A new day, the same routine. Breakfast, Sportscentre, Shower. And no surprise, different weather for the 4th straight day. Today was a snowstorm with 5-7 cm already on the ground when I left the Boardwalk Executive Home at 8:30AM.
Today I was heading to the campus of Wilfrid Laurier for a tour. I met my guide Allan, a music student with a minor in business who took me in and out of buildings telling me all the stats of this university that is celebrating its centennial. I stopped at the bookstore to pick up a t-shirt for my son as a memory of my trip. All the memories I’ll take home are the ones in my head.
I had to run some errands before heading to the rink to watch practices and prep. Since we finish so late at night everything is closed, so I had to hit the bank now to get some money for my trip and I was low on gas.
Because of the snow, I wore my boots instead of my dress shoes to the rink today. After bringing in all my stuff and setting up, I went to change and noticed I didn’t have my shoes. I checked all my bags but to no avail. At least the boots are black and match my suit.
At the rink, I was working on the media row while our technical supervisor Bengt was in the press box above me working on videos. He needed to know how to spell Andrea Switalski’s name, the Marion Hillard Winner from Mt. Allson and instead of yelling out the window or walking down 10 stairs to ask me, he texted me. Is this what our society has come too?
I have to give props to Queen’s for their bright pink warm-up shirts, easily the best pregame outfit of the six teams at the tournament. However, Alberta gets the award for best pre-game activity with their tennis ball football. Their touchdown celebrations need some work though.
In game one of the night, the Queen’s Gaels continued their unbelievable extra time streak by downing Alberta 2-1 in a shoot-out. With the loss the Pandas fall to 0-2 and will play in the 5th place game on Sunday, the first time in recent memory that an Alberta team will not be playing for a medal. Queen’s now meets McGill with the winner going to the gold medal game. This Gaels team reminds me of our ’03-’04 Ottawa team that got on a hot streak and went all the way to the National final. These players feel like they can do no wrong.Spent most of game two setting up our remaining intermission interviews. We have some very interesting people from the women’s hockey world that you are not going to want to miss.
The Laurier Golden Hawks rebounded from a tough loss to St. Fx the night before to dominate Manitoba on route to a 4-0 win. This game was played in front of a slightly smaller crowd than the previous night but they were just as boisterous with many of them dressed in purple and gold. Manitoba Head Coach Jon Rempel used the word soft a lot in
his post game interview to describe his team’s play. I wonder if there will be any line-up changes coming for the game against X? Laurier now has to hope that Manitoba beats St Fx to force the complicated tiebreaker scenario.
I left Bengt to cut video by himself as I’m running out of hours to get stuff done before the end of the tournament and have to keep my energy up. I headed back to the Boardwalk Executive Home, remembering my key this time, to start working on some prep for Saturday. I opened the trunk to get something out and there were my dress shoes that I couldn’t find earlier. Duh! I was so exhausted I actually dozed off for a minute on the couch with my computer on my lap. That’s when I knew it was time to call it a day.
Until tomorrow.
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