It's time for me to be out with it:  I'm retiring from my league at the end of this season.

Back in the late fall, when my wife & I began trying to conceive our second child (which we've succeeded!), I agreed that after this season I'd 'retire' from the Molson League at Holiday & Leisure Rinks.  The cost to play is going up, and the late start times were beginning to take a toll on me, especially when I had to watch our toddler the next day.

I'm not leaving hockey entirely.  There'll always be the pickup games Thursday nights at Depew beginning next October. 

And, of course, I've got a standing invitation to come work part time for the Buffalo Stars junior hockey organization, which I've verbally committed to for 2008-09!

It's been a fun ride, but it's also time to acknowledge I'm hitting the "geezer" years.