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[Tom Molloy]

Merry Christmas.

The Mac's Midget Tournament starts tomorrow and Finland has sent their U17 National Team. Kalle the coach of Finland and his two assistant coaches came over to my house yesterday to look at the outdoor rink two blocks away. They are going to bring the boy's to skate and play shinny outside since all of the arenas are closed and it is better than sitting around a hotel all day.

I just got up and am going with my next door neighbour to get the ice ready. It is 7:15 now and they are skating at 10. I will take a few pictures.

We took about 90 minutes to get the ice ready. Lots of players skated the day before so it was pretty rough. I drove the sweeper and we both threw the snow over the 9' frost fence at one end then Terry started to flood with the hose while I finished throwing the rest of the snow. We got it done about 30 minutes before the bus drove up with the team.

My 11 year old grand son Aidan came to play as well. We threw all of the sticks together and one of the players tossed them into 4 piles. Each pile was a team. Two teams went on the big pleasure skating rink and put two nets on it while the other two played on the hockey rink. We switched rinks after about 25 minutes.

It was great. Aidan, the coaches and I played as well. It is very different to play with people who think pass first. The rule was that goals had to come on one touch shots which had to be on the ice since no one had equipment and there was no goalies.

One minute video of the game on the pleasure rink.

https://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/videos/watch/christmas-shinny-finland-u17-team/

Attachments

• U17 Team Shinny.pdf (1 MB)

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