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RSS FEEDGames 23 & 24 vs. Bruins & Beavers
This week we have a couple games against the two clubs battling it out for second place to earn the coveted playoff bye into the semi-finals, the West End Bruins and Thunder Bay Beavers, Game 23 vs. West End Bruins Including tournaments, this would be our 6th meeting with the West End Bruins. West End [...]
read more »Game 22 vs. Westfort Rangers
The last time we had played the Westfort Rangers, they actually gave us quite a scare as we took a 3-3 tie with them into the third. We ended up winning 5-3 but they played extremely well. The Rangers continued their play going on a run of 2-2-2 in their next 6 games, nipping at [...]
read more »Game 21 vs. South End Jr. Stars
About 16 hours after returning to Thunder Bay, we had a regular season game against the South End Jr. Stars. As I had mentioned in my last blog post, we lost a young man named Mathew Gibbons well before his time, so before the game we observed a moment of silence. Eric Donaldson, who was [...]
read more »Wayzata Tournament
Thursday morning, we made the bus trip down to the Minneapolis/St.Paul area for the ‘Wayzata Junior Gold B Tournament’ to compete with a total of eight teams; Five teams from Minnesota, including the Osseo-Maple Grove team that we played in the Grantsburg tournament, one from Fargo, North Dakota, and our old rivals, the Des Moines [...]
read more »Game 20 vs. Fort William Canadiens
Those Pesky Canadiens We’ve lost to two teams in our league this season. One was to the Beavers in a regular season game, our only regular season loss to date, and once to the Fort William Canadiens in the Westfort Tournament. They always play us pretty tough, so it’s surprising that they have a mere [...]
read more »Game 19 vs. Westfort Maroons
Tuesday night we took on the Westfort Maroons (7-7-4), who were coming off a 0-0 tie the previous night with the Westfort Rangers. This game followed the same kind of themes and storyline as our first game of the season with the Maroons (Game 6). I usually like to watch a bit of my opponent’s [...]
read more »Game 18 vs. Nipigon
Welcome to the Jungle Once a season, as a team in the Midget A division, we drive up to Nipigon for a regular season game. This was a game that, as a coaching staff, we were anticipating being one of our tougher contests of the season. After us, Nipigon has the second highest goals per [...]
read more »New Business Cards
If you’ll recall, I recently wrote a short blog about finding a bunch of my old business cards. They looked so funny to me, especially compared to my then current ones, which always got a good reaction from people because of their design and paper quality. But I recently upgraded to even newer cards which, [...]
read more »Game 17 vs. Westfort Rangers
Tuesday night, we took on the Westfort Rangers. The Rangers’ record of 1-11-1 going into this game have them in last place. Conversely, our record of 15-1-0 has us squarely in first. To add to that, the Rangers were missing four of their best players, four players who we were pretty high on at evaluations. [...]
read more »Game 16 vs. Beavers
Last stop before Christmas! Thursday night, we played the late game against the Beavers. This would be an important game since they’re the second place team behind us, and a victory would mean a 10-point lead with 12 games remaining in the regular season; A loss, a mere 6 points. Also, the Beavers are the [...]
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