Landon Hockey 3 St Albans 2

Landon Hockey 3 St Albans 2

Whenever the Bears play the Bulldogs in any sport, the outcome matters. The Friday night game drew fans from 6101 and Mount StA to the Bears’ Den. At stake, if the visitors won, their nine points in ten games would tie the home team’s nine earned in only 8 games. A more Bearish view would see a victory of StA would earn our boys 11 points in 8 games, tying the Stags after 9.

It was senior night with the parents of Jordan Dinesman, Ryan Giles, Joey Graham, Tommy Kenary, Ethan Weinstein, Max Weinstein and Christian Mockler (manager) being recognized for the many thousand hours of driving to/from games and practices. The Class of 2020 did well for their careers, but with 3 more MAPHL games plus two league tournaments.

Fierce forechecking was the mark of the Bears for the first 15 minutes. The Bulldog skaters could not exit their D zone for much of this segment of the game. Landon reminded their opponents that  physical contact is an element of hockey o9with checks being delivered by the home skaters.

That effort paid off for @13:55, Max fed Jordan who in turn delivered the puck to Tommy for an all 2022 score. This senior trend continued when Ryan beat the StA talented goalie @9:03 for the 2^nd goal.

A little let down by the Bears resulted in an StA breakaway goal at 7:28.

END OF 1^ST PERIOD BEARS 2 BULLDOGS 1

       L SOGs 19 L SAVES (MAX) 3

The midsection of the game was not as exciting. Landon scored the lone goal @ 8:02 Jordan to Kyle Radimer (the only non-senior on the scoresheet) to Tommy.

Coach Farnstrom (Coach Erickson was sick) was able to rotate 3 defensive pairs (plus one who skated with several D) and 10 forwards for much of the game.

END OF MIDDLE AGE BEARS 3 BULLDOGS 1

       L SOGs 18 L SAVES (MAX) 2

As the one, only clever cheer, two-part, by the Landon boys “this is boring” followed by “so is your weekend” (not well received by our guests) indicated that the home team’s dominance did not allow any exciting attacks by the Bulldogs, a truly somniferousperformance.

The StA coach parted from the hockey bible and pulled his goalie at 5:34. That did not catalyze his charges to put the puck in the Bear nets and eventually he returned his netminder to his normal post. Even with the sixth skater the Bulldogs had trouble controlling the puck. The Bears did, however, lose their ferocity and with 0:38.9 they score their second goal.

FINAL SCORE BEARS 3 BULLDOG 2

       L SOGs 11 [48] L SAVES 4 [9] (MAX)

NEXT WEEK –2/5 CALVERT HALL HOME @ 4:30PM and the regular season finale another Friday Night match v. St. John’s at the Rockville Ice Arena the Plank/ARMOUR ® Rink #5:25 pm