Raindrops Falling on my Head

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

We were hoping that a twelve o’clock show-up time would bring out the tribe in full force. Unfortunately, afternoon hockey simply couldn’t compete with the wrath of Zeus and the temptations of a dirty, dirty Festival of Mud.

The torrential rains were relentless and flooded most riverbanks within Seoul which closed the Olympic Expressway and some subway stations. A few brave souls attempted the trip across Seoul but quickly found that most passages were closed. Sands and Corey were both well on their way when they noticed cars pulling u-turns on the highway and heading back to whence they came. Aaron and Ryan both found similar faiths on their journeys to the rink. Steve, on the other hand, didn’t even bother stepping outside for fear of melting which gives him a grand total of zero appearances since the tourney; the same amount of appearances as Jason Webber, the Toque and every other Chief alumnus combined (that is, 0.00000 appearances). Mark, Lee and a few other Chiefs & Chiefettes spent the weekend getting dirty – hopefully someone will write us up a little blog on their weekends’ highlights. As for Big ‘D’ he spent his Sunday at Everland. Everland? Could you have picked a worse day to hit the rides?

Well, enough of all this and let’s get to the action. We played a game of four on four with two subs on each team. J’s son, Jin, held a goaltending clinic at one end and Terry ‘the Glove’ held the fort at the other. It was an exciting game filled with numerous highlights. Unfortunately for the dark team, the highlights were very one-sided. They smelt of white, tasted of white and, you guessed it, came only from the white team. Terry did his best to keep as many pucks from getting through but when the dark team decided to adapt the ‘our goalie is playing defense’ strategy then there wasn’t much he could do. Three on 0?...defense’s job. Back checking? I think it means check the other team’s backs to make sure their numbers haven’t peeled off.

A few high school kids joined the club on Sunday. They were pretty good and let anyone older than them gracefully skate around them. Thanks for not trying too hard boyz. Stephen ‘Tiger’ Hawkins enjoyed his most productive Chiefs game to date. He scored 4 goals in a row then developed a bit of a mean streak when he crushed one of the high school kids against the boards. He followed that with a trip and an innocent look. All in all it was a great game. We played downstairs which kept the temperature cool and the fog to a minimum.

Wednesday hockey is at 9:30pm. Anyone and everyone is welcome to show. Keep you sticks down and your heads up.

1^st Star: Stephen ‘Tiger Eye’ Hawkins.

2^nd Star: J’s son for not falling over while catching Zs in between Dark team pushes.

3^rd Star: Zeus for having the capability to flood and close an entire Expressway.

p.s. Chiefs would like to raise a toast to our newest member, Alex, who braved the rains and showed up for his first skate in years.