Woohoo!! So many of you know that I play on multiple hockey teams, 4 to be exact. Anyways the playoffs for all of my teams are now done and over with and 3/4 of my teams were knocked out of my playoffs. One of my teams made it to the finals though. My team KO Squad played in the Langley Sportsplex Roller Hockey League and making it to the finals was an amazing feeling as this would be my first Championship Series in Roller Hockey. Anyways making it to the finals in our league meant that we would play against a team named the "Buffalo Bruins" in a 5 game series.
To start the series my team went up 2-0 by winning the first 2 games, they were both close games and I believe both went to OT. After that though we dropped the next 2 games against the Buffalo Bruins, game 3 was a close one and game 4 was a blowout of 7-1.
Now after all this it brings to me to say that on Monday night my team was entering game 5 and we were all quite disappointed in ourselves. I should also mention that we hate the team we were playing against so beating them was something we really wanted to accomplish. I have to say, game 5 was an amazing experience and was extremely grueling. My team took a couple of early penalties and wasn't playing as well as we expected. We got scored on early and before we knew it the game was 3-1 and we were kind of on our heels but we ended up getting a power play and guess who scored to make the game 3-2 and give my team some much needed life. Yes I was the one to score. I was so happy to score the goal mostly because my team really needed a boost of energy to get us going. Anyways after that my team started to have some more jump in their stride. We got another power play and then tided it up. After that there were 2 more goals on each side going back and forth. Being tied 5-5 one of my team mates buried a brilliant chance he had to make it 6-5 for us. We held the lead right up until the last minute until we took another penalty and went on the penalty kill. So we were playing 5 on 3 hockey as they had their goalie pulled and then with 3.6 seconds to go we took another penalty. The game was now 5 on 2!!!! I was out on the rink with another teammate and the faceoff was in our zone. Our only option was to win the draw to the boards and keep the puck away from their players. My team mate sacrificed his body and won the faceoff to the boards while I raced to it to ensure there was no shot for the other team.
The clock ran out and we were champions!!!! Oh my god what a feeling it was!! I couldn't control my emotions and I started hugging every team mate that I saw. Anyways after winning the game a league rep brought out our trophy. Actually it wasn't a trophy that they brought out, it was a belt. For the Championship teams in the league they decided to give out Championship belts that the teams would keep, that and mugs for each player. I was excited about the win and I'm still overjoyed right now just thinking about Monday night.
I'll post some pictures later when I've got some more time.
Sorry about the long post. Lol
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