First game was was with the team I was supposed to be playing on for the year. The other team with a lot of guys I have played with. It was nice to compare my skating against theirs, lol.
Second game was two team from the novice level. Ugly, ugly hockey. Took a hard spill when I was transitioning from forwards to backwards leading a breakaway into the attacking zone. Full out body slam on my back and bounced the back of my head too. The helmet did it’s job
The scrimmage was a team made up of the normal Wednesday night guys versus a team for an upcoming tournament. Score was 10-3. We kicked their asses, lol.
I made several good passes, caught passes and tied up a defenseman and screened the goalie for a goal.
Knees where sore but ok. Refereeed two games back in my old league. Tossed a player out of the game because he decided he had to go to using f-bombs at me when I stopped play because it looked like the goalie had covered the puck. Started with 2 minutes in the box for unsportmanlike and escalated to a 5 and a 10 when he threatened me from the penalty box.
Seriously, it’s a fucking beer league game. And not a very good beer league.
Short benches, lot’s of skating. One good redirection on the net, Got to spend 10 minutes taking to one of the retired NHL players in town, that was cool.