Osseo Maple Grove Hockey Association

November 18, 2007

Sunday afternoon at the St. Louis Park Arena the Maple Grove Crimson had to hang tough to get a victory over a feisty Minneapolis Park team, winning their 4^th straight league game 4-3.

In the 1^st period - the team jumped on the board early for a 1-0 lead when Kyle Sullivan scored an unassisted goal just 16 seconds into the game at 14:44. Mpls. Park came back and tied it back up at 11:12 of the 1^st period, on a power play. That was the Crimson first power play goal of the year that they have given up. Then less then 2 minutes later Mpls. Park took the lead 2-1 with a goal at 9:14. The Crimson fought back and tied it up at 6:32 with a power play goal by Reid Mordhorst, with an assist to Zach Gardner. The Crimson took a 3-2 lead at 1:28, with a goal by Kyle Sullivan, his second of the game, with an assist going to Zach Gardner, his second of the game as well.

In the 2^nd period – the Crimson fought off several power plays but gave up another power play goal at the 4:08 mark, tying the game at 3-3. The Mpls. Park goalie fought off several good shots and did not allow the Crimson to score in the 2^nd period.

In the 3^rd period – both teams stayed out of the penalty box until late in the period. When the Crimson got on the power play they took advantage and scored a power play goal at the 3:49 mark of the period by Spencer Draayer and took a 4-3 lead. Getting his third assist of the game, a “Play Maker”, was Zach Gardner. Great job Zach way to keep working hard out there. Both teams got physical in the last minutes with a number of Crimson and Park players headed to the penalty box. But goalie Travis Hemingway kept the puck out of the net even when Park had a 6 on 3 power play for almost a minute at the end of the game. Travis and the team skated off with a big victory. The team also kept their penalty minutes down and finally got a Fair Play Point, good job guys.

November 16, 2007

The Crimson played another tough game last night against Wayzata Royal coming out the winner in their 3-2 victory. The Crimson are still being plagued by too many penalties each game, but their penalty killing is at 100%. They may get a lot of penalties but they not letting their opponents take advantage of the mistakes. Great job on this, but let’s stay out of the box guys. Let’s get some of those Fair Play Points.

Wayzata started the scoring at 11:13 of the first period and took an early lead. The Crimson came back to tie it up with just 00:36 seconds left in the 1^st period with a power play goal by Kyle Sullivan and assists to Brandon Eklund and Spencer Draayer.

The second period was scoreless and both teams did a good job keeping the puck moving with some close shots being stopped by our goalie Nate Johnson.

In the 3^rd period Wayzata regained their lead at 12:42 and took a 2-1 lead. The Crimson fought back and tied the game again at 9:09 with another power play goal by Brandon Eklund, unassisted. Then at the 6:47 the Crimson got the game winning goal by Zach Gardner with an assist to Reid Mordhorst, another power play goal.

The team is playing great and coming together well. Keep up the hard work, practice and play hard and stay out of the penalty box.

November 8, 2007

MG Crimson Bantam B2 - White wins it's first league game of the season with a big win over Armstrong/Cooper in a 6-0 shutout with Crimson goalie Nate Johnson in the net. The team was lead in scoring by Tyler Toskey who gets the first "HAT TRICK" of the season, scoring a goal in all three periods. Toskey also got an assist on a short handed goal in the 2nd period. Giving Toskey 4 points on the night. Great game Tyler. Also scoring for the Crimson was Michael Hendrickson in the 1st period, when he took the puck from deep in his own end and skated through the Armstrong players scoring an unassisted goal.

The team killed off six power plays and scoring two short handed goals during those penalty kills. The first short handed goal came in the 2nd period when Sam Shepard sent a slap shot past the Armstrong goalie. He was assisted by Toskey. The second short handed goal also came in the 2nd period when the Crimson were skating 5 on 3 for 2 minutes. During the 5 on 3 power play, Brandon Eklund grabbed the puck and skated in on the Armstrong goalie scoring an unassisted short handed goal. Also getting points with assists were Reid Mordhorst on Toskey's 2nd goal in the 2nd period. Shane Huseboe and Alex Johnson on Toskey's 3rd goal in the 3rd period goal.

The team did a great job and got a big win to start the season. Good job players and coaches.

October 30, 2007

The MG Crimson Bantam B2 White Team played their first scrimmage of the new season and came away with a 2-1 victory over the Champlin Park Rebels. They scored on two power play opportunites out of four attempts.

Scoring the first goal of the season for the MG Crimson was Kyle Sullivan with an assist to Tyler Toskey at 11:55 of the second period. The Rebels tied it up at 10:14 of the third period. Then at the 1:16 mark of the third period the Crimson's Reid Mordhorst got the game winner with a slapshot past the Rebel's goalie after getting a pass from Spencer Draayer.

Both teams played a good game and the refs said the teams played like they were in the middle of the season. Great win team.