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Thursday, March 24, 2011

8-2 loss

The sabres won against my boys recently but look at this picture, it looks like bogie is about to cry!!

Friday, February 18, 2011

No I didn't move but my boys did. Yep, my thrashers went from 8th to 9th place which means they're out of the playoffs ....for now! If I know my boys and coach they're not going to go down with a fight. So we need a win or 3. We're so in need of one that it's not even funny Come on Boys let's win and go to the stanley Cup!

Saturday, August 7, 2010

More news thrashers style

Sunday, April 18, 2010

The problem with last games and practices

The problem? After that that's it- no more weither or not you're in playoffs. Last games are hard on coaches, players, staff and fans. I went to the last game for the Gladiators on April 3rd. It was kinda sad because this was the 1st time in the 7 year history of the team that there would be no playoffs. It was time for goodbye. I went with my friend Kelsey-who is awesome by the way- and on the way we kept talking about how sad it was that this was the end. What made it easier was I knew coach wouldn't get rid of everyone, he might but it was unlikely. The boys were playing the stringrays for at least the 2nd time that weekend. It didn't feel like the last game, it just felt like a game. I was happy to see Krystal since wasn't at the last game I went to so I went over to say hey-I absulutley love her, she's awesome. I told her since I had gotten to be friends with forney and a couple of the other guys that I may cry and she told me that if I cry she's cry too. I was good during the game- I didn't cry. It was an aweful game though, my boys didn't try. They had somewhere around 10 shots on goal where as the stringrays has about 40. David Brown, the goalie, was a rockstar letting only 3 in. There was some shoving matches but nothing too major. Chad Denny tried to insert hinself into the begining stages of a fight and ended up being the only one drawing a penalty for it. Now I love Chad and I love his rough style but why would you butt in on the begining of a fight? Sadly it ended being 3-0. That's right my boys got shut out in THEIR house, on THEIR last night. Over the season someone told me because I had prayed over them that the boys were now my brothers. So "my brothers" came and saluted the fans and the booster club president. It was then that I realized I had seen them for the last time. We stayed for the end of the season slide show thing and some of the jersey of their backs auction but it was time to go eat @ the after party!! We had gotten there, found a place to sit and ordered when Phil and 3 other boys came in, it was only going to be 4 there that night, it was then that I decided to go deal with a little problem me and Phil had. So I went to say hey to the boys. I went over to Phil and patiently waited for him to get done talking but he looked at me and smiled, "hey what's up?" I smiled and said "Hey! I justed wanted to talk but it can wait til you are done." SO he finished up and we walked over to his table, "So what's up?" So I told him what I had to say and he just smiled and said that it was ok I didn't have to apologize it was ok! He smiled again and can I just say that I love his smile, I don't get to see it much but I love it- it's sweet and simple. So I went back to Kelsey and ate. I felt sooooooo bad because I kept leaving her. I loved it (besides feeling guilty for leaving Kelsey) because I got to talk to Kelsey and my boys, I also met Liz (sulli's wife) and just had fun. At some point I looked a Phil then said something about him to Kelsey and she laughed and said "Did you just say something about his butt?" I laughed and leaned over saying "Well since you're accusing me of looking I am now!!!!" I know I know I'm running a ministry but I'm human. I'm not proud of it but I checked him out. It was pretty funny and I know Phil won't be offended. At the end of the night I went to say good bye to the 4 boys and Liz. I went to Pat 1st and he hugged me. I about cried when he told me he MAY see me next season then I had the same situation with Jason. What is it with my boys wanting me to cry?? Then I went to Phil and he was the only one not to hug me or even really say goodbye. It was then Sulli's turn and he hugged me and told me that he'd see me at camp over the summer if I came to help out. So after I talked to Liz for a while we left. I got home at 1 and Kelsey and I sat and talked for a little bit. Finally at 2:30- 3:00 I was getting ready for bed and at 4 I was falling a sleep. Getting up for church was hateful. The wednesday after the game I went to see bogi practice for the las time. So practice went on as normal nothing too exciting. Bogi came off the ice and I told him I'd see him in september. Then Evander Kane and Ondrej Pavelec came out from putting their gear up to sign some autographs. I told Ondrej I wanted to be a goalie because of him and he seemed shocked (and kinda delighted) that I wanted to be a goalie but humbled that it was because of him that I made this desicision. He's a really amazing goalie. When Evander and Ondrej tried to get back in to the locker room they were locked out. I walked behind them to go to my car and I didn't feel like I had just said goodbye to them. The next day they had their last practice and I didn't go I had just got done with 1 house sitting job and was on my way to another. While unpacking my stuff from the 1st job I was unpacking the stuff that I wore to say goodbye and the stuff I had signed. It was kinda sad because it was like it was really real that all the in person stuff was over. I watched the last 2 thrasher games on TV. The 1st one they lost with Pavs in goal and the last one was a shut out (and a win) with Moose in goal. I guess I picked the wrong goalie to look up to. So it's all over and all I have to do is wait until I know who may be coming in for next season and write blogs.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Hockey Monday,Saturday, Friday, sunday and friday

