For the people who aren’t aware, I am a hockey player since the age of 4 and this is my final year at a competitive level. The past few weeks have been crazy for me, I referee hockey out in Toronto and in my home town and on top of that, I play on two hockey teams (Ajax Knights Midget AE and the SR. Boys Saint-Charles Garnier team). I’ve played in Ajax for about 8 years now and I’d have to say that this year is by far the best year or my life. We started the season back in September thinking that our team wouldn’t be the best team and that we would finish in the middle of the pack. We soon realized that our team came together really fast and we had heart the coach hasn’t seen in years.
We started off the year with a tournament the second week of school and we went to the semi finals and lost in over time, but the tournament was a higher division then what we would play during the year. The remainder of the years tournaments we had great success with winning the very prestigious Silver Stick International tournament were teams would come from all over North America after qualifying in a Silver Stick Regional tournament. We also won two other tournaments that gave us a great boost and we filled up our trophy case at the arena.
When playoffs started, we were favored to win it from the start finishing the season with a record of 27 wins, 1 losses and 2 ties and 4 tournament championships. We swept the first two rounds to go to the Ontario Minor Hockey Association finals and we played Bradford for the championship. They were a hard working team, and they gave us a run for out money and ended up beating us in the 4th game ending out 47 game winning streak.
The 5th game was last night in our home arena and we were not about too lose two games in a row. We hit the ice flying, and we came out of the game with a win that made us the OMHA Champions with a final record of 62 wins, 4 losses, and 3 ties. I’ve played on the school hockey team for the past 4 years and this year is my last one. We had a rough start with not winning for 9 games straight, but after the New Year, we picked up our game. We made it into the B pool finals and won it as the underdogs. This year has to be the best year for me and it fits just right knowing it will most likely be my last year playing.
