Dec 14, 2015 | maiken | 327 views
Awesome's ShutOut Number Four and More...
The Mitchell Meteors came north to Paisley on Sunday and the Dogs were prepared. The Dogs kept their penalty minutes to half of the other squad's, and kept pushing that puck into their end. And, ultimately, their net. Final 4 to 0. Lawson's fourth shutout as well!
The first period flew by, with both teams getting solid chances to test the other's goalie. Neither team gave the other any extra chances, like a powerplay and played a tight game. The fans had to wait until 3:25, when Brandon, who may have even assisted himself, along with Chayse, got the Dogs started. And the Dogs wanted all the firsts...we also had the first penalty call for Clay. That opportunity for the Meteors was only notable when our player fired the puck out of rink and caused a little rain to fall on his own bench. But that was the only rain that fell.
The Meteors and Dogs focused their attention in the second on completing good passes and not rattling the boards, however, Mitchell (the team) would get their first of six penalties. Despite being down a skater, Lawson had to be awesome and make some big saves. After the sides evened up again, it was a Dog's turn to have a rest for the same penaltyafter a hard battle for JT. The puck spent most of its time in the Meteor end, thanks in no small part to Jay, Matt and Chayse but the team just could not increase on its single goal. Not until the other defense pair of Josh and Brad worked the puck on the Meteor blueline, and shipped the puck to Mason, and then, Brandon. Now it was two. By the whistle, it would be three. With only .32 on the clock, Mitch F, with a little help from his friends, sealed it. Meanwhile, the Meteors picked up a penalty on that rush and would have to start the third with someone in box of shame.
The advantage would be shortlived, when Brock was maligned and sent to the box too. The fans were displeased. But only in a quiet and respectful manner that meets all the requirements of the little sheet of paper we signed at the beginning of the year. Both teams started to throw their weight around a bit more. The score remained 3 to 0. However at 9:09, there was a moment that had more than one fan scratching their head. The question was: where did the Meteor goalie go?!? One second, there was an arm up at our blueline, and there was also a booming hit at the same time by Mitch V at pretty much the same spot. When the Meteor goalie saw that arm go up, his bench thought there was Dog penalty on the way, so they pulled the goalie to throw out another skater. Only....it was an offside arm. Not a penalty arm. Jason T took total advantage of it. 4 to zip. A couple of minutes later, Clay would receive a hit from behind and a Meteor player would receive his walking papers for the game. Everyone was ok. Although the score wouldn't change again, there was still a lot going on...Mason with a waterbug demo, Rourke with a killer clean check, Brock's slide down the ice, Brandon attempting to matrix our score to five while on his knees and of course, some excellent work by Lawson, including the diving save at 3:39. It was awesome, obviously! And then the buzzer sounded. All done. Streak secure. Dogs still running. Final 4 to 0.