I went to the Saturday Bg game. My impressions are mostly positive. I thought again that Casper was our best player. And man I noticed him and hertig were on the ice a lot. Hertig has improved. he's smoother, skates more, and the game is flowing better. I think Chase has improved also. Still a ways to go for everyone but he is improving. As far as forwards, I noticed Kukk, Leppa, who in particular was excellent, and Gordon was working hard. He almost had the game-winner during the major. But, and this is true for many of our players. the puck stays on his stick too long. he got the puck, saw a shot, thought about it for a beat, and shot it. It was labeled. the goalie just barely had time to get to it. I thought it was in at first. even a few tenths of a second, he'd have a second goal. in general, we take too long with the puck and we shoot it right at the goalie. Let's at least make him move. .
I liked how some of the freshmen are coming along but some also need to get better before they are not a defensive liability. I wish the coach hadn't shortened the benches quite so much late in the game. . Some of our guys were pretty tired towards the end there. I thought we were the better team throughout the game though and especially in the third. I would like fewer turnovers. BG had a lot of intercepted plays and we could do better at times getting out of our end. Sometimes we basically gave them the puck as a gift to try again. Overall though, not bad.
