mini vans - playoffs

And thus ends a stellar season by the minivans... Tonight we played the roadrunners, a team we had already beaten twice before but we just couldn't keep up with the intensity they brought in the late stages of the game. Ill choose to be objective in this post, I could be really biased but we flat out lost to a team that we shouldn't have lost to. There's no excuses, we got outplayed when it counted most.

We started out the game really well, controlled the pace but couldn't find the back of the net. Our passing was on, our shots were good, their goalie kept them in the first period. We finally got a goal in the second period and went up 1-0 and we were feeling pretty good. The feeling didn't last, the roadrunners came back in the third and tied the game up, then scored a go-ahead goal with 3:30 left in the game.
We called a timeout to catch our breath and tried to come out stronger but the roadrunners kept us in check and contained the hell out of us. We didn't leave our zone in the last 2 minutes of the game. Fucking PATHETIC!!

Overall it was a good season. We stared out with a win loss record of 1-3 and ended the regular season with a win loss of 9-3-1.

Good work this season team.
Next season starts at the end of september.

Mini Vans - Playoffs

big game tonite at 9pm, thats for sure
we're past the first round of the playoffs and now its just a one game format for the rest of the way.
we need to win tonite against the roadrunners, a team we already beat twice so far this year by the slimmest of margins each time. the only exception is that we got a full team today, we've never played them with a full team.
that includes loppy, back from his trip, and another person as well back from a 3 week vaca.
gotta stay grounded, cant get too far ahead of ourselves. we got the momentum, we just won our last 2 games pretty much, the roadrunners lost in overtime last week when their goalie pretty much scored on himself.

more posts to come tonite.
cheers

mini vans - playoffS

Tonight was a BIIIIIIGGG game in the playoffs. Second game of a 2 game series, we got smoked the first game and needed to win the second by atleast 2 goals, and then win in the OT period after the game to decide who would go onto the next round. The first game was good for us, we had the other team on their asses for a while and kept up the high pressure throughout the first and second periods. We went into the third clinging to a 1-0 lead, but that quickly evaporated when they tied the game with 12 minutes left in the third. We didn't let it faze us though, and we put on the pressure again and scored another goal to go up 2-1. After that we could tell the other team was dying, several of the players were lying on the ground and toasted. That's when we knew we had to turn it up so we kept the ball in their end with some good passing and wasted time on the clock. The other team finally got their goalie pulled and brawlette got a chance to race it up the floor and he was gone. He put the ball in the open net to guarantee the win and then we started to think about the OT period coming up next that we had to win.

The OT was fast paced and exciting from the beginning and we kept the pressure on the knighthawks and kept it out of our end. Baskie played like the MVP he's been all season and made some beauty saves to keep our season alive and we just tried to get off as many shots as we could. All of our lines got some really good chances but we couldn't end the game. I got off from a shift and was sitting on the bench pissed off because I hadn't shot on a chance and tried to feed it to brawley and mucked the play up. I came out the next shift with a vengeance and kotchie's brother made a nice play to catch a clearing attempt and run it up the floor and I yelled at him that I was with him. It was a 2 on 1 and he made a nice play to draw the defenceman over and fed me a juicy pass and I rifled the ball into top cheese corner. OT, series clinching goal, feels nice knowing that we can play in high pressure situations and come out on top. Good hustle tonite team.

b-kells showed up tonite to play, he was hustling his ass off, same with johnson, both brawleys, both kotchs, stabs, and everyone else. special shoutout to BEVAN!! played his first game of the year on forward and he was doing really well tonite, now we know what position hes playin from now on. only thing he needs is some SHORTS!! he'll be wheelin and dealin as soon as he gets rid of the baggy sweats he rocks. overall we played really well tonite and im proud to be a part of the Mini Vans

Now we need to concentrate on the next series. There's no fucking way it'll be this stressfull again.

