More hockey news

I know, it seems like hockey news is all I ever talk about lately. What can I say? It's winter. We're in Canada. There's going to be hockey.

This past weekend, Lucas's team definitely fell back into their winning ways. As I mentioned before, they won their game on Saturday 3-1, avenging a loss to a team that beat them by the same score earlier in the year. Then, to top it off, they won their game on Sunday 9-0. Wow! Two kids had hat tricks and another one had two goals. On the defensive side of the game (which is what Lucas played), he only allowed one shot during his shifts. Pretty damn good!

Speaking of Lucas, we received an email from Lucas's coach (also named Lucas, amusingly enough) earlier in the week, providing us with some feedback about his play this season. I've included some of the highlights below:

"I wanted to let you both know what a great year Lucas has been having. First, and foremost, he is an excellent kid, teammate, extremely positive in the dressing room and on the bench. He has a great smile, and really loves his hockey!!

From a hockey perspective, he has been really developing into a great player on defence. He has been taking cues and positional guidance and applying them (and improving) every game. The coaches and his teammates have really been relying on him, and it's a big reason for a lot of our success lately."

He then went on to ask us if we wanted to play Lucas at forward anymore this season since he's been a defenseman since before Christmas. They would prefer him at defense since he is one of the best players back there. As it so happens, Lucas wants to play defense so it's not a problem. I've been telling him for a while now that scoring isn't all there is to hockey. If you're playing defense, it's just as important that you don't allow goals, and he's been pretty good at that this season, and he's learned to rate his performance on that rather than goals.

This weekend will be interesting since they are playing the top team in the league on Sunday. They are undefeated at 11-0, but last time they played, they just barely beat the Zombies 2-1 so we're hoping for another revenge win like this past weekend. Whatever happens, I'll be sure to let you know.

No pictures this time, but plenty in the next update!