By Graham Perkins /
The Peewee A1 team doesn’t like to do anything easy. The boys faced the Sno Kings last weekend, searching for their first win since mid-November, and found itself ahead 4-0 after the first period.
However, the team let off the gas and allowed the Sno Kings to claw back to tie the game and took an untimely penalty near the end of the game to put themselves one-man down to boot. But they got a fortunate break when Mitch Cameron and Shane Kime went end-to-end on a rush and Kime potted the game winner with 35 seconds left.
“It was amazing. Pretty clutch,” said assistant coach Ian Taylor. “It definitely got the monkey off our back.”
The goal came just seconds after goalie Keaton Armstrong made what his coach called “the save of the season.” Facing a barrage of shots with a big body in front of the net on the penalty kill, Armstrong dove across the crease to rob the Sno Kings of a sure goal with less than a minute left in the third period.
“Everybody was gripping the bench pretty hard. I thought it was going in,” Taylor said.
The win is only the team’s second of the season, but Taylor stresses that the boys have been playing much better than their record indicates in a very competitive Tier 1 and relishes in the small victories, such as winning each individual shift. The team has a tough schedule before the Christmas break, with Abbotsford A1 and undefeated BWC A1 next up. |