As ever on Sports Trades Report, we start the week with Pete Lewis's Ice-Hockey updates with the two Chelmsford teams, the Chieftains and the Warriors! Chieftains had the long trip to take on the Cardiff ENL Devils on Saturday night before hosting the Oxford Stars on Sunday. The Warriors were away againgst the Basingstoke Buffalo. Anyway i'll let Pete do the talking and as ever if you want to comment, please do!SportTrades Pete Lewis Reporting:
Saturday night saw the Chieftains make the long trip to South Wales to take on rivals the Cardiff ENL Devils. Goals were exchanged early on and the first period break saw the score tied at 3-3 with the Chieftains goals coming from Sean Easton, Danny Wright and Richard Whiting. The referee from the start annoyed both sets of players by alloweing a large number of clear infringements to go unpunished early on, causing tempers to burn into the second period of the game.
Referee Riddell was at the centre of controversey midway through the second period when he awarded the Chieftains net minder Andy Moffat a 10 minute penalty for asking Riddell why the team was not allowed an ‘equipment time out’ to fix the protective equipment that had broken on Moffat’s pads.
Some time was spent getting the pads fixed, but not to Riddell’s liking and he forced back up net minder Ben Clements in goal for a few minutes while running repairs went on off the ice on Moffat’s pads. It was a strange decision to say the least and caused lots of head scratching in the crowds, who could not understand the decision.
Chieftains went ahead from a wonderful goal from Aaron Connoley which simply flew past a stationary Mike Brabon in the home goal. However the visitors were not in the lead for long and just six minutes later the game was back to 4-4. Luke Piggott finding a gap in the home defence before slooting past Moffat who had returend to his goal. Deep into the third period the winner came for the Devils. A great pass from Brent Pope sent in Steve Fisher, who skated past two Chelmsford defenders before shimmying the puck past Moffat to score the winner. Thanks to Tim Bowers for the photo of Chieftains #61 Blaho Novak which was taken in the Chieftains defeat at Cardiff over the weekend.
With memories of the defeat in Cardiff still fresh in the Chieftains minds they knew that they needed to bounce back againgst Oxford the next night. The Stars were determined in their play and came back from 4-0 down to end the first period only 4-2 down. Chieftains scorers were BT Williams, Darren Brown and Danny Hammond who hit 2. The Stars battled back into contention in the second period and Nick Oliver scored for Oxford to poise the game nicely at 4-3 going into the final period; not that Chelmsford's support would have wanted it that way!
The third and final period was very tense and Oxford were delighted when they equalised on 54minutes, through a fine strike from Ken Forshee. That goal set the game up for a frantic final 6 minutes and amid a few scraps on the ice, Jerry Pavlus popped up out of nowhere to grab a goal minutes from the end to win the game. A great goal from Pavlus who is certainly one of the names to watch over the coming season. The game was also special for Richard Whiting who became the all-time highest apperance leader for the Chieftains with a staggering 490 games under his belt.
Also last Sunday the Warriors returned to action after a few weeks breaks and struggled in Basingstoke after showing some early promise. After Sean Martin netted for the Warriors in the first period, it was pretty much one way traffic afterwards as the Buffalo steam rolled the Warriors to win 11-3. Craig Metcalf joined Martin in scoring consolation goals for the visitors. It may have been a bad result, but hopefully it's one that the Warriors will learn from.
Referee Riddell was at the centre of controversey midway through the second period when he awarded the Chieftains net minder Andy Moffat a 10 minute penalty for asking Riddell why the team was not allowed an ‘equipment time out’ to fix the protective equipment that had broken on Moffat’s pads.
Some time was spent getting the pads fixed, but not to Riddell’s liking and he forced back up net minder Ben Clements in goal for a few minutes while running repairs went on off the ice on Moffat’s pads. It was a strange decision to say the least and caused lots of head scratching in the crowds, who could not understand the decision.
Chieftains went ahead from a wonderful goal from Aaron Connoley which simply flew past a stationary Mike Brabon in the home goal. However the visitors were not in the lead for long and just six minutes later the game was back to 4-4. Luke Piggott finding a gap in the home defence before slooting past Moffat who had returend to his goal. Deep into the third period the winner came for the Devils. A great pass from Brent Pope sent in Steve Fisher, who skated past two Chelmsford defenders before shimmying the puck past Moffat to score the winner. Thanks to Tim Bowers for the photo of Chieftains #61 Blaho Novak which was taken in the Chieftains defeat at Cardiff over the weekend.
With memories of the defeat in Cardiff still fresh in the Chieftains minds they knew that they needed to bounce back againgst Oxford the next night. The Stars were determined in their play and came back from 4-0 down to end the first period only 4-2 down. Chieftains scorers were BT Williams, Darren Brown and Danny Hammond who hit 2. The Stars battled back into contention in the second period and Nick Oliver scored for Oxford to poise the game nicely at 4-3 going into the final period; not that Chelmsford's support would have wanted it that way!
The third and final period was very tense and Oxford were delighted when they equalised on 54minutes, through a fine strike from Ken Forshee. That goal set the game up for a frantic final 6 minutes and amid a few scraps on the ice, Jerry Pavlus popped up out of nowhere to grab a goal minutes from the end to win the game. A great goal from Pavlus who is certainly one of the names to watch over the coming season. The game was also special for Richard Whiting who became the all-time highest apperance leader for the Chieftains with a staggering 490 games under his belt.
Also last Sunday the Warriors returned to action after a few weeks breaks and struggled in Basingstoke after showing some early promise. After Sean Martin netted for the Warriors in the first period, it was pretty much one way traffic afterwards as the Buffalo steam rolled the Warriors to win 11-3. Craig Metcalf joined Martin in scoring consolation goals for the visitors. It may have been a bad result, but hopefully it's one that the Warriors will learn from.
Adam, can you edit the report please as they use a puck in ice hockey NOT a ball ;)
ReplyDeleteAlso it is ChIEftains :)
Ta muchly
Thanks for the comment, have corrected the mistakes that were made!
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