Bantam Kitchener Lady Rangers Blue #2732, 2015-2016, KGLL (Kitchener Minor Hockey)

It's now official, we made the Pool A semi-finals!  The win by Waterloo #2 last night in a close game against the tough Grand River Mustangs all but sealed it for us, but Wilmot kept it interesting by putting together a strong late season surge to end the 2nd half just a single point behind us.  Congratulations to the entire team!  Your tremendous effort earning 4 points in the final 3 games against all three of the Waterloo teams made the difference.  Well done Blue!

It was definitely the most exciting game of the season.  Not only were we playing on the big ice, but we were facing off against the best team of the first half who went a perfect 10-0 with 29 goals for and only 2 against.  We knew we were in tough to earn even a point in this one.  We had an early team meeting to prepare and I changed the lines once again in an effort to generate some needed goals.  The girls took it from there!

It was good to play an exciting, competitive game against the Mustangs this morning after a couple of lower energy games.  With a couple of girls out, I decided to make some significant line changes to get the team moving (including a strong Maciel line with Sarah), and the girls responded well.  We had our chances, especially in the 3rd where we had 3 power plays (including a 5 on 3 for more than a minute) to score what would have been the game winner. 

     What a great game against Woolwich for Girls Hockey Day!  The final score, 2-2, was indicative of how even the match was - both teams came to play.  The team had a little more jump at the beginning of the game thanks to Coach Dave’s request to get out of the gate earlier.  Abby opened the scoring by chipping a rebound over the tender's left pad follow a nice shot by Aspen who in turn was following up Avery’s shot on the initial drive - excellent pressure resulting in second and third chances.  Only minutes later, Woolwich came back with one of their own to knot it up.  You could feel ...

Great weekend of hockey at the Kyla Kowalik Memorial Tournament.  It was especially good to see some pucks go in for some of our goal scorers (shooters keep shooting).  Our defense dug in to keep us in every game, and our goalies continued to shock opponents and leave them wondering how it's possible for any team to have not just one, but two awesome tenders of the twine.  Overall, I think the team played our best hockey of the year gearing up to compete in a tough Group A in the second half.