Struggling to get up, muddled worms and Rangers lose to rivals

Getting up in the morning is a struggle these days. Early nights seem to be a thing of the past and crashing out on the sofa just doesn't make up for any loss of proper sleep. To make matters worse the "improvements" at London Bridge are really starting to be a pain in the backside for getting to work easily.

It was a good day at work. Facilitating meetings as part of the Scrum Master role is becoming second nature LOL. Toni has now decided that I am a Scrumbley Egg Master which went quite nicely with my mishearing Kanban today and having Campervan in my head. We seem to be getting all our worms muddled up (for all you youngsters that was a Two Ronnies reference and you should go and check it out). It was nothing to do with me but there was much hilarity when a few of us turned up for a meeting in the right room only to discover that the organiser had gone and set up in the wrong room so we all had to relocate! Priceless! There is more to my job than meetings but looking at my calendar every morning does start to feel like this:

After a drought of live hockey for the past week we got back to things in style with a classic New York Rangers v New York Islanders rivalry. The first period was fast and uneventful with both teams having chances. Islanders broke the deadlock to go 0 - 1 up with 1:55 left in the period. Rangers were trailing 0 - 1 at the end of the first. Shots on goal were NYR 10 and NYI 17.

Islanders continued what they started in the first and were 0 - 2 up less than five minutes into the second. Rangers fought hard but just couldn't get the puck past Halak. Second period ended with the Rangers down 0 - 2. Shots on goal were NYR 18 (28) and NYI 11 (28).

The Rangers really upped the pressure but an unlucky bounce extended the Islanders lead to 0 - 3. The pain got worse as the Islanders took advantage of a 5-on-3 power play and made it 0 - 4. With the win out of sight I was just hoping for one goal to break the shut out. That prayer was answered as Hagelin scored on the power play and ended Halak's shut out streak. The game ended with the Rangers losing 1 - 4. Shots on goal were NYR 13 (41) and NYI 10 (38). What a disaster! That was NOT the way I wanted to get back into my live Rangers hockey fix!