Despite being outshot 22-4 in the third period, the La Ronge Ice Wolves held on for a 4-2 victory over the Notre Dame Hounds in Wilcox in the lone game played Thursday night.
Rookie Adam Moar had two goals for the Wolves while Jordie Johnston had a goal and an assist. Bruno-Pier Gosselin also scored for La Ronge. The Hounds trailed 4-0 before Chris Smith, recently acquired from La Ronge, put the Hounds on the board. Eddie Gale added a goal in the third period but it was too little to late for Notre Dame.
Jonathan Jobin, yet again, was the star for La Ronge as he made 41 saves. Antoine Desrosiers got the start for the Hounds and stopped 23 of 27 shots faced. The Ice Wolves leap frog over Melfort by a point in the Itech as they improve to 4-5-1-0, although the Mustangs have three games in hand. Notre Dame saw there record fall to 2-9-0-0.
Apparently the customary 500 fans attended the game in Notre Dame again tonight according to the game sheet. Rumor has it that 450 of them were dressed up as seats for the game.
Tomorrow's Action - The Wings travel to Kindersley to battle the Klippers; Melville is in Yorkton; Melfort heads to Nipawin; and the Battlefords North Stars host the Flin Flon Bombers.
Tidbits - Media reports out of Nashville say that country singer Kelli Pickler has dumped her boyfriend, ex- Brandon Wheat King and current Nashville Predator, Jordin Tootoo. Apparently, Jordin was accused of tootoo-timing her.
The Moose Jaw Warriors have re-assigned defenseman Jock Sutter, a Redvers product, to the SJHL's Yorkton Terriers. That is now three WHLers re-assigned to the Terriers in the past week - the others - forward Carter Smith and goaltender Joel Danyluk. Ed Zawatsky will now be forced to do some lineup shuffling but I have a feeling he does not mind that given the circumstances.
The Saskatoon Blades, after acquiring Ondrej Fiala today from the Everett Silvertips, now have four 20-year olds and will have to cut one in the next six days. The most likely would be defenseman Curtis Patterson. If my memory serves me correctly, Patterson was once listed by the Red Wings as a 17 year old when he was released by the Regina Pats and there were rumors he was coming here before he re-surfaced in Prince George that year.
The Seattle Thunderbirds continue to carry four 20 year olds and as the other teams continue to fill their roster quotas, Andre Herman and Ian McKenzie I am sure are sitting on pins and needles. To make things worse for the T-Birds in evaluting these players is that they have played only a league low 2 games going into the weekend. The other 20 year olds in Seattle are defenseman Scott Jackson, who won't be going anywhere and defenseman Benn Olson.
Back to watching hockey - Flames have tied the game at two with three minutes to go in regulation. Catch ya later.
- Brad M.
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Ice Wolves Drop Hounds!
Posted by Red Wings at Thursday, October 04, 2007
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2 Comments:
if wilcox was bigger they would have just as many fans as weyburn.... oh wait every year when the wings start slumping the fans start dropping.. pretty loyal fans ya got i'd say... so for as many people who live in wilcox thats probaby as many loyal fans weyburn has.. and basically considering the population difference the fan base is not that big of a gap.. oh and one other thing is if they actually said the real population which is as you say 50 well that doesn't look good for the league at all.. but hey what do i know?
Hockeyfan,
I do not disagree with a lot of what you are saying and I do agree with your thoughts on Weyburn fans. The hardcores always go but your right when the team slumps, the crowd suffers. I have just always had a problem with inflated crowd numbers, and that includes here in Weyburn when it is done at times such as you noted when struggles occur.
Thanks for your comments.
- Brad M.
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