My Hockey Players are Growing Up!

If you are friends with me on Facebook this is nothing new, but I thought I would post a couple photos of the 2011-12 hockey players in the family. This season has me traveling 16 of 21 weekends and I just finished my first non traveling weekend of the past 6 weeks. We still had 2 home games for Frudoch and a 'team' trip to the Columbus Blue Jackets game vs. the Anaheim Ducks. Both were hard fought wins and FREE tickets to the CBJ game (thanks to Anaheim player George Parros) where they actually WON! Yes for the CBJ its been a tough start to the season at 2-9-1. In any case this post is about my hockey players and I do have one this year playing for the CBJ. Poppy is playing on 2 girls travel teams and while she did play some travel last year its only Oct 31 and we've already had more travel for her this year compared to all of last year.Just last weekend we went to Windsor Canada for the Hocktoberfest tournament and our girls team did a great job in going 5-1 in the tournament with our only loss being in the championship game by a score of 3-2. In 6 games they gave up only 6 goals with 4 shutouts! Frudoch has returned to play for the Capitals again this season but has moved up to the Bantam AA team. We've hit several out of town games and have several more to come. As one of the couple "new" guys on the team he's still trying to assert his place on the team. So far he's scoring a point a game thru 15 games and is winning faceoffs at a 71% pace. Both are tops on the team despite a second line role. This weekend we have 7 games between the 2 kids with Poppy drawing 5 and Frudoch 2. Oh yeah I'll be out of town for a portion of the weekend and its for a race meeting. Its all part of being a hockey parent.