Re: Lead up to Sochi
Great game yesterday at Dexter School in Brookline against St Sebastian's Varsity team. Goals by Schleper, Marvin, Knight, Coyne and Bellamy for the ladies, final score 5-2. McLaughlin played the first half of the game, Vetter the second. The boys got a sloppy goal thirty seconds in but the women dominated the rest of the first period without scoring. They then dominated the second period while scoring 4. The third period was less high intensity but still entertaining, with one goal each.
There were three goals scored on slapshots from Ds at the point and two from scrums in front of the net, none of the pretty single pass and tip ins that we've been used to seeing in the US/Canada series. No particular conclusions to draw from this but it was interesting.
Gigi Marvin seemed to take a puck to the throat near the end of the second and had to be helped off the ice, but she was back for the third period.
Kendall Coyne was the outstanding skater on the women's team, sowing confusion on the backcheck and getting the puck up the ice consistently. On the St Seb's side, their goalie really kept them in the game.
The team hung around afterwards, socialized, and signed autographs for the enthusiastic crowd. Turnout was probably over 300 in a rink with only two sides of spectating.
There's another game against a boy's varsity team at Dexter at 3 pm next Sunday, and one at Belmont Hill School on Thursday 16th. Best hockey you'll see for free all year.
