Written option: choose two games your team has played this season, one where things went badly and one where things went well, and write at least 250 words (total, not each) on why you think that was the case. Must include a clear indication of which games and at least 3 stats from each game.
Graphics option: choose two games your team played this season, one where things went badly and one where things went well, and create an infographic highlighting the reasons you think that was the case. Must include the team logos and at least 4 stats from each game.
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07-29-2018, 01:43 PM(This post was last modified: 07-29-2018, 01:44 PM by ThatIrishFellow.)
So far, the high point of this season for the St. Louis Scarecrows was our 7-1 win over Anchorage Armada (game 80). There were many factors that helped this go so well. The first – shots. We out-shot Anchorage 24 to 12. In the first period alone, we out-shot them 10-3. This allowed us to take an early lead 5 minutes in, and then add a few more by the end of the period to make it 4-0 going into the second. It's hard to lose with a lead like that. The second – discipline. We didn't give up a single penalty, so Anchorage wasn't given a chance to capitalize on the special teams. Lastly – blocked shots. We had 12 throughout the game; twice as many as Anchorage. If shots aren't getting through, then goals aren't being scored, and that was a huge part of our success.
On the other hand, the low point this season was losing 5-1 to the Vancouver Whalers (game 108). The main reason this went bad was our penalty kill. We were 0 for 2 on the night, and it allowed Vancouver to put the game out of reach in the third period. Secondly, we were horribly out-shot – 23 to 37. While shots aren't everything, they are extremely important if you're trying to come back in a game. We were out-shot 16 to 7 in the second, and that allowed Vancouver to take a 3-0 lead going into the third. Lastly, our powerplay was working at 0% this game. We had an opportunity to come back and tie it 1-1 in the second, but we couldn't capitalize and Vancouver ran away with it.
Overall, we've had a mediocre first half to the season, and hope that the second half will be a bit smoother.
Highs and lows happen to all teams during a season, (some are better/worse than others) and the St. Louis Scarecrows are no different. We have chosen (in our own personal opinion) the high and low point of the Scarecrows season so far.
The high point so far occurred in Game #84 when the Scarecrows defeated the Kelowna Knights 3-0. This game showed St. Louis at their highest for a few reasons. Friedrich Schmidt had a perfect game earning the shutout, the PK was on the ice on 2 different occasions and killed both off with perfection, and although only scoring on 1 of 4 powerplay were still able to get the job done. This game showed that St. Louis can do great things when they are lazer focused on the task at hand.
The low point of the current season happened in Game #60 where The Scarecrows were shutout 4-0 by the Detroit Falcons. Almost everything possible went wrong in this one for St. Louis. They were outshot 30-19, the Powerplay was non existent, (0-3) and the PK was a horror show having been scored on 4 out of 5 times! The lack of discipline really cost the Scarecrows in this one.
While the season thus far has not been very good, the St. Louis locker room still has belief that things will turn around, and that the Championship can still become theirs at the end of the year. Now we can just sit back and see if things turn around for them.
07-29-2018, 03:23 PM(This post was last modified: 07-29-2018, 03:29 PM by Mayuu.)
It was falcons 10th game of the season, this is usually the point where you are able to see where the teams will end up more or less. Very rarely team changes to much after this unless there's a major trade or signing.
The record was 3W 6L. Not a very good record and the team had to start producing wins and whalers was the next opponent.
After the game everyone in the falcons locker room had heavy heads. Another loss and an embarrassing one.
4-0 to whalers.. zero produced goals, power play continued to haunt the falcons.
5 minor penalties taken and two goals against in the pk.
Everyone knew, it was make or break from now on.
Unfortunately the falcons had to wait until thier 25th game of the season to get their revenge.
Whalers was up again, and this time we were determined to turn the trend.
Although we just barely beat them 3-2 we did so by not repeating our previous mistakes.
Less PIM(4), better power play (2/5) and a solid PK.
