No Goals – 2010 Flames in SC

October 12, 2024 – No Goals – 2010 Flames in SC:

The 2010 Flames played two games on Saturday, the second day of the Palmetto State Fall Classic Tournament. In the two games, they allowed zero even strength goals. They also scored no goals, of any kind.

After playing in the final 14U game of Friday night the Flames played again on Saturday morning. Opening night and a rather late return to the hotel (20 minutes or so away) left many of us mildly tired and wondering what would happen the following morning.

The 2010 Flames arrived at the Carolina Ice Palace around 8:30 am for a 9:40 am game against the Florida Everblades. We already knew that the Flames had lost their first game, while Florida had beaten the Charleston team, 6-4 the night before.

I am still not sure how the following stat had happened because I wasn’t at the game. Somehow Florida had won, 6-4 despite being outshot, 31-11. They shot 6 for 11?!? Basketball teams can’t shoot that well most of the time.

Anyways, the 2010 Flames had to play the Florida Jr. Everblades on Saturday morning. Speaking of that, do you even know what an everblade is? Well, the wondrous, if not overrated internet gave a few answers to the question. Then again, the internet has answers for everything, even if they’re made up.

Everblade: AI told me that, There are multiple matches for Everblade, including a chef’s knife, a synthetic grass product, a hockey team, and a video game. Apparently it’s also a pretty amazing, pricey, heated wiper blade.

On a similar note, does anyone else remember that AI just used to be a nickname for Allen Iverson, among others. Some might argue that he was an earlier version of Artificial Intelligence. He was one tremendous ballplayer though. I think I liked those simpler days much better.

Anyway, the game started a few minutes late, and the Flames, well, they never really started. As a matter of fact, during even strength situations in this game, neither team scored.

During the second period of this game one of hockey’s unwritten rules was broken (momentarily) and a well-known hockey truth had forced itself into our midst. The feisty-ness of the hockey goalie parent is well-known and well documented. It’s a real condition.

Some might say this feisty-ness is more prevalent in hockey goalie Mom’s, but I have seen some hockey goalie Dad’s lose their marbles over the years. I mean, like lose their marbles to the point where it would be logical to assume they never even had any marbles to begin with.

There are 18 line-breaks in this section of the article so I inserted this picture half way through, like a commercial or something. I only took this picture to get a nice shot of the ‘yellow shed’ NearBnB that I rented for the weekend. The shed was advertised as having ‘very cool palace views’. Perception is critical. © 1inawesomewonder 2024.

For those unfamiliar with the term ‘lose your marbles’ it is traced back to that kid on the playground back in the day. You remember. Allen Iverson, I mean AI says, “Synonyms of “lose your marbles” include: Going crazy, Going mad, Taking leave of your senses, and Losing your reason.”

Reason, now that’s a great word, so we will probably dumb down the meaning to suit our needs going forward. For now though – Reason – ‘proper exercise of the mind’. I think a lot of people ‘lose their reason’ regarding their children in sports.

Either way, the scene that played out nearly led to a fracas in the most populated seating section of the Palace Rink on Saturday morning. The seating section from which this hockey goalie parent had migrated was completely empty except for this person. That is telling. It’s not impossible, but far less likely that a fracas will erupt from your actions when you are completely alone.

Fortunately, there was a loud (as necessary), young Grandma in the vicinity, and she righted the situation with one emphatically delivered line.

PSA: Don’t mess with your elders, or a full seating section, for that matter. Just remember, all the other players are coached and even encouraged by their hockey non-goalie parents to play until the whistle. Reason.

That’s right, you may have guessed that a 3-0 loss when the other team scores two power play goals and one shorthanded goal using tremendous speed in areas where Flames weren’t (yet) is less riveting than the threat of a fracas. Plus, fracas is usually used in a less than desirable light. But this time, it was the highlight, and a fracas didn’t even ensue. No goals.

Destani ripped a shot off of the crossbar that made a very distinct noise. It was the sound that let everyone know just how close the puck had come to going in the net. Yet, it taunted the wishful scorer and his fans.

Ouellette flipped a backhand shot that beat the goalie but the puck hit the post and laughed at our seating section.

The 2010 Flames had plenty of chances, and even some real good looks at shots. There were some wide open five-hole opportunities but most shots hit the goalie’s midsection/chest area. The Everblades goalie did also make several excellent saves. Throughout, I reminded myself that everything will be okay.

Game 11 of the season.

No Goals – 2010 Flames in SC:

Game 2: Palmetto State Fall Classic

Palace Rink (Carolina Ice Palace)

Scoring:

• 2010 Flames: 00 – 00 – 00  = 00
• Florida Jr. Everblades: 01 – 02 – 00 = 03

Shots:

• 2010 Flames: 08 – 15 – 12  = 35
• Florida Jr. Everblades: 05 – 10 – 11 = 26

Penalties:

1. Drumm – Trip.
2. Mooney – Roughing. (PPGA).
3. Mooney – Roughing.
4. St. Pierre – Trip. (PPGA).

In between games on Saturday, the Flames and their families had a few hours to kill. Like ten hours. There was talk in the Flames camp that a possible uprising was imminent if the team didn’t get together as a whole while in SC. Although, I do think everyone attended each of the four games. That, and I don’t hear that well.

Anyways, in our little community of new buildings being built in the woods around wetlands and swamps that are situated to please the folks that like being in the warm weather but still want to have a few dollars left, there was an option.

There was a large meeting area in the great outdoors, also known as, New Realm Brewing, within walking distance. I think everyone drove.

