The Warriors were flying early, using their speed and puck moving abilities to hem WWGRD in their own zone to start the game. However it was once WWGRD had the puck in the offensive zone that the Warriors struck first, as a man slipped behind the defenders and was hit with a beauty stretch pass to send him in. The speedy Warrior forward made a good move on Johnny Tracey before sliding it by the sprawled out tendy. The Warriors kept up their pressure, moving the puck in the zone and getting shots on goal before pouncing on a rebound to stretch their lead to two. JT was doing his best to keep WWGRD in the game, but the team was going to have to push back if they were going to stand a chance in this matchup.
The forwards up'd the pressure on The Warriors in the zone and got some good shots but couldn't beat the big and talented Warrior tendy who was coming off a shutout in his season debut earlier in the night. A couple big saves on good scoring chances took the wind out of the boys in blue, and the Warriors weren't taking their feet off the pedal. Newly-signed Jason Koumaris lead the rush down the ice and fired a low, hard shot on goal and Corey "Big Sexy" Agar was Johnny-on-the-spot and pounced on another rebound, opening up a 3 goal lead for the Warriors.
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The TSN Turning Point for WWGRD came while they still faced the 3-0 deficit. With the Warriors pressuring again, the puck made its way back to the point where the defender let a shot go only to have it get blocked and deflected out of the zone off of a sprawling Matthew McNasty McNaughton. This all-out effort in a three goal game that had three minutes left ignited the WWGRD bench and inspired the team to go finish the game on a 1-1 run. After the Warriors took a 4-0 lead on a puck that squeaked through the Woodslee Wall, WWGRD turned their focus to breaking the shutout streak at the other end.
Sheldon Tracey held a clearing attempt in at the line and made a couple moves on defenders as he made his way down in the zone before chipping it down low to Dylan Berthiaume. D Bert toe-dragged around a defender as he made his way out from the corner before jamming it far side on the Warrior tendy. This ended his season-opening shutout streak at roughly 79 minutes and change. This was the lone bright spot in a 4-1 loss for WWGRD, their second straight to start the season.
Another feel good moment came after the game, when an unnamed Warriors player who gets off to punching smaller players in the back of the head while rocking his period-stain red buckey admitted that he was a long time reader of the blog. To this I say thank you, I appreciate the support and figured you deserved a shout out, so stay classy big guy.
WWGRD's lone goal scorer, Dylan Berthiaume, addressed some reporters post game with his thoughts. "I think we showed that when Johnny plays the way he did tonight, we can play with any team in this league." He then acknowledged that the team may not exactly be in peak form yet, saying "our cardio definitely needs some work, but we can't use a short bench as an excuse, especially when we're playing a team that played before the game too." Newly added defenceman, Joshua Covelli, who had another outstanding game on the blue-line, addressed some members of the media after the game as well. "We had some ups and downs out there, but I believe that the boys are slowly getting a good feel for each other, and we just gotta turn our attention to another big game tomorrow."
As Covelli alluded to, the team gets right back to it as they hit the ice tomorrow when they take on The Dusters. WWGRD will be looking for their first points of the season, so call in to work with your best excuses to get out and support the boys in their afternoon affair. Puck drop is slated for 1pm at Adie Knox.
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