Going into this game Falcons had a stunning record of 8W 17L but does seem to be on an upwards trend.
Falcons are currently sitting in the last playoff spot and will still have to battle hard to hold on to it.
Game 60 between the St. Louis Scarecrows and the Detroit Falcons.
The Scarecrows worst lose of the season comes by way of a 4-0 shutout for goalie Cedric Robinson of the Detroit Falcons. While it was shutout, it was far from Cedric's best performance of the season. The Scarecrows managed only 19 shots over the course of 60 minutes, while their Motor City counterparts peppered Friedrich Schmidt with 30. With over three minutes to recover from the last shot, Cedric didn't really see much action. Another reason the Scarecrows couldn't get going was their inability to get anything done on special teams. Going 1 / 5 on the penalty kill and 0/3 on the power play, all of Detroits scoring came off of the Scarecrow's penalties.
Conversely, just twenty games later, Game 80, between Anchorage and St. Louis turned things around in a 7 - 1 win for their home crowd. St. Louis locked it down and took zero penalty minutes during game 80, and converted 2 of 6 attempts on the power play. Goalie Benjamin Blue was chased after only 10 shots, allowing 4 goals. Larry Atta came in and allowed another three goals on 14 shots. The Armada only manged to get 12 shots on the Crows in this one.
Looking at the comparison of both games, it's clear why the Crows lost so badly in one, and won the other handily.
I remember the game well. Game 60 of the SMJHL. We were playing the Detroit Falcons and had high hopes going into the game. We do well for most of the first period but the Falcon's power play unit is absolutely outstanding. On the 3 chances they had in the first, the succeeded in scoring on us twice. Both goals came late in the period, at 16:10 and 19:27. After that, you could tell the whole team was rattled. We could not convert on our man advantage and stood no chance as we only recorded 5 shots all period. The third period was no better. We would allow two more power play goals in this period. The last goal would see Tig Murphy score his first career SMJHL goal on the power play. The game would end with Detroit winning 4-0. Cedric Robinson would record a shutout while facing 19 shots.
Vladislav Konstantin (W) of Detroit would record 2 goals and take the first star of the game. Followed by Detroit's Robinson (G) and Murphy (D). St Louis' Penalty Kill unit could not clear the puck, this is where the game went south, and allowed Detroit PP unit to shine.
Game 80 of the SMJHL went the other way. St. Louis' would beat Anchorage 7-1. Tony Snow would record 4 points (3G - 1A) and would be dominant all game long. St Louis out shot Anchorage 24-12. Every player played a disciplined game taking no penalties. We knew what we had to do coming into this game, and I believe we achieved that. We came out in the first period scoring 4 goals. The second period we would record 2 more, putting us on a 6 unanswered goal streak. While Anchorage would win more face-offs (41-32) and bring the body more (21-14) they were not able to put the puck into the net.
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In Game 37 against the Colorado Raptors the Montreal Militia lost 4-1. The reasons are quite clear. The Raptors outshot them 24-20 and racked up an impressive 24 hits throughout the game. Montreal's goalie Vrana went a dismal .733 in save percentage which just cannot be tolerated. And Kratsov went just 6 wins in 13 attempts at the face off dot. But it's not all bad news. Pavel Pivonka scored his first goal of the season and prevented the shutout.
In Game 103 against the Anchorage Armada the Montreal Militia won 7-1. There's a few key reasons why: first of all the big 5 goal second period for the militia after giving up the only goal of the first period really turned the game on it's head, Kazarian went an impressive 10 of 11 in the face off circle which really helped control the game and Montreal put up 35 shots on goal compared to Armada's 24 . Anchorage was shutdown by the PK of Montreal going 0 for 6 on the Power Play.
Overall it shows that when Montreal gets good offense and good puck possession which starts with the face off wins, they can be the dominant team to beat in the SMJHL but they have to shoot, hit and get the big saves from Vrana. It seems like when everything goes right- they're a force to be reckoned with but as soon as one thing goes wrong - it's quicksand and they fall apart.
