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FTLComm - Tisdale - February 24, 2000 |
The Pasquia Senior Hockey League Semi finals are chugging right along. The Ramblers lost their first game in the best of seven series to Nipawin Sunday night, but have come back two straight with a win Monday night 4 - 2 and last night's win of 9 - 3. The picture above was taken to show the final score and a moment later the Ramblers got one more. |
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![]() With Parkinson unable to play and Kevin Lockwood unavailable Nipawin had a Bantam goalie in net last night who can not but be proud of the excellent showing he had. Early in the game Nipawin's Curtis Wanamaker and Jeff Farber were unable to reach an understanding and after some blows were exchanged both retired from the game. With Tisdale's bench full the absence of Jeff was not a |
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![]() Marc Rio was in net for Wednesday night's game and Nipawin's fast forwards put him to the test steadily throughout the game. The one sided score was not reflected in the play, as Nipawin was in the game from beginning to end. |
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![]() The second line change was to team Chad Olson and Scott Kearns with Scott Homstol. Murray Harrow, who had up til this point only had to get Homstol when he was on the ice was faced with having to cover three similar players and to make matters worse for him, all three will shoot from close in or just over the blue line. This line can be seen in the picture above and below. The picture below shows them scoring goal number eight from a point shot and Scott Kearns right on the doorstep. |
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![]() This unusual picture on the right is with Spagrud on one knee, Turcotte just in front of the goalie and Jeremy picking himself up off the ice in the midst of the Nipawin rabble. Throughout the season we have seen the Ramblers using the orbital play when they get into the opposition's zone and are allowed to skate. The picture above is what happens when the opposition defense stops this play by downing two of the forwards but if they don't the picture below shows what can happen. In an orbital play the puck carrier keeps on the move either attempting to get a shot on net or transfer the puck to another orbiting forward. The concept of wing and centre is completely without meaning in this formation as you can see Olson (44) is heading around to follow the puck carrier and in the foreground Neil Elmslie is setting off to pursue Olson. This flexible play can route the orbit behind the goal, include defenseman and make the defending goalie dizzy. Mike Weatherald (Nipawin 7) is directing his attention to the puck carrier as are the other two defenders, but he should be turning his attention to the nearest orbiting player and that is Elmslie. Failure to check in a situation like this means the Ramblers will certainly score. |
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