View From The Ice
by Brett Holmes
January 21 1998
In Consort on Saturday, we thought we might have had an easy one coming. But that was not what happened. We had a pretty bad time with this team, particularly their goalie. It seemed wherever he moved, the puck was there. We probably outshot Consort 40-15.
In the first it was mostly Provost doing the damage but still not putting the puck in. Consort scored on one of their first shots just halfway through the period on a breakaway.
It was pretty physical out there and Landmark and Moncrieff made bodies fly in the opening period, this opened up some skating room for our forwards but not much was going our way. Our timing was terrible on our passes, and we weren’t too careful with the puck.
It was only 1-0 after one period.
With Stempfle in the box serving a six minute penalty (never saw that before) Consort added to their lead on another breakaway.
The second was very similar with Provost coming close on a few occasions, but just not getting the right bounces.
It could’ve been ten to two if it wasn’t for their hot goalie. Stahl on the other hand wasn’t getting tested that much, but was there when needed. Stahl and the defense kept it a close game.
Stempfle almost put us on the board with a shot from the right face off dot, but the ref had ruled the goalie had caught the puck and kept it out.
2-0 after two.
In the dressing room all we talked about was getting one goal and how that would spark us. We also talked about spreading out and passing it accurately and how that would give our speedy forwards an advantage.
Again, the same style period except it was in our end a little bit more now, and we were almost half a period from the game being over. Then Ganser passed the puck, just before getting hit, over to Sorby who went in on a two-on-one with Holmes. Sorby passed the puck over, the goalie went down, and Holmes waited and waited until it looked like he had gone too far, but he just slid the puck just over the line to ignite a third period rally.
A couple of shifts later on the power play, Glencross and Benoit went down on their hundredth rush of the game. Benoit shot, rebound to Glencross, scores! Tie game! Nobody on the bench knew it was in until they put their arms up in the air.
The play was going back and forth and with just a few minutes left Consort had themselves another breakaway. They were already two for two tonight.
Stahl came out to challenge and as quick as could be, the Consort player shot and Stahl picked the shot out of the air. Heading toward the top corner, but denied.
Now, with just under two minutes left, Benoit and Glencross were applying pressure. Glencross picked up the loose puck at the boards and skated out, he wound up from the top of the circle and blasted it just inside the post to put Provost in the lead for the first time.
It seemed as soon as we scored that goal the refs started calling things against us. Glencross got a ten minutes misconduct after the goal, which personally I think did no harm in any way to anybody.
The puck was mainly staying in the neutral zone, with Provost trying to keep the puck out and Consort trying to put it into our zone.
Then Moncrieff received a penalty for a pretty clean body check with 26 seconds left.
The face off was in our end and we had won it, Carroll sent the puck down to the other end missing the empty net. Consort had brought it back down to our end with about 12 seconds left. They had just one golden opportunity but shot it over the net.
We had a comeback in the last half of the last period to beat Consort by a count of 3-2.
Provost scoreboard:
First Period- No scoring.
Second Period- No scoring.
Third Period- Holmes (Sorby, Ganser); Glencross (Benoit); Glencross (unassisted).
This weekend we travel to Hanna for a tournament.
Moncrieff will probably not see much action for a few games after possibly kicking a player.
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