Montreal has to find the consistency they've been lacking all season and start putting some wins together if they want to make the playoffs and contend for a championship this season.
One of the most surprising teams of the season so far has been the Colorado Raptors, who were expected be at the bottom of the league the entire season. At the time of writing, the Raptors currently sit fifth in league, which is would put them in the playoffs if the season ended today. A key reason for the success was a seven game win streak, starting off with a shootout victory against the Kelowna Knights. It was game 64 for the SMJHL this season, with both teams combining for 11 goals. Kelowna would outshoot Colorado 40 to 20 during regulation and overtime, but the Raptors proved to be more effective with there shots. Colorado also shared the wealth of goals, as all five goals were scored by different players in regulation and overtime. Even the shootout winter was scored by a player who hadn't scored in the game. Interestingly, all of Colorado's goals were scored even strength, even though going on penalty kill give times throughout the game.
However, one of the low points for Colorado's season has been a reason losing streak. Again, the game that started the streak would be Game 97 against the Kelowna Knights. The final score of the game would be a 6-2 loss for Colorado, with Kelowna putting up 30 shots to Colorado's 24 shots. All six goals for Kelowna would be scored by different players, and Kelowna would have a power play convert on four of the eight chances given. That's an efficiency of 50%! Kelowna would actually chase Colorado's starter Brandon Sando 15 minutes and four seconds into the game, after allowing three goals on seven shots.Since the loss, Colorado has been on a four game slide, and many are fearing that it will continue.
Game 1: Montreal Militia (4) vs. Colorado Raptors (2):
This was without a doubt the lowest point of the season for the Raptors, and it adds up too. This team is absolutely full of rookies with no experience so it would make sense that the beginning would be a bit of a flop. Ironically however, it's the veterans that led this team to failure during this game, namely the recently named captain Troy McClure III. The weakest part of this game for the Raptors, and the main reason why they failed so miserably, was the amount of penalties they drew. The Raptors took four penalties in the first period alone, and totaled 8 penalties in the entire game. There is something to be said about the Raptor's penalty kill, seeing as they only let up two goals on the pk and managed to score a short handed goal while they were at it. Bottom line, the Raptors may have had a chance at winning this game if they didn't have such ridiculous problems with discipline during this game and effectively tiring out their players.
Game 64: Colorado Raptors (6) vs. Kelowna Knights (5):
This was far and away the high point of the season for this young Raptors team; this game against the high and mighty Kelowna Knights, who at this time, only have three regulation losses, so as you can see it is an incredibly achievement to even win a game against the team. But we didn't just win the game, we scored six goals against them. In this game it really shows how much our offense has blossomed into a force to be reckoned with, seeing as not only is every goal scored by a rookie on our team, but a different rookie at that. So, six goals six different players, big deal? Yes, because our goalie had a .875 save percentage which was incredible compared to Kelowna's goalie's .750, or should I saw swiss cheese? If you combine that on top of the fact that Colorado also had three regular penalties and one double minor penalty and only scored once on the man advantage, it wasn't just a win, it was complete dominance.
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Low:
This season has seen plenty of highs and lows, however there have been some more defined "valleys" than Mountains thus far this season. One such example would be the game versus the Vancouver Whalers on July 24th. We did not score one goal against the Whalers -- one of the few games this year we have been shutout. That was not even the worst part! They scored 7 goals on us. One thing that stood out to me was the special teams difference. We could not kill a penalty to save our lives and we could not score on the powerplay -- a horrible combination especially since the calls were even all game. The loss was completely our fault and we needed to bounce back from it. I would say one of the worst parts about it for myself was that I ended the game as a -2 which means I was on the ice for two more goals against than for. That was sad for me since I pride myself on my two-way ability. Not only that but usually if you are a -2 it means you costed your team the game.
