Last Game(s) of the Regular Season

We played our last game of the regular season against the Black Widows of Harrisburg at home on Saturday. Sadly we lost 4-3, which puts us in 4th place and the Widows in 1st... which means we'll be playing them again next Saturday as well. Honestly, I think we can take them. We just need to (a) not leave anyone alone on the back door, and (b) not hand them breakaways. We already did a good job of not responding to the whining, I thought.

Directly after our game, the Indy team played *their* last game of the season. They were a bit short, so a few of our players helped out. I didn't because I'd arranged for Al to drop the Beaner off after my game was finished; we were planning a Freeze-wide cookout after both games were over, and since it was a large time commitment for me, I wanted to make sure I shouldered my share of the childcare.

The Beaner actually watched the game with me fairly actively. I've learned that the secrets to keeping him interested for three whole periods are (1) bring at least two drinks (vanilla and chocolate soy milk this time) and lots of different snacks (dried apricots, pretzels, fruit gummis, tangelos, baby carrots); (2) bring the camera and shoot video (he likes to sing and/or commentate); (3) cover his ears when the end-of-period buzzer goes off; and (4) tell him which players are which, and then cheer actively. He'll join in.

Speaking of video, I got a couple fun clips, including this one:

...which ended with this:

jill in the penalty box

There are more photos from the game in the Philadelphia Freeze Pool on Flickr, and I'll be uploading videos to Vimeo over the next couple days. (One of Molly on O and Katrin on D is already posted.)

freeze on 3!

Posted by Lori in Freeze ~ Fall/Winter 2007 | March 10, 2008·02:27 PM

Comments

haha, I can't believe you actually got jill's penalty on video. it looks just as ridiculous as I remembered it being

Posted by: shelly at March 11, 2008 2:02 AM

Awesome penalty! At least she earned it. :)

Posted by: megan at March 11, 2008 1:16 PM

ha! it's great you are saying "uh oh" for two different reasons within a matter of seconds. awesome clip!! :)

Posted by: ghetto at March 17, 2008 8:30 PM