Moose split pair last weekend.

 

October 19, 2011

TORONTO, ON - The Moose went into a pair of games this past weekend looking to extend our four game winning streak, traveling to Shelburne to take on the Red Wings Friday night, before coming home to host the expansion and undefeated Titans from Temiscaming Saturday night at the TCC.

The Wings had not yet registered a point in 6 games, but after the Wings' Nikita Samoylov scored on a penalty shot with under two minutes to go to tie the game at 4-4, sending the game to OT, the Moose secured the victory on a great individual effort by Italian defenseman Roberto De Biasi in the last minute, going end to end, and tapping in his own rebound.  The OT loss gave the Wings their first point of the season, and the win gave us our fifth straight win.

The Moose had most of the play all night long, outshooting the Wings 57-26, but some key mistakes, including allowing a shorthanded breakaway with less than 2 minutes to go which led to the penalty shot.

Saturday night, the Moose took on the Titans, who were a perfect 7 & 0 coming into the game.  In a 1-1 tie late in the first period, Justin Coles scored on the powerplay in the final minute to provide a lead going into the first intermission, and scored again in the first minute of the second to put the Moose up 3-1.

Unfortunately, it was all downhill from there, as the Titans reeled off 4 unanswered goals in the second, and outscored the Moose 4-2 in third to win going away 9-5, despite playing most of the third period shorthanded, including 2 major penalties for charging and boarding.

The loss ended the Moose streak at 5 wins, and we're now in the middle of a full week of practice before we take on the Deseronto Storm for the first of six meetings on Saturday night at the TCC.  
 
NEWS AND NOTES:  The Moose will be participating in several community events late in October, with several players donning Moose jerseys and makeup in the spirit of Halloween, and showing some youngsters a 'scary' good time; '93 Defenseman Matthew Bilicki has been skating with the Moose this week and we hope to have him in the lineup Saturday night against the Storm; '92 forward Colin Fallis will be rejoining the club on a part-time basis, cordinating our game and practice schedule with his university routine at Laurier University in Waterloo.