Week 5: The Turtles vs. Purple

We remembered to bring the camera, but left the battery at home, so Brian took videos with his camera phone, which aren’t the best quality, and a few pictures with his phone, also. Normally pictures turn out well, but maybe he was too far away.

Anyhow, this was the second game in a week that I played since hurting my knee. It was versus the Purple team, whom I played against that Monday, except this time I wasn’t subbing for the Blue team but playing with my own team: the Turtles. I don’t know how I got my groove back; I think it happened in the third period of the last game, but as soon as I hit the ice this time around, I was totally on.

We were short a bunch of skaters and only had two subs, so my teammates told me to cover the puck as much as I could to give the team a break, a chance to switch players while getting ready for a face-off. The video shows me covering the puck, but playing it, then covering it again shortly afterwards and keeping my glove on it so the ref blew the whistle. The rest of the videos may only interest the people in them, if they’ve never seen themselves play. Not a whole lot happens, and there are two in which I let the puck in — but it’s good to know what sort of mistakes I’m making, or if the goals just weren’t my fault. Anyway, we won!!!!!

First Period: A high shot, deflected in by the offense in midair, right in front of the net.

First period score: The Turtles 1, Purple 1.

Second Period: Scored on a wraparound behind the net by #10 - Deb B. on Purple (though they wear black jerseys and she wears a white helmet). See Video #11.

Second period score: The Turtles 1, Purple 2.

Third Period: A slapshot by #04 - Allison G. that hit the crossbar and may not have actually gone in, but was counted as a goal. This was the period during which we put the pressure on and they pulled their goalie, though I don’t think we scored on an empty net. I think they pulled her to try and tie up the game.

Final Score: The Turtles 4, Purple 3.

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)