Well it was about as ugly as it could get in Sunday nights affair for the Kindersley Klippers. Melville was a team that was playing their 3rd game in 3 nights and they out skated, outworked and obviously outscored Kindersley on route to a 7-2 victory. Kindersley played a pretty solid opening twenty minutes with the exception of the 1st 32 seconds which saw Melvilles number one line strike for the 1st of many on the evening. Jesse Mireau somehow maneuvered around 3 Klipper players before feeding a back door pass to Trudeau who banged it in to make it 1-0 early. Kindersley responded with a ton of jump and were at one point outhooting Melville 11-1. Kindersley killed off a 5 on 3 and you would of thought that would of given them some momentum to start the 2nd frame, but that wasn't the case. It really started to get ugly for Kindersley in the 2nd period and got even worse in the 3rd. They had no answer for the line of Mireau, McNulty and Trudeau who combined for 12 points on the night. That line really made Kindersley look silly every time they were on the ice, Mireau lead the way on that line with 6 points of his own.
A few quick notes:
- Kindersleys special teams which have been strong all season was not good tonight. They were 1 for 7 on the power play and gave up 3 power play goals against.
- Kindersley started to play fired up late in the third period because they were obviously upset, but I seen not of that fire for the most part of that hockey game.
- Kindersley may have had alot of shots in the game but they made life for Voth easy once again. Guys on the team that can really fire the puck were throwing muffins at the net all night long.
- I must of seen at least 15 point shots fired right into the Melville fwds shin pads. Its great that the D are starting to shoot but you have to get them on net.
- On a positive note Bradley Buckingham scored his 1st and then his 2nd goal of the season. He has been snake bitten this year and he certainly lifted alot of weight off his shoulders tonight. I really could see him start to score at a consistent rate now moving forward
- Another positive was the play of new defenseman Steven Normand. He was thrown into the fire but looked solid in his 1st game as a Klipper
Overall it was a lackluster homestand for the Klippers who picked up 2 points in the 4 home games. They certainly didnt make life easy for themselves with their next 6 games on the road. First up is Battlefords on Tuesday.
I will get a post game interview with Rockie Zinger up sometime tomorrow morning but thats it for now. Enjoy the rest of your Sunday night.
If the board was to "Wake Up" and find a coach Possibly it is not to late to salvage the season. Although at this point things do not look good for the Klipps to make the post season.
ReplyDeleteListen, for once and for all it's not the coaching OK. Do you think Rockie forgot all his x's and o's overnight? Nobody seemed to be screaming much last year when he took over, other than the guys still rooting for the guy he replaced. Look at what the team lost as far as 20 year old's and the age of this team this year. You can't win every year (see also, Roughriders, Saskatchewan). The year the Klippers were a game away from representing the SJ in the RBC people forget that two years prior to that the team only won 6 games all year! This will be a very good team down the road, maybe as early as next year. Unfortunately they might not live up to your expectations this year, but judging from your comments... maybe they never will.
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