Monday March 8 I planned on putting in applications then go to the gym and then to the game. Grandma had a bad feeling for me to go to the game by myself so I wasn't going to go until I found someone who was available last minute. Then mom called me telling me that she had some tickets from work. I had to call Grandma to say that I was going w/ mom and someone she knew from work. She was happy that I was going with someone. When we got to the game we walked around for a while which turned out to be a good thing because I saw mama Linda. Mama Linda is the team mom for the Gladiators and she is awesome. I guess I'm one of her adopted kids. When we got up to the suite warm ups were almost over so I went to the end of the suite to watch. As I stood there I felt important, like I was the owner or at least the owner's kid. The boys looked good, strong and confident. When the game started coach met their confidence. I get so worried for coach during games and I don't know why! It's like I'm his daughter or something. It started out good with the my boys scoring a goal. In the 1st and 2nd periods Michael Forney got a penalty one for hooking the other for interference. Also not to be out done or forgotten Tim Miller got a penalty in the 1st and 2nd, one for roughing and the other for fighting. It's no suprise that he got those penalities, he's a bad boy but I love it! Then the Cycolones answered back with a goal. Then in then in the second both teams scored twice. Not to be defeated Mr. fancy pants, Tom Zanoski, scored a goal. My boys won 4-3! That saturday I went with Grandma and Aunt Patty to see the Gladiators practice. Practice was almost over when we got there but we still got to see my boys. After practice I got some of the boys to sign a hat for a girl at church. After a few signed I found my way to Michael Forney. When I found him he had his mouth gaurd hanging out, typical Michael. When he saw me the mouth gaurd went in and he said "Hey Christina!!" Grandma and Aunt Patty turned to see who said hey to me as I answered him. We talked for a while then I called Grandma over to meet Michael. He was so cute when I called her over he was like "Yeah grandma come say hey to me." I smiled at him as he wiped off his hand to shake hers. Grandma kept asking him all these questions about their road trip and the bus. After each question he'd ask me a question or try to say something to me. It made me feel special that he cared enough about me and my work out to want to know more. After I talked to Michael I went to get Phil to sign the hat for the girl at church. The following friday I went to check out bogi and Chris "Cheli" Chelios. Bogi looked up to Cheli when he was younger. Cheli was so sweet with bogi, playing around with him and laughing. I gave Bogi an early birthday card at the end of practice. Sunday I went to church then to the game. It was awesome but it almost wasn't. They played the Devils for the second time that weekend and both teams scored in the 1st then the devils pulled ahead in the 2nd. I was so hopeful that my boys would win and sure enough in the 3rd my boys tied and pulled ahead of the devils! It was 4-2!! Dan "Sulli" Sullivan about jumped in his team mate's arms after the last 2 goals. We won!! YES!!! So the devils went down IN Georgia and started a fight on the ice after the game ended......sore losers!! The following friday I went again to see bogi and Cheli, this time Grandma went with me. My boys were playful that day. Slava Kozlov knocked Arty's stick out of his hand and skated away laughing only Arty wasn't laughing. Then Max hugged (yes hugged) one of his teammates while laughing. What the crap is happening with my boys? Then Bogi was chilling by the bench box with coach Rob when the rest of the boys came rushing by. Coach told Bogi to jump into the bench box he did but he messed up the landing and I was left looking at his stick and the top of his helmet. Grandma asks "he's ok right?" I started laugh harder then composed myslef long enough to say "yeah his egos just bruised." Yes Ladies and gentleman my beautiful baby boy fell in front of his hero and his fans. Then after I composed myself coach had them run another play but he stopped them to yell and curse at them. Then they seperated the defense men from everyone else. I asked Grandma if she wanted to go with me to the far end of the rink where bogi was and she said no, she recognized Max from the Olypmics so she stayed with him. I went to be with bogi . Toby enstrom and Johnny Oduya were there too. I love Toby he's so precious and sweet, quite but sweet. Toby looked me up and down while I was watching Bogi but I caught him and gave him the confused puppy look. He continued to look at me and then skated away. I watched them work on drills for d-men. I mainly watched bogi- he did good but he went to hit someone (full body) but spun last minute to avoid contact. After a few drils the boys came off leisurely and grandma got to see them close up.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

