Cam has Intro (a basics camp) early in the morning, for an hour and a half. It's hard skating, passing, shooting, work until you're exhausted camp.
Then we went home for a few hours, dried his gear, and then headed back to the hockey rink for his Mites team practice. Another hour of hard, intense work.
This practice couldn't have come at a worse time. It was towards the end of a long day that started at 5am, and Cam was tired. And even though he ate before, he was complaining that he was hungry.
Tired, and hungry, and Cam, who is naturally just cranky anyways.
Oh yay.
The practice was a mess. Cam was downright pissy about everything, slamming his stick down when something went wrong, and yelling in frustration if another kid even came CLOSE to him and the puck.
This is when I hide and pretend I don't know him.
At one point during a scrimmage, a kid that had a solid 10 inches on Camden came at Cam at full speed and dove into his legs to stop him from shooting a goal, completely wiping him out. Cam screamed in anger, and he infuriatingly does, and the coach yelled at the big kid, telling him that's a major penalty (no purposeful contact allowed at this age). Not ten seconds later, big kid had the puck, and Cam starts power skating towards him, full of rage and piss and vinegar.
Oh shit, I thought, he's going to drop his gloves and fight this damn kid and it's all going to be over.
But instead, Cam skated headlong into the kid and dove into his knees and absolutely wrecked him. The kid layed out on the ice like a star fish, and when he sat up and held his hands out in protest at the obvious penalty, the coach just kind of half smiled and shrugged, and the game went on.
Swift, unequivocal justice.
Not that I condone Cam to blatantly break the no-contact rules, or to be a complete shit at practice, but it was kind of a hilarious and fantastic moment.
That kid is meant to be an enforcer.
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| Cam on the left with the orange stripe on his helmet, well before the shit hit the fan |
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