I am just getting ready for my pre game meal right now for our 3rd game in 3 days as we will be heading back to Gap again to finish up the Trophée des Alpes. Since we chose to leave our equipment at the arena in Gap, we did not have a morning skate this morning and elected to play a game of soccer (football).
We played 9 on 9 with the teams divided into France vs. The World. With steady goaltending by Finland's Timo Seikkula, Team World cruised to a 5-1 victory. The Canadians were major contributors offensively, unfortunately for the fans, their low skill level in the sport did not serve justice to the beauty of the game. An example of this was clear when a determined F.-P. Guenette stormed down the field after a loose ball and with a nifty play, poked it through the legs of the French goaltender Gary Leveque. In a post game interview, Guenette said "I actually tried to put it over his head, but it just trickled through his legs."
Strong defending by the Hungarian Victor Szelig proved instrumental in Team World's transition game with his size 49 (14 shoe) eliminated many cross passes, allowing Captain Edo Terglav (Slovenia) to move the ball forward to the Canadian strikers.
The weak link in the French defense was surely their goaltending, or lack there of, as they rotated a total of 4 goaltenders throughout the 15 minute game. The shortest time spent protecting the goal was by Damien Raux, who fumbled the ball, before falling backwards, on an easy play early in the game, allowing Team World to take an early 1-0 lead. Damien later said "Je ne sais pas ce qui est arrivé, je suis descendu pour attraper la ball et finalement elle est tombée par terre, et moi avec."
Though we were separated this morning in the soccer game, we will be in full force tonight for our last game of the tournament where we will look to go 3-0 as we face the host Gap team.
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