well, its great to be back playing again with the team. we have undergone a minor roster change due to the fact that brawleys cant play, as well as baskie, iain and ross (effective middle of last season). Our team has remained pretty similar though from the one that took home the championship last year (still waiting for our trophies). We have Majuren Subramaniam (for ease of reading I'll be using Maj for short) playing in net for us this year in place of the injured/post-surgery Baskie, and we're confident playing in front of him.
the date of the game was March 17th, i know i'm slightly late but oh well.
We were all itching to get back on the floor and get playing again so this game couldnt come soon enough and when it finally did it felt great. oh yea, and we also play on thursdays this season instead of sundays.
We were playing the Mighty Ducks, last year's champs for the thursday division and before the game the convener mentioned to one of our players that he was picking the Ducks to win it all again this year. needless to say that may have annoyed some of the Minivans players and we obviously wanted to start the season off with a win to prove the convener wrong.
i was playing defence for this game and i played absolutely terrible. being sick probably didnt help me at all and i was dying on the bench following my first shift.
the Ducks opened the scoring at 7:26 of the first period. after the initial goal we were able to slow them down and pretty much control the pace of the game. we were the better team from the start and it showed by the way we were keeping the ball in their zone for most of the first 2 periods. by the start of the 3rd it was still 1-0 for them and we had gotten several scoring chances but no finish. stabs hit a post and a crossbar while kevin and stoute both had really good scoring chances, as well as hackett.
The Mighty Ducks notched their second of the game 30 seconds into the 3rd period but we responded with a goal of our own 20 seconds later. they scored again to make it 3-1 and oh yea, i forgot to mention the fact that both their 2nd and 3rd goals were entirely my fault. i take blame for them, i was kicking myself on the bench and felt like an absolute idiot.
anyways, enough about me dropping the ball, after cowin got our first goal and the Ducks responded back to go ahead by 2 again we started to play the Minivans hockey that we were used to playing last year when we won it all.
Stoute lit the lamp a minute after they got their 3rd to pull us within 1 goal, and then with 4 minutes left in the game hackett sniped a beauty goal. then proceeded to stay on the floor after scoring and scored another a minute later to put us ahead 4-3. they pulled their goalie in the last moments but couldnt get anything going after we grabbed all the momentum. they looked distraught and pretty demoralized out there. by that time they were really pissed off and one of the Ducks took a run at Kells and dropped him on his ass with a pretty dirty hit with about 15 seconds left and that resulted in a scrum and there were offsetting penalties called and they were slapped with another penalty because of the dirty play.
we won, and thats the only thing that really matters. Minivans start the season off 1-0 and we're looking to continue that streak next thursday. the one upside of beating last year's champions the very first week is that we had the latest game so a few of our players went to the rink beforehand to watch some of the other teams and from the looks of it, we've got one of the best if not the best team in the division.
almost forgot to mention, we got a new player, Jeremy Carr. he played a great game and i'm glad he decided to join our team. good game.
good win team, lets keep it up vs the warriors on thursday.
Boxscore
| Number | Name |
| G | A | PIM |
| 14 | Brett Kelly |
|
|
| 2 |
| 5 | Matt Kotchie |
|
|
|
|
| 98 | Andrew Cowin |
| 1 | 2 |
|
| 52 | Chris Stabellini |
|
| 1 | 4 |
| 24 | Jason Megit |
|
| 1 |
|
| Goalie | Maj |
|
|
|
|
| 97 | Jeremy Carr |
|
| 1 |
|
| 69 | Keith Gummer |
|
|
|
|
| 86 | Adam Beavan |
|
|
|
|
| 17 | Andrew Hackett |
| 2 | 1 |
|
| 7 | Brian Stoute |
| 1 |
|
|
| 11 | Kevin Johnston |
|
|
|
|
| 66 | Brett Vernoy |
|
|
|
|
