big pandas don't cry

you know what's great about hockey at day care, aside from various children getting high sticked, pummeled into the not-so-soft boards and blocking shots against their will (one of them, while tending the goal got a wrister in the nuts and he actually rolled around crying and moaning)? nothing. nothing at all.
hockey with children totally takes the hockey out of me. all the worrying, can't raise shots without fearing for a face, having to use a tennis ball because orange ball is too hard, etc.
however, i still managed to post 6 goals with a curveless stick the length of my leg. and one of them was a nasty mid-air, cross-gym centering pass that i tipped into the back post left-handed and on the run. and it wasn't by accident. that was dandy.