Cheers

Mini Vans - Playoffs

last night sucked, thats all i can say.
we had 2 full lines, we were missing one of our fastest players, and one of our key defencemen out there and it showed.
we got outplayed by a better and more amped up Onedin Knighthaws team and they beat us 2-1 in the first game of the playoffs, thats no good.
we started off the game strong and scored the first goal but they came back in the second and third periods and tied it up and eventually scored the game winning goal with 3 minutes left in the game.
our defence was sloppy as hell, our offence just couldnt get it going at all. we need to practice our breakout, really badly.
we also need to isolate their shitty right defencemen and pressure the shit out of them so that we can enter their zone more easily and get off more shots.
we arent gonna win if we get less than 1o shots in a game, thats a given.
now we need to win the next game and then win in the overtime. no big deal.

we're missing hackett next week, which blows, and maybe johnson as well, which also sucks the big one.
atleast we'll have ross back (the nitrous), and ian on defence as well.
just call me and smiley the fast and the furious. im pissed and he's the fastest player on the floor.

Mini Vans - Playoffs

this is it, what we've played for all season long.
first game of the playoffs is tonite and the team including myself is pumped. we finished the season first place, and now the fun begins.
we're playin the Onedin Nighthaws in the first series of the playoffs, that means 2 games and the team with the most points moves on. im looking forward to playing against this team because we played well against them all season long and we're only gotten better this year as the season went on so they'll see a different team out there tonite playing against them.
we're gonna need to watch a few of their players over the next 2 games and try to shut down #10 and #11. both of them were in the top 10 in scoring in the league and lead their team in points. if we can shut them up then it will just give us a better chance to get a win.
ill post the results tonite,

cheers

mini vans - regular season

Tonight was the last game of the regular season and we knew before the game that we had already clinched first place in the league. We were playing the orange team, a good opponent that made the game close last time we played and did the same thing this time. We started off the game with me, brawley and johnson bringin the intensity on the first shift and hack, brawlette and stabs following it up with a beaty shift and hackett sniped a nice goal. The very next shift for me brawl and johnson came out and killed it and got another goal to make the game 2-0 and we were feeling good.
We kept up the pressure and had the other team on their heels for the rest of the first and into the second but nearing the third you could start to see that double shifting for as long as we had started to take its toll on us. We had 2 full lines plus one floater for the whole game so it was pretty much go on, play, go off and go back on again.
We got outplayed all of the third and luckily baskie kept us in the game again with his stellar play. The orange team made the game close by scoring their first and only goal of the game but we were able to weather their offensive rushes and have a few dominant shifts to keep them on the defensive. We killed it in the last few minutes and pressured them so that they couldn't pull their goalie until there was less than a minute left and we were able to run out the clock for yet another win keep a streak goin into the playoffs next week.

Good game tonite team.
Now a whole new season begins.



i would like to add on a sidenote that R-Kells was on defence tonite and absolutely killed it whenever he was on the playing surface. he knows his positional defence really well and was hustling his ass off making some really good plays to put us in a better position to win. i know baskie appreciated his hard work.

mini vans - regular season

Tonight was one of the most important games of the eason and we came through with a very good and clutch performance against what was considered to be a tough opponent. The first two periods we played really effectively but couldn't find the back of the net and came close to going into third down 1-0.

The pylon's first and only goal wasn't pretty at all, baskie went down and hit the net to the side and the ball rolled in the side. After that we got fired up and came out with energy. Ian got a goal with five seconds left in the second and then the pylons called a pointless timeout that didn't phase us at all.

We came out in the third just like we ended the second and I drew a penalty and took another bump in the shin that resulted in the second and eventual game winning goal. Right after that shift r-kells, stabs (playin his first ever game forward) and me came out with an intensity and stabs got two quick goals to make it 4-1 and after that the game seemed a bit easier.

We finished the game winning it 5-1, r-kells and me both racked up 4 assists, brawley senior got a goal and assist and stabs got 2 goals.

Good game team. Tops of the league is almost clinched now.