Office hockey
Carrie posted in Recreation on February 4th, 2010
A bunch of people decided to build backyard hockey rink outside of our office this winter. They diligently shoveled out a patch and got the city to come and flood it for them. Now at noon on any given day you’ll see people out there on our lunch break skating around and playing pick-up. Wednesdays is the official game day when certain sections challenge other departments. Behind the rink is a steep (STEEP) embankment where we go tobogganing sometimes. Like, it’s really steep. You can hear people screaming from inside the office as they fly down the pitch.
This Wednesday we held a fundraiser for the family of a woman in my office, who’s daughter was in a bad car accident and is now paralyzed. She had to go spend more than a month in Edmonton at hospital so Shelagh had to take off work and find a place to stay down there, put ramps in their house, etc. It’s really expensive. So as a fundraiser for the family Environment Yukon hosted a hockey game and BBQ.
Anyone with skates got on the ice at the same time, and there was nothing to distinguish the teams. The 17 people going north were on one team, and the 14 people going south on the other. Unfortunately the ice didn’t freeze well and there were lots of air pockets that we broke through, making giant craters. We marked some with boots and orange spray painted some others but soon there were more boots on the ice than free ice. But it really leveled the playing field because no one could be a good skater on this ice. You’d take 2 steps forward and then trip and fall. You’d pass the puck up the ice and it would come to an abrupt stop in some hole. Which means we spent more time laughing at everyone falling on their faces than playing hockey. Skates and sticks flying everywhere, people wiping out into you, and no one in control of the puck at all.
There were several media there and someone from the department was taking photos.
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