It was back-to-back shoutouts in Waterloo Wolves games over
the weekend.
Sadly, one was for a win, a 4 to 0 shutout against the
Stratford Warriors, but the other one was a 2 to 0 defeat to the Brantford
99ers.
It has been two straight games Ciaran Guitton-Quayle has played
without surrendering a goal against. The Wolves goalie was tested several times
in the game against the Warriors but stood tall for his team. Hiatt Rich got
the ball rolling for his team with a shorthanded goal. Ben Schofield scored
from Dell Wang and then Wang, D scored from Allan Wang and Owen Ottens. Grayson
Seiling capped off the score from Logan Murtha.
The Wolves came to play and played with a nice physical
element to their game. Jackson Hunter and Ben Sawyer both threw several bone
crushing hits. Reed Rozema laid the body in the second period to crush a
Warrior player as well. In fact, several forwards had strong two-way games with
Casey Ross setting the tone on the back check. Cam Murray was another stand out
on the back check and prevented several scoring chances. Carter Talboom’s relentless
forechecking is earning his coach’s praise. Talboom has been a constant hard
worker that sparks his teammates.
In Brantford, it was a tale of two teams. There was the one
that created chances and looked poised to win the game and then there was the
one that looked content to have others do the work and hope to have chances to
score.
Overall, it was just a strange game and left the coaches
feeling Jack Howard deserved better.
Howard was fantastic. He made highlight reel stops and was responsible
for the teams being in a scoreless tie after two periods.
Talboom continued to play hard and was the spark plug. The
team lacked finish and could have used Wang, D in the game. Wang, D was missing
due to injury and joined Christopher Ding and Logan Landry on the sidelines.
On the Brightside, the team has shown moments where they buy
into the systems and excel but have lacked consistency. It is one of those
cases where it is two steps forward and one step back. When the team is playing
how they need to play they see success, so it is only a matter of time that it
is all hands-on deck and the boys rally to play to their ability.
Keep plugging along Wolves!