Reply To: Diary of a Season 2012-13

[Tom Molloy]

Someone made the hockey gods angry. We played a really solid game vs. our cross town rivals. Outshot them 8-6, 12-9 and led 1-0 after two periods. We totally dominated the third outshooting them 17-5 but gave up a goal on a scramble in front and then they took two bad penalties and we had a 5-3 with 4 minutes left and a player bobbled the puck at the point and they got a breakaway and scored to win 2-1. We need to score more than one goal when we get 37 shots.

I think I made a mistake in teaching them a new power play for 5-3. We got confused and it cost us the game. It worked great in practice but some players were lost in the real game.

Today we bus for 2 hours to play the team that is in first in the division.
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Game Two: It was SOOOOO cold in the arena that I asked their equipment guy for another jacket and he had a fleece he lent me.

It was a really hard played game. They got 4 pplays and us none. Contact all over. They outshot us 33-21 but most of their shots were from the outside. Goalie made one great save on a breakaway by the best player in the league. 7-9, 3-15 and 11-9 by periods. We led 1-0 after one, 1-1 after two and it ended 1-1. We outplayed them in the third.

So we only gave up 3 goals on the weekend and came out with one tie but I really liked the way we played. Sometimes the goals just don't come.

Next weekend we play Edmonton who is in first overall and then Southeast Alberta (same team as Sunday) who are second overall. We are third overall out of 11 teams.

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