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Your DNHL Bantams used their pre-game locker room time to go over game plans to the sound of heavy metal music provided by Adam Taylor. Our boys hit the ice hard knowing that lines would be short with the high number of absent players. For a variety of reasonable reasons JD, Tyler and Kevin found themselves otherwise engaged. Colton was glad for this turn of events as he was able to finally get off defense and play his favored position of center.

From the coaches point of view things seemed to be going well. The jaguars earned one goal off of Arden with some great team play in the zone. However the second goal came on what seemed a bizarre call where Jeff, lying in front of his goalie on the ice, tried to sweep a loose puck back to Arden. The puck became entangled in Jeff’s jersey and the ref called him for covering a puck in the crease. That equals a penalty shot! Wouldn’t you know it, their shooter scored. The referee explained had Jeff covered the puck outside the crease it would have been a two minute delay of game penalty. Well, at least Jeff didn’t have to go in the box.

Later in the game one of our defensemen had a puck deflect off of him and right into the net. Arden had the shot covered but was not prepared for the deflection. It seems sooner or later every player gets a turn at scoring on their own goal.

While we coaches liked how our guys were playing; breaking out, making passes, holding the zone, we were amazed to see the shots on goal differential. We had a scant thirteen shots on their goal while they had a whopping 28 shots on Arden. I had to ask our parents and fans what their take of the game with and across the board they echoed our impression of a great game. Two weird goals and fifteen more shots considered we didn’t do half bad given the short nature of our lines. I also feel stick and puck on Friday, practice on Saturday left a few players flat for Sunday’s game. Moving stick and puck to Wednesday should solve that.