What a frustrating game of hockey last night! We had terrible officiating and couldn’t stay out of the the penalty box for the second half of the game. I didn’t have any penalties personally, but some members of our team got called three and four times. And it wasn’t just our team getting penalties, the other team was too, just not as many. I’ve never seen so many penalties called in one game before, which I told one of the refs (along with a few other things) at the end of the game.

We were dominating the game in the first half. I believe we were up 3-1 at the end of the second period. But it all went downhill from there, and we played nearly the rest of the game shorthanded. Our opponents took advantage and put in goal after goal. With just a few minutes left to play, they had taken the lead and extended it to 5-3. At that point, we were really frustrated and never got another good shot on net.

It probably didn’t help that we only had two regular defense-men at the game, and that is counting myself, who prior to this season hasn’t played defense since before high school. With this loss, we could potentially drop back into second place. I hope that we can rebound and win the next two games to take back the top spot before heading into the playoffs.