game #3

we know what we need to work on after yesterday's game. and shooting the ball more is on the top of that list.
we played decent yesterday, not amazingly, and we got beat by one of the better teams in the league. these guys will be either 1st or second this year, im saying it now.

we started off the game down 2-0 within the first 5 minutes and things werent looking too good. thats when we buckled down a bit and started to play the hockey that we know we can play.
we ended up getting a nice goal by hackett and we were only down by one goal and made it a pretty close game. couple penalty calls for us didnt faze the team. a non-call on a high stick by the other team really hurt us and we let the other team get 2 quick goals in the last 3 minutes that really screwed our chances of coming back.

on a side note, brawley was out the entire game with a hamstring injury and stabs sat out a while too because his shoulder was messed up. it would have been a different game is we had both those guys in all game. ross played well with his new shoes and had a nice breakaway in the game. johnston was hung over to shit and still managed to play pretty solid. we had cainer out for a game and hes part of our team now. hes on defence currently but hes good at forward too so he might float between both positions.

team practice sometime this week. get some nets, play some road hockey in a church parking lot or something and practice shooting, deflecting shots, and screening the goalie.
we need to shoot more, instead of doing the dump and chase method (which evidently doesnt work for us), we should be shooting at the goalie every time we get an opportunity and then the other guy gets in there and wait for a rebound.