Written by After waltzing into the winter wonderland called Jay Peak yesterday afternoon and evening, the 2010 Flames were ready to open the tournament this morning. The Flames played a very good team from Wilbraham / Twin Meadows, Massachusetts.
If you don’t know where that is, it’s between Springfield and Tree House beginnings. Either way, their team is very good. The WTM team skated to an 8-0 victory at the Ice Haus Indoor Arena. The Flames still have 3 more games this weekend and a team dinner as well.
Please feel free to enjoy some pictures from game one.
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- Last night the snow was falling and the scene was quite beautiful in a wintry way.
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- The scene outside the Ice Haus this morning.
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- The Flames on the ice in game one of the tournament.
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- Travis made somewhere around 200 saves in this game, but my abacus is out of date so that number might be low.
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- One of this weekend’s captains, Theodore.
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- Once in awhile one slips past.
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- Finley, aka “The Mighty Fin”, also a captain this weekend.
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- Butterfly and some D.
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- Standard face-off photo #173.
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- Close up of 9 year old face-off strategy.
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- I titled this photo “Reflections”. A little perspective of the Ice Haus Indoor Arena from ice level.
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- Theodore in pursuit of the puck.
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- My favorite two countries and the State of Vermont represented in flags. Vermont’s flag is pretty cool.
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- Ian in the offensive zone.
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- The Flames try to get something going on offense.
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- The Flames didn’t get much time in the offensive zone against WTM.
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- Close! But no goal.
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- Austin in the face-off circle.
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- The referees and the Flames get into formation to create a private changing room for Travis.
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- Because it takes a lot of people to find a puck in a goalie’s gear.
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- I love when a kid smiles for a picture in the heat of battle, oh ya, and some defense. (zoom in)
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- Because I want a good review of our knee hockey room and fireside snow gear drying station on Yelp, I added another picture of The Mighty Fin.
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- Baby it’s cold outside…It’s up to your knees out there.
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- Then the players absolutely killed it during the lurching, marching, and sliding portion of the program. It was special.
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- Long distance face-off photo as required by the rink.
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- Unfortunately, Coach Tim had the only assist for the Flames this morning, and it was a beauty!
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- Travis says, “I got it from here”.
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- This goal came when the rest of the Flames took a 30 second timeout without telling anyone else. 2010 Flames drop opener at Jay Peak.
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- Bringing back hockey cheer-leading in northern Vermont.
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- Playing defense and the old yo-yo puck trick.
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- Threading the needle with a pass between defenders.
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- Theodore loves his door sign. Thank you LK.
Oh, and yes, it’s still snowing up here (4 hours later).