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Last night was the championship game of the 5th/6th grade indoor floor hockey league. The team I coach was in second place and we had three kids who have no previous hockey experience. We played the first place team who is made up seemingly a tight knit group of kids who all play on the same ice hockey team.
At the beginning of the season a draft is held with the intention of balancing each team with an equal number of experienced and inexperienced players. The kids wear numbers on their backs and run through some drills, and we coaches walk around the gym with clipboards "grading" the kids based on ability. It's truly a shitty feeling giving Connor a "C" for stick handling, but it's part of the process. Then the coaches go into a room, review each player, and then we have a draft. Like I said, my team had three kids who never played before, but they were all relatively athletic.
The first place team hadn't lost a game all season, and we went ahead early on with a 2-1 lead but just couldn't deal with their skill level. We ended up losing 6-2 and it is what it is. What feels crappy is how the coaches were able to get all of these kids on one team. I'm not sure how they did it, but they were miles ahead of all the other teams and it would've been so sweet to stick it to em last night, but it wasn't the case.
Floor hockey season is officially over, now we move on to spring travel soccer.