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Grind grind grind grind grind Saturday October 10, 2009, The Elliot Lake Bobcats hosted the South Muskoka Shield. The two clubs are both very fast skating teams who treated the approximately 200 fans to a 'ground-out battle' on the ice where the lead changed hands once and the game was brought to a tie with 59 seconds remaining on the clock! It wasn't that the Bobcats offense was amiss in this game, they actually out shot the Shield each period (48 to 37 for the game), no, the loss came on a couple of errant turn-over's, as well as our goal tending cadre running hot and cold. There just does not seem to be any consistency with our goalies. We should not have to be in the lead by six plus goals in order to ensure a win, that just doesn't seem feasible. I know that some of you reading this say "when we win it's the team and when we lose it's the goalies", this is not necessarily so. There are times when the goalie plays well - (Friday nights game for instance when the losing goalie played well but was simply beaten by "clean" goals). There are other times when the defense fail to play their positions. Yesterday afternoon the five minute overtime started with a man in the box leading to a 1 minute and 23 seconds of a four on three situation which the Cats handled well. The winning goal was scored after the man came out of the box with 1:40 left on the clock. By the way, the Shield coaching staff waited until late in the third period to attempt to charge the Bobcats with having too many men dressed. The crowd around me was concerned that there wasn't a penalty assessed for delay of game when it was found that there was no foul!!! Like I have said before if I knew the rules better.........etc. Outstanding play came from #13 Roman Yurak, #21 Edward Sedivy for the Bobcats and #9 Dylan Sontag and #17 James Cook from the Shield. I'll bet the next game will be great to watch! Click here for the GMHL site box scores Action Photos: |
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