JV Hockey

JV Suffers Three Losses

By: Martha Smith, Kelsey Lynch, and Sam Puckhaber

MASSACHUSETTS- This past weekend The Mountaineers JV Ice Hockey Team traveled to Haverhill, MA where they suffered three devastating losses at the Valley Warrior Tournament.  The tournament had nine teams, National Sports Academy finished last.

Jake Ruby in net

At 3:40p.m Friday afternoon the Mountaineers took on their first opponent, the Palm Beach Hawks.  They had a rough start to the tournament with a one to eight loss.  Killian Seidl played in net and got shelled by fifty-four shots.  The one goal of the game was a snipe by Josh Renaud in the first half. 

The team had two games on Saturday, the first at twelve fifty against the Boston Jr. Bruins.  Again the Mountaineers suffered a loss of zero to six, with Jake Ruby.  Ruby had a busy game facing thirty-five shots. The Mountaineers had a total of fourteen shots but were unable to find the back of the net.

The second game on Saturday at 7:40p.m that night was against OHA.  The Mountaineers worked hard that game, but still came away with a two to four loss.  Mike McDaniel played in net, facing thirty shots.  The two goals of the game went to captain, Alex Kwok and Fredrik Eineren consecutively.

NSA goal

As we sat down with goalie Mike McDaniel he discussed what he thought he did well on for the weekend, and also what he thought the team will need to improve on for the upcoming weekend. “When we were heading into the weekend I expected the weekend to be hard because we were playing difficult teams,” he continues saying “but now I think that we should’ve worked a lot harder.”

The team had a rocky weekend and McDaniel shares what the team can do to make things go smoother in the future, “We need to become more focused for the games to come, and stop messing around as much.” But he fires “We did well in our defensive zone, our D-zone actually worked, since the puck was mostly in our zone. The goalies actually played some of the best games this weekend, especially Ruby.”

Captain Alex Kwok claims that the breakdown was a result of multiple issues.  One was the team’s inability to stay focused, along with the fact that they “got lazy” and “stopped working”.  In order to prepare for the next games coming up Kwok claims the team needs to focus more and practice.