Yes, We've Been Bad...

Okay, okay… yes we have gotten behind. Let’s face it though, after a stellar 2009-2010 season Leah and I had every intention to sit down and work out a schedule of what we would write for the 2010-2011 season.

Hmm where did that season go? Well I attempted on more than one occasion and failed. Actually there wasn’t much in an attempt, unless you count my single blog of the announcement that Derek Laxdal was leaving the Steelheads and was going to be replaced by Hardy Sauter.

To be really honest…. I don’t want to revisit last season. As much as I love hockey there were a lot of disappointments along the way in 2010-2011. Well maybe I shouldn’t say a lot of disappointments (d

isappointment may not be the right word); there was most defiantly a change to the game from I have seen in years past and a change in feeling.
So instead of looking to last season, let’s take an adventure to see what is ahead for the 2011-2012 season, right now the most we can look at is the schedule and simply wait to hear what players may be returning.

The 2011-2012 schedule was released a little over a week ago and it has taken that long for me to wrap my brain around some of the scheduling choices for the year. First of all, the National Conference lost the Victoria Salmon Kings but gained the Colorado Eagles. So no trips to Canada this next year but maybe a trip to Colorado wouldn’t be so bad.

The season opens up on October 14th this year in Utah before the players load up to the bus to head back to Boise for the only game in October at home. Don’t even ask… yes we will be traveling to Utah for the first game, loading up the car and driving back to be at Qwest Arena on October 15th.

My honest opinion of the schedule is that it is a little disjointed. We only see the Colorado in one set of home games and yet travel to see them twice. We once again do not see Ontario until after January. And our players will be spending a lot of time on a bus traveling between Stockton, Bakersfield and Ontario best example of this is playing in Bakersfield on October 28 traveling the highway north to face Stockton on October 29. However, our home ice schedule I am a fan of for the most part, as long as I can make it to December with very little hockey the second half of the season is chalked full of home ice games. And let’s face it what could be better than another New Year’s Eve game as well as a St. Patrick’s Day game.

Fun times lay ahead! And I will work harder at keeping up this season. The countdown has begun to that precious day that the puck hits the ice for the first time of the 2011-2012 year!

SO REMEMBER… HOCKEY IS LIFE AND THE REST IS JUST FILLER!!!!

Monica