Game day 2 & Assignments for 1/4

Today i did not have any games, but we had our IIHF skating test today. I felt that it went well, they have not posted our times yet. After our ice session we had breakfast and then i went to the outlet mall with Debbie. Its a 15 minute walk from the hotel and has a lot of shops that i have never heard of but are popular in Europe.

We went to a sporting goods store there and Debbie was looking at marked down skates, and i found these (pictured left) Bandy Skates. No they are not a goalie skate, and yes if you look at the blade thats how large they keep it. its a shorter cut boot unlike a traditional one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandy
Bandy, sometimes unofficially named Russian hockey, is a team winter sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The rules of the game have many similarities to those of soccer: the game is played on a rectangle of ice the same size as a football field. Each team has eleven players, one of whom is a goalkeeper. A standard bandy match consists of two halves of 45 minutes each. The offside rule is also similar to that observed in soccer.

Apparently USA has a National Bandy team, and i never knew! Debbie said that her brother plays for the Dutch National Bandy team and that its very big here in Europe.

After shopping we went back and had lunch and got ready to leave for the rink.
I did not have a game assignment today because of the number of games per day. I was a goal judge for SWE Vs. CZE 7:30pm game

Pictured from right to left-
Referee: Debbie, Hengst (NED), Zsuzsanna ,Sandor (HUN), Haley,Wieler (CAN)







And the two best goal judges in the world-

Laura Johnson & Jonna Partanen!

SWE 3- CZE 2 final score


Tomorrow, January 3rd, we have an off day. We are going to go to downtown Stockholm!

Here are the assignments for January 4th:

SUI Vs. FIN - 3pm Referee: Arina,Ustinova (RUS), Ilona, Novotna (CZE), Haley,Wieler (CAN)

CZE Vs. JPN - 4pm Referee: Krissy, Langley (USA), Therese, Bjorkman (SWE), Laura, Johnson (USA)

CAN Vs. GER - 6:30pm Referee: Radka, Ruzickova (CZE), Kaire, leet (EST), Elena, Ivanova (RUS)

USA Vs. SWE - 7:30pm Referee: Sylena, Mutsaers (CAN), Jonna, Partanen (FIN), Zsuzsanna, Sandor (HUN)
(Laura Johnson back up linesman)