Waiting for spring with my dog

We have had a lot of snow this year but I am waiting for spring with my dog, Sarah.

My hockey team The Wings are 5-0 and we haven't lost yet but I am not sure of the last game. Friday night, I went to the game and we were going to play the team that we almost lost to. In pregame warmups, I started to feel sick and I threw up while warming up with my team on the rink. My coach said that was ok and to just go home and feel better. He did ask if I wanted to sit on the bench and watch the game but my dad said he didn't want any kids to catch whatever I had. The next day I felt fine. I am going to be ready for the next game for sure.

My mom sent an email to the coach to see if we won. I hope we did.

Last night we saw the Whalers beat the Windsor Spitfires 6-2. They announced that one of my favorite Whalers, Tyler Brown got signed by the Philadelphia Flyers. We were all cheering.Then we cheered when they won the game.

Two cool things at the hockey game

Yesterday, we saw the Whalers play the Niagra Ice Dogs.

Two pretty cool things happened at the game.

I always wanted to see a shootout but never saw one before. I would tell my dad all the time that I want to see a shootout.

If the game is tied after overtime, there is a shootout where one player from each team gets to skate in on the goale and if you score and the other team doesn't score, then you win the game and they keep going until someone scores.

Yesterday, the game was tied 6-6 after overtime and there was a shootout. I was really excited. Alex kept saying, "You are finally going to see a shootout, Louis." We stood up the whole time during the shootout and this was ok because nobody was sitting behind us. The first four or five shooters from both teams did not score. When Tyler Brown came out, he skated in really fast and I thought he was going to score but he got stopped. Then a Niagra player scored and they won. It was still pretty exciting. When the Whaler goalie, Matt Mahalak was stopping the shots, all the people were cheering and it was real loud. I want to see more shootouts. The mascot, Shooter the killer whale was praying. He was funny.

The second cool thing was we were walking around between periods and got stuck for a little while because so many people were walking there. We looked up and Steve Yzerman was right across from us. My dad picked me up so I could see him better and I looked right at him. It was cool. I never saw him before. I have his hockey cards. One person was taking pictures.

The whole night was fun.

We just got back from my Atoms 4 hockey game and we won 7-2. Me and William are the full time defensemen and we like it. We stopped a lot plays and the other team only scored twice. The coach told us we all played well. We are 2-0.