Carpentering for the Carpenter

Tonight was the night! With the NHL still in lockout there is no "Hockey Night in Canada." That's the TV presentation of NHL games every Satarday night during hockey season that's been going ever since we Canadians had television.

But tonight was a very special hockey night right here in little old Sexsmith. No, it had nothing to do with the world's laragest hockey tournament going on right now in Edmonton. But it had everything to do with the social and athletletic events of Peace River Bible Institute, the Collenge where we live and where I work. You see, tonight was one of two staff-student hockey games each year.

So I dug out my equipment and headed down to the local Arena. There I met up with several fellow staff and faculty members (and a few of their sons) to take on the "Dynamos," PRBI's "B" team. I was the oldest person the ice, being the only one in his fifties. There were three in their mid fourties. We played short shifts and that helped this aging (and somewhat out of shape) body quite a bit.

Early in the third period the score was tied at 3 apiece. Then the Dynamos got two quick goals and had a commanding lead. I was playing defence (always) and I was out of position, giving an opponent to make the goal from close range. However we fought back and got one and then another goal, tying the game at 5-5. Then with only one minute and fourty-five seconds to go, we got goal number 6! But the Dynamos did not give up either! they played hard, and there were several scrambles in front of our net, but we (and especially our goalie) managed to keep the puck out of our net.

The three most important things about this game were: 1) No one got hurt; 2) We had fun, and 3) We won!