The 2005-2006 Prowler Boys Hockey Team
Sunday, February 05, 2006
Saturday, February 04, 2006
A Blowout & A Nailbiter In One Week...
As we are midway into the first week of February, hockey season is rapidly coming to a close with juat another home game, possibly two, left until it's over for the 2005-2006 Prowlers. We attended last Tuesday night's game against Red Lake Falls and it was almost a shutout, but Red Lake Falls managed a couple of goals to make it a more respectable score of 7-2. The boys attended skate lessons a couple more days this past week on Tuesday and Thursday. Danny was all over the ice again and Aaron was again wishing he could just skate out there like a miniature Eric Heiden or Scott Hamilton (wait a sec...maybe not a "miniature" Scott Hamilton) without having to go through the grueling process of walking along the wall holding on for dear life. I rewarded them, though, with another hockey game immediately after Thursday night's practice, this time against the Crookston Pirates. It was another great game with Coach Scott Bergland saying the Prowler boys, especially Michael Forney, Robby Phillip, and others "putting on a clinic, unfortunately at Crookston's expense." Coming into tonight's game, the Prowlers were undefeated in Section 8a play in Northwestern Minnesota. Tonight would be the closest matchup in many games with the Prowlers taking on the Lake of the Woods "Bears." It was a real back and forth cat/bear fight with the first blood drawn by the Bears at the end of the first period and the Prowlers coming back quickly in the beginning of the second period to tie it at 1-1. The Prowlers then let a puck in and found themselves clawing back to make it 2-2, then pulled ahead with a quick scoring run of two goals to make it 4-2, but Lake of the Woods was not to be denied, suddenly coming back from a lackluster few minutes of play to score two goals and tie it at 4-4 as time ran out in regulation.
They went into overtime at The Ralph and within a couple of minutes or so, the Prowlers sent the puck flying into the net and the entire Prowler bench cleared with the players crowding each other on the arena pressing the glass with the fans on the other side of the arena from us. Young fans, mostly from elementary and middle school, clamored up the side of the safety glass leading down the ramp from the Prowler box to the locker rooms so they could give the players high fives as they left the ice. I think it was the noisiest and most electrifying crowd all season as they barely escaped with their perfect Section 8a record.
Aaron got to visit with the Prowler players this past week at school during "Prowler Pride," the regular event for third graders where the high school teams come in and talk to the students. He heard from Michael Forney that he has been chosen as the only non-team player from Ann Arbor, Michigan to play on the team traveling to Russia this year, so that was pretty cool. Speaking of Michael, the Prowler goalie said his favorite opponent is "practicing against Michael Forney."
Andrew is enjoying his first week of work at K-Mart, keeping rather busy between that, Domino's, and his classes at Northland. He mentioned wanting to pool some money with me on the Superbowl tomorrow as we both think the Hawks have a great chance of winning even coming in as the underdogs by 4 to 4.5. We're looking forward to watching the game tomorrow and hoping it maybe warms up a few degrees in the meantime (it was 2.5 degres below zero when we returned from the hockey game tonight). We got a lot more snow this week and we have a special path carved out of our front lawn between the neighbors on each side of us so the mailman, Kjel, doesn't have to trudge through the snowdrifts. He mentioned this block may be his favorite neighborhood to deliver in with how clear we've made our sidewalks and the little path we may christen "Kjel Drive..."
They went into overtime at The Ralph and within a couple of minutes or so, the Prowlers sent the puck flying into the net and the entire Prowler bench cleared with the players crowding each other on the arena pressing the glass with the fans on the other side of the arena from us. Young fans, mostly from elementary and middle school, clamored up the side of the safety glass leading down the ramp from the Prowler box to the locker rooms so they could give the players high fives as they left the ice. I think it was the noisiest and most electrifying crowd all season as they barely escaped with their perfect Section 8a record.
Aaron got to visit with the Prowler players this past week at school during "Prowler Pride," the regular event for third graders where the high school teams come in and talk to the students. He heard from Michael Forney that he has been chosen as the only non-team player from Ann Arbor, Michigan to play on the team traveling to Russia this year, so that was pretty cool. Speaking of Michael, the Prowler goalie said his favorite opponent is "practicing against Michael Forney."
Andrew is enjoying his first week of work at K-Mart, keeping rather busy between that, Domino's, and his classes at Northland. He mentioned wanting to pool some money with me on the Superbowl tomorrow as we both think the Hawks have a great chance of winning even coming in as the underdogs by 4 to 4.5. We're looking forward to watching the game tomorrow and hoping it maybe warms up a few degrees in the meantime (it was 2.5 degres below zero when we returned from the hockey game tonight). We got a lot more snow this week and we have a special path carved out of our front lawn between the neighbors on each side of us so the mailman, Kjel, doesn't have to trudge through the snowdrifts. He mentioned this block may be his favorite neighborhood to deliver in with how clear we've made our sidewalks and the little path we may christen "Kjel Drive..."
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