Game 35 - Halifax Raiders   vs Detroit Falcons  

My First Goal

I was fortunate to score a few goals this season. As a pass first kind of guy, I never would have expected to surpass the ten goal mark, but despite that, my most memorable of the regular season was definitely my first. And against who else but the Halifax Raiders? This was early on in the season of course, a far cry from our heated playoff series, and I can remember the goal like it was yesterday. Perry Morgan took an interference penalty against me, which obviously was no big deal, he doesn't really hit that hard anyway, so we were on the powerplay. We went right to work. I remember winning the faceoff cleanly against Kristers Dzelme in their zone, and oh man, they were chasing the puck around the zone like headless chickens, they couldn't come close. We were zipping it across the ice, it was around midway through the first but the ice felt fresh for some reason, I'm probably remembering that wrong, but we felt good in our set up, moving the D around. Eventually Skotts gets it over to Big Dicks who rips one just wide. I'm the first to react to it, I wheel back around to the slot, they didn't engage me for some reason and I wristed one just wide. Fuck, I was so close with that - I figured the chance was gone and the puck would ring around the boards but it crept up and hit the stanchion, it dropped right where it hit and I was first to get it behind the net. The keeper had no clue and was just off his post and I managed to tuck it in on the wrap-around. A bit of a lucky one, but they all count, and I potted 11 of them in the regular season.