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Bogazici Patenaj: 3
Istanbul Buz Kartallari: 4
(2-1, 0-3, 1-0)

Please read my previous post if you haven't already, as this one will make more sense that way.

As I'm sitting here tired, hungry, sleepy, and icing my thumb, I have a smirk on my face from the game tonight. Not my best game, and there were no especially spectacular saves either. But the feeling of making the playoffs and getting sweet sweet revenge on my former club allows me to be this ...

This post was so long that the system wouldn't let me submit it without shortening the text. I felt I'd rather keep what I wrote and just post a Part II instead... enjoy!

continued from Part I

Meanwhile every practice I'm getting better and better. I'm watching games, studying books and DVDs and trying to add something new to my arsenal every week. Everyone constantly says how much I'm improving and I've even had one of the better players approach me after practice ...

Well, its been almost 3 months since my last post about my season. Things have been hectic at work but that's not the reason. After 3 games in as many weeks, we have had no games for three months now (!!!) thanks to our federation who feels that every other league (pro, ladies and youth) is more important than ours. Not only have we not been playing, our season of 8 games (home and away against 4 opponents) has been reduced to only 4. That means a whole season of practicing goes towards four ...

Altay Spor Kulubu: 4
Istanbul Buz Kartalları: 3
(1-1, 2-2, 1-0*)
* game forfeited with 11:07 left in the third period

I've decided to form a beer league here in Turkiye.

'Cause if we're not going to practice and we want to waste one day a week 'playing' hockey, I figure we might at least have some fun while doing it. We lost this game by forfeit, after playing all through the first two periods and almost midway through the final period. And we were the ...

Koc Universitesi: 1
Istanbul Buz Kartallari: 15
(0-8, 0-4, 1-3)

If I were to pick a sentence to describe this game, it would be "so close, yet so far away"...

This was meant to be our week one game, but it was postponed due to the WJC in Istanbul. This was a much weaker team compared to the one we played last week, and it actually would've served us better to play this game first and shake some of the rust off and then play last week's game. We could've ...