**Hocking Hills Prospect Camp** (Part Three)

The State of the Art Hocking Hills Hockey Haven

Part Three...

5:00pm First scrimmage: The kids were divided into two teams of 10 skaters and 2 goalies each. Except there was a problem. Apparently, as Rosetti explained, two of the kids had violated curfew which he had set at 2:30am last night and got into a scuffle in a nearby roadhouse. Arrests were made and charges were pending and those guys wouldn't be joining us for the rest of the camp. To make matters worse, one of the other two goalies was a twin brother of one of the guys in jail. He went to bail his brother out of jail and got into an argument with one of the deputies. After the dust settled, no one at the jail could figure out which one really belonged in jail, so they put them BOTH in a cell. They'd called their Dad to come bail them both out, but, according to Rosetti, he's "...out of town for a few days at a conference for men over 50 suffering from ED. Wait, you didn't need to know that, I'm sorry." said Dale.

The remaining goalie took one net and the kids flipped the other net onto the ice and turned it around and the players were told to aim for the netting at the top of the net.

Something also didn't seem right when the scrimmage had to be stopped after one of the kids shot the puck over the boards. The fans sitting in the stands grabbed the puck and ran out of the rink. Dale warned the player to not shoot the puck over the boards or the glass because the 3 cases of official pucks had not arrived due to a shipping snafu at Amazon.com.

Sure enough, one after one, pucks flew over the glass and the players seemed to have major trouble keeping their shots low. Dale finally blew his whistle and warned both teams, "Look, boys, we have one puck left. PLEASE don't lose this one!"

The kids tried, I think, to comply with Rosetti's instructions, but after a few minutes, Walker found himself alone with the puck about ten feet in front of the goalie. Walker wound up for a full slapshot, at which point the goalie screamed "FUUUUUCK!!!!" and stepped aside. With an open net, Walked promptly launched the puck into the upper rafters of the rink, when the last remaining puck came to rest on an I-beam near the ceiling of the arena.

The scrimmage was over when the kids refused to play with the street hockey balls Rosetti had picked up at a nearby WalMart.

I, being an experienced hockey guy, now felt something was clearly wrong.

Part Four concludes the special report tomorrow...