Athletic Results---Boys Hockey

Boys’ first hockey game

By: Frédérick Hallé

LACONIA-

The National Sports Academy boys’ Mountaineers lost their first preseason game, 6 to 2 visiting the Leafs. However the score does not indicate how the game went. Intensity and fights were definitely there. 24 players were in uniform on Saturday night.

Four of the Leafs’ goals were scored in the first period and most of NSA’s youngest guys did well even though they didn’t get much ice time due to a stormy start in the second period. Mountaineers being outshot, goalie Torkel Bjärneman from Sweden saw a lot of rubber. On the other end, Sam Bloom  made the goalie look blind with a rocket top shelf and Alex Fukes, pushed both, the goalie and the puck into the net.

Not in the lineup, due to a shoulder injury, both Tyler Simmons and Lincoln Green-Vamos were not dress and half way into the first, unlucky Brock Tucker got a knee injury. Also, goalie Eric Goneau was absent.

A couple of guys saw their first and second fight when Captain Dylan McDiarmid was surprised when a Leafs guy turned around at his blue line and dropped the mitts. McDiarmid didn’t refuse and he did really well against the 20 year old man. Later in the third, the smallest defenseman at 5’9’’, Fred Halle took gloves and helmet off in the offense zone.

Coach Simmons did a couple of changes through the game by bringing Alex Enholm to center for the second and Halle for the third, both good offensive defensemen.

Only after two weeks we can say that both captains Simmons and McDiarmid made a great effort to bring the troop together for a good early team chemistry.

Next games in Lake Placid on October 1^st at 8pm and 2^nd at 1:15 pm while parents weekend will be on. Both games will be played against College of St. Foy (CEGEP) from Quebec.