The Complete Screech Owls, Volume 5 by Roy Macgregor

Author:Roy Macgregor [MacGregor, Roy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-55199-241-9
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2007-03-06T05:00:00+00:00

The Owls practised at the high school’s double gymnasium, which was almost the size of a regulation in-line rink, though it lacked the curved corners that a rink would have.

Travis had a hard time adjusting to in-line hockey. His game, on ice, was working the corners and quick stops and starts. To stop with in-line skates, he had to press down on the brake, and it took a conscious effort.

The skating was fine on open ice – or, perhaps open floor would be more apt.

Dmitri took to the game as if he’d been playing on wheels all his life. The sleek Russian seemed twice as fast as anyone else, with the possible exception of Sarah, and he could also stickhandle better than anyone at top speed.

The stickhandling took some getting used to. They played with a plastic object that was a bit like a puck, a bit like a flattened ball. The Owls, of course, were used to regular pucks, but every one of them had spent so much time playing ball hockey on the street and in their driveways that they adapted easily to the new object. The hard part was putting the skating together with the “puck” handling.

Travis eventually got to like skating on wheels. He missed the sense of the blades cutting into fresh ice, but the feel was smooth and quick, and he found that with practice his turns got faster, though never quite as fast as when he was on ice skates.

The equipment was different, lighter, less bulky, but still it was obviously hockey equipment. All the Owls liked experimenting with the new game, and there were different offside rules and no blueline, which Nish claimed to adore.

When they boarded the flight bound for Gatwick International Airport, they had yet to play a single in-line game, but they knew their positions, had a number of plays worked out on Muck’s blackboard, and they thought they were ready.

Ready to prove themselves the best in-line hockey team in all of London, anyway.

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