Umm. The JM goalie was dropping the stick completely to the ice in front of him whenever a show was coming in, and trying to stop it with his blocker by catching it from what I could see (I was goal judging, so I was on the wrong side to see exactly what he was doing).

Anyway, the kings player was in front at the top of the crease and the puck was off in the corner and he swept the stick way out to the opposite corner with his stick. I’m not sure if he sent it that far deliberately, or just swung at it to move it away and it just went that far.

Alright. The whole making picks for Sunday night games doesn’t work for me, but I can assure you that I would have picked both these games the way they worked out.

First up, Kings vs John McGlashan. Both teams decided to try and creative method of not brining their regular goalies. Kings fielded Bley in goal, though he missed the first bit of the game due to thinking he was playing at 8pm, Johnnies fielded Oli Wilson. Oli was really creative, adopting a “drop the stick every time someone shoots at me” method. Kings manager Keilor retaliated by knocking the stick away into the corner, a goalie interference call if ever I saw one! Anyway, the game went well, I thought Kings might struggle a bit with Neil, King, and Williams all away, but they still got up with three 3rd period goals to take it 5-2. Paired goals for Ben Speirs and Jamie Teasdale, along with a good game by Bley to keep out over 90% of shots and see his team through. That game and the following one will see Johnnies unable to make the final this league, they’ll be looking ahead to playing Bears, while Kings will be lining up the Beasts for the final two games.

Bears vs Beasts. Bears were woefully short for this game, with almost all their peewee players still coming back from Queenstown after knocking over the local peewee team (go peewees!). Stevenson and Matthews signed up to play to help them out. Bears up early off a coast-to-coast goal, but Beasts back in it with the next three. Goals were split in the last game – a point shot where Larry Martin somehow missed out on an assist for passing it back, but Cecil-Cockwell gets it for the faceoff, and Sedgwick wraps up a 4-2 win for Beasts. A good game overall, Wood stopped 17 of 21 shots after playing two games earlier for the peewees. She’s a rising star that one.

Next week is the last week of the round-robin, and it should be a repeat the week after in the finals. Johnnies play Bears, in a repeat of a drawn match first time around, and Kings take on Beasts, Kings took it out well last time, Beasts will be looking to be better this time.

Excuse me while I add Chris to the list of players who didn’t agreed with a call when they were put in the penalty box. My what a long list is it!

And on the other side… the very short list of players who admitted that the referees got it right.

The style that you play Chris is often pushing the boundaries of interference, so you can expect to get called on it sometimes. I’m sure Phil Handcock would be happy to talk to you about why, which might help you adjust your play.

I have a similar thing, but mine is holding. I have a long reach so I often reach around players and try and knock away the puck. It doesn’t take much for that to end up being a holding call.

Hey Chris,

Was that you yelling out ‘trip him’ while I was skating around half your team last night?

And doing primary school loopy fingers behind the referee when he put you in the box for interference?