Fresh off their win against Hanover on Saturday, Kincardine met Mildmay on Sunday January 18th, for their second home game of the weekend.
At this point in the season, the team has become comfortable with their positions, and we are seeing some great passes between team members. Kincardine kept the puck in their opponent’s zone for much of the first period. Andrew Leschied was first on the scoreboard with a goal early in the period. Owen Jones went in alone at 6:32 and drove the puck into the net. All the forwards put on great pressure taking every opportunity to take a shot on net. Bryden Nikolac and J.D. Gouthro drove toward the net with the puck numerous times. They were well supported by the defense players who helped keep the puck in Hanover’s zone, but managed to hustle back to their end to help Rahul Deshpande who stopped the puck every time it came his way until the last few moments of the game.
As in the previous game, Owen Jones opened the second period by carrying the puck right from the face-off to the inside of the Mildmay net. Kincardine seemed to lose some focus going into the third period, and much of the play was in their zone. Again on defense, Brady Masur scooped a rebound with a back hand pass to clear it from scoring range. Josh Farrell confidently stick-handled the puck across the rink to diffuse another Mildmay attack, while Matthew Johnson repeatedly poked the puck away from Mildmay forwards. Several times, Hayley Sorbara cleared the puck over the blue line. At 7:30 in the third period, Mildmay #52 lifted the puck with a hard shot to score their first goal. Three and a half minutes later following a scrum in front of Deshpande, Mildmay scored again, to make it a one-point game. At 1:03 Alex Fisk demonstrated his triple-threat: high-speed, super stick-handling, and accurate shooting, as he made an end-to-end rush and scored on the top shelf, giving Kincardine the lead 4-2. Sam Colquhoun saw a scoring opportunity as Mildmay pulled their goalie for the last minute of play, but Mildmay managed to steer the puck in the other direction. Mildmay did not benefit from the extra-player advantage, Kincardine had regrouped and all team members worked together to fight off the repeated offensive attacks from their opponents
Reporting Brenda Colquhoun