Mexico's Last 3 Games

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The Mexico City Kings currently sit on the top of their conference, but 3rd in the VHLM with 50 points. This is behind the 1st place Mississauga Hounds and the 2nd place Philadelphia Reapers. But, within their conference, the City Kings are up 5 points above the Saskatoon Wild and holding down the top spot.

 

Let's take a look at their recent games, because it's Sunday and I don't feel like doing a graphic and this is easy to type out.

 

Halifax 21st vs. Mexico City Kings

In this game, Mexico City was obviously the favourite, because things did not go down that way. In the 1st Period, Saku Kotkakoivu opened the game up with his 22nd goal at the 2:01 mark of the period. Halifax's Bryn Yrwy then tied it up 1-1 under 2 minutes later. Less than a minute later, Mexico's Luke Pastrnak then gave the Kings the lead again with his 16th goal. Things began to fall off for Mexico, where Halifax's Damir Timofeyevich scored minutes later, then late in the period, then Jacob Richard scored a PP marker to give Halifax the 3-2 lead heading to the 2nd Period. In the 2nd, Bryn Yrwy scored his 29th goal of the season, bringing the game to 4-2. 2 minutes later, Flynn Remy brought Mexico City back within a goal, at 4-3. But that was all she wrote in this game, as the 3rd Period was scoreless and Halifax's goaltender, David Davis shut the door the rest of the way. Mexico's Bastian Greiss did the same to try and keep them in this game, but this one ended as a 4-3 win for the Halifax 21st.

 

Mexico City Kings vs. San Diego Marlins

This was another game in which the Kings were the favourite, considering San Diego's negative record. In the 1st Period, San Diego's Alexander Rivers scored his 21st of the season at 11:35 of the period, giving the Marlins the 1-0 lead. The period would end with SD up 1-0. In the 2nd Period, Watson Stonebridge scored his 10th of the season to tie this game at 1-1, with assists to Arthur Kimura and Dike Rike. In the 3rd Period, the two teams traded goals, with Sunrise van de Schubbekuteveen scoring his 29th for the Mexico City Kings. Late in the game, San Diego's Pippo Coca tied this one up 2-2 to send it to OT. Not much action happened in OT, with Mexico having the only shot on net. In the shootout, the goaltenders put on a show after both letting in the first shot, but in the end the Marlins player Lochlan Chisholm scored the shootout winner. San Diego won this game 3-2 in a shootout.

 

Ottawa Lynx vs. Mexico City Kings

Well, there's not much to say about this game other than it was a fantastic showing of Mexico's offense. Unfortunately for Ottawa, they started the game off by taking an early penalty, and this set the tone for the game. Mexico's Dookie Headtop scored a PP goal early at 1:31 of the period. Next, Mexico's Deke Rike made the game 2-0, and the Lynx made it out of that period with a respectable score that wouldn't last. The shots in the 1st were 8-7, but that wouldn't keep up. In the 2nd, Mexico outshot the Lynx 20-2, and there went the game. Saku Kotkakoivu and Rhys Trenton both scored goals to start the period, then Sunrise van de Schubbekuteveen scored 4 goals in a row to end the period with an 8-0 score. Unfortunately for Mexico's goaltender Bastian Greiss, the Ottawa Lynx would score a late goal in the game to break the shutout, with Austin Towbaker potting his 3rd. Of course, Bastian saved 18 of 19, which is great. No need to throw Ottawa's goalies under the bus here though, considering the shots. Alex Parise didn't have much of a chance with a 20-2 shot 2nd period. The total shots weren't actually that bad with 36-19 in favour of Mexico.