Wow! What a tournament!!!
The boys played 4 games in the Winter Classic last week and took home the top honors. They only gave up 3 goals in 4 games and dominated play on both sides of the puck.
They started out Saturday against the West Valley Wolves. Most Mites games are high scoring affairs, the game against West Valley had only 2 goals. 1 came with about 1 min left to play in the 1st. The West Valley player batted a rebound out of the air and made an incredible play to score. The score stayed 1-0 until 6:03 in the third when Cole hit Aidan with a cross crease pass that Aidan buried to knot the score at 1. The shots were 14-21 .....hmmmm I do not like being out shot but hey we got a point and that's good.
Sunday...We played our cross-town rivals, The Jr Sharks. The game was very tightly played until 5 min left in the 1st when Gio scored twice within 30 seconds. Cole scored in the 2nd with under 2 min left. Andrew sealed the deal in the 3rd with 2:27 and the Hawks shut out the boys from San Jose 4-0. The shots in this game were very close which I believe is the key to playing against The Jr Sharks.
Monday LA Jr Kings. Oh my GOD!!!! Where do they find these officials? OK I have seen a lot of penalties. HOWEVER...I have never seen a player called for checking when he is in control of the puck. We finished with 8 penalties including 2 3 on 5's....both of which we killed. The final was 4 to 1. The Jr Kings scored with 00:0 left on the clock….interesting. The penalties in this game really held us back, the boys persevered and went into finals on Tuesday in 1st place.
Tuesday THE FINALS!!! The final against the Jr Sharks was a close game and the boys took away time and space and kept the Jr Sharks to one goal unitl the second perid. Aaron "Goose" Mills took a turn over from our blue line to their goal and scored. Byran scored the game winner when he went hard to the net. The shots in this game were the fewest we have seen all season I think both sides combined for something like 22 shots. I know we held the Jr Sharks to less than 20 shots. Great job boys!
We had a lot of fun and the boys have really developped and grown as hockey players. Everyone contributed to this win and everyone played great. In the intense setting of a tournament you can really see the boys elevate their game…skating faster, working harder and pushing themselves beyond their limits. Whether they scored a goal, made an assist, forced a turn-over, agitated the other team or just skated hard and pressured the other team….every one of our guys did something to contribute to our successs.
Congratulations.
Coach
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