| Hamilton Bulldogs Practice |
| March 15th/2003 Well today me and Matt had to shovel our way out of the drive way so my parents could drive us out to the stadium for the Hamilton bulldogs practice. We met up with paul Forward at the rink and watched the leafs play first, and during the warm up, Jay Harrisson Flipped a puck over the glass to me, and gave me a little nod, he must have noticed me from when i met him a while ago and had a long talk with him and his parents, so that was pretty cool I hope to get that signed by him as well. We wanted to go down to Mavericks to pick up some cards so we didn't bother hounding the leafs, when we got back hamilton was already on the ice and it was cool to watch them practice. We saw Ty Conklin give away his stick to a kid, and Mariusz Czerkawski gave a stick to a Polish kid and signed it for him. We went to "the place" kind of early because a few players went to the dressing room early so we didn't want to miss them. The first guy to come up was Tomas Plekanec and I got him on my sheet and Matt got him on his sheet he brought. I cant exactly remember the order for the guys but I'll do my best, A few guys came up and we got them to sign our sheets and then Czerkawski and two other guys came up and I got Czerkawski on 2 cards and The other guys on my sheet. matt got Czerkawski on 6 cards including one for his Topps Premier Plus set and a cool double card of him and Dipietro that he got signed in the beginning of the season. Then Raffi Torres and another few players came up and I got Torres on 4 cards and matt got him on 3 cards and a New York Islanders Puck. Then after getting a few more players on our sheets I got Jani Rita on 2 cards and on a Oilers puck I bought at Mavericks. Josef Balej then came up by him self and i got him on my sheet and a CHL prospects card I had for him. Ty Conklin and a few other players ccame up then, and I got conklin on 4 cards and matt got him on his sheet. The Assistant coach, well now Head coach since Julien is in Montreal, then came up and I recognized him and I asked him if Eric Fichaud or Ron Hainsey was still around and he Said Fichaud was but Hainsey didn't make the trip due to Injury. So that really sucked becaus ei had a some nice cards for him. Bill Lindsay came up and he signed my 3 cards I had for him and was pretty cool about it. after a little while longer Eric Fichaud, Francois Beuchemin and nother guy finally came up I got Fichaud on 6 cards and Beuchimen and the other guy on my sheet. Matt got everyone on his sheet but Fichaud on his sheet. So overall I got the following on my sheet: Josef Balej, Francois Beuchemin, Benoit Gratton, Benjamin Carpentier, Tomas Plekanec, Jarret Stoll, Sylvain Blouin, Kari Haakana, Mike Bishai, and Doug Nolan. Matt got Mike Bishai, Francois Beuchemin, Kari Haakana, Benoit Gratton, Ty Conklin, Benjamin Carpentier, Chad Hinz, Tomas Plekanec, Josef Balej, Doug Nolan, Bill Lindsay, Michaek Ryder, Tommy Selmelainen, Jani Rita and Geoff Ward (head Coach). That was the end of a great day of hounding and a record number of autographs between us with 57. next up is Binghamton this week. ton TOTAL AUTOGRAPHS: 57 |