Week 1: The Turtles vs. Blue

“That’s Using Your Noggin!” — the Ref
It took me a moment to realize what he meant, but this time, I didn’t deflect the puck with my helmet on purpose — it bounced off my cage, but I made the save!
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This was the very first game of the Summer Mixer, which actually took place on June 25. This was also the game in which I hurt my knee. Even though I did my off-ice stretches beforehand, our team didn’t have a chance to warm up at all before the first period, so I didn’t get to skate a little to raise my body temperature, I didn’t get to do any on-ice stretching (’til between periods), and I certainly didn’t get a chance to have my teammates warm me up by shooting pucks at me. I think I hurt myself in the first period, which I played rather clumsily, in my opinion, but I seemed to get my groove after that, even though we still lost 4 - 1. That’s about all I can remember, really.

First Period: I blocked a point blank shot with my stick, but it trickled in when I went to cover the puck. We ended the period tied 1 - 1.

Second Period: Someone shot the puck from my glove side-circle, and though I went to block it, I may have deflected it into the net. Nice. The third goal was on a breakaway by #15 (56), who’s really, really good and against whom I’ve played in the Spring Mixer. I went down too early (57), and she easily skated around me (58). I stretched out to try to block the puck (59), but she scored anyway (60).

Second period score was 1 - 3.

Third Period: One of the Blue players was camped in front of our crease, but unfortunately, our defense didn’t move her. I made the first save, but they scored their fourth goal on the rebound.

Final Score: The Turtles 1, Blue 4.

For stats abbreviation key, see below.

KEY
GP: (# of) games played
GA: goals against (shots I let in)
GAA: goals against average (GA divided by GP)
S: shots against (how many shots I faced)
Sv %: (S minus GA divided by S)
W: wins
L: losses
T: ties
W %: win percentage (W divided by GP)
SO: shutouts (when you don’t let in any goals at all the entire game–or like in the 3rd period when I didn’t let in any goals, that’s considered a shutout period, but don’t count in stats)