Kootenay dropped their first loss of the season to the WHL cellar-dwellers in Calgary last night 3-1. The Calgary Herald has a story here.
The highlites of the 8-0 game Tuesday are now up here.
In this day and age of digital highlites and the ease of programs editing them you'd think they'd be up on the various websites over night to allow for maximum exposure for fans the next day. Highlights from the Saddledome aren't yet up.
As for the game, Kootenay burned up most of the goals needed the night before as Brandon Glover stopped 32 of 33 shots in the 3-1 win.
Kootenay's inconsistent power play fizzled last night going 0-6.
G Nathan Lieuwen stayed home after the collision with Hitmen captain Cody Sylvester ended his night Tuesday. Good news is that he could play Saturday against the Giants.
G Mackenzie Skapski got his second start of his stint with the Ice ahead of back-up Brett Teskey, which will obviously raise a few questions. Nevertheless Teskey should be motivated if Lieuwen can't go Saturday night.
The four points (Brandon and Calgary) they didn't get over the last five games against sub-.500 teams will go a long way to dictating where this club finishes in the standings. Red Deer, who beat PA last night 7-4, increases to 8 points up on the Ice in the race for the Central crown.
Kootenay has a game in hand over the Rebels but has a much tougher schedule down the stretch as the Rebels still have three games against the Hitmen to play, making the likihood of catching them not the safest of bets.
Missed in my summary the other night that Levi Cable was a healthy scratch. The 16-year-old played last night and, along with D Mike Simpson, returned to their respective midget clubs. D Jeff Hubic, 16, will join the club for the next few games.
Next up are the Giants, who beat Lethbridge in a shootout last night and will play in Calgary Friday before rounding out the four-game swing at the Rec Plex Saturday night. D James Martin left the game for a spell last night but returned to finish. C Steele Boomer (ankle minimum three weeks), D Joe Leach (ankle 3-5 weeks) and D Luke Paulsen (concussion - one week) are still out.
5 comments:
Payback is sweet! You ran up the score on us, up 7-0 with 2 mins to go; Go on a PP and you put out Eakin and Fraser, as if they needed another point-you should have been more concerned about giving your trench diggers a chance-looking after all your team not just the stars. A very bad coaching move-that really motatived our team for last night.
The Ice ran up the score cause the Hitman are chippy and dont show any respect starting to run around and take cheap shots on Ice players.... Your bound to loose one of the 8 games....The Ice just got bored playing Calgary...I wouldn't call that payback maybe if the Hitman were going to make the playoffs we might care about the loss, but really 7 wins out of 8 we'll take it..
run up the score on the pp. ya right.the rooks started every pp once up by 5.you had best check and see where koots pp is. think they were 0-6 last night.it needs work a lot of work.
I am a Kootenay fan, but I gotta say, some of the coaching decisions are questionable. I don't think it does much for morale sitting regular players for call-ups, unless they are playing badly, which I don't think either Rossignol or Tesky were. Putting out the top line power play with a 7-0 lead is not cool. I saw this loss coming a mile away.
you guys have players that were taking liberties on other ICE players including running the goalie, hits from behind, and woodwork from hell, then wonder why the ICE make a statement and put the top lines out? gimme a break. At 5 nothing the ICE put out 4th line players on the PP including Neibrandt who has not seen a minute of PP all season. The ICE werent trying to make Calgary look bad at all.
Brian
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