Moondawgs Improve but Score still Lopsided....

Moondawgs Improve but Score still Lopsided....
-by Nick Fleehart


The Adult beginners team , the Oklahoma Moondawgs, from Oklahoma City rang in their inaugural season  Sunday April 18th. The Moondawgs formed this February and consists of 16 guys , all but 3 having no previous hockey or skating experience.

  They opened their season in the OKCAHL against the Tri-pods. The Tri-pods have been in Division 4 for a couple of years and have many experienced players. The Tri-pods came out victorious in 9 - 2 game. The Moondawgs highlights lent them self mainly to two players. Evan Lambeth with both goals coming unassisted and then also the Goalie Brian Kraft. Brian faced tons of shots , as it seems we played the whole day in our zone. Brian was a machine for us but its hard to stop every piece of rubber sent your way when facing over what seems like 50 shots in a game.  The Tripods scored early and often but got a lil showy later in the 3rd when a couple big timers decided to rub in their  garbage goals.. Not to mention the cow bells that were a-ringin' from their fans. Very frustrating for a team like the 'Dawgs to have to be subject to that , and more frustrating for a team of experienced guys to want to play in the lowest division so they can do this to beginner ( or as they said 'Easy") teams.  I guess some people take pride in being king turd on Shit Island eh?

The Moondawgs,  while taking the loss , still showed fight and determination. They played til the game was finished and didnt give up regardless of the score. The big thing is the team is starting to play better as a team. We are moving the puck more and this will create the badly needed offense soon!

The guys have been sticking and pucking pretty regularly for the past couple of months and its starting to show. There are a lot of small things we can do to make us immensely better  and these are the things we are going to work on. We also will keep rotating positions to see what works for us. I want to commend all the guys for keeping their heads up and looking past this game. It's really exciting to see a team shake something like this off and already be excited and looking forward to our next game this upcoming Sunday. As my boy Baker says "I feel a win a'comin on".

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Dawgs on a personal note, you guys have improved drastically. If we keep improving like this we will fit right in with all these teams in less than half the season. Just keep doing what your doing and being students to the game. Thanks for being a great team , its still turning out to be a great season!


Question of the Day?
Have any of you ever dealt with teams/players  that should obviously be playing against more experience or better competition? What did ya think about it  and how did it affect you and/or  your team? Leave answers in comments box.