Medicine Cup Charity Tourney

This past weekend was the Stollery Children's Hospital Medicine Cup (Charity) Hockey Tourneyment (more photos here). I graciously donated my skills as a hockey player to help raise money for sick kids. Oh yeah. Girls did this kind of stuff.

I'm pretty good at skating. I just can't turn right. Or skate backwards. Or stop. And my stick handling isn't very good (it didn't help that I played left-handed with a right-handed stick without even realizing it....). Combine this with the fact that I bought myself skates that were one size too small. This way I

I just can't turn right. Or skate backwards... Or stop...

still fit into Junior skates, and save like $150!! Woot!! Needless to say I played on the "Boys Who Can't Skate" team, and we were entered in the girls league. Sadly though (for the girls), we beat every single team. When it came to the semi-finals, we played the 2008 med girls again but ended up tossing the game -- because we were tired and didn't want to play the next day. Oh and because we suck. The score was actually 11-11 and we lost on the fourth shot in the shoot-out.

It was hugely fun though. I'm really looking forward to the next inter-med hockey tourneyment, this April. And the girls had better watch out, because I might even find a left-handed stick I can borrow...