Reapers Look To Keep 7 Game Win Streak Alive

[Joe Exotic 32]

The Philadelphia Reapers play the Minnesota Storm tonight and look to extend their win streak to 8 games, the longest active streak in the VHLM and tied for the fourth-longest runs in the League this season. Six of the Reapers’ seven wins have come against winning clubs.

Now the Reapers will test their mettle against the Storm, a top 3 club, another rival they've had considerable success against. Philadelphia is 2-0-0 against the Storm this season.

Following tonight's game against the Storm- Reapers play 3 of 4 at home - the Reapers will host Yukon and Mississauga later this week, the Hounds currently second last in the league.

"We've been playing pretty well here the last six, eight weeks," Reapers head coach @DMaximus said. "I think our goaltending's given us a chance to win every night. We've had a little bit of belief in games we've gone down. We haven't really changed the way we've played. We've been pretty consistent. We've played hard. You get all those things kind of going together, much like the team we're playing tonight, wins will usually follow, and that's what's been going on."

Like the Reapers, Minnesota has been piling up wins thanks to its defense. On the Storms' own little hot streak, they've limited their opponent to two or fewer goals in five of those contests. Their goalie is having a career year and could see himself in the all-star game.

"They're just as hot as we are," Reapers captain @Bob Helminen said of Minnesota. "Great talent on that team, some really good young players that have blossomed into elite players over the past couple of years. A team that has a high-octane offense that we're going to have to be aware of. But I think the thing that has really impressed me about their team is just kind of the way they work. They're relentless on pucks. They've got some big bodies up front. They've been a really good team so far this year, so it's going to be a really big test for us."

The Reapers can match the third-longest win streak in franchise history with a victory tonight over the Storm. They're only three more wins from tying the longest Philadelphia win streak of all-time, that coming last season when the Reapers reeled off a bunch of wins in a row.

So what's changed for the Reapers?

"I think the outside was concerned. Inside this room, I don't think we were concerned," Joe Exotic said. "I think really the last two months, we've played some really good hockey. We don't necessarily, some of those games, have the points to show for it, but we felt like we were playing the right way and now we're finding ways to win games. And it's been nice. Anytime you go on a stretch like that, we talked about going on a little bit of a run, get those games in hand that we've had, we needed to get points in those, and we have."

The Reapers only play three games of the next four at home, two of them coming this tomorrow.

"We just can't allow ourselves to get comfortable because who knows, it can turn quick in this league," Reapers defenseman Jason Goeson said. "We know it's important matches and we've got a lot of games leading up to All-Star break, every two days there's a game, there's back-to-backs, we've just got to stay fresh for the games and take them game by game. Today we're playing a team that's also on a winning streak. One is going to have to continue that and we want to make sure that's us."

 

 

 

[Baozi 1,664]

Some good takes here, I can get the idea you're trying to put across and the interview answers seem on par.

Would suggest a few things as this font is fairly hard to read in some aspects.

Good content.

 

Would be nice if you started off the section with a header perhaps and utilized change in italics or perhaps bolded the quotes as they kind of blend in a lot with the body and maybe add a graphic or two to give it some coloration if you want to make it better.

 

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