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Leafs With a 4-Point Week
2019-01-28
The Valley Maple Leafs recognize they still need significant help to reach the 2018-2019 Nova Scotia Junior Hockey League playoffs, but in saying that, over the past two games they appear to be saying to themselves, “we are not out of it yet and we will earn every point humanely possible ...
The Valley Maple Leafs recognize they still need significant help to reach the 2018-2019 Nova Scotia Junior Hockey League playoffs, but in saying that, over the past two games they appear to be saying to themselves, “we are not out of it yet and we will earn every point humanely possible to the bitter end.” Coming off a great game Wednesday night when they blanked the Antigonish Jr. Bulldogs 3-0, the Leafs played host to the Pictou County Scotians at Exhibition Arena Friday night and doubled them 8-4. Valley outshot the Scotians 45-36 over the game and, with a huge third period when they scored three unanswered goals, secured the 8-4 victory.
The Scotians were up 1-0 after one period on a goal from Jacob Pentz and then went up 2-0 on a marker from Logan Vandeemeerakker before the Leafs tied it with a pair from Patrick Halpin and Peter Drohan 55 seconds apart. The opening three goals in the second period were scored within a span of 1:18. Pentz then put the Scotians back in front 3-2 before Drohan, who finished with three goals on the night, scored his second to tie the game 3-3. William Kelly then put the Scotians up again 4-3 before Chad Woodill scored for the Leafs to tie the game at 4-4 once again. The goals by Kelly and Woodill came only 8 seconds apart. Kyle Keddy then gave the Leafs their first lead of the game at 5-4 with his goal with only 3:24 to play in the middle period.
Keddy added a power-play goal to make it 6-4 in the third period and it stayed that way after the flurry of scoring in the second period until there was only 1:27 left and the Scotians gave up an empty net goal to Peter Drohan for his third of the evening. Tristan Cavanagh then tallied with only 5 seconds left to make the final 8-4 Maple Leafs. Taylor Brown and Luke Russell both contributed three assists for the Leafs. It was the Valley’s 11th win against 14 losses and 1 overtime/shoot-out loss to give them 23 points. They would liked to have been closer than 9 points out of a playoff spot heading into their huge game against the Liverpool Privateers Wednesday Jan 30 in Windsor. A win Wednesday would pull them to within 7 points of both the Colts and Privateers with a month still remaining in the schedule.
The Scotians were up 1-0 after one period on a goal from Jacob Pentz and then went up 2-0 on a marker from Logan Vandeemeerakker before the Leafs tied it with a pair from Patrick Halpin and Peter Drohan 55 seconds apart. The opening three goals in the second period were scored within a span of 1:18. Pentz then put the Scotians back in front 3-2 before Drohan, who finished with three goals on the night, scored his second to tie the game 3-3. William Kelly then put the Scotians up again 4-3 before Chad Woodill scored for the Leafs to tie the game at 4-4 once again. The goals by Kelly and Woodill came only 8 seconds apart. Kyle Keddy then gave the Leafs their first lead of the game at 5-4 with his goal with only 3:24 to play in the middle period.
Keddy added a power-play goal to make it 6-4 in the third period and it stayed that way after the flurry of scoring in the second period until there was only 1:27 left and the Scotians gave up an empty net goal to Peter Drohan for his third of the evening. Tristan Cavanagh then tallied with only 5 seconds left to make the final 8-4 Maple Leafs. Taylor Brown and Luke Russell both contributed three assists for the Leafs. It was the Valley’s 11th win against 14 losses and 1 overtime/shoot-out loss to give them 23 points. They would liked to have been closer than 9 points out of a playoff spot heading into their huge game against the Liverpool Privateers Wednesday Jan 30 in Windsor. A win Wednesday would pull them to within 7 points of both the Colts and Privateers with a month still remaining in the schedule.