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Saturday, September 17, 2005

Skate Or Die!


(The Stir-Fried Weasels logo - A weasel in a wok.)

Tonight's the night. In a little over twelve hours, I will be a hockey player again. Our first practice/scrimmage is scheduled for 7:15pm, as a precursor to the 30-game Fall season. Actually, it's the same team (more or less - guys I went to high school with), but we're skating under a new name: The X-Men. Our new jerseys aren't ready yet (which is why we'll be the Weasels tonight), but they are supposed to be wicked cool!

A lot of things have changed since I last laced them up; a new rink, a new team, and a new name, so I wanted to change my number as well. Out is the familiar #24. In is the #21 (in honor of the Flyers' new addition, Peter Forsberg). I'll never skate or score like him - and, hell, my first regular hockey number was #99, and I didn't resemble Gretzky in the least - but what the hell, I'm having fun!

Now, if I can only make it through this scrimmage unhurt . . .

7 comments:

  1. "You're going to poke your eye out!"

    What position do you play?

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  2. Right wing. Despite what some liberals may think, my e-mail consists of my ice hockey position and my (former) number - rightwing24 - it has nothing to do with my political views.

    No chance of poking my eye out, I wear a half-shield. Maybe I'll lose some teeth, but chicks dig that sort of thing!

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  3. Somebody lied to you about chicks and the missing teeth thing:) Cause if that were true we'd just all move to Arkansas.

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  4. Carve up that ice brah...
    then use the shavings to ice down dem feets after the game!

    Ya got me missin swingin tha sticks! (and the gloves)
    *grin*

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  5. I've always been partial to goons. Just to tick off my office mates, I had an Iafrate Wall of goons!

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  6. I got lost right after you said you were going to be a "hockey" player. Is that the game were players compete at tables with guys in suits?

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  7. SK - Wow, that's a really good point.

    Peak - It was great. I'll post about it a lil later.

    GunnNutt - Iafrate Wall of Goons . . . NICE!

    Doc - It's a yankee thing, you wouldn't understand!

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