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My favorite ice hockey team is the New York Rangers. If any Islanders fans are reading this, too bad you didn’t even make it into the qualifications. We (the Rangers) beat New Jersey Devils in the quarterfinals of the Western Conference 4-1 i believe (please correct me if I am wrong). So we were now in the semifinals which in we are currently losing 3-1. This is against Pittsburg Penguins (please correct my spelling). They are doing very well this season and beat Ottowa Senetors 4-3.

That was my latest ice hockey update. Thanks for reading.

When I wrote my Ice hockey tournament 2 I actually had another tournament just before I wrote it.

Well, this time we went to yet another place.  The sandstorms had two teams this time, a red one and one white. This city is much closer so we took a car there. an annoying 7 and a half hour car drive to the city [my school has forbidden (actually recomended, but still) anyone from saying the cities since that might affect our safty, even though some people might know where i am from and where i currently live, not the same place you know, it is strange living in another country I think but you get used to it after three, four years] (wow! that was a long parenthesis!). I had to sit next to my broter Pontus (he was playing his PSP, it was an interesting game i can tell you). In the front my mom, Anna, and my dad, Lars, who was the driver for most of the trip. In the very back Lisa, my smallest sister (she’s three I think and turning four in May), Isak, my other brother, and Elin my other sister. So you see, I am from a family of 7 and a dog and many fish.  Well back to the drive, the drive was long and boring as we were driving through a barren landscape with few trees and almost no cities. I watched two or three classical movies on the way there: Ocean’s 11 and Ocean’s 13; and slept on the way back. Well, after a few long hours we got to the hotel…

The hotel was beautiful, but after having been there about five to ten times before and to better hotels (like the Mi Casa, Kuala Lumpur) it didn’t seem so much.   We did get a bottom suite and a large garden though so it was nice. plus it was only a short walk to the pool, so you can guess where I spent my Friday. Me, Stefan, Julian, James, and Pontus spent all day at the kind-of-very-nice pool, they had a trampoline and a hot tub. the hot tub/jaccuci was extremly relaxing. If I ever go into pro hockey I want to be in a team with a jaccuci in the changing room.  Well, on Friday my brother, Isak, his team came either fourth or fifth.

On Saturday Me and Pontus played.As I may have said, I am a goalie (and I must say, ’tis a thankless job).  Well we had borrowed Evan again. The Sandstorms didn’t have their good goalie so the outcome was as expected, we killed them totally. Our first game against the host city we won about 21 to 2. I mean, I had to let them score, I mean come on 21 to 2!!! There wasn’t much they could do.  The second game was no more fun for me I got the first shot after 25 minutes!!! They scored one in that game I think (this was against the red Sandstorms), we won about 15 to one or something like that (Im not even sure that they scored even one goal). the third game was the most challenging by far, we lost 2 to 0… Just kidding! they scored 2 goals though but we scored 8-10 goals so…

In general I thought this was an easy tournament. That is all for now folks. Here is a picture of my favorite hockey goalie, Henrik Lundqvist.

I got this image here.

OK, first I just wanted  to say that i am sorry for not posting for a while (I actually have a quite good excuse; when i actually got started on a draft of a post my laptop crashed).  Oh well, this post is about my ice hockey tournament that i told of in my previous post. I thought I should write this now since I have another hockey tournament this Friday and Saturday. (OK, that was a long introduction) here is my post…

First of all we didn’t do as well this tournament… This is probably because Noah had to study for an exam and Kaleb had broken his collarbone whilst on a quad-bike. Well as in the previous tournament we borrowed some players from neighbouring cities. We borrowed: Chris (again), Markus (same nationality as me), Xander (refer to previous post), Evan (same as Xander).

In this tournament Drew (reffered to as Dean in the previous post I belive) was not playing for the Sandstorms. they still had some other good people like Barrette and Tylor. We played three games against them in a row.

In the first game we lost 3-2 in overtime after I had only gotten two or three shots on me, I can blame this on how early in the morning it was (11:45 but we had to start changing at 11 way too early for me).  The second game was almost a shutout for me (I let in one goal in the end of the second period). we won 3-1 after penalty shots. The first shot missed by a few centimeters. On the second one I messed up, I went down in butterfly too early and the guy got around me. I threw myself but left about half to 3/4 of a foot for him to score. He missed. The last game I played badly… We lost 2-1. That was the end of the tournament and we went home and waited for the next tournament to get our revenge.

I have an Ice hockey tournament coming up very soon, 1st of March, 2008. So, I decided to write about what happened at the last tournament.

Yay! Tomorrow I am going to a ice hockey tournament! We are going against some really good teams my brother, Pontus, and I. Last time we beat the host of this tournament 3-2 in Sudden Death after our goalie had done a spectacular job.
In the first period we scored, I passed to one of the players we had borrowed from a city close to us and he shot and scored, 1-0 to us. Seven minutes later, the other player we had borrowed got the puck at half line and was away like a bullet. BAM, 2-0 for us. A minute passed their star player gets past our defence and suddenly the score was 2-1. Fweeeeeeet, the whistle for the end of the first period sounded.
The other team had total control over the game in the second period, but they only scored one goal! Mu Ji, our goalie was a wall stopping everything that came his way. Their goalie though, he is the best in the area. My team-mate, and school friend, Julian, was skating with full speed towards the net. The goalie goes down, Julian shoots high and GOA… wait, what… how could he save that? The puck was going 1 ½ feet above his head. His arm snaps up in a millisecond. He made an impossible save, we were baffled. He saved the impossible, But then again he saved a shot from Jari Kurri, a retired, Finnish NHL player. A few minutes later the second period was over. (We only play two 20 minute periods).
Now for the overtime, this was very short, only about 3-4 minutes long. In the beginning the other team (I cannot say who for security reasons so I’ll call them by their other name), the Sandstorms, got the puck, we won it back and went up to shoot and the goalie saves it, bad luck Raiders. The Sandstorms got the puck, Quickly they got passed our defence and shot. At this time I thought, “NOOO, it is over!” But Mu Ji saved it. We were jumping with joy and screaming our head off, “Good job Mu Ji, Way to go!!!!!!!!!!” 30 seconds later Julian gets the puck, he passes to Noah, Noah passes back, the time on the scoreboard is 3:42, Julian shoots and… Dead silence, where is the puck? Noah looks in the net and he screams, ”GOAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Our entire team is on the ice screaming our heads off and skating around like crazy mad beasts.
Of coarse we were extremely blissful. But the Sandstorms, they were not happy, in fact, thy the complete opposite since they beat us in the first round 7-1 they were as angry as a bumblebee when its flower is taken from it. Some of the parents even said that we cheated!!! Well, back to the game, the MVP for the Sandstorms went to their goalie (needs citation), and our MVP went to Mu Ji, the one who obviously deserved it the most.
Well, I’ll tell you about this tournament after I come home. Well, I’m going to the Sandstorm tournament tomorrow, so bye.

P.S. here is a picture I found of Jari Kurri.

I found this picture here.

P.P.S. On this site it explains more about my favorite ice hockey goalie, why don’t you check out my earlier post about this.

This is a video of Henrik Lundqvist my favorite hockey goalie. He now plays for the New York Rangers.

I got this movie here.

P.S. Sorry for switching movies, it said that the other one was no longer available.