Colorado Trip
Thur. Nov 9
Vs. University of Colorado: L7-4
We came out flying, and dominated them for the first 10 min, our best hockey yet. A couple goals and the momentum started to shift in their favor. By the time the second period was over we were down 5-1. We rallied back to make it 5-3, but penalties took away our momentum and we finished the game 7-4. I'll say this for our guys, they never take a shift off and work the full 60 min regardless of the score. That's been why we've been able to come back in so many games, but we're going to need stop digging holes for ourselves if we are going to start putting some marks in the win column.
In addition, several players had their valuables stolen. Both teams were hit and an investigation is pending.
Fri. Nov 10
Vs. University of Denver: L11-3
If it was going to go wrong for us this game, it did. The guys worked hard, but we couldn't get any flow going. The communication and passing was appalling and we couldn’t get going as a 5 man unit. The ref allowed everything, the only "new" rules he followed were the hooking calls with the stick parallel to the ice. Otherwise you could hold and interfere as much as you wanted. I know it's a learning process for everyone to adapt to the new standard, but if we had the Utah ref's in this game we would have been on the power play all game. We've been struggling to adjust, and to have it return to the old standard and try and play a game is extremely frustrating.
In the end, too many turnovers to a fast skating team, and too many chances given to a power play who passed well took us out of the game.
Sat. Nov 11
Vs. Colorado State University: L3-1
By far the best game of the season so far. This was an all out war. It was defensive and hard hitting and had great end to end action. There was a scheduling problem and the ref's were a no show. So we begged for two ref's from the neighboring game as soon as it was completed. They turned out to be little more than glorified linesman. Hardly a penalty was called. There was a lot of stick work, but after the DU game we had gotten used to it again. I have to thank the CSU players for keeping it pretty clean, both sides could have easily gotten away with a lot more, but both teams came to play hockey, and that's exactly what we did. I've got a lot of respect for their team it was great game start to finish. It remained scoreless through two periods, with them striking first blood in the third. We answered, but two more goals on 2 on 1 situations where the goalie didn't have a chance, finished us off. Win or lose this was just a great game to be a part of.
Special thanks to Brad Hau’s family for letting us hang out at their house on Saturday and for feeding us before and after the game. You guys went above and beyond and we really appreciated it.
posted by Coach @ 11:51 AM
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