Striker The Goalie

A little over a year ago, Mr KFuj got Striker to start playing roller hockey. I supported the activity since it was good cardio and was close to home (if you recall, I was trapped in our house on bedrest at the time).

Yesterday, after much anticipation, gathering of gear, and zero practice, Striker played Goalie for the first time. They won 5-2 and Striker is rather proud to be 1-0 in goal.

Pros to Striker playing goalie:
-he plays for free
-he "gets" to play the entire game
-it's even better exercise despite the belief that the goalie just stands around waiting for people to shoot the puck at him. This is evidenced by his begging for a time out in the 3rd period so he could take a breather (see 2nd photo where the ref and his teammates were checking on him)
-he wears more padding...most of which he got as hand-me-downs (read: free!)

Cons:
-he really can't miss a game now, and they play every Saturday afternoon at 2 (yep, pretty much eliminates any plans on Saturdays for us, or at least Striker)
-he has people shooting a puck at him regularly
-he really isn't that flexible...yet
-he plays softball on Sundays and bowls on Mondays, making hockey inflicted injuries even more of a problem