Devin and Brent both share their father’s love for hockey and faithfully cheer for the Ottawa Senators. This year Brent has figured out how to increase his fun by adding his own personality to watching the game. Our “little organizer” has started keeping stats.
Above is a copy of one of his stat cards. (They change slightly each time.) I’ll try to explain it for you. This one was made for a game against Tampa Bay (noted in the upper box on the far right; OTT at TB) He knows most of the abbreviations because he looks at our pocket schedule all the time to find out when the Sens play next and for the first few weeks of the season he would ask me 20 times a day what they were.
The numbers one to five along the top were for penalties.Below that is the score, and beside that is a picture of a whistle…he counted 6 whistle blows.
In the next row he keeps track of the score in tally marks. He also tracked the score with G's (that look more like 6's...we're working on that...) along the left side.
Beside the tally marks he draws a line from the team to the “PP” every time they go on the power play (and then erases it when the PP is over). Beside that he has boxes for each period, Overtime and Shoot-Outs, to keep track of when the goals are scored.
The G on the bottom left refers to 'Goalie' and Ottawa’s goalie that night was wearing #1 and Tampa Bay’s #40.
C1, C2, C3 etc…those are the commercials.
Of course one difficulty he has is that he usually only gets to watch the first period before he has to go to bed. Sometimes he’ll ask Mark to fill it in for him, and is usually content if he just keeps track of the score.
I suppose some day we should let him know that you can get real score cards and keep track of a whole lot more...but why spoil the fun?!
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