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16u Wins TORHS National Championship!!!Revision Buffalo Wings Bantam Wins Gold!!! 
Posted: July 18, 2010 2:37PM; Updated: July 19, 2010 5:49PM
So here it is ….. We start out with issues before we even
leave Buffalo,
as I have three players back out at the last minute. This leaves the team with
six players and a goalie. I believe we are going to be ok but we will see.
First game vs St Louis
Blast –One guy forgets his equipment in Buffalo. (Thanks to the parents who split the
drive to get his stuff to Detroit)
Our guys are completely outmatched and tired and boy do we need those practices
before we go to a tournament.Can not find a rhythm and lose 8-1
Second game vs St Louis Deputy Dangles—The
boys got some rest for this one and came out to play. This game was in our
hands til late in the second half when we deflected a shot in on ourselves that
sent the game into a shootout. We went thru five shooters and could not solve
the goaltender and they got one by our tender. Loss -2-1
Third game vs Pennsylvania Typhoon-This was
another hard fought game as the Typhoon held us at bay and we could not get any
good shots off. The guys resorted to trying to be fancy and did not get the
chances they needed to win.Once again we deflected in one of there shots for
the winning goal. Lost 2-1
Fourth Game vs ISCA Grizzlies- Need this game
to make it to the qtr finals.Little bit of a scheduling snafu by Torhs as The
Grizzlies were scheduled to play the 18u final at the same time and a lot of
the players played on both teams. After a bit of a push back we played .The
game was pretty tight and fierce as both teams played extremely hard . The boys
finally got the message of possession and shoot. Superstition starts to take
affect here as I start to wear my new Michigan hat .This ones gets close at the
end as the Grizzlies pull within one and pull ther goalie to try to tie it up
but we score right off the faceoff and go up by two but wait the Grizzlies do
not give up and out one more in and with some solid work along the boards we
finish out the control game and move into the qtr finals Win 4-3
Fifth game Qtr Final vs Detroit Reebok 94-This was a tough
one as we had not expected to play this team so we did not get a chance to
watch them play. Our guys stuck to the winning combination of possession and
shooting.The refs did play a factor in this one as they called back a goal on
us and a goal on them. Either goal could have been the game winner. I will give
the refs kudos as they were in the right places at the right times. This won
stayed locked up at 1-1 and went to OT . We skated down the left side of the
rink and fired a shot from about the circles and sniped the top left corner.
Just another testament to shoot the puck.Our defense was tenacious in this one
as well as our goaltender WON 2-1 IN OT.
Sixth game Semi Final vs St Louis Deputy Dangles—At
this point the division is in a uproar as seeds 1-4 are out and it is between
5-8 for the championship.This game the boys did not wait they could taste
revenge from the first OT loss .They wasted no time and scored four goals in
the first half and then did not let them breath after that . This game got a
little nasty at the end as the chirpping got going and my guys would not back
down . We controlled the puck literally for the last 4 minutes of the game as
they were so frustrated and only concentrated on the cheap shots at the end
.They ended up with 8 penalties at the end of the game along with some
misconducts. I want to give my guys credit for keeping there heads as we were
going to the championship game. (We had watche the Bar Down Billionaires lose there
heads against Great Britian and then went into thers semi final game against
our 18u team short three of there top guys)The boys just got better each game Won
5-2
Championship Game vs St Louis Blast—Redemption
101—We statrted out a little nervous in this one as this team had dismanteled
us in our first game. We gave up two goals in the first half and were downgoing
into the second half. I told the boys that got this and they did. We came back
with two goals and tied the game up .With some very stingy defense and great
goaltending we kept the other team frustrated and just waited for our chance.
We got our chance at about 7 seconds left , our player drove down the
left side boards and put a sniper in the top corner with 2.5 seconds left in
the game. Championship was ours . 3-2
The boys were great and deserve all the credit:
Nik Sylvies –7g,5a 12 pts MVP OF THE
CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
Mike irwin -2g,5a 7pts TREMENDOUS WORK ALONG THE
BOARDS AND THE CORNERS GREAT PASSER
Greg Bala – 3g,2a 5pts CAME OUT OF HIS SHELL AND FOUND
IF HE SHOT HE WOULD SCORE
Chad
Szymanski- 3g,2a 5pts FIERY DMAN WITH GREAT SPEED TO JOIN THE
RUSH (DON’T FORGET YOUR GEAR)
David Kulczyk-2g,1a 3pts STRONG DEFENSE WITH A CANNON
FOR A SHOT (USE IT)
Nick Metcalf-0g,3a 3pts SUPERIOR DEFENSE WITH AN
OFFENSIVE MIND
Matt Hanley – save % of .850 TOP GOALIE FOR THE TOURNAMENT
We got sick of saying “ we should have beat that team” and
buckled down. Great job to all the boys and special thanks to Marc Metcalf and
Greg Bala who helped me thru the season.
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