Mooretown Flags Faced a Bad Weekend
December 13, 2015
COMMUNITY NEWS
The Mooretown
Flags were shut out 5 - 0 at
home against the Blenheim Blades
Saturday night in Great Lakes
Jr. C Hockey league action.
"Not a good
effort, it's been a bad
weekend." Head Coach Doug
Slipacoff said. "Execution
and focus we were sorely
lacking. We take
undisciplined penalties, too
many breakdowns in the D zone,
no energy on the bench it makes
you wonder how one team can be
so different from one week to
the next."
Blenheim scored 2
goals in the first, added a
single in the second and added
two more in the third.
Scoring for the Blades were Matt
Clark, Justin Delgado, Brayden
Seliga, Brayden Hopkins and Nick
Delyzer.
"That's probably
the worst team in the league
that we match up with."
Slipacoff said "They play
physical especially on a small
ice. It doesn't help because
there's not a lot of space to
hide out. They're a meat and
potatoes team they finish checks
they throw pucks to the net they
just work hard, they don't do
anything special. They're
just a blue collar team that we
should be better than that."
Blenheim outshot
the Flags 30 - 21. Brandon
Johnson who was pulled in the
third after the 5th goal faced
25 shots. Nolan Hakr
finished the game faced 5.
"Probably not
Brandon's best game. He faced 50
plus shots last night in
Lakeshore so I'm sure he was
tired. I think he ran out of
gas, he let in some goals that
he doesn't usually let in. It's
really hard to fault Brandon
when he's been the MVP of this
game.
Both sides had
three power play opportunities.
Mooretown was scoreless Blenheim
scored one.
With last night's
performance the team has dropped
into fourth place in the
standings (15-10-2-0).
Blenheim (16-9-1-0) is now tied
with Amherstburg (15-8-2-1) for
second and Lakeshore is on the
Flags heals just one point
behind (13-10-2-3).
"I don't know if we got a little bit ahead of ourselves with the success
in the last couple of games.
If you look at the standings and
see that your creeping up there
in second place and you think
it's pretty easy now that's a
reality check." said Slipacoff
"We just gave up 10 goals in the
last ninety minutes of hockey so
I think it's time to get back to
basics."
The Flags will
take the day off on Sunday then
back to the rink on Monday to
prepare for a busy week.
"It's exams so I
have a bunch of kids away to so
we are going to have to find a
way to hopefully put some wins
together."
The Flags are on
the road Tuesday December 15
when they travel to Essex
(24-3-0-2) to take on the
league leaders. Wednesday
they make the short trip
to Wallaceburg (3-22-0-0)
then return home on Saturday
December 19 hosting Lakeshore.
