Hockey, hockey, and more hockey

Lucas's hockey sortouts went well. While he wasn't one of the best kids on the ice, he was far from the worst, which is what we expected. On the first day of sortouts last year, he looked like he didn't want to be there and played horribly. He got sorted with kids that could barely skate in the second session, and that's when he started to play like he'd actually held a stick before. By the third session, he had played well enough to make a B team. Based on this year's performance, I expect he'll be playing with B-level kids in both the other sort out sessions.

On the topic of hockey, I wanted to post some pictures that I thought I had put up back when they happened, but when I checked the blog, I realized I hadn't. Back in April, Lucas's team the Coyotes got a chance to play on the Sens' home ice at Canadian Tire Centre. Just like the year before, the kids had a great time since they got to line up at the beginning of the game and hear their names announced over the sound system. It's a pretty cool experience. Anyway, here are lots of pictures of Lucas from that game.

Say what you want about Lucas, but he's a good sport. He's almost always first in line for his team when it comes to the after game tradition of shaking hands (or touching gloves, as the case may be).

After that game, most of the team stayed around to watch that night's Sens game. Between games, we had dinner at The Ledge, a restaurant on the top level of the arena that has a great view of the ice.

I think the kids might have had more fun clowning around in the booth than at their game.

My bad. This is where they had the most fun.

In more recent hockey news, this week we received a picture of Lucas that was taken at his hockey camp just before school started.

For those of you unfamiliar with the Sens, Mark Stone was arguably their best player during the second half of last season (Andrew Hammond being his competition for that title), and being a rookie, he's likely to have a very bright future. So this picture's pretty cool, even if Lucas doesn't give a damn about the Sens. :)