A tale of two Brothers // The Odyssee continues

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Swiss Central Gazzette

 

Since last we reported from our No. 1 hockey exports, they were facing the Marauders for the first time since last seasons epic final series, which went to Miami.

Both teams are in a rebuild now and it is anything but certain that they will be competing for the crown this season. However, matches between these two arch-rivals promise to be epic battles in any case.

The Hounds came out on top, winning the match 4-2. It was a close game with Daniel scoring the game winner 19 seconds into the third period, assisted by Lospenov and Bedard. Mississauga's netminder showed a very good performance with .929 of the shots stopped. All three stars went to players of the Ontario-based franchise with Joe and Jeremy Doe (0g/2a each) and Ty Slaney (1g/0).

The special teams seem to be a source of constant sorrow for the Hounds' coaching staff, as no goal was scored in five attempts and one goal was allowed in two penalty killing situations. Luckily, this bore no relevance to the outcome of this game, but we cannot help but feel, that sooner rather than later such inefficiency will bite the Mississaugans in their ass (pardon our French).

As mentioned Daniel was 1g/0a, had a +1 rating and was tied first in time on ice (24:31 min, shared with Bedard, Marcel and Hall).

Marcel was not on the score board tonight, and has also a +1 to his name. The siblings did a good job to stay away from the sin-bin.

 

The next game was a clear defeat against the Lynxes with a 7-0 final score.

While the outcome was to be expected against a star-studded (amongst others Buzzer, Towbaker, Red Menace, Davis and Box) Ottawa contender outfit, the score certainly was not. The Hounds' netminder had to face 52 shots and was able to save .865, which is not abysmal but not stellar either. Throw enough shit at the wall...

To absolutely no-one's surprise, the three stars consisted solely of Lynx players with Red Menace taking the first for his shutout, Towbaker second with 2g/1a and Vomacka third with 2g/0a.

Daniel had a -1 rating and was 26:41 minutes on the ice (top of his team)

Marcel was noted with a -1 as well, blocked 4 shots (first of his team) and served 2 minutes for holding, which unfortunately resulted in a goal against the Mississauga team.

Speaking of special teams: The Hounds allowed 4 goals in 8 attempts in the penalty killing and obviously scored 0 goals in 6 attempts while playing with one man advantage. While we believe that the Lynxes would have won this game anyway, we have a feeling that the game could have been closer, if the special situation were not the achilles heel of this young team. There is certainly room for improvement in that department.

 

Jean-Luc Lieuxperroux was able to talk to the Swiss natives after the clear loss, and received the following statements:

 

Marcel: 'If we want to beat Ottawa, one of the best teams in the league, we need to be on top of our game and this was simply not the case tonight.'

Daniel: 'The special situations are a sore spot since the beginning of the season and somehow, we do not manage to bring the things we train every day into the matches. We are a young team though and it takes time to get accustomed to the setup. This shall not be an excuse. We know we need to work harder. We just ask our loyal fans for some patience. They are not happy with us in these situations yet and correctly so.'

Marcel: 'The puck does not go our way at the moment in power play and it does not help if we take unnecessary penalties, once we have a one man advantage, like we did tonight. This is something we need to work on: To find the balance between being gritty and being a burden to the team by taking stupid penalties.' 

 

Here the stats for our intrepid heroes:

 

Marcel: 6gp, 1g, 5a, +2, 4pim, 4hits, 13sb

Daniel: 6gp, 4g, 3a, +2, 2pim, 10hits, 3sb, 1gwg, 2ppg

 

We will follow up on the matter in our next edition. Stay tuned, folks...

 

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Edited September 25, 2021 by Daniel Janser