we were missing both brawleys today as well as ross left the team so we had stouty playing for us and some guy named Travis Hendry. Travis is SICKKKK, only way i can describe his play. he's so good that hackett actually passed the ball to him, and i know that hackett usually only does that if he knows someone can finish. it shows that he had confidence in Travis's play and let us watch some pretty good chemistry.
forward lines were:
1. stabs, kevin, stouty
2. hackett, hendry, cowin
3. jason, iain, me
all three lines had a really good game tonight and it showed on the scoresheet.
the start of the game was pretty slow, we were controlling but didnt really turn up the intensity until about 5 left in the first.
the first line to start off the scoring was line #2. hackett and hendry were able to play the ball around and that gave cowin time to get in front of the net and he banged in a rebound i think.
nice goal from a good line.
second period started out decent enough, we kept the pressure and were able to pot one 1:30 into the frame. this time it was hackett from kells and it was a pretty nice goal.
2 minutes later at the 6:33 mark of the second johnston got a nice feed from stabs and made no mistake about it and rifled it by the goalie, beauty of a goal.
right after that jason looked and me and iain and said "now its our turn to get a goal", and sure enough our next shift we converted. i dont remember it exactly but i know that we were working behind their net hard and managed to get the ball and im pretty sure i passed it to iain, then he fed it over to jason who was in front and he popped the ball between the goalie's legs.
by then it was 4-0 and we knew that we had the game. not gettin cocky or anything but this team couldnt do anything, they had no chemistry and when we would gain their zone they would sit there and let us cycle the ball for days.
next up it was stouty's turn to snipe cheese. he did it at the 2:12 mark of the second off a passing play from kells and hackett.
and finally to end the frame kevin got another goal with 0:53 left in the second with assists going to stabs and stouty.
for the third it was 6-0 and the refs decided to run the clock, good choice because this was getting out of hand. we kind of slowed down on the attack and played more ball control and wasted time. stabs got called on a high stick with about 8 left in the third and it was a 4 minute so we got to check and see how our penalty kill would match up against them. i actually liked the penalty because we dont get very many so we need to practice the kill and be able to keep the ball out of our net during those times.
we played well and they didnt get a goal. then kotchie got called on an interference near the end of stabs penalty so we were 5 on 3 for about half a minute and were able to control them and give baskie some backup.
we got one more goal with 1:31 left in the game and then cruised to victory.
Minivans 7
Roadrunners 0
box score
| Number | Name | G | A | PIM |
| 8 | Iain Anderson | 2 | ||
| 36 | Adam Baskie | |||
| 86 | Adam Beaven | |||
| 98 | Andrew Cowin | 1 | ||
| 69 | Keith Gummer | 1 | ||
| 17 | Andrew Hacket | 1 | 3 | |
| 11 | Kevin Johnston | 2 | ||
| 14 | Brett Kelly | 2 | ||
| 11 | Matt Kotchie | 2 | ||
| 24 | Jason Megit | 1 | ||
| 52 | Chris Stabellini | 2 | 4 | |
| 66 | Brett Vernoy | |||
| 7 | Brian Stoute | 1 | 2 | |
| 8 | Travis Hendry | 1 |
almost forgot to mention.
- iain had a great game, i like having him play forward because he knows what he's doing with the ball and makes some nice passes to spring me so i can in turn feed him juicy passes once we gain the zone and he's open.
- cowin is still lighting up the league and getting madddd points.
- ross left the team, not sure why but i miss him already. he has that extra speed that was able to help us. stouty has taken his place and i have to say, if i ever wanted anyone to replace ross it would be stoute. he doesnt have the explosive speed but he has really really good hands and him and kevin know each other so well that they can produce goals.
- baskie had another shutout, what a surprise. if the roof daddies were in the right division he would be the best goalie in the league.
- i made some nice plays today, gained the zone a few times and set up jason and iain with nice scoring attempts. ive been slowing the ball down more lately and taking my time, its paying off.
- heavy beavy almost got a goal today, but more importantly, he shot the ball pretty well and made the goalie make a save. good stuff adam.
roof daddies next week, gonna be a different story from last time we played them.
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