This is where the OSC Eisladies stand. (Yes, for anyone first hearing our team name, laugh it up, I still think it's pretty funny). Currently the Eisladies are in 1st place in the German league. We have 2 games remaining against teams we have beat 7-1 (Grefrath) and Ottobrun 10-0. This sounds like a pretty easy ride into the end of the season however, there is a little team called Planegg that is trying to get in our way to victory. Planegg has 3 games remaining and are also in a pretty good position. We have played Planegg twice, us beating them at home 4-2 and them beating us at their home 5-3 (with 1 second left, scored by a player who quit our team and joined their's just maybe a week earlier... but that is beside the point). So each of those loses, one for them and one for us puts us at a dead tie. Now comes the interesting part. We have to basically score as many goals as humanly possible against these next two teams we play. Which to be honest I really don't enjoy doing, it does not feel very nice to just destroy a team and truly be excited about the 14th goal scored when the other team has hardly touched the puck. But I have been informed over and over by teammates that this is normal here in Germany and that it isn't a mean thing to do. Still... anyhow it is the situation we are in and I believe that the other teams are also aware of it. We are currently up 10 goals on Planegg and they have one game in hand on us. It actually makes for a much more exciting season then had we beat Planegg that second game or had only lost by one goal, now every single game we plays matters and every shift and every goal so there is no time let off even for a second.
I hope to have a post-game update this Saturday with extremely good news, so if anyone reads this before Saturdays game please think/dream about goals for us.
March 21st and 22nd marks the end of the season over here for me. We have our German Pokal (German Cup) and that is for a different title the the German Championship that is won at the end of the regular season. However, we would like to take that title as well so the training continues.
Injury Report: #16 Kathrin Fring (My roommate) has partially torn one of the ligaments in her left foot and is out for ... 2 weeks. Injury went down in her Uni track and field class during their final practical exam when she was demonstrating her perfect Javelin technique when on the last step CRACK :-( So we are down a D, my D-partner (BOO)
#4 Haleigh Callison (Kathrin's roommate) has beautifully slightly thrown out her back. Being the smart HKin Graduate, 6 year Twist employee decided to train a group of the Womens German National Hockey Team and not warm up herself before doing so. Oddly enough, who knew? When you don't warm up and start demoing exercises it's not a really smart thing to do. Only missing 2 practices, she'll be back training tomorrow (friday) and more then ready to play saturday, expected to score a minimum of 2 goals. (also suffering from a cigarette burn to left upper to mid back/side from an unknown at Dante Saturday. Ironic that the person that probably hates smoking the most, gets burned with a cigarette...awesome)
**Other then that only one player is prego, 2 are back from maternity leave and I believe the rest are good to go** (Only in Women's hockey does this happen)
More on non-eisladies hockey hopefully to come soon. (Working on not waiting every 2 months to update blog).
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