[OOC: Set some time late Thursday afternoon/early Thursday evening.]"Hey guys, welcome to the first meeting of the Fandom High Hockey Squad. Our faculty sponsor is Coach Duncan MacLeod. For those who don't know me, I'm Charlie Kawalsky.
Now, we're a squad instead of a team because the school administration has decided not to fund any road trips for us and Fandom Town is too small right now to host any visiting teams on a regular basis. So once we get some of the skills worked out, we'll be splitting up into intra-squad teams and playing against each other.
So. Hockey. Some of you guys have played, some of you haven't. That's cool. Aim of this first session is to work out who needs to learn what so we can all get to a standard and go from there.
Those who know how to play can teach those who don't. We've got this area booked for the rest of the night, so you can stay as long as you want, or go when you've had enough. Just let me know if you wanna drop out so I can keep a record of who's going and who's staying.
I've managed to rustle us up some equipment, so we'll try a little bit of everything today so everyone can get a feel for the game."
Kawalsky explained the basic rules to everyone
[OOC: See second LJ cut below]. He then passed out a
rulebook. "Don't worry about getting it right straight away. We're gonna play some easy games once we get rink time somewhere and sorta just learn as we go. This is just meant to be fun and give extra-curricular credit. Oh, and later in the semester we're gonna be playing an exhibition game against a visiting team. I don't know when, though, so I gotta wait to hear from Dean Bristow about that. I'll let you know when I do."
[edit: For the purposes of this practice, we've arranged for one of the magic types to ice up a section of the gym for us to practice on until we get a rink. There is also a non-iced section for those who just want to practice on rollerblades.]( OOC Team Line-Ups )( OOC - How The Game Works ) [OOC: Separate threads set up for sign-in, position requests, puck handling practice and skating practice. Most of the time we'll just be playing and messing around. Today is just to give the pretense that we're 'learning'.]