Sorry for jumping off topic momentarily, but which HNA team do you play for? My team just finished up the practices with Jock and about to start playing games.
Jock is awesome. Not often you can be a beginner and get the opportunity to be coached by a guy with his name on the Stanley Cup.
I'm on the Bombers, we were in your position 5 or 6 years ago, it's all starting to blend together.
You've got a fun, but long road ahead of you. The beauty of the way HNA does it, by having a beginner class is that you all start out together and can definitely bond. We still have roughly 60% of the original guys and gals that started with us at that beginner class. It's cool to remember when so and so used to fall on his crossovers, and is now scoring at nearly a point a game.
The downside to that way of doing it though is that you're all beginners, playing together against teams that have been playing together for years. It took us a year and a half to get our first win, and we only got that because the other team was so confident they would beat us that they showed up to the rink drunk. The first year, we considered it a "win" if we lost by less than 10 goals. The second year it was 3 or 4 goals, and the third we actually started winning games on a consistent basis.
I've gotten way to far off topic on this, but feel free to PM me with any questions you may have. Division 5 is a bit of a mess right now. It should really be split with your team, the Titans, and the Angry Beavers making up a smaller group to get your feet wet, and the Blast, Ice Barons, Shoreman, Crusaders and us making our own group. The problem is 4B is still markedly better than us, and when they put us there last season, we failed to win a game.