Re: Tuesday Jan. 4th Scores: Plattsburgh looks to keep the Prez 0-fer at the Stafford
Kind of a sloppy win for Oswego. Despite the low 2-0 score I never really got the feeling that the game was in doubt, Skidmore is not very good on the offensive side, they have a tremendous amount of puck luck though and Colin Bessey played well in goal.
If the D-Men could figure out how to stop with the unforced turnovers they could really start to dominate some games. Jones made a couple of real good saves including a stop on a breakaway after another horrible Kevin Huinink turnover at his own blueline, leading to Dan Bremners goal a few seconds later.
I think Oswego had about nine 2 on 1's in the third period and didn't even come close to scoring on any of them and a couple of open nets were missed which could start coming bank to haunt them against better teams.
Boot's, Moodie and Whitelaw created most of the chances with the first goal being scored by Whitelaw on a virtual 3 on 0 after a very headsup play by Dan Jones to catch Skidmore on a terrible line change.
Bremner finally used his speed and drove around the defenseman tucking it under the goalie, he has been trying that play all year and it finally worked. He, along with Kelly and Badham had a ton of energy all night. Brown, Singleton and Titanic played well but failed to capitalize including Brown missing a wide open net on a deke, getting it back only to pass up the open shot instead trying to force a pass that got picked off. Some of these guys need to start pulling to trigger or they are going to keep getting into these low scoring battles.
Fox, Laganiere and Mather are just a strange line. They will either go out and create a bunch of chances on a shift or just sleepwalk through it and go on a line change. Mather was the best player on that line all night.
Kind of a sloppy win for Oswego. Despite the low 2-0 score I never really got the feeling that the game was in doubt, Skidmore is not very good on the offensive side, they have a tremendous amount of puck luck though and Colin Bessey played well in goal.
If the D-Men could figure out how to stop with the unforced turnovers they could really start to dominate some games. Jones made a couple of real good saves including a stop on a breakaway after another horrible Kevin Huinink turnover at his own blueline, leading to Dan Bremners goal a few seconds later.
I think Oswego had about nine 2 on 1's in the third period and didn't even come close to scoring on any of them and a couple of open nets were missed which could start coming bank to haunt them against better teams.
Boot's, Moodie and Whitelaw created most of the chances with the first goal being scored by Whitelaw on a virtual 3 on 0 after a very headsup play by Dan Jones to catch Skidmore on a terrible line change.
Bremner finally used his speed and drove around the defenseman tucking it under the goalie, he has been trying that play all year and it finally worked. He, along with Kelly and Badham had a ton of energy all night. Brown, Singleton and Titanic played well but failed to capitalize including Brown missing a wide open net on a deke, getting it back only to pass up the open shot instead trying to force a pass that got picked off. Some of these guys need to start pulling to trigger or they are going to keep getting into these low scoring battles.
Fox, Laganiere and Mather are just a strange line. They will either go out and create a bunch of chances on a shift or just sleepwalk through it and go on a line change. Mather was the best player on that line all night.
