Reply To: Diary of a Season 2012-13

[Tom Molloy]

Crazy game on Saturday. We totally dominated the first period outshooting them 17-6. We watched our top scorers younger brother play U16 AAA the game before and score 5 goals (her older brother was leading the Alberta Junior League at the start of last week) They all have sweet hands are skinny and slippery; kind of like that Gretzky kid used to be. We kidded our player that she had to do the same thing and she scored our first 2.

The problem was we were scored on late in the period and only led 2-1. We outshot them 13-11 in the second but were really soft in our end and they scored 3 to lead 4-2 after two. We came out and scored in the first minute on a PP in the third and two more in the first four minutes and led 5-4. I changed goalies to restart (first one played ok) We got another with five min. to go and they scored right after. The score ended up 6-5 for the good guys. We outshot them 16-9 in the third and 46-26 overall. (she got 3 and is now second in the 11 team league scoring). This size thing in hockey is crazy. She didn't make the Provincial U18 team but she led the league in playoff scoring last year with 12 goals.

The key was we got 3 PP goals to their 1. They took 10 penalties to our 3. Playing from the defensive side with body on body and stick on the puck is not only good defensive technique but it is legal.

It is always a problem if you are totally dominating a team but not scoring much. You only lead by a goal or two but it feels like you are winning by 4 or 5. They get a late goal and it gives them energy and sucks your away. We were really playing loose in our end the first two periods.
The shot and +/- chart is attached.

We play the other Calgary team in a few hours at their rink.
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It was a hard fought game on a small ice surface. Ours is almost International size and their's is about 3 m. shorter and narrower. So it is a different game. The ref allowed hitting; so the game was rough by this leagues standards. Like always there are the official rules and then each game has it's own set of rules determined by the ref.

They dominated the first shift but we made our first rush and our goal scorer scored her 4th of the weekend. 1-0 at the end of the first and shots 4-4. We scored another in the second.. A player who was the only forward without a goal until last weekend and she got her third in three games. 2-0 after two and we outshot them 9-6. We got another in the first half of the third to lead 3-0 but then got a penalty with 1:30 left. They called a time out and pulled the goalie. The D got a shot thru and one of the extra players scored on the rebound with 45" left. Too bad for our goalie who lost the shut out. We outshot them 12-8 in the third and 25-18 overall.

Now we are 8-4-1. We lead the league in goals for but are in the bottom third in GA. Two of our last three wins were against teams that beat us earlier in the season. They didn't get any outnumber situations in the game. Having wings stay on their own side when we pinch when the puck is moved to the weak side has eliminated most of the confusion about who pursues and who fills in at the point.

Next weekend two home games. One vs. a North Division team and the other vs. Medicine Hat who are leading our division. We haven't played them yet but will meet them three weekends in a row. We will see how good we are then.

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• Highwood Oct 27.pdf (491 KB)
• Flyers-Bruins Shots Oct 28.pdf (466 KB)

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