High
The game versus the Colorado Raptors on July 19th was definitely the high for me in terms of our season thus far. We won 6-4 despite only outshooting them by one shot. I did not record a point however I ended the game as a + 1 with roughly 14 minutes on the ice. I was proud of our team because we played well on the special teams. We established the 25 % Power Play percentage and shut down every single power play for the other team. We were disciplined and played well. Definitely a high that we should get back to.
This season has been nothing but highs and lows for the St. Louis Scarecrows. Starting off the season losing 4 games in the row, was a low point. It's been mediocre to say the least the rest of the season. Two games I'd like to spotlight 7-in our look at the highs and lows of the season are Game 80 - St. Louis v. Anchorage Armata - 7-1 Win for the Scarecrows and Game 117 - St. Louis v. Detroit Falcons, a 6-0 Loss for the Scarecrows.
Game 80 - This game looked like it could have been a turning point to the season. A 7-1 domination in every facet of the game. The Crows outshot the Armada 24-12, didn't have a penalty against, while the Armada took 6 penalties, giving up 2 Power Play goals. Finally after a season, where they were the lowest scoring team in the league, the Crows players put together an effort, led by Tony Snow's Hattrick, and Nicky Pedersen Jr.'s first multi point game of his young career. The first time on the season that St. Louis had put together a complete game, and lived up to their preseason hype.
Fast forward to Game 117 against the Detroit Falcons and the Crows highs have come crashing down to the lowest point of the season. In a fight for the final playoff spot, St. Louis trails Detroit & Anchorage by 5 points with 21 games left in the season. Losing to the team that is directly in front of you sucks, getting beat 6-0 is demoralizing. Looking at the game we can see some areas that Detroit clearly exploited to gain control against the Crows. First area is faceoffs, Detroit won 48 faceoffs to St. Louis 34. Gaining control of the puck 14 more times leads to more opportunities. Detroit was hungry right out of the gate, Scoring 2 minutes into the game, another before the 6 minute mark, and a 3rd just 2 minutes later, effectively ending the game before the middle of the first period. Outshooting the Crows 18-7 in the first period set the tone for the evening. A 3rd area that Detroit seem to exploit was the Crows 3rd line. The Crows 3rd Line combined for a -12 on the evening. With each player on the ice for nearly 17 minutes, Detroit found a matchup that they thought they could exploit, and did. All those factors led us to the lowest point of the season for the Crows.
Good news is that they have played the least amount of games this season, and are only 5 points out of a playoff spot with a couple of games in hand. The bad news is that if they continue to have efforts like this, they will find themselves hitting the golf course as soon as the regular season is over.
The Halifax Raiders have started to fall in the rankings following a rough patch with few wins over the last ten games. They had their harshest loss two games ago, when they faced the powerhouse of the league, the Kelowna Rockets. Kelowna handed them their a brutal 6-1 defeat in which the Raiders never even stood a chance to look adequate. The Raiders were outshot by a 2 to 1 ratio, registering a weak 19 shots to Kelowna's 40. Goalie Geezus Kryyst had to be pulled halfway through the second after the 4th goal, and even though Nathan Cosco managed 19 saves out of 21 shots, it was clearly not enough to spark the offense, who didn't score on three PP occasions while Kelowna went 2/2, dominating on the special units.
The Raiders really need to try to go back to the way things were at the beginning of the season, when they notably beat the Anchorage Armada by a whooping score of 7-2. Even Pierre Laroche-Durocher, Halifax's stay-at-home, offensively deficient defenceman, scored a goal (his only one so far this season) in the blowout. Even though both team were almost tied for shots (26-24 in favor of Halifax), Geezus Kryyst did a way better job than his counterparts Benjamin Blue (4 saves on 8 shots) and Larry Atta (15 saves on 18 shots). It was also one of the rare occasions when the Raiders' PP managed to be effective, scoring two times on four occasions.
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