sucked this year. All three of our games were scheduled on Saturday. 11:15 am, 5:15 pm and 11:15 pm. Yikes!! And me being the Goalie,

I was a little concerned that they’d be bring me home on a stretcher! Fortunately, we found a second goalie to take one of the games so I didn’t die of heart failure.

We got to watch some fun hockey in between our games. The Chicken Legs focused on the Goalie, “Is that what you do? Wow.”

During one of our games The Chicken Legs got to spend the game on the bench.

So we played really hard all weekend and our record at the end of Saturday our record was 1-0-2. Our first game ended as a 6-0 win, the second 0-0 tie and the last 2-2 tie. And with that record we squeaked into the final! If we had lost we would have been tied with another team for second and they would have won the place in the final in the tie-breaker. So we ended up playing the same team that we tied 2-2 Sunday morning.

Unfortunately, we lost the final 3-1 but…

We still got a medal!