Game 8 - Back to Ripley, News, Tyke Junior, 2007-2008 (Blyth Brussels Minor Hockey)

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Mar 03, 2008 | Rob Gordon | 1520 views
Game 8 - Back to Ripley
The location of our fist win gave us tremendous confidence going into this game.  Spirits were high and all were eager to get going.

The puck drops and our returning forward Reece wins the draw back to Snowden who sends a quick pass to Tanner speeding up the right wing.  Our top sniper has a breakaway in the early seconds of the game.  His keen eye and nose for the net proved no match for the Ripley goalie.  A shot from the hash marks finds the back of the net for an early lead for the Dogs.

The next shift provides more scoring for the Dogs.  Connor dug the puck out of the corner in our end and sent a breakout pass to Emily.  Thinking quick, Emily spied Michaela at the far boards.  The pass sent Michaela on a clear break, making no mistake she buried her first goal of the game.

Nearing the end of this shift Zac gains control of the puck outside our blue line and carries the puck past several Ripley players and into their zone.  Seeing several players heading his way he did not panic but sent a crisp pass to Michaela at the blue line.  Michaela stepped into a shot from the blue line with Connor in front providing a screen he put his stick out to tip the shot past a helpless goalie for the second goal of the shift.

Snowden was inspired by this shift to step up his game.  Reece grabbed a loose puck in the neutral zone and fed a pass back to Tanner who spotted Snowden in the clear on the far side of the ice.  Snowden powered past the Ripley defense, put a slick move on the goalie and slid a backhander to bulge the twine.

Two shifts later Snowden started a scoring play by passing to Kyle who carried the puck into the Ripley zone.  He sent a nice backhand pass to Luke in front.  Luke was not to be denied, after two great saves Luke grabbed the final rebound and sent a shot to the top corner for the goal.

Ripley did not seem to like the top corner goal and sent out a fast line to challenge our defense.  The puck was in our zone for a long time, our defense and goalie held them off but got tired and they scored their two goals. This was enough for our next three shifts though.  The team gained their second wind and controlled the play the entire time.  Michaela got her second goal set up by Emily and Zac on a slick passing play.

Connor wanted in on the action again and started the play in our end by ringing the puck around the boards to Clarissa on the wing and then put his head down and headed for the Ripley net.  Clarissa grabbed the puck stick handled over our blue line and found an open Michaela for a pass.  Michaela quickly stepped over Ripley's blue line and saw the speedy Connor heading for the net.  Her saucer pass found the tape of Connor's stick and a quick release fooled the goalie and we had scored again.

With only a minute remaining we were at centre ice again.  Connor had great confidence from his goal and win a clean draw back to Clarissa.  Clarissa didn't have to move to find a wide open Michaela, feeding her a crisp pass.  Michaela was one on one with the Ripley defense.  With little time and space I thought she would get checked and the game would end with no more scoring.  Boy was I wrong.  To my amazement she pulled out a spinarama on the unsupecting Ripley player and was gone on a clear break.  With only seconds remaining Michaela could smell her hat trick goal.  With eyes as big as saucers she spotted the opening on the stick side of the goalie and fired a rocket to the back of the net.  The goalie didn't have a chance.  WOW A HAT TRICK  way to go!  The buzzer sounded and the game was over.  Nice victory Bulldogs.
We look forward to the return of our speedy winger Kelden for our next game.

Coach Rob

Remeber team:
We skate with our head            UP
We skate with our knees        BENT
That is "  MY  " puck
And most important of all:    WE ARE HERE TO HAVE LOTS OF FUN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!