After our 2 wins this weekend against Ogden, we have 6 wins left to get a Thorne Cup Championship. That's our mission. We swept Ogden this weekend, with 9-1 and 9-4 wins. Friday night was a good game for us. We came out with energy and passion, outshooting Ogden 24-2 in the first period. Our coach had stressed starting our games "on time," and we did that. Our 1st period play carried over into the rest of the game. The majority of the game was played in our offensive zone, which is what we want to do. Saturday night was a different story as far as showing up on time. I will say that is a little hard to take a team seriously that you just beat the night before 9-1, but again it's playoff hockey. And Ogden came out ready to play on Saturday, understandably because it was their last chance. We came out with the attitude that Ogden was going to just roll over for us and let us win. The first period was terrible on our part. We were down 3-1 after 1 and gave up 14 shots, 1 more than we gave up the whole first game in the series. Needless to say, our coaches were not very happy with our efforts, and they made that clear to us. It was embarrassing the way we prepared ourselves mentally before the game. But we changed that.
During the first intermission, I took off my shoulder pads and my skates and tried to regroup that way, give myself a fresh start. I definitely was more intense from that point on, and I think our whole team was. It would have been embarrassing for us to lose a game to Ogden, and we responded, fighting back in the game to win 9-4...Not my best game or our best game of the year by a long shot, but it's a learning lesson. Next weekend, we are playing the Boulder Bison in McCall with a trip to El Paso for the Thorne Cup Championships on the line, and Boulder is the kind of team that could take advantage of one off period and actually steal a win from us, so we have to be ready to play every period, every shift.
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