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Goffstown Hockey 2021-2022: The Love Runs Out

by Steve Beal Sr.
March 26, 2022March 28, 2022

Perhaps, as we walk quickly away from another season that our sons and daughters played,

we should pause for perspective, all the focus on them, and for our enjoyment, the prices they paid.

We all entered these overlapping eras the same way, from the back door, before dawn on a late November morn,

but did you get through the months that followed unmarked by the passion? Love of the game reborn.

Was all of this just another drive-thru moment, capture a picture here and there, passing by, out and about?

Or did you find a place to dig in, a connection to all-time, to make it better before the love runs out?

Goffstown Hockey 2021-2022: The Love Runs Out

NH Hockey: D2 Hockey All-State Teams 2021

by Steve Beal Sr.
March 19, 2021March 19, 2021

2021 NH High School Hockey Division II All-State Teams Team Position First Last School 1st Forward Grady Chretien Goffstown 1st Forward Aaron Bono Somersworth – Coe-Brown 1st Forward Asa Forbes Dover 1st Defense Parker Fleury… NH Hockey: D2 Hockey All-State Teams 2021

Goffstown Hockey 2020-2021: Golden Slumbers

by Steve Beal Sr.
March 10, 2021August 18, 2022

Hopefully this hockey season will go down as the most peculiar season of all time, and as the only one of it’s kind. Despite all of the misinformation and uncertainty, it was a near miracle that there was a season at all. I would be a complete fraud if I didn’t also promote the idea of how incredibly uplifting it was to play games, to embrace competition, and to know that the kids were simply able to play. Easily the happiest of my leisure activities over the winter, was watching the kids play. Kids playing the sport they love, as they should.

Goffstown Hockey 2020-2021: Golden Slumbers

Tournament Hockey: Goffstown 2 vs. Oyster River 7

by Steve Beal Sr.
March 7, 2021March 7, 2021

Last night the Goffstown Grizzlies traveled out to Durham, NH to play the #1 ranked team in their region, the Oyster River Bobcats. They played ice hockey on a piece of property called Jackson Landing, a place that the Jackson family first owned as early as 1658. Back then they might have just played the game on the river.

Tournament Hockey: Goffstown 2 vs. Oyster River 7

Tournament Hockey: Goffstown 5 vs. Portsmouth-Newmarket 3

by Steve Beal Sr.
March 4, 2021March 4, 2021

When the calendar turns to March, and high school hockey is still being played, you know that it’s a whole new season. Outcomes are not quite as predictable. Grit and determination is up. Scouting is up. Most everyone is aware of both their opponent’s strengths and their weaknesses. Intensity is way up. Every shift, move, pass, shot, hustle, or not, is all scrutinized with a higher degree of viewership. This is playoff hockey, and all of these things were evident right from the opening face-off.

Tournament Hockey: Goffstown 5 vs. Portsmouth-Newmarket 3

Hockey: Goffstown 6 vs. Manchester Central-West 4 (Senior Night)

by Steve Beal Sr.
February 28, 2021February 28, 2021

After a season full of uncertainty, anxiety, and a literal, almost daily, lesson that in life there are no guarantees, the Goffstown Hockey team was able to have it’s senior night ceremony. The Grizzlies were the home team, oddly, on the home rink of their opponent, the Manchester Central-West Little Green Knights.

Hockey: Goffstown 6 vs. Manchester Central-West 4 (Senior Night)

Hockey: Goffstown 6 at Hollis-Brookline Derryfield 2

by Steve Beal Sr.
February 25, 2021February 26, 2021

The mild temperatures last night made it feel like spring in New Hampshire. It felt to me like some sort of a fresh start, or at least a welcome transition. Then, some of the air was let out of that feeling when I realized that earlier games at Conway Arena in Nashua were running well behind. Eventually the rematch between Goffstown and Hollis-Brookline Derryfield School would get underway more than an hour after the scheduled start time.

Hockey: Goffstown 6 at Hollis-Brookline Derryfield 2