Our group did meet, and eat, and laugh, and celebrate the birthday of one of the founding partners of Ingalls and Rosenbeck. Not necessarily in that order. It was a really neat place to hang out, with plenty of room for everyone. As far as I could tell, everyone had a good time.

I was jokingly chastised for taking this picture, but really, it was my phone that did it. Orange juice for everyone! © 1inawesomewonder 2024.

The team gathering lasted for a few hours. It really was quite nice to have everyone together outside of the rink. Then the hockey family went their separate ways. Not like Journey’s, ‘Separate Ways’, but kind of.

A few hours later, the players had a ‘Captain run meeting’. I believe the meeting was planned by Captain Jack Sparrow, but I couldn’t confirm.

This too, is how I usually use a pool area.

Captain’s running a meeting. Players agreed to list things that they each needed to work on. Very mature-like. No one wrote “score goals”. Seating was arranged earlier by a punk rock group from the area, named Nine-Banded Armadillos. First rule of captains meetings: Don’t move your chair. (Photo by Once A Captain, Now A Coach, Inc.)

In a very different space on the hotel property, another meeting was well underway. This was a beautiful moment, a Master’s class really, as hockey goalie Mom’s and hockey non-goalie Mom’s came together, without incident. This was the final such meeting completing a 5-year course. Each Mom graduated and received an “Official Hockey Mom” Certificate. In fine print listed under their achievement, read, “Hockey Mom, I know where you parked. Don’t mess with my player. Go Flames!”

This meeting was sponsored by, ‘Mom’s Intuition ~ On the cutting edge of technology since before technology was even a word’. So, when the idea was raised that the Mom’s should also write down things that their player needed to work on, they did. They wrote it on the mental lists they keep, forever, and recall as needed, forever. Naturally, they shared the lists telepathically. Every single one of them wrote, “Score more goals.” (Photo by “The eyes in the back of all Mom’s heads”).

Game 12 of the season.

No Goals – 2010 Flames in SC:

Game 3: Palmetto State Fall Classic

Palace Rink (Carolina Ice Palace)

Scoring:

• 2010 Flames: 00 – 00 – 00  = 00
• Charleston Jr. Stingrays: 00 – 00 – 00 = 00

Shots:

• 2010 Flames: 09 – 17 – 12  = 38
• Charleston Jr. Stingrays: 05 – 06 – 02 = 13

Penalties:

1. St. Pierre – Elbowing.
2. Soucy – Slashing.
3. Warren – Cross-Check.
4. Powers – Trip. (Penalty shot awarded, and missed…by a lot).

The game was scheduled to start at 8:40 pm. It started at 9:00 pm, making it the last game of the 14U schedule for the second straight night. Only this time, the Flames were playing at 7:10am the next morning.

Obviously, when one team out-shoots the other team by a nearly 3-to-1 margin, the team did many things right. Clearly, the Flames held the upper hand. They just couldn’t cash in on any of their many chances.

Here are some quotes from our team chat during the game on Saturday night.

• “Five star save Rays Goalie”.
• “Somehow we’re scoreless after two periods”.
• “Penalty shot hit a minivan in the parking lot. No goal.”.
• “Flames cannot buy a goal”…”100% right”.
• “Flames 33 rings the post”.
• “I haven’t seen this many scoring chances turned away since I was in 8th grade”.
• “Final score. 0-0”.

I love our team. I love our kids. I love hockey. I love sports. I love watching our team of our kids playing hockey together for the sport of it. But watching this game was like watching the thrill of everyone on the 2010 Flames impossibly finding their unique needle in the haystack but immediately dropping the needle and tripping at the same time. Or something like that. No goals.

Or as my wife told me, “Once I was playing outfield in softball. In the grass I found a four-leafed clover. So I wished that the ball would come to me. Well, the ball did come to me. To play the ball, I dropped the four-leafed clover. Then I missed the ball too.”

Depending on who asks, I took this picture to prove I was at the game in SC, not on vacation at the beach. It’s a worker’s comp thing. OR, I was out walking the acreage around my luxury rental shed (lurking in the background) and taking pictures of the views. © 1inawesomewonder 2024.

Mooney’s Moonshots

So this is why I call these Mooney’s Moonshots. Well, the name Mooney, that already gets us headed in the right direction. Then there is this. Moonshot. While ‘moonshot’ originally meant “long shot,” it’s increasingly being used to describe a monumental effort and a lofty goal—in other words, a “giant leap.” Moonshot is also used to describe a towering home run. And home run is a large gain, or popular success. So ya, I like Mooney’s Moonshots because it stands for all of that.

Thank you for the time you spend to take the pictures and go through them, load them, and then freely share them.

Here are some awesome pictures from the Flames games, No Goals – 2010 Flames in SC:

SC Game Two

SC Game Three

You can find more 2010 Flames material in these pieces, here. 2010 Manchester Flames.

It came as no surprise that my wife inherently knew that I wanted her to take this picture with my phone, on the way to the Saturday night game at the Carolina Ice Palace. © Wife of 1inawesomewonder 2024.

The current look at my ‘hockey office’. So many hours spent in this space, tracking numbers and capturing season after season. (C) 1inawesomewonder 2023.

The beginning of every article. (C) 1inawesomewonder 2017.

The thoughts and opinions expressed here are those of the individual contributors, mostly mine, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the schools, coaches, players, or characters listed in any of these blog posts. Or, maybe they do, but you would have to ask them directly.

Either way, “It’s a great day for hockey” ~ the late “Badger” Bob Johnson.