2011 0107 Merry Christmas!

Washington All-Stars Players

Two weeks ago we, Taby played in a Christmas tournament in Arlanda near the airport in Arlanda. Along with Taby, Jarfalla and Nacka played in this tournament. Gustav Blom, Shane Sellar, and I play for Taby. Anton Schou plays for Jarfalla and Hugo Danielsson plays for Nacka. These were three of the six teams in the warmup tournament before Gothenberg. We won the first game 4-2 against Sodertalje although we did not play that well. The next two we lost in close games to Jarfalla and Nacka 5-3 and 2-1. This put us out of the tournament but it was only training matches. We moved on to the next day and still had two games left and wanted to win. We won the first 9-0 against Sollentuna and lost a very close game to the tournament champions Arlanda Wings 1-0. We hoped to play a lot better in Gothenberg. The next day my dad got to run our practices because the coaches were out of town. It was a different but fun practice. Then we headed to Arlanda to pick up my grandfather who stayed for a week. The next day I had four more games in Eskilstuna which is about an hour away with some 98's and the 2nd team. We won two games, tied one, and lost one to finish 2nd out of five teams in the tournament. I played pretty well even though the game was much slower. The next day we got up early to travel to Gothenberg for the New Year and the biggest tournament of the year and the biggest hockey tournament in the world.