How dare you judge me

I know I'm not suppose to air out dirty laundry on here so I will only give out general inforamtion. I went through something with my Thrasher prayer partner and ended up feeling judged by another fan. I decided that I'd go to one last practice to make peace with Bogi and the situation until things simmer down and if they don't then oh well then I guessI was never meant to be a thrasher. With this situation in it's heat I found a partner in the ministry which is a God send. Mr. Gary (my partner) gave me an assignment for the week. I'm so excited about this partnership, Mr. Gary is a prayer partner to Jamie Fritsch the gladiator as well. When I didn't have Mr. Gary I never had stuff to do or ideas I was just going by the seat of my pants which got me in trouble. I love structure, I like having set stuff to do. When I was going by myself I hurt my thrasher for which I am very unbelieveably sorry. But if there is one thing I learned through my life and faith it's not to give up or give in, if you give up or give in the devil will win. If the devil wins the volchures will get you. In the midst of the crazy time I decided to switch my focus and give the thrasher part of the ministry to some one else at least for a little while. So Monday I ran to my original hockey home the Gwinnett Arena. As soon as it came into my sight I started to tear up, then when I got parked I just sighed and sat there for a second. Then I made the treck to get my ticket and waited outside where I found one of my friends so I'm redirectiong my focus for now and I'll blog more about my Gladiator day later! I'm so excited again---finally!!

Sunday, January 10, 2010

1st NHL game epic fail!!!!

I have to start off saying that I am really thankful to my aunt and uncle for taking me to the game. I also have to say that I love my boys even though right now I am not claiming them.

Life was so good when the boys were winning now they got into the very ugly trend of losing and giving up! I know it maybe a lost cause but I still love my boys and I'm hoping for them to get at least close to play offs. So saturday night I went to my 1st NHL game, I was super excited. I went to my gym and then went to my grandma's to eat and get ready. She said I was grinning the whole time I was there, too bad the grin stopped half way through the 1st period. My aunt and uncle were there around 5:30 to pick me up. We got through Atlanta pretty good until our exit. Then when we got there Kaner and the boys were out on the ice finishing warm ups. I looked over and there's Alexander "Ovie" Ovechkin warming up. Alex is the meanest, ugliest, Stupidest and cockiest Russian player ever!! He is of course pictured in the 1st picture I posted (#8) along side him in the picture is my baby boy bogi. I really just don't like him. There is no rhyme or reason for me not to like ovie, I just don't. He's talented but I just don't like him. So the 1st period started as any 1st period starts. maddness soon came on as Moose lets one in and by the end of the 1st period the capitals had 3 we had 0! I was still kinda excited-they could come back. Then it was time for the 2nd period Moose got back in goal and I was praying that this would be one of those games that where moose shocked me and made me a moose believer!! It started to look up when one of my boys scored a goal! Then it went back down his as moose let another one by! But then the crowd went wild and I saw that Ondrej Pavelec was coming in! YAY! Pavs!! Who knew Yay Pavs would soon turn into "I'm mad at my boys!!" To pavs defense he probably would have done better had he played all game! So pavs came in and let 1 in in the second period. So it was only 5 to 1 so not bad they could get it close. Then in the 3rd my boys still were playing like crap but I took some pics so I could at least have something to show for it! 10 minutes into the 3rd period the caps did it again!! So we got disgusted and left. But as we left I looked at the ice and softly said "Bye bogi!!" When we finally got to the car and turned on the radio the Caps had scored 2 more times and it had ended! I was so mad!!! "Stupid boys! I get so excited and they let me down!!" My uncle was like "they didn't even show up!! but at least you got your feet wet with a bad game!!" I wish I would have waited but then again I wouldn't have seen what the big fuss was about Ovie was. I really didn't see it that not much so I have no clue why people like him......still!! So congrats ovie you're popular, cocky and stupid!! And congrats to my boys....you will feel the rath of tina!!

Monday, November 23, 2009

Playfulness runs a muck!!

Boys always act like big kids-always! I was sitting at practice one time and Bogi was doing a partner excerise. Bogi passed the puck to his partner, his partner scored and the goalie was left laying on his belly. Bogi's partner lifted his stick over his head and smacked the goalie on the butt as hard as humanly possible-ouch!!! I was laughing so hard, Bogi skates up and mouthes "you are sooo bad!!" I looked at him like "so??" He smiles-gaw!!!!- I love that boys smile! Another time at practice the boys were stretching and a puck goes sliding by, Slava Kozlov tries to grab it with his stick. You can see the picture--it was pretty funny! Also one time

in a fit of weirdness, Zach pulled and pushed Jimmy Slater around to adjust his stance then tried to play with Jimmy's hair. Then a few minutes later he grabbed one of the coaches by the sleeve and was pulling him around in circles. I was just like "what the crap bogi??" It's not even just on the ice it's off too! I was talking to Drew Paris, one of the Gladiators, when all of a sudden I hear Schelly say something in a weird voice. I just looked at him "What the heck Schellers??" He never did explain what he said. Life is insane with the boys, you never know what they are going to do or say next!!

