I was going to wait to do this later in the week and include tonight’s game, but, after another day of rain and snow, that game is cancelled. Man, May is going to be a busy month with all of the rescheduling!
We did play on Monday, a 2-1 loss to Holt. Pretty decent game, especially for it only being our second game (and rain has cancelled a ton of practice!).
The big guy did what the big guy does on defense; both goals against us were when Holt blew by the same defenseman and ran unimpeded to the goal for a shot…
He did seem to have a lot of trouble scooping up the ball this game. He was more active in trying to do that this game; we had talked that he seemed to be watching a lot last game and he did step it up and get his big body in there today….but not a lot of success getting the ball from the ground into the head of his stick…
One nice acknowledgement of how well he does on defense; when we are a man down this group of coaches pulls a middie out for a defenseman….if Cpher is not on the field at that point he is the choice to go onto the field every time.
No penalties this year yet either; I can’t even remember a foul. I’m sure they will come though.
This boy moved from middie to attack for this game. I don’t think he liked it as much, because if the ball went to our side of the field he had to stop at midfield and wait for his teammates to get the ball and come back upfield.
Had one good rush upfield; he gets around this guy
But is taken down by the other guy…..Matthew likes to pass, and does pass, but many of his teammates don’t even consider it, and slowly I’m sure Matthew will stop passing to them and just keep the ball and try to get inside himself. A little more passing and we could have won this game….
At least the weather turned out nice, probably 55 degrees at the start and sunny all throughout…..No games until next week now though.
