Surging Storm set to dock Lakers

Game 1 ? Deseronto 9, Innisfil 1
According to Head Coach Shane Hicke, Innisfil?s 9-1 Game 1 loss Friday, was an embarrassment. He wanted it to sink in and hoped there wouldn?t be a repeat.
 
?The guys didn?t show up and thought they could come in here, tie their skates and play when you?re playing a team that wants it just as much as you do, if not more,? said Hicke after the game. ?We?ve haven?t lost like this all year and I?ve never been involved in a game that has been as bad as today.

?Our work ethic wasn?t there,? he added. ?We had great practices all week, so I don?t know what happened. Lets just hope that?s our last performance like that.?
 
Deseronto came into the game with a head of steam after being rewarded their South Division semifinal against the Bradford Rattlers. With that series tied at two, the Strom opted to protest Game 4 that since the Jan. 10 signing deadline, the Rattlers have been carrying nine-20-year-old players on their roster, which is a violation of league rules, stipulating the maximum number of 20-year-olds is eight.
 
But, the key to the game was the start. Deseronto (29-11-3) dominated on special teams early, with a pair of power-play goals and a shorthanded marker, taking the first-place Lakers (36-6-1) by surprise and jumping to a 3-0 lead after the first period. Forward Brad Clark scored the first power-play marker, while the second came from defenceman Cody Maracle, as he backhanded the puck up high on Lakers goalie Matevz Grabnar. Maracle would add another on the penalty kill from a Brain Davidson giveaway.
 
Deseronto would continue to have their way in the second, doubling their lead, before Grabnar was replaced in net by Geoff Sadjadi. It came after a John Sweet backhand, a Darren Anderson long shot from the right point and another Clark goal.
 
Innisfil would get their only goal of the game on the power play, as Davidson fired a shot on net from the point, and forward Max Douglas would tip it in.
 
But, before the end of the period, a pair of Storm players would notch hat tricks, including Clark then Maracle, who went five-hole on Sadjadi.
 
Macacle would add his fourth in the third on a wrist shot five feet in front of the Lakers goal.
 
Deseronto held the Lakers to only 20 shots on net to 22 for the Storm.
 
CFB Borden salute: At Game 1 the Lakers saluted CFB Borden and their troops, having many of them attend the game Friday at the Innisfil Recreational Complex. Chief Warrant Officer Frank Dubreuil and Lt. Col. Joane Simard dropped the puck to Deseronto?s Brad Clark and Innisfil?s Jonathan Dew in the opening ceremonial faceoff.
 
Game 2 ? Innisfil 2, Deseronto 4
The Storm were able to over-power the Lakers once again Saturday at Deseronto, squeezing out a 4-2 victory.
It wasn?t in Innisfil?s plans to get embarrassed again, so they scored in the first nine minutes of the game after forward Caleb Lister accepted a pass from Dew. Deseronto answered back five minutes later with Anderson scoring, as he beat Sadjadi.
 
After a scoreless second, Innisfil took their first lead of the series on a Douglas power-play goal at the 11:31 mark of the third period. Though a few minutes later Deseronto would respond with Morris tying it up. After Clark gave the Storm the lead, Innisfil ran into penalty trouble with three minor penalties at the approximately the same time with around 2:30 remaining in the game. With 36 seconds left forward Greg Martyn then added the insurance marker on the power play.
 
Jon Yaneff is a sports reporter with with the Innisfil Scope/King Township Sentinel