Mooretown Flags Dropped Game one in OT
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 7, 2016
COMMUNITY NEWS
The Mooretown
Flags lost 3 - 2 in overtime
against the Lakeshore Canadiens
in game one in the first round
of playoffs in the Great Lakes
Jr C Hockey league.
"We knew it was
going to be a tough series and
by no means did we think we were
going to win four games in a
row." Head Coach Doug Slipacoff
said "Ten new players on
the team who have no playoff
experience I think they got a
pretty good eye opener tonight
in what to expect."
Joe DeSena from
Matt Brandon and Ryan Lyle
scored the first goal for the
Flags just a minute and sixteen
seconds into the game and held
on to the lead until the 8:57
mark of the third period when
Lakeshore's Jarrett Tazzman
scored a shorthanded goal.
At 12:50 in the third on a power
play Lakeshore took the lead
with Sebastian Kannally scoring
the only power play goal in the
game. Action continue and
in the dying minutes of
regulation time the Flags pulled
netminder Brandon Johnson for
the extra attacker.
A scramble in front of the
Lakeshore's net found Ben
Morrison in the right place at
the right time scoring that sent
the game into overtime. Ryan
Lyle and Matt Brandon picked up
assists on the tying goal.
Around the midway
point of the sudden death 20
minute overtime period Colin
Sartor broke open and scored the
game winner.
"We played
Lakeshores game tonight which
was run and gun." Slipacoff said
"They want to run and gun and
shoot the puck from everywhere.
They want to scramble so we got
to find a way not to do that and
play our game and play
structured. That's on the
coaching staff to figure out."
Lakeshore outshot
the Flags 59 - 40.
Flags netminder Brandon Johnson
made 56 saves in the loss, Colin
Tetreault earned the win made 38
saves.
"Lakeshore is a
veteran team, they got veteran
leadership and they played that
way tonight and I felt they
deserved to win the game."
Slipacoff said "We did a
great job to stick around in it,
BJ (Brandon Johnson) played
amazing but when it came down to
quality chances we just gave up
to many."
The Flags were
zero for six on the power play
and Lakes scored once on four
opportunities.
The two teams are
back in action on Tuesday night
at the Atlas Centre in Lakeshore
for game two of the best of
seven series.
