Reply To: Diary of a Season 2012-13

[Tom Molloy]

Crazy games. We were 1-1. Lost 6-3 with the shots 23-23 and that is how the game was and then won 10-6 (shots 46-30) where both teams scored 4 pplay goals. So we scored 13 and gave up 12. I can't remember that many goals in a two games before. Saturday we scored 2 SH and one PP goal. We are second in our division as everyone is beating everyone in the league, so the teams are very evenly matched. We obviously have to tighten things up defensively. It is mostly losing 1-1 battles that is causing the problem. We are still rolling the lines and the other teams are playing their top players a lot.

We will stick to everyone playing and work on getting all the players to be able to compete at this level. We have 8 first year and 2 who played A last year and one of our third year players got a concussion the second weekend and has missed half the games. So we have a young team.

We lead the league in goals for with 31, 7th out of 11 teams in goals against at 26 and have the least PIM's. They don't post the PP% but we must be up in that scoring 12 PP goals in 7 games. So the challenge is keeping up the goals for and cutting down on the goals against.

Next weekend we play two vs. the other Calgary team who is tied with us in points at 2-1-4, we are 4-3. The players will be fired up for those games. We practice Tuesday, Spin on bikes Wed, Practice Thursday and Friday the play Saturday-Sunday. So a busy week.

Saturday morning I give a coaches clinic to the other coaches in our association.

'The Game is the Greatest Coach'
'Enjoy the Game'