Booted

As you all know I got the new NHL '09 game last week and I have been really enjoying it. You create a player, make him look exactly how you want him to look and chose his equipment right now to his skate blades! It is pretty cool (check out the photo--note the name on the jersey :)).

Anyway, I have been playing online quite a bit and am an okay RW. In fact, my overall rating is a "B". My strength is my positional play and my stats, I am nearly a point a game player which is pretty good. It would seem that I was good enough to attract a few 'club invites' from some fellow players. I was surprised to see 3 invites from random clubs in my box so I decided to accept one and see what it was all about. You can only belong to one club team at a time so I chose the NJ Tornado as my club.

I go into my first game with my new teammates and they both chose the wing, so I chose the 'center' position, not my natural position. I am not great at faceoffs, and it showed early in the game, but I got better as we went on and won my fair share. We ended up winning the game 3-0, I think I got 1 assist but no goals. We played well and was thinking how much I was going to enjoy this club team because they knew hockey and played their positions well. I was actually kind of excited to be part of a team and have regulars to play with.

As the game finishes up it goes through the 3 stars of the game and then it gives you your grades for the night. My grades were right in line with my standard grades: A for positioning, C for team play and and A for stats. We exit the game and I go to enter the dressing room for another game and BAM! a message comes up:

"You are not a member of a club"

I got kicked out. They kicked me off their club team.

That hurt my feelings.