By Graham Perkins /
The Peewee A2 team isn’t about to let one loss slow it down.
The boys lost to Semiahmoo A3 9-5 last Sunday, halting a mini two-game win streak that had seen it climb to 4-7-1 on the season.
“Semiahmoo have got our number,” said head coach Rich Darocha. “Teams that beat them, we’ve beat. We were up 3-2 at one time, and we’re usually the team that comes from behind.”
However, the importance of the previous two wins should not be understated. The team had been mired in a five-game winless slide that saw them sink to the bottom of Tier 4, and despite keeping nearly all the games close, they just couldn’t seem to find a way to pull out the win. But after opening December with a 3-1 win over Vancouver Thunderbirds A2 and following that up with a 6-3 win over Hollyburn A2, the team is feeling confident heading into the final part of its schedule.
“We’ve got two more games left and we feel like we can take both of them,” Darocha said. “I’d like to get two more wins before the playoffs start.”
The final games are against Richmond, which sits below Burnaby in the standings, and Coquitlam, which Burnaby edged 4-3 in their last matchup back in mid-November.
A major factor in both games is going to be how much discipline the team can show. In the last Coquitlam game, the boys recorded their only fighting major of the season and subsequently ended the game with two misconducts.
“We’ve got to try and stay out of the box a little more. But we had lots of practice early in the year at the penalty kill, so we’re really good at it,” Darocha joked. |