game 4 - summer season

another sunday night game... you know what that means!!
another solid game played by The Minivans and yet another victory to run our record to 4-0-0 to start the season. this game was a close one though and we were lucky to get the win and not have to settle for a tie.
We were playing the Redmen, who were called the Wedding Crashers 2 years ago when they slaughtered us. the team was pretty much the same with a few changes. their goalie was a new one.

the game started off pretty even, both teams were tied for scoring chances in the first 8 minutes. they got the first goal with 4:33 left in the first off a weak goal and we responded a minute and a half later on a nice goal by younger brawley.
by the start of the second period you could tell the extra players on our bench were helping us out because the Redmen were getting pretty tired and only one period had passed. by the midway point of the second period we were out-shooting them, controlling the pace of the game and pretty much dictating what was happening.
no goals in the second period, but we got plenty of scoring chances. stouty missed a tap in on an empty net and made up for it in the third period when he scored a nice goal to put us up 2-1.

we were in complete control all of the third until the refs started to call some iffy penalties in the last 5 minutes. we got called on 3 penalties in the final 4:40 of the game and all we could do was try to block the point shots they kept taking from the point. we were doing pretty well until the last penalty called on us. the Redmen scored with a minute left in the game to tie it up and we were still on the penalty kill the last minute and 1 minute into overtime.

our penalty kill was pretty good in overtime considering it was 4 on 3 and we managed to kill the penalty off and bring some more heat to the Redmen. Ross told Hackett he wanted to go on for the overtime and he seemed pretty confident in himself so hackett sat with johnston while jeremy and ross went out there and proceeded to score the game-winner. it was pretty exciting and looks like ross was right.

shoutouts
- special shoutout to Baskie, he was playing in net for us because Muj had to work and he played flawlessly. good game bud
- shoutout to Jeremy Carr, nice goal to get us the win in OT
- shoutout to Ross, he had a few nice blocked shots and was playing really well this week
- shoutout to The Minivans, good game team, solid win

lets keep this streak going.