Teal, Novice House League, 2010-2011 (Amherstburg Minor Hockey Association)

Time to put the skates away and get out the soccer balls and baseball bats.  We finished a great year with a tie; ending our season with 16 wins, 6 losses and 3 ties.  Our record was tops in the league although not quite good enough to finish first or second or third. LOL!  The kids gave it a great effort over the weekend and the coaches are very pleased with each of our players.  I want to thank Coach Chuck Morin and Coach Scott Jones for their support, sense of humour and hockey knowledge.  Click the link in the title to read more as the article continues further!

A close game ended with a loss, 5-4.  The kids played well and we had numerous shots; however the Orange goalie was tough today.  We play our last game Sunday against Orange and we need a win to force a tie. Today's goal scorers were Max, Jacob, Cameron and William. Assists went to Lexi, William, Keaton, Max and Spaghetti.   Note:  We play Sunday at 9:30 [Rink B - Josh in net].  From 10:30 to 11:00 the kids get a luncheon and their trophies.  Bring your cameras [have the kids dress at the arena so they don't have to wear their hockey equipment after the game] Thanks, Coach Bob

We had an opportunity for a warm-up game against Orange, our opponents next weekend. Although both teams were short handed and the kids had a lot of ice time, both teams played with high intensity and the game had a lot of action.  We had numerous chances and spent most of the time in Orange's end.  Today we mixed up the lines giving our defense an opportunity to play up and three of our regular forwards a chance to play defense.  Today's scorers were Max with two, Jacob, Lexi and Spaghetti with one each.  William had two assists and Adam had one.  Good job today!  On defense it was nice to ...

We fell short today with a great team effort, losing in a shoot-out.  With two minutes to go in the game and a two goal lead, we let up and Blue scored two quick goals to tie the game.  A very strong effort again by Josh in net, strong defense and strong offense allowed us to have the game in our hands and then it slipped away!  Although disappointing the kids played real well, skated very hard and deserved a better fate.  Our hats off to a very strong Blue team, who kept the pressure on and snatched the win.  Keep your chins up as you all played hard and put in a heck of a team effort!

With both teams down some players, the kids had a lot of ice time playing 5 on 5 and 4 on 4.  With Cam leading the way in net we played real strong defense and came out ahead 7-4.  Cam stopped a lot of Maroon shots helping us keep the hard shooting Maroon from gaining any momentum.  Good job Cam! Our defense of Spencer, Josh, Matt and Dalton also were offensive minded with Spencer getting a nice goal and Dalton and Matt each getting an assist.  Very balanced play by all four! Offensively we had three forwards each scoring two goals.  It was great to see Ty net two plus an assist, Adam get two ...