The Pacemaker is being installed soon

Well, I am pretty glad the real hockey season is coming to an end. I can't take the stress. It is so hard to sit in the stands and seeing the kids play and wanting to have a bug in their ear to tell them what to do. It doesn't help to yell because they don't hear you and if they do, it distracts them and they look up and lose focus. Friday night was a game against Burlington. Burlington's coaches seem to feel that standing on the bench and yelling instructions as loud as they can works for them. I guess it does because they won...but ... the Essex kids are not used to yelling and they kept looking over towards the Burlington coaches because it was so distracting and some kids had the same name as a Burlington kid. The score was 0-0 at the end of the 1st period, and I guess Burlington didn't like that because they began to get very aggressive and kept slashing and tripping and spending lots of time in the penalty box. They especially had it out for Ian, our big scorer. He kept getting the brunt of the beatings. Anyway, it was no fun seeing them outright slash and hit the kids. Oh well, that is the name of the game...they are allowed 5 penalties per kid...why not use them, right?