Jan 18, 2015 | Michael Spetman | 1235 views
Sailors Scored, Soared, left us never Bored in Clifford
The Peewee ScotiaBank LL participated in the Clifford PeeWee Local League Tournament Saturday January 17th and played some of their best hockey of the season.
The Sailors arrived in Clifford for their 1st game against Bruce Peninsula drawing the later 11:00 timeslot. They came out sleepy despite not having to be on the road before the sun rose but this game was anything but a snooze. #4 would score and pick up the assist for the the Bruce teams two goals scored on the sluggish Sailors in the 1st period, Tyler in net managing to keep the game from running away. The boys came out in the 2nd strong and finally playing with intensity Aiden stole the puck deep in the Bruce zone, a quick pass across the net put it on Jacks stick on the open side who got the Sailors on the board at 8:59. 35 seconds later Evan made the play from behind the net passing to Kaden out front, Kaden took the shot , Evan skating out popped in the rebound assisting on his own goal. Remi scored the go ahead goal at 5:44 skating it in unassisted and putting the hard wrist shot just under the cross bar. Going into the 3rd period up 3-2 Remi would increase the Sailor lead at 13:32 skating it from behind the blue line all the way with another hard high wrist shot that was on the mark this day. #4 for the Bruce Team put one past Tyler at 11:44 cutting the Sailor lead to 4-3. Fighting back Jack passed from the corner out to Aiden at the hash marks, the Bruce goalie got a piece of the hard high slapshot but the puck still flexed the mesh in the back of the net, 5-3 Sailors. #4 found wheels and put in two quick goals at 7:48 and 7:39 on a 5 goal 6 point night, and suddenly it was tied up at 5-5. With 2:07 left the Bruce team put one more in the Sailor net for the go ahead 6-5. The Sailors short on time weren't sunk yet , Remi stole the puck and put another hard fast wrist shot under the cross bar for the Hatrick with a minute seven left , 6-6 and the boys went to overtime. The 1st overtime period played 4 on 4 was scoreless both teams battling hard for the puck. Now 3 on 3 number 4 came up with that 5th goal of the night with 44 seconds to go in the 2nd overtime the Sailors having played one of their best games of the season moved on to the consolation Semi-final.
Goderich faced up against Centre Wellington in the Semi-final. Some more great hockey ensued as the two evenly matched teams fought back and forth through most of the 1st, several scoring opportunities and great saves for both sides till Goderich scored late at 3:11, Aiden from the corner to Remi whose wrist shot was on the mark all day. The Wellington team fought back scoring at 1:19 , and their #8 Player closed the 1st period the sailors down 2-1 by scoring at 0:57. In the second period Remi put the puck up to Jack who took the shot evening the score at 5:29. Jack passing to Remi at the point and a long hard wrist under the cross bar on the power play put the sailors in the lead 3-2. #8 would score again at 1:12 and the two teams went into the 3rd period tied 3 all. #8 scored the go ahead goal at 14:20 and again at 10:51 and the Sailors found themselves down 5-3. Charged up and playing hard the boys generated several chances, with a dozen great shots on net by Nick,Jack,Kaden and Aiden but the Wellington goalie was playing just as hard. With 35 seconds on the clock Evan got a nice pass up from Remi and figured out the Wellington netminder making it 5-4 but it wasn't quite enough.
The team had a lot of fun, played their best hockey of the season, the new forward lines congealing together, the defense hustling for the puck and doing a great job of clearing the puck and rebounds with solid goal tending anchoring these Sailors. They gained some great experiance in a couple of games that had the crowd on edge from start to finish.
The Scotia Bank PeeWee Sailors are back in action 10:30AM in Brussels, Saturday January 24th against the Burgandy Crusaders, come out and cheer them on.