teamwork
teamwork, hockey, sports, family
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I play on a rec league inline hockey team here in the Colorado Springs area. I took about three years off before starting up again two seasons ago. When I quit, I was an above average silver league player, and an average gold league player. After three years off, it seems that my skills have diminished greatly, and everybody else has sped up....WAY UP! The bronze league is what silver used to be, and silver is faster than gold was...
So, after spending a season (six weeks) in bronze, my friend and I hitched a ride with some old teammates into 16 and older silver league... our team was getting blown out of the water nightly, 9-3, 14-3, and so on. We looked awful, the goals we did get were prayers, and I was beginning to wonder if I should drop back down to bronze. We were defeated, we hadn't won a game through 9 games. But something great happened at game 10, we scraped out a victory through hard fought sweat and teamwork. It was by no means a blowout, but it was a win, and we were happy with that.
Something really amazing happened at game 11 though, we blew out a team 11-2, and it wasn't even that close. Our fundamentals were down, we had good spacing on the floor, we had our sticks on the ground intercepting passes, our passing was crisp and clean, we controlled the puck, we had good shot selection, and our goalie was on fire. This team beat us earlier in the year 12-3, and even has a semi pro player skating for them...which we held him scoreless in our rematch.
We do not have any standout players, nobody who would be categorized as a game changer, and yet we saw a dramatic shift in our performance...how could this be? We were unselfish, we played fundamental hockey, we knew where each other would be, we weren't just a collection of guys on the floor, we have become a team, that was the difference.
Life is no different. We ... read entire entry
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on 9/10/2008
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