Bounce Back 'Jacks

The Angelwood Jacks showed up to Adie Knox arena last night with revenge on their mind and they got it. After losing 4-1 to WWGRD not even two weeks ago, the Jacks exacted their revenge last night. Despite the continuous pressure by WWGRD at the end of the game, the Jacks were able to hold on for the 3-2 win.

The Jacks jumped ahead early on a shot from the slot that beat the blocker hand of Jonny Tracey. WWGRD showed early resilience and responded with a goal of their own, when a pass from Trevor Crevatin deflected off a Jacks defender's stick and trickled passed the sliding goaltender into his own net. Crevatin, a call up from WWGRD's farm club, What Wouldn't Gary Roberts Do (WW'TGRD) was filling in for one of the many WWGRD players missing from action last night. The Jacks restored their lead on a two on one that was finished in the back of the net. Although WWGRD was out-playing their opponents, they found themselves in a 2-1 hole.

The game continued to get worse for WWGRD as all-star shutdown defenceman Sheldon Tracey took a stick to the face that left him bleeding on the ice. Tracey was down to block a shot when the opposing player’s stick caught his face just under his nose on the follow-through of the shot. Tracey was down but managed to get to the bench under his own power covering his face, which was quickly covered with a towel once he reached the bench. Once he stopped applying pressure and looked at the towel, Tracey was greeted by a deep rain stain looking back at him. The stud defenceman has a deep gash that would require stitches from nearby Hotel-Dieu hospital after the game, and WWGRD was forced to go forward with 3 defencemen to finish the game.

WWGRD's player of the game was Trevor Crevatin
who lead the team with 2 points: one goal and one assist.

The Jacks extended their lead to 3-1 when the trailer on a 2 on 1 was able to pounce on a rebound off two huge initial saves by JT. Down by 2, WWGRD knew they had to keep working if they wanted to tie this up. Crevatin recorded his second point of the night when he set up Ryan Boutette on a nice pass before Boutette pumped it home to bring WWGRD back to within one. They could feel the tie in their fingertips and continued the pressure. Numerous loose pucks in front of the net barely avoided WWGRD players' sticks and pucks crossed the crease but couldn’t find the back of the net due to the three horseshoes lodged in the pants of the Jacks' goaltender.

Time eventually ran out on WWGRD and they were forced to take their second loss in as many outings. The boys will have a long time to let these losses sink in and think about what needs to be done to get the winning ways back before they hit the ice next on Thursday, February 16th at 9pm. WWGRD will be looking for a bounce-back win against the Broken Rubbers, the team WWGRD opened the season off against with a 3-2 win back in October.