View From The Ice
by Brett Holmes
March 4 1998
Tier II Bantams
We’ve had no trouble scoring the first goal in this series against Daysland/Forestburg, last game it took us less than two minutes. In the second of two games held Saturday night in Provost Benoit scored just 23 seconds in on our first shot. This was just a bit of foreshadowing of what was to come.
Coming back to Provost, up one goal, we decided to take this game period by period, not thinking of the next round, or there may not be a next round for us.
What we needed was what we got. A quick goal to suddenly put Daysland/Forestburg back on their heels and tell them this was not going to be easy for them.
The puck was in the neutral zone for a few seconds until Glencross picked the puck up and took it into the opposition’s zone. There was a short battle in the corner, then Glencross came up with it again and passed it out to Benoit who snapped the puck into the net.
At the other end of the rink Stahl made a fantastic diving save which looked to be a sure goal. Stahl played excellent goaltending all throughout the game.
About six minutes into the game Paulgaard took the puck in the Daysland/Forestburg corner and slid it to Ganser. Ganser just barely slipped it through the goalie’s pads on a wrist shot from the hash marks.
Glencross then put up his first of four goals from a play similar to Benoit’s, assisted by Benoit. The play was in Daysland/Forestburg’s zone 75 percent of the time.
Carroll then rung the puck around their end boards and Holmes went after it but let it go back to Landmark at the point. Landmark then got the puck to find its way through on his slapshot with Holmes screening the goalie. 4-0 Provost after one period.
Daysland/Forestburg was putting on a bit more pressure in the second and they finally put the puck behind Stahl for the first time. It looked like Stahl had it but it had slid between his pads.
But we still won this period with three goals in a span of a minute and thirty seconds. First Stempfle, then two goals by Glencross.
After two periods it was Provost in the lead by a score of 7-1.
It came down to just one period. I’ve been hearing the stories about all these Daysland/Forestburg teams coming back and winning. That wasn’t going to happen again. About half of us on this team remember last year when this team beat us out in the final round of zones. We wanted revenge.
Five minutes into the third neither team had scored until Daysland/Forestburg struck for their second goal. But Stempfle scored two more, one on a breakaway.
But they scored again closing our lead to six.
Then in Daysland/Forestburg’s end, Paulgaard won the draw back to Landmark who quickly fed it over to Moncrieff. Moncrieff took a couple steps in and snapped the puck. The goalie got a piece of it, but not quite enough. 10-3 Provost.
Glencross put away a powerplay goal for us assisted by Moncrieff. Speaking of powerplay goals, we had two in the first game, and four in this one. Daysland/Forestburg had six in the first game, and only got one in the second game. We only had 15 penalty minutes, including a five minute penalty, while Daysland/Forestburg had 50.
Both teams each got one goal by the end of the game so that made it a 12-4 win for Provost.
This shows us that if we play disciplined hockey we will have no problem winning.
Provost scoreboard:
First Period- Benoit (Glencross); Ganser (Paulgaard, Holmes); Glencross (Benoit); Landmark (Carroll).
Second Period- Stempfle (Glencross, Benoit), Glencross (unassisted); Glencross (Ganser).
Third Period- Stempfle (Moncrieff, Holmes); Stempfle (Glencross); Moncrieff (Landmark, Paulgaard); Glencross (Moncrieff); Benoit (Glencross, Stempfle).
Next in zone play we meet Camrose.
We played the better of two Macklin teams on Monday and Tuesday March second and third with the results too late for press time. ———————
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