Nov 08, 2014 | Michael Spetman | 602 views
Sailor Jeopardy, Seven was not enough.
How many Meteors does it take to beat the Sailors ? In another nail biter, the PeeWee Sailors LL were hosted by the the Meteors in Mitchell Friday Nov 2.
The two teams both mounted good offense, great defense and goal tending battling back and forth through a scoreless 1st period.
The Mitchell team opened the scoring six minutes into the 2nd period. The linesman argued the next goal was invalid that a Meteor player was holding the Goalie when a 2nd second goal came a minute later for the Meteors but the Ref over ruled and the score went on the board 0-2
Remi picked up the puck at centre and skated it in unassisted putting one by the Meteor Goalie with a nice wrist shot to put the Sailors on the board with 5:48 left in the 2nd. With 25 seconds left Nick passed to Remi who fired one into the net off the skate of the Mitchell Captain ending the 2nd period in a 2 all tie.
Less than 30 seconds into the 3rd Kaden found the open side of the net with a perfect flip pass from Joey as the two charged the net. Mitchell answered back 20 seconds later tying the teams 3-3. Jack got the puck to Kaden in front of the net who digging for his own rebound put the Sailors up 4-3. Jack made it 5-3 with Joey's help at 9:52.
With control of the puck changing hands 3 times in the Sailor end the boys couldn't get the puck out. When Jack finally broke out the Ref whistled calling a long delayed penalty against the Sailors. The defense successfully thwarted the Meteors power play. The Sailors went two men short at 5:36 and the great Sailor defense kept the Meteors off the board killing the double penalty. Finally Mitchell scored at 4:21 with the boys still one man short. Defending through another penalty from 2:54 to 0:54 play was whistled in the Sailor end with 0:58 on the clock. The Meteors pulled their goalie and put 7 skaters on the ice. After 10 seconds play was stopped and paused while the linesman argued with the Ref but play resumed without a penalty being called and the face off still in the Sailor end. The Meteors still six skaters strong, scored tying the Game 5 -5 with 48 seconds left.
The boys can be proud of their showing against a very strong Mitchell team. Both teams played excellent hockey.