let it snow!!!

as we were getting ready to depart for our game vs Australia...it started snowing in montreal....so we walked through the snow to catch the metro to our game...here we are outside the pool, getting ready to battle the aussies!!!!!

Winning streak is over!!!!!

36 games without losing...we didnt think about this winning streak or talk about this winning streak..but now that it is gone...we miss it...Today at the 4 nations tournament the Russian showed up with their A game and we started with our A game and ended with our B game...They handed our butts to us with a loss of 7-11 and ended the winning streak...But we thank the Russians...we will learn from that loss and move forward..
On a side note..it was very fitting that the Russians handed us our first loss in 36 games...they were the last team to beat us before we went on this streak..We walked away from the world cup last summer with a 4th place finish with a loss to the russians..That made us raise the bar and that fueled our wonderful year of 2007..now we are on our next little journey..so thanks russia..were back on track...

4 NATIONS TOURNAMENT

So, I was once promised never to come back to Canada during the winter months because it gets really cold and we usually have to catch the metro to practices and games...However, it seems that the promise was broken...We are back to montreal for a 4 nations tournament that consists of Canada, Australia, Russia and USA..
Tonight we opened up with the home country...
Villa 3, Golda 2, Steffens 1, Van Norman 1, Craig 1
2 for 5...6on5 1-1 penalty
2 for 7...5on6 1-1 penalty
the game started off pretty slow...at the end of the first quarter the score was 1-1.. You could definately tell that we have not played an official game since we qualified for the Olympics in july..I think our goal is to get better each quarter and each game.We definately picked up our play in the second half and went up by 2 goals..However, we let them back in the game with some miscommunication on defense and a lack of attack on offense..But we figured it out pretty quickly and went to work on offense...
the final score was 8-6 but at the begginng of the fourth quarter is was 7-4 at one point...Tomorrow we play Russia at 6:30pm est
wish us luck...

Team Tornado Top 40 Champs..

The injury curse at top 40 continues...there were a couple broken noses, a pulled groin and a plethora of black eyes...
However, the last team standing in the water was Team Tornado....Members of Team Tornado=== Van Norman, Steffen, Villa, Hipp, Davies, Stein, Nueshel, Moss and Krug..
Hipp was awarded Most valuable Goalkeeper..I was given most valuable player but passed it on to Steffens, she did it all for us this weekend, defended all the centers and scored some goals...
Here is an awesome picture taken in the first quarter of the final game..Hipp making one of her 8 saves to help us win the title..Team Tornado ended up beating team Camo 5to3....


Next thing on the agenda is HOLIDAY CUP being held at Belmont Dec 5-9...You wont have to freeze at Los Alamitos so no excuses come watch us in action..