Random Friday: My moment of glory

During Draft Weekend, a bunch of us got together for a tweetup thing. One of the planned activities was a floor hockey tournament in the deathly hot but really nice Fieldhouse of McGill University. I, of course, took up my post in a net way too big for my AAA Midget frame. On team "USA" was the ever notorious Eklund in nets, who was more proportional to the nets used and looked like a Flyers player, and came in full garb from the special padded shorts to an iPhone in case he would miss some super scoop or rumor. (Got a call from Jim Balsillie later). If I was dying in my regular barely protective gear, I could only imagine how many pants sizes he lost that day (e3).

In any case, the game was 4-all tied by the end, so we went to a shootout. The shootout itself ended in a 1-all tie (my brother got one lovely high shot that he surprised himself with), so I suggested we goalies got the chance to end it. I mean, have you ever seen Carey Price's wrist shot? With a paddle stick? He'd put most forwards to shame!

Eklund didn't use his paddle stick though. He took one of the regular sticks and hobbled his way towards me like a sneaky Scooby-doo villain. Shot the puck, and I gloved it (well, swatted it away with my glove... I can't actually catch those floor hockey balls with a glove with my baby hands). So it was up to me.

I dropped my glove and blocker and grabbed my trusty Sher-Wood. Eklund decided to try and scare me and lunged forward to poke check. Only he missed, and I nearly poked him in the head avoiding him. But he never got to the ball, and I slipped it past him, right into a yawning cage for the gold.

I made a gif of it!