Hockey season

This year I am looking forward to hockey season. It is the best time of year for us hockey players. It makes the school year go by much faster and helps us enjoy the winter seasons as a team. Each day of the week we skate as a team and every couple days we have an important game that will dictate how good we do in the future as a team. Every day we skate we improve as a team and we also bond together more and more every day. We do everything together and it never fails to bore us. The night before every game we have a team dinner and we all bond extremely well together at one of our houses. Game days are the best, we get to wear our nicest suits and we look classy and fresh, it's a riot. After school it's straight to the rink and all business. No joking around, no giggles and no talking about anything except hockey. We get to the rink an hour and a half before puck drop and we get in our "zones" we stretch and warm up for almost an hour then mentally prepare ourselves before the game. If we play during the winter season well enough we get to play in the state championship game at Compuware arena, home of the Plymouth Whalers.  That was the greatest experience of my life, last year. It is a long and challenging journey to make it to that game. First it starts with playing 16 games of playoffs and winning each one. Every game gets harder and harder to win. Last year, our hardest game was against Novi. They were ranked 2nd in the state and were expected to beat us. We came to the rink more serious then ever and were more then ready to play. The game was intense, Novi scored first and had the lead majority of the game. But in the 3rd period, one of our players scored to tie the game. That moment was so surreal and exciting. The game went into two overtimes and we scored late in the second to win the regional championship and go to Compuware. The celebrations that moment were unforgettable, being apart of such an elite team with amazing brothers as teammates. I will never forget playing high school hockey, it will be one of my most missed parts of high school and will always hold a spot in my heart.