Schlidaver International Hockey: June 2021

Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Ode to the Cheese Ball

An acrostic celebrating the world's most perfect food

C - crunchy, post-game goodness
H - hand full of balls makes me happy
E - everything is better with cheese balls
E - enjoy them before they’re all gone
S - SO. DAMN. GOOD
E - expiration date? Nope

B - beers and cheese balls
A - absence really did make the heart grow fonder
L - licking the cheese residue off my fingers
L - last one, then I’ll drive home
S - Summer of Schlidavers staple

Welcome to the Hockey Blog!

Team, friends, opponents, and random wanderers of the digital landscape... Welcome.

In these humble pages do I offer the game stories, mundane facts, stats, and proud tales of our Beer League Hockey teams the Cadavers and the Schlitz.

Can you say something is just a hobby if you do it once (or twice) a week for as long as you can remember? I don't know, but I love to play hockey. We've been playing with one incarnation of this team or another for ten years plus now. We play even if the games are late at night, or on a weeknight (they are usually both), and the kids haven't been sleeping great, and you have to be to work early tomorrow morning. We still go play. Its just what we do to play our game.

Our hobby... or what we do every week, sometimes(mostly) late at night in far away places. Then we like to have a cold beverage and talk about it in the parking lot afterward. Because that's a big part of it to... as you will see.

I got to thinking a while back that we should keep stats. You know, some way to give a story line to the season. So many of them had flown by, it was hard to remember all the things that had happened to the team or teams over the years.

Keeping track of the stats and email conversation threads that went on and on told our story in a new way. Which was cool.
Then I discovered blogger.

The Blog is a perfect forum, in my opinion, to tell our story, and the perfect companion "hobby" to my weekly sport hobby. Each week we get a game story and maybe some fun stories about the game. It works great now with the two teams because everyone wants to know how the other squad did.

So this is the story of our teams and our friends. I hope you find pleasure in the telling of our tales. A good game, a hard skate and usually a cold beer afterward. There are few greater things one can do with their time. At least that's what we think.

Please feel free to comment, whomever you are. The more the merrier I say as long as you are polite... or very funny. Visitors, friends, and opponents thoughts are always welcome. I invite you to share what you have to say. Everyone.

Thanks for reading.
Enjoy.

"The Blogger"

Using the Blog...

Just a word or two for those that may not be blogger-savvy. Click on the title of any post to see it at the top of the page and with all of the comments showing in the post.
Sometimes I'll send the link to just a particular post so this is the case when you click-through. If you want to see the current blog, meaning all the posts, with the most recent on top, click on the Schlidaveurs Title.
Speaking of comments...there aren't any unless you add them. Please add a comment. Anytime you read. Anyone can do it. Anonymously if you like. Just add whatever you think to the story or to the topic at hand. Please add anything, you don't have to join anything or send/receive any email.

Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Ode to the Cheese Ball

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