For the first time this season, my hockey team lost. We lost to Lake Forest 2 to 1 and it was a brutal game. As a team we were not performing and could not finish the chances in front of the net. It was also a problem that our coaches were giving the referees a hard time the entire game questioning every move the referee made and every call he made. When a coach does this it is never beneficial to us because the referee will never give us a call. We also took some really dumb penalties which cause them to score late in the game. We didn't have our legs either because our coaching staff, once again, only played two lines most of the game with an occasional 3rd and 4th going out. Up until this game we were undefeated and I think pretty proud of it. Loosing this game also puts us down in the standings and we are going to have to fight to get back to the top. It was going to happen sometime this year, but I don't think my team was ready for it. I think that's another reason we lost, because we were to full of our selves to look at reality. And reality is that no team is invincible.
Going foreword, we learn from it and can only work with what we know. What we know is that we can't get into a mind set like that ever again. If we want to be the best team at the end of the year which is very possible, we need to be more discipline. There have been too many dumb penalties with under two minutes to play in several games this year including this game. To be a championship hockey team, we always need to be serious and be ready to play. Like my coach always says, "We don't take nights off." If we can do this for a season we can be victorious.
This game was only a building block and a minor speed bump in a long season. One loss is never the end of the world and looking foreword to future games, we can only improve by fixing and improving mistakes we have made. My team can do it. We just need the mind set.
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