If everybody jumped off a bridge.....

Friday I went to see the crazies we call the thrashers. I looked around and most of them had facial hair. "What the crap??" I just died laughing, even baby bogi (not pictured) had facial hair. Some of the boys, including good ole slava, were staying clean cut!! It's like one boy did it so everyone does it too!! Didn't their mama's ask them "if everyone else jummped off a bridge would you do it too??" With a few of them it looke like all of those old school hockey players. Of course baby Evander was clean cut--thank God or else I would feel REALLY old!! Goofyness and machoness isn't th

e only thing that runs a muck!! I do have to say in my boys defense, they look REALLY good with their scruff/facial hair!! My boys- with facial hair- love it!! Another thing I noticed not just friday but during a lot of other practices, my baby boy smiles a lot! I love that sweet smile!! Having said that it's time for another revelation, Bogi's made of steal!! He was on his hands and knees stretching, being cute then all of a sudden he plops himselfs over and there's a HUGE thud!!! "Oh Lord!! He's hurt!!" He wasn't moving, then he moves his leg and looks over at me and smiles!! I was about in tears!!! God to be young and made of steal!! You know when Bogi gets older he will not be able to do what he did on friday!! Enjoy it now bogi!!

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Nicknames- Mr. Lee would be proud

Not all nicknames were picked by me if they were there will be a mark by the nickname

Thrashers:
Colby Armstrong= Strong arm, Army, Colbster*
Eric Boulton=bolts, Boultsie
Ilya Kovalchuck= Ya-ya*, Kovy
Byan Little= Chicken Little*
Mark Popovic=Poppy*
Rich Peverly= Pevy
Jim Slater=Jimmy
Nik Antropov=Antro, Povy*
Chris Thornburn=Thor
Todd White=great White*
Zach Bogosian= Bogo, Bogi, Zacheal, Squiral*, Mr. Wicked brow*, Rocky*, Skittles*
Tobias Enstrom= Toby
Maxim Afinegov= Max, fin*
Pavel Kubina=Kuby*
Boris Valabik= Bo-Bo, Boo-Boo*
Johan Hedberg= Moose, Jo-Jo, Sponge bob Moose pants
Ondrej Pavelec=Pavy
Evander Kane=Citizen Kane
Vyacheslav Kozlov=V, Slava

Ones with out= Christoph Schurberb, Kari Lehranen, Anssi Samela, Ron Hainsey

Gladiator:
Adam Berti= Brillo Pad*
Chad Denny= denny train, Redneck*, Moose boy*
Josh Johnson= Johnie, JJ
Scott Marchessi= Cheesi, Cheese, Marchi
Scott Mifsud= Elemor Fud*, Sudsy*
Brad Schell= Schellers, Schelly
Matt Siddall= Sids, Woooo
Tom Zanoski= Zani*, Strawberri, Mr. fancy pants
Daniel Sullivan=Sullibear*, Killer*

Ones without: Aaron Brocklehurst, Matt Caruana, Michael Couch, Matt Francis, Jamie Fritsch, Pat Galivan, Brian Kaufman, Drew Paris, Sam Roberts, Chris Zarb, Michael Forney

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

The problem with Bolts and Army and fights explained

Wednesday I was up with my mom doing erands but in Duluth there was a problem brewing between Colby "army" Armstrong and Eric "bolts" Boulton at practice. I Only found out about it friday when I got my little tail up to practice.What happened was Army and Bolts got into a fight.When I heard about the fight I thought Something had happened to Bolts' family and someone said something at practice to push him over the edge. I later went to another blog (http://gettingpucksdeep.blogspot.com/2009_10_01_archive.html) and found out that Army tripped Bolts and obiviously said something to make Bolts drop glove. Then Bogi tried to stop it with a few of the other guys on the team. Things were pretty normal Friday you just didn't see Army and boults spend too much time together. OH the joys of working with and watching boys, you never know what you are going to get. I never been at a practice where there was a fight, only games. Sometimes it's scary. Just think about it this way, these boys have been playing with and against each other since pee wee and a lot of them went to college and minors to play, so something is bound to happen! So think about that the next time a hockey fight breaks out!!

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