star player Evander Kane

The new baby! He is doing so well both with his attitude and his game! He has scored 9 goals and 6 assists! He's doing just amazing. Even though he's not the most chatty he's still doing well with his attitude. I'm so proud of this 18 year old Canadian and that's why I wanted to honor him. One day at practice a little boy goes up to kane and asks him for a picture, he ends up leaving with a picture and a stick. The funny thing is that the little boy's daddy kept telling him to call Kaner Mr. kane! It's weird for anyone under the age of 20 or so to be called Mr. anything!! Evander is a very cute- not chatty but cute kid. I tried to show him his prayer partner and all he said was "that's cool!" typical shy baby! I was interested in how people would react to having another teenager on the team and how would my baby react to not being the only baby on the team. People love Kaner!! And as for Bogi? He loves kaner too--he thinks Kaner is a "good kid". In fact all the boys love kaner. I watch the videos and I watch the boys at practice and they love this boy! I watched one video of a practice I was at, it was focusing on Moose the goalie. Moose blocked a few of Kaner's shots saying "He'll learn!!" Yeah he'll learn not to shoot on moose!! Then Kaner got a shot in and Moose was like "did it get in?" Kaner says yeas and moose was like "how did that happen?" It was cute!! I love my boys "the babies" are just a plus! I wish him nothing but the best and hopefully we can keep him as a thrasher! I love ya kid and good luck! Enjoy it and take everything in Kaner!!

Anthem for ministry

So I heard this song by Taylor Swift and I really liked it. I adopted as 1 of at least 2 anthems for my ministry. So here it is.

Change by taylor swift

and it's a sad picture, the final blow hits you

somebody else gets what you wanted again and

you know it's all the same, another time and place

repeating history and you're getting sick of it

but I believe in whatever you do

and I'll do anything to see it through

CHORUS:

Because these things will change

can you feel it now?

these walls that they put up to hold us back will fall down

this revolution, the time will come

for us to finally win

and we'll sing hallelujuah, we'll sing hallelujuah

so we've been outnumbered

raided and now cornered

it's hard to fight when the fight ain't fair

we're getting stronger now

find thing they never found

they might be bigger

but we're faster and never scared

you can walk away, say you don't need this

but there's something in your eyes

says we can beat this

(CHORUS)

Tonight we stand, get off our knees

fight for what we've worked for all these years

and the battle was long, it's the fight for our lives

but we'll stand champions tonight

it was the night things changed

can you see it now?

These walls that they put up to hold us back have fell down

it's a revolution, throw your hands up

cause we never gave in

and we sang hallelujuah, we sang hallelujuah

hallelujuah

3rd star player- Matt Siddall

I love Matty! He's so sweet! I decided to honor him partially because of what he did last year and some of what he did in preseason this season. Last season he scored his first hat trick. Before that it had been a while before any Gladiator had a hat trick!! It was awesome I was there with my friend Lindsey. I was giggling worse than shool girl! Everyone threw their hats into the rink after the third goal it was the 1st time I saw this happen!! Then in preseason sweet ole Matty got the chance to show his stuff at not one but 2 training camps one for the NHL's thrashers and the other for the AHL's Chicago Wolves! Matty came back to his hockey home just in time to be prayed for by me at practice! He is such a good guy. I met him once in Decemember and he was so sweet then at the game on MLK day I met him again. What impressed me about him was the fact that he remembered me! Myles was so funy when Matt said he remember me he looked at Matt and said "no you don't!" Matty just laughed and said that he did. He is just so sincere and sweet. His talent and his personality makes him so likeable!! I have never heard anyone say anything bad about Matty. There's really not much I can say about Matty that I haven't already said in this or any other blog. He is so amazing and low key! Good luck matty, hope you get into the AHL or NHL!!

silly Schellers--being prayed for by brother Jay

For as long as I've love hockey and my boys have been my boys, the Gladiatorshave always had Brad Schell. Schellers is an absulutely sweet canadian who wants everyone to know everyone and to get along!! Maybe he should go over to the thrashers! Sorry boys but if you fight each other- you will get made fun of! But back to Schelly, this guy is friendly but a little insane!

This goofy guy was born August 5, 1984 in Scott, Saskatchewan, Canada. He was drafted in the 6th round of the 2002 NHL draft by the Thrashers. Schellers went on to play parts of 5 seasons with the Spokane Cheifs in the WHL (stats not found) but then played with the gladiators in 2004. Brad was the 2006-2007 MVP for the ECHL. He also appeared in the 2007 all-star game where he scored 1 goal. Since 2006 (including post season 2008 and pre season 2009) he has scored 43 goals and 157 assist. Looks like some's good at setting people up!

