Hockey is starting it's winter season & I'm working my way back on the ice as well as this blog. The Tips opened with a loss & two straight wins over Vancouver, including a great home opener last Saturday. I've yet to hit the ice for the winter, but it is coming up in a few weeks. So much to catch up on.
First off I'll start off with the bad news... The Monkeys is still in hiatus. Attempts to put them back together again was as successful as attempts on Humpty Dumpty. Actually I think the true statement would be that we didn't really try to put the Monkeys together again. We hit a rough spot where several players needed to move up & the rest of us needed to stay where we were or step down. Do we get better or do we just bring on more friends & stay where we are?? So we folded. There are a number of Monkeys that moved up ( including me... ) & a new team forming... The Seattle Donkey Show.
The Seattle Donkey Show... Where do I start?? Donkey Show?? What is it?? I would post a link, but I don't want anyone to see what might pop up. Lets just say it's usually something you see in Tijuana at a bar with a donkey & a woman. GROSS!! What does that have to do with hockey?? I don't know. They have a nice little logo of a beat up donkey that looks like a former monkey player ( I've joked to him about it ). I'm biased with my logo, just like Dan is biased with his. I think in that case, I drew my logo, even though someone else provided the blueprint. I do believe the donkey was a existing logo. But we do have a number of monkeys now getting used to saying donkeys. I did suit up for the donkeys in a tournament at the end of August & it was fun for 3 of the 5 games. I also had a pretty good tournament, a few goals & a few assists. The cool thing about it was that I got contacted by several teams asking me if I would be interested in playing for them. Wow... how nice was that?? I felt like a free agent. I had 2 teams I was really interested in joining & 1 that was my fall back. I spent a lot of time trying to figure out what to do... Then my phone rang. It was like someone was watching my struggle & decided to lend me a hand. Glow was on the other end & said... "The Black Katz need another player & I want you to play with us. You'd be skating with Brie, D.P. & me... " Do I need to think about it??? NO!!... YES!! I'll play with the Katz. I don't know if I ever posted my history with the Katz here, but the Katz was the first team to give me my opportunity to play hockey. I left the Katz to form the Monkeys. If I had the money I would played with both, but I didn't so I had to leave the Katz. I enjoyed my time there & left some good friends/players. Didn't have to think twice about joining them. I can't wait...
So now I've got my team for the winter & we have a lot of former Monkeys joining other teams. It'll be nice to play in the league against people you skated with, not against... I think it'll be great friendly battles, & who knows... The Monkeys might form up again in a couple of seasons when everyone reaches the same level. I'll post shortly on the other good news, because it deserves its own post... GO MONKEYS!!
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