KC Scouts Friendly Game against the Saints - New Years Eve

KC Scouts 0 - Saints 1

It's New Years Eve! Can you believe it? While some of you are getting ready for a crazy night ringing in the new year, and others are planning a quiet night at home, we are plotting our hockey weekend! Alex is playing games all weekend long, and we wouldn't have it any other way! He will be playing both as a KC Scout (Friday and Saturday) and as a St. Joe Griffon on Sunday. So, get ready, there will be lots of pictures, lots of action and hopefully very little time spent in the penalty box!

Today, Alex played as a KC Scout! It was a GREAT game!

The KC Scout team is made up of players from 3 houses - St. Joe (Alex's team), The Outlaws and Pepsi Stars. It is an impressive team that has only played 1 other game together. This weekend, they are having a "friendly" tournament with the KC Saints. (This is Alex's former team). I'm not sure how friendly it will be, but it will be exciting!

We showed up at our old house - Line Creek - home of the Kansas City Saints. Alex played for this house for 2+ years before moving north to play for St. Joseph. It was kind of fun coming back to Line creek - getting to see faces we hadn't seen in a while and getting to see some of the boys that Alex had been playing with for the last couple of years. Once they got on the ice though, there was no memory of being former team mates - both teams were out to WIN!

Denny was nice enough to get me access to the Penalty Box to take pictures (seems fitting doesn't it...) so I was in the thick of it for the entire game. We only had 1 player in the box for the entire game! (But, I think I may have made the dad who was working the penalty box a little bit mad, because his son is who ended up in there. When he got out, I asked him if he usually spent time in the box (because lord knows my child does!) Needless to say the dad quickly responded "NO" and didn't speak to me the rest of the game. Note to self - don't ask that question tomorrow...

Even though I wasn't making friends or influencing people, I was getting some great shots of the boys playing their hearts out!

This was a great match up of skills - both teams had to work hard to control the puck and keep it on their opponents end of the ice, so the crowd was able to watch an exciting game all 3 periods.



Wyatt staring down his competition



The one thing the Saints team has in their favor is that their goalie is most likely the best in the city. Of around 100 shots on goal, he has only let about 6 in... this isn't good odds for our team...



That's what happens when you mess with a KC Scout!



Somebody is going to get the puck!

Alex even had time to pose for the camera...

Mom, stop taking pictures of me!

But most of the time, Alex was all business...

Here's how a hockey player really looks...

In the end, both teams did great - but the Saints did get 1 into the net. Hey, we will take 1 scored against us - this is an outstanding team. They just better be ready for us tomorrow!

That's all for now!

Happy New Years! And PLEASE... tonight of all nights - definitely stay out of the penalty box!