On a more personal note Schellers loves golf and movies, his favorite actor is Will Farrell and his favorite movie is Dumb and Dumber. Shelly's favoriteteam growing up was the maple leafs, favorite food is steak and seafood and his favorite band is metellica. Keep up the good work schellers!

2nd star player-- Ilya Kovalchuk

Although I'm not so fond of Ilya, he's still talented and he's our tem captian! The reason why I picked Ilya is because this year Ilya reached a milestone in his career--his 300th goal. Not being satisfied with that Ilya (Ya-ya) continues to build on that. Last season he was named captian. I have not gotten to speak with Ilya, he's one of our shy boys. He always seems to be off in his own little world only signing stuff for a few fans. Either he's shy or just stuck up!! When I decided to honor Ya-ya, I started to read blogs to include since I didn't have a lot of experinces with Ilya. The one thing I learned is that you should never let his even temper during practice fool you, Ilya has a nasty temper When provoked. I also learned that Ya-ya has 2 bronze medals from the world championships. Yes ladies he is married with 2 kids, a little boy (Philip) and a little girl (Karolina)! This guy a;so runs a charity called Kovy's kids!!

I will post more about him in his bio blog!!

Nicknames....for everything

The boys have nick names and so does everything else! The goalie is considered "between the pipes" when in goal, the pipes of course being the goal pipes. Girl fans also have nicknames, puck bunny and hockey chick. There is a difference between Puck bunnies and hockey chicks.
puck bunny- a girl there just to look at and persue the players in a romantic way
Hockey chick- a girl who yells at other fans, players, refs, and anyone else. They get into the game and if they end up dating a player that's ok, but that's not their goal
There's also a nickname for the prospects and younger players, they're both considered "babies". Alot of fans consider people of my generation and younger babies. Skates are called blades or wheels. Players are considered a sniper when they are sneaky or fly under the radar until they get into a fight or score a goal.
We also have nicknames for stuff and people the rest of the world has like womanizer. The thrasher has one womanizer--at least. One of his former team mates sold him out when I mentioned that I liked his style- and him in general.The womanizer is Boris Valabik. I love Boris!In Boris' defense a lot of players are womanizers at some point.
We also have instagaters (spelling??) who want to start crap, booser losers and so on!!

My Bouncing baby boy bogi-being prayed for by me

I know I post a lot about this kid but let's learn a little about him. Zach "bogi" Bogosian was our #1 draft pick last season but played with the in the OHL and with the chicago wolves for a while. He also went over to Russia to play for team USA in the world Championship. If you think that's HUGE it is but if you think he has a big ego- you'd be wrong. He's such a a goofy little boy still! Zach is so precious to me, he smiles and I just start to laugh. I actually got mistaken for his sister at practice at least once!! My little boy--my little prince bogi! Oh Lord if he knew I called him "prince bogi"..........we'd be in trouble!! The interesting and kinda big question is what does a young guy like bogi spend his 1st year hockey cash on....a tricked out esclade and a home gym-duh!! AAAh to be young and crazy!! Love it!!

Get ready to feel old and short people!! This 6 foot 2 200 pound baby was born July 15, 1990 (that's right 1990) in Massenna New york. While playing with cushing academy in 2005-2006 he scored one goal and 16 assists. I believe he played at cushing all 4 years in high school but I could find stats for only 1 year. Bogi was so good and so advance in his skills he had to play with the older kids. Then after cushing it was on to the OHL where he played for the peterbough petes for 2 years. In those 2 years he scored 18 goals and 79 assists. Then he split his time between the AHL and NHL (Chicago wolves and atlanta thrashers) in the 2008-2009 season. At the thrashers (NHL) he scored 9 goals and 10 assists. So far this season he has scored 8 goals and 3 assists. This baby is a beast! He always gets sent to the "sin pin" for fighing!! I am so happy to have this young man with our team!! Love ya Bogi I wish you nothing but success!! Oh and keep smiling baby!!

1st devotional, 7 deadly sins of brother/sister hood

1) The sins are:
a) Jealousy-to be resentful or bitter
*envyy-to feel discontent or resentment for what somone else has
b) betrayal-to be disloyal or unfaithful or to decieve
c) judgement- to come to quick conculsion of others or to judge others
d) manipulation-to use others to gain something
e)gossip- to spread lies or negative things about people
f)competition- the act of rivalry
g)resentment-to fell anger about
2) a-f can cause resentment
3) you can be forgiven
*ask your "Sister" or "brother" to forgive you
*ask God to forgive you
4) God does not want us to be seperated by these sins so the devil will try very hard to throw these sins in our way

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 the 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!!