It was time to step up and prove we were an elite club in our division. This past weekend we welcomed the Meudon Hockey Club to Asnieres in what promised to be a very interesting match. Meudon has been incredibly inconsistent this year to date as they have beaten some very tough teams, but come up short against some others. Since they took a heavy loss last weekend, we knew that they would be ready to play us.
Right off the bat the game had trouble written all over it for us as we gave up a goal in the first five minutes on what can best be described as a fanned one-timer. Tommi over-committed on the shot as it rolled right past him on the ice. We seemed to pick up the tempo after the goal however and scored a couple of goals before the end of the period to take a 2-1 lead into the dressing room. We finished the period on a roll as we clearly established that we were the faster and more skilled team.
In the second we continued to roll as we outshot them 16 to 7 in the period. The goal scoring however told a different story as we ended up trading goals with Meudon and finished the period up 4-3. We really worked hard, but one bad goal and one terrible breakdown let Meudon stay in the game.
When I used to coach, we used to lecture our teams all the time about letting teams hang around in games. Someone should have given us the lecture. Meudon tied up the game early in the third. We continued to play well as we really pressed for the win, but in the end we gave up a another bad goal as we managed to score on ourselves with under ten minutes left in the game. Meudon added an insurance marker a couple of minuted later and the game was over for us.
I thought we deserved a better fate, but we had our chances to put the game away and simply failed to capitalize. We really needed the win, but we need to move forward and focus for our next game. In injury news, we also lost two of our better forwards as Mika Snellman (shoulder) and Emilien Rouyer (wrist) went down during the game.
A small note for the video, watch for the third clip in where I catch a guy from behind and put him down hard.
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By the way, how's the +/- doing? I can't find stats on your team website. PLaying D on my Law School team I have only been on for 1 goal against all season... we have only had 7 goals against in 6 games. We play the dentists tonight, they're in 3rd place but have the most goals for (37 in 6 games!!!!) Too bad we have to wear full cages, it would be fun to see a wannabe dentist lose some chicklets
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