It didn’t take long for the Re/Max Twin City New Hamburg Minor Peewee A Huskies to break out of their scoring drought as the team exploded for nine goals in their first two regular season games this past week. On Thur Sep 27 the huskies hosted Brampton and beat them convincingly 5-0. Although not tremendously busy in the nets, Sam Dramnitzke was very solid when called upon to earn his first shutout of the season.
Luke Egers led the team, scoring one goal while adding two
assists on the night. Griffin Hergott was a tower of power potting two goals.
While one was unassisted, the other came from some great work along the boards
in the corner by Jake Schweitzer and Kyle Green. Defenseman Ryan Vaudry was on
the offensive as he found Aedan Bell who used the Brampton defenseman as a screen and potted
one for the dogs. Cameron Lowry rounded out the scoring on a nice feed from the
point by Koby Seiling.
Early in their game against Woolwich on Sun Sep 30, Hergott
won the draw back to Seiling at the point in the offensive zone. Somehow the
shot trickled through a maze and past the surprised Woolwich goalie to open the
scoring for the Huskies. Mavrick Habel preserved the one goal lead at 6:31 in
the first period stopping a two man breakaway making an enormous save giving
out no rebound. This seemed to energize Kotter Hegan as he scored one of two
goals on the day firing a shot on goal off a pass from Jacob Ertel. The two
goal lead would evaporate as Woolwich would tally one with 23 seconds left in
the first on a scrambly 3 on 1 in front of the Huskie cage and then tie the
game early in the second on the power play.
Hegan would restore the lead as he teamed up with Ertel
again. This time, on the power play, Hegan tipped the Ertel shot beautifully
past the helpless Woolwich goaltender. Hegan praised his linemate, “I read the
play (on both goals) and knew he (Ertel) was going to shoot” he said. “Jake is
a good player” Hegan added. Woolwich would again tie the score, this time with
1:01 remaining in the second.
The third period saw both teams playing a conservative but
hard hitting game with multiple penalties called on both teams. Finally, the
Huskies would take the lead for good when CJ Egli would score the eventual game
winner. Lowry, just missed on his attempt after a Seiling pass but would
retrieve the puck behind the goal and find Egli alone in front.
A somewhat relieved defensive coach Jeff
Livingstone commented after the game “it was not pretty…. got
the job done.” Livingstone would go on to say, “it was a learning experience.
We were outplayed ¾ of the game. Got the two points.” Hegan agreed, “All of the game they played
better than us. (We) weren’t skating to puck battles and reached.”