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November 29, 2007
Finally, a chance to relax
GERALD COLEMAN:
Hey fans. I’m talking to you from the nice warm comforts of my bed. With all the hockey games we’ve played and Thanksgiving last week, its nice to relax. Don’t get me wrong, I love hockey but the holidays are just as fun. But when they are so close together we need some little breaks to rest and get our health back and get back mentally, too. All in all this was a fun and exciting week.
This past week for me was a roller coaster as far as getting back to playing and feeling a part of the team again. Last Wednesday is what I needed to get back on track. It’s nice to get a shutout for me personally, but also for a team – they start believing in you. I always liked playing in Lowell so it was a fun game.
For me as a goalie you don’t want to be in those games because you feel that one more mistake it could cost you the game, but the guys did a great job scoring goals – which is something we were having problems with last year. It’s been fun watching our team come together this year – and since we’ve made that trade we have gotten only better. With some young guys and lots of new guys it was only a matter of time before we would gel together. With time I think we will hit ups and downs as we have shown already this year, but this team will only get better and more exciting to watch.
Besides the hockey, last week was for giving thanks, spending time with loved ones and of course eating good food. More so, I love a good home cooked meal. This year was the first year the my girlfriend (Lindsay) and I had a dinner with just the two us. Usually we go to a big team dinner, but with all the hockey going on there really wasn’t much time to plan anything. So Lindsay and I stayed home and she made her first Thanksgiving dinner. The thing with that is she’s Canadian – and their Thanksgiving is in October. It’s nothing like the Thanksgiving here. She was excited to make her first American Thanksgiving and I thought she did a great job – but nothing’s like mom’s dinner. Hey, she will have may more years to get better. After dinner we did the things I love to do on Thanksgiving, watch all the great football games.
Now that crazy week is over we have time off to relax and get back on track – but only for a little while because there are more games to come. And with the holidays ... I can’t wait with some family coming down ... going to buy some presents. I’m going to be wishing we had more games so I can get away and keep busy.
– Colsy
Posted at 06:58 PM
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hey I know you don't want to be in those games where you've felt that one or more mistake could cost you the game.. I also am a goalie and I have had my share of mistakes way too many to go around maby you, mike mckenna, j.p. and i could share them all but never the less our team is finally on a winning streak because of me... and my sister but she unluckly broke her knee and is out for the season and I am the only goalie left...... never the less i also play offense and so does my sister so when she was playing goal i would play offense and vice versa and no one could ever keep us straight.
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GERALD COLEMAN (at left), 22, is in his first full season with the Pirates. He was drafted by the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2003. He played in a
couple of NHL
games for Tampa but saw most of his action with
the Lightning's AHL team in Springfield, Mass. He was traded last season to the Anaheim Ducks, parent team of the Pirates. Coleman grew up in Evanston, Ill., and played on the U.S. national
team as a teenager. As a member of the London Knights in the Ontario Hockey League, he was on squad that won the Memorial Cup.
MIKE HOFFMAN, 27, took a different path than most hockey players on the Pirates. He graduated from Scituate (Mass.) High 1999, then went to prep
school and the United
States Hockey League before playing for
the University of Connecticut. In the fall of his junior year, Hoffman got a call from his agent asking if he'd like a tryout with the Worcester Ice Cats. Before the first game the coach asked,
"Do you fight?" and Hoffman said, "I do now." He had a fight that night against Graham Belak, and according to Hoffman, "that's how my pro career started."
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