The Lumberjacks hit the road for three games in three days
and a lot more questions are being asked now than answers. The Jacks started
Thursday night in a game against St. Johns Johnnies JV team at the beautiful
National Hockey Center on the campus of St. Cloud State University at Herb
Brooks Arena. The ride to the arena did
not start off well as the bus blew a fuse and could not start. Unfortunately we
got to the Arena a little late and got off to a slow start. We spotted the
Johnnies three goals in about three minutes in the first. We battled hard to
get back into the game but it was too little too late. We lost 5-3. On Friday
we started off with a really good twenty minutes against the Johnnies and were
tied after one period of play. Then we hit the self-destruct button and we gave
up 5 goals in the second period. The
game ended in a 7-1 loss. Saturday night the Jacks squared off against the
Concordia-Wisconsin Falcons JV. Once again we struggled for a few minutes in
the first period and were down 3-0 after the first. The final two periods we
took control of most of the play but could not get the score evened up and gave
up an empty net goal to lose 4-2. Our record falls to 0-6-1 on the year. It
should be much better than that but we are not consistent enough and have not
played a complete game. Sometimes our Defense is playing well and our goalies
struggle, or vice versa, maybe the forwards are on their own page but the defense
is on a different page. We need to get everyone on the same page for 60 minutes
in a game. There are signs of it but then something happens and we lose focus.
We need to stay focused and play a complete game. We had some positives and some negatives on
the weekend but I hope that we learn from all and can become more of a team as
a result of some road bonding. The potential is there now we have to play
harder, play smarter, and play together.
