Jan 08, 2009 | Sweber | 751 views
3 games and 3 wins
The Atom Rep Rams had three games and wrapped them all up in wins.
On Saturday the Rams welcomed the Milverton Drives.
Cole Hodgins found a loose puck and went upstairs to open the scoring.
Blake Lewis works the fake and then potted his own goal. Not even a minute later, Troy Weber with the original shot and Hodgins banked in his rebound.
In the second frame, the Rams had numerous shots with all the fowards digging and shooting but only two points were added to the board. Hodgins scored shorthanded and fired another shot that Weber cashed in on the rebound.
Less than a minute into the third, Reaman wove his magic and scored unassisted. Kroes came up large to stop a two man breakaway, and Mulder scored the seventh goal.
Hodgins struck again 17 seconds later shorthanded, and Milverton scored their one and only goal on their 20th shot. Warren Zeinstra moved in from the blue line to score the ninth goal and with two minutes left, Weber buried his second goal to end the scoring 10-1 for the Rams.
The Rams and Minto Ice Dogs engaged in a back to back battle. It was a back and forth evenly matched game for the Rams and Ice Dogs for the first frame. With both goalies were having a work out, the Ice Dogs thought they had snared the lead on a 3-on-1 chance but were stoned by goaltender Noah Kroes.
Jordan Reaman, Derick Acheson, and Alex Kieffer were passing well and setting each other up, and with four minutes left in the period they connected. Kieffer passed to Reaman, who took the shot, and Acheson pounded in the rebound. Then, with only a minute left, wing men Kieffer and Acheson walked in with Reaman, and he faked the goalie to score his second goal of the opening period. The defense were solid on the blue line, with Dylan Reeves and Jake Zeinstra holding the puck inside for the forwards. Even when Zeinstra lost his stick and was handed the wrong handed replacement he was still able to keep it together in the Ice Dogs end.
Minto finally connected with the mesh and beat Kroes in the opening minute of the third period, but Kyle Dallaire shot a pass to defence partner Tristan Sylvestre who blasted one from the blueline, and Kieffer was there to send the rebound home.
Reaman and Acheson redirected the puck with a beautiful pass to Kieffer, who beat the goalie on the glove side. Sniper Sylvestre fired a hard shot from the blueline, and the echo from the post could be heard throughout the arena. With 31 seconds left in the game to make it exciting to the end, Minto had another great opportunity to score but Kroes made a great cross crease save to rob the Ice Dogs.
Game Two of the Rams and Ice Dogs the Rams traveled to the Ice Dogs house. It is how Canadian hockey is played with every member of the Rams playing with a lot of character and a lot of heart.
After a lot of action around the net it was Weber to Lewis to Hodgins to sneak it by the Ice Dogs netminder. Changing on the fly was a must with the pace and action of this game. The few whistles that came were for the penalities that were starting to add up for both teams as the physical stuff was being thrown around. It was a four on four game when calm, cool, and collected Hunter Elliott with a sniper shot buried the rubber in the mesh.
Twenty-four seconds later linemate Jake Mulder scored from the point. The third period the Ice Dogs were wanting a goal but Kroes was able to ward off their shots before and after the whistle receiving his sixth shutout of the year. The penalities continued for this period but the Rams played amazing shorthanded hockey. Elliott picked the pocket of the Ice Dogs defense to score shorthanded lifting the Rams to four.
Playing hard till the end, new forward Warren Zeinstra rose to the occassion and potted the last goal with assists going to Elliott and Jake Zeinstra.
With some line changes still happening at this point in the season, the coaches Jay Lewis, Scott Weber, Chris Acheson, Dwayne Hodgins and Jeff Coburn are certainly bringing out the best of everyone on the team.