In the beginning, there was the Sunday class

Yes, originally I wanted the Sunday class, because that is all there was. In the meantime, management decided that there were so many sign ups, a Tuesday class would catch all of the overflow. In fact, when I paid my money, I was told that I had to go to Tuesday and I protested, as any good mom with half custody would. What child wants to hang out watching their mom take a hockey class every Tuesday night? I figured that Sunday he would only have to go every other week.
Then I attended the first class and Sunday was a mob scene. Way too many people. The day after, I emailed and switched to Tuesday. I wasn't alone. Kenicake also switched. But we didn't know each other back then. So as the class progressed, we skated and Galen dislocated his shoulder and Jordan got an undisclosed injury and people dropped out and our coach moved to Atlanta and our new coach was unreliable and the third coach wasn't really given permission to coach our class, which left us with very uneven training. In fact, to this day, we don't know much about hockey. I know where to stand in a face off and what icing and off sides is. I have no idea what a penalty would be. Although I found out soon enough at the preseason game.
About 4 weeks before the end, Jeff, the Sunday coach took charge. He ran us through his drills and did not end up with a high opinion of us. His Sunday class had already formed a team of their top players and had signed up for the league. Jeff approached Tammy and I and told us that we had no business playing leagues and needed to repeat the class. Jeff is a loud talker, so I think the entire building heard. The guys were drinking beer at the time and noticed something was up. They told us to ignore him; that if we wanted to play, we were sticking together. In Jeff's Sunday class, only one girl is playing league. All the rest are repeating the class. Coincidence? I think not.
So, the one good thing that Jeff did do for us was to arrange for some random players, mostly from the championship Bronze team, to come and scrimmage with us the last 2 weeks of class. That is the best you are going to get out of me concerning him. It was fun actually getting to scrimmage together for the first time. Usually we only had each other and with our dwindling numbers, that meant barely enough to make 2 teams.
When we finished the class, there was supposed to be 2 Bronze leagues, but without a fourth team, we got absorbed into the Bronze league. Lo and behold, who was our first game against? None other than the Blue Thunder, the best and brightest of the Sunday class...