The Lokomotiva Hockey Club was coming off their first victory of the season, and hoping to continue its push up the standings. Loko would begin its winning streak after pulling out a shootout thriller 6-5. This would advance them to 2-1-0. Good for 2nd Place in the league.
The team was missing a few key players, but lacking any one player will not set this high octane team back. Loko dominated puck control in the opening period which was capped by Pete Thompson scoring fairly early, to put Loko ahead 1-0. Derek Kaiser had a beautiful single-handed play by pokechecking the puck in his own end and taking the breakaway straight to a 2-1 lead. Which was also shortly lived and we were tied at 2.
After Direct Energy took a 3-2 lead, Mike Shomin went to the corner for the puck and fed Rob Danzuso in the slot, which he ripped by the goalie to tie it back up.
With the game all tied up, defensemen Tom Koerbel slapped a shot from the point, which was redirected perfectly by Jon Butzke to give Loko another lead. Tied yet again at 4, Matty Miller put what looked like a harmless shot top shelf that went right by the glove hand 5-4 Loko.
Goalie pulled for DE...the game seemed sure in hand until some sloppy play in our own end lead to another tie game with 38 seconds to go. Here comes the shootout to determine the winner: Rob Danzuso scored the only shootout goal for either side, as Anthony Martucci froze all 3 shooters for Direct Energy. Loko wins 6-5!
The game was overall yet again dominated by Lokomotiva, but risky mistakes lead to letting Direct Energy claw back into it, time and time again. A lot of positives were taken from this game, but the team strives to become better each and every game, so although a win is great, much work lays ahead of the team. Back in action October 13 @ 11:20pm.
By: Chris Gardner
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