Kamryn served her first penalty as a bona fide hockey player on Saturday. Why is that happy you might ask. Well, first off, it was because it was so darn cute - she was so innocent and confused. Secondly, because she didn't do anything wrong.
At the adult level it was nasty and a little infuriating. The egos of men ... sigh. What happened was our coach called for a line change. He's really bad at timing these and the kids are really bad at executing them. So all of a sudden we've got 11 players on the ice. All of them moving in slow uncomprehending motion.
The ref says, "you have to many men on the ice; I'm going to have to blow the whistle."
Our assistant coach growls, "well blow it then."
The ref stares him down and blows it. Then he arbitrarily picks a kid - Kamryn - to serve the "2 minute"*** penalty. He knew I was her mother and as he ushered he off the ice he mentioned to me that he just happened to grab her.
The other parents on the team were a little dumbstruck at Kamryn (the least aggressive player on the entire team) - one of them called her "little Kamryn" - in the penalty box.
I had to spend the rest of the day explaining penalties to "little Kamryn"
*** The kids were only serving 30 seconds of their penalties (yes we had other penalties). I don't know if this is a Novice thing or what. One of the parents told me he didn't think they called penalties for Novice C. Apparently they do.
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