Last year 2010 started off in a disastrous fashion! We went to a wedding to see an old "friend" , i put friend in quotations because since then that girl has moved back to Toronto and has not had the...
When in Rome do as the Romans, when in England DRINK ! Seems like every time i come to England my liver cries.....wonder why? Is it from the loads of yummy Brit beer ? Is it from the lovely selection...
Unbelievable ! As i might have mentioned yesterday , arriving at Pearson we had booked our seats well over 3 weeks ago ....or at least i thought . When we arrived at the Air Canada desk there was absolute...
Woke up at 3:30 AM to get ready for this flight today to London Heathrow. It is only 6:30 AM and it has already been a hectic day . Usually i would not do much complaining about Air Canada but today...
Ok i like to push my limits sometimes. My flight for England leaves tomorrow morning and i have not even considered packing yet....also going to play some shinny this morning here . Which basically means...
Waking up early ( as usual ) today and hoping that Saint Nick brought me my Christmas gifts. Now you are probably wondering what would the Travelling Goalie want for Christmas? Well .... i asked to get...
Just getting ready to go play some shinny with Dave McCarthy out in Burlington ....yeah abit of a drive , that is not the problem . Dave organized this skate for his family and friends that were all egging...
Over here in Toronto our rec teams are not so big on training sessions " practise" but in Europe pretty much every team has at least one practise a week . During the last couple weeks i must have sent...
Leaving for England in 1 week , not primarily for Ice Hockey . Of course i want to incorporate it in somehow , i wonder how my girlfriend puts up with me sometimes LOL? My good friend from Sheffield (...
Big Dave McCarthy ! Joined us in the second wave of players and has just been getting better and better . Dave is our driving force, when i say that i mean this guy will plow his way to the net and good...
The hunt for ice time in England is just crazy ! I mean , i just found out there is no ice time available for 1 goalie to step onto the ice and get pucks shot on me during the 8 day period i will be near...
Pretty sure that most if not all of us stayed up late on Saturday night . We regularly have Saturday night games but this week we had our game on Sunday and in St. Catharines , not in Toronto . My head...
Kinda wishing the picture above was the team that is going to St. Catharines today....cut that in half . Already getting some of the late night/early morning text messages from a couple players, looks...
Our newest addition to the team is Eric Macedo . Eric was introduced to me by Iain , to sponsor our team . Eric is the owner of the Midpoint ( http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Midpoint/300817815682 )...
So i am still planning to go to Hawaii , but first i needed to get something dealt with .....England ! I have been to England probably around 10 times with my equipment 3 times and played there 0 times...
Toby is one of our newest skaters ! Just added to our roster at the beginning of this winter season ....Chip & Stro suggested Toby . He is a camera man that works for Muchmusic , and i wouldn't doubt...
It took me an awful LONG time to decide who i wanted to be the first Captain of the Ghetto Blasters. But along came Rosey Larose . Neil was amongst the second wave and i was really pleased to add him...
The Ghetto Blasters were still just playing exhibition games and we already had some casualties of war . Couple guys quit , couple guys cut and we needed more skaters so i made a facebook post ( or 20...
Andy was suggested to me , and from day 1 he made a big impact on our team .Andy Quan is our young gun , plays defense and dekes other teams players with ridiculous ease . He is the reason all...
Once i had my core guys ( at the time i thought ) i needed more skaters and began reaching out to people around the league that might know people interested . Either way someone or other referred Ron...
There were a few other guys that were on the team before Chip showed up ...yeah this guy pictured above does not exactly look like a guy that you would think is called Chip . Stro had some connections...
Greg Majster and myself met YEARS ago when i was like 15 , we played for the Warren Park Eagles together ....only problem was Greg went by the name of Greg Parsons. So you can tell the surprise on his...
Rob Trick is our elder statesman and has say over anybody else on the team due to this ! Just letting you all know .... Trick Daddy as seen above doing his rendition of Run D.M.C.'s It's Tricky is a comedian...
We call him Jack ! So Jack was pretty much the first guy that i called when i was left out in the cold by my former teams , the same thing recently had happened to Jack as well . When i called him...
