SASKATOON BLADES, NOVEMBER 2011

from the 1st, to the 30th, the boys played 14 games. and ended up with 9 wins and 5 losses. amazing month (first part...) other than the hitmen crushing our hopes and dreams on the 25th. almost all our away games (regina, moose jaw, swift current, medicine hat, kootenay, red deer, calgary) were one goal games and we won 5 of the 7. first november home game came on the 2nd vs calgary, where we won 4-1 (dietz, stransky, nicholls, sutter), and makarov saved 39 shots. the following saturday we played lethbridge and won 7-3 (burns, mcevoy, sutter, stransky, olsen, stovin, burns) where we had a 6-0 lead at one point during the 2nd. we played brandon (ugh) on the 8th and surprisingly, won. stransky, paradis, nicholls, trask (!!!!) and stovin scored for a 5-2 win. dziurzynski also scored in his return.. so after what seemed like a roady that took months to finish, the boys returned home on the 22nd to play medicine hat. such an intense game it was awesome. we won 4-3 in a shootout, and jake, burns and haas scored in regulation for us. both shooters for the tigers missed in the shootout (shinkaruk, etem) while 2/3 for the blades scored (trask and stransky) and nicholls missed. on the 25th, we had a chance to re-write the record books, which did not happen. we lost vs the hitmen...badly, i guess. simple mistakes. giving pucks away, not winning faceoffs, and horrible reffing. tons of fights though, loved that. i'm still on the pursuit to see jake fight. what i would do to make that happen..... the next night we played vancouver, which was the return of morrison and bews. it was vintage jersey night and you can read all about that in the post below this. on the 20th we played kootenay (fuck everyone on that team) and we lost againnnnnnnn :( the reinhart's are too fucking good i hate it. that all cancels out because jake scored. you already know that. the first part of the month was perfect then after our loss to calgary on home ice we fell apart. soooo pumped for december hockey. first blades game isnt until the 10th but at the end of the month there are games left right and centre, plus the world juniors!!! :) bye and goooo blades!!