Just happened to drop something in my lap, and the small jolt of pain reminded me of a minor injury I sustained in the last minute or so of our game last night. This injury was weird and inadvertent; I *was* skating harder at various players toward the end, but I was also trying to avoid serious injury if at all possible, since I want to go to Vancouver healthy.
Anyway, it happened on a faceoff just outside our defensive zone, at the spot where Lisa had just been helped off the ice after getting her bell rung by an idiot who couldn't skate under control. I think we were skating 4-on-4, because Kerry took the faceoff. He got control of the puck and then attempted to flip it between my legs to the middle of the ice. It hit my inner thigh, hard, in the spot where there's no padding at all—just a thin layer of stretchy material.
I yelped, and the guy I was facing off against started laughing. When I realized that he'd actually stood straight up to do it, I figured I didn't mind being the brunt of the joke if it gave Kerry an open lane... which it did. Who's laughing now, sucker?
Posted by Lori in Gang Green ~ Summer 2003 | May 21, 2003·04:43 PM
sorry about that shot "almost" between your legs. i lost the face-off pretty badly and somehow ended up getting the puck back(?) before the attempt. It seems to be a habit of mine. Ask Hoche ;) The crummy thing was had I not been basically loading up to punish that last guy while i had the puck, i'd have seen baldwin in the slot...ahh well.
Posted by: kerry at May 23, 2003 9:38 PM