2015/2016 Capital City Rec Hockey League Season Recap

This was my eighth consecutive season of organized hockey, third with the Rangers. We were in Division 13/15. I played in 24/30 Games and had 10 Goals & 14 Assists for 24 points. I played in 5/5 play off games and had 3 goals. I included the two pre season games in the stats and games played because it was used to seed our team into a proper division. We won our first round best of three Play off series and fell short by one goal in game three of our round two series.

April 2016 Training

Sat 30th, Road group ride @ Wye School for 3hrs, Average heart rate =150 Max =195, Elevation gain 994 feet. Km's 75

Thu 28th, Road ride @ Ellerslie Road for 1hr 30mins (2 X 15min threshold) Average heart rate =122 Max =177, Elevation gain 440 feet. Km's 40

Wed 27th, MTB group ride to Mill Creek Ravine for 1hr 50mins, Average heart rate =149 Max =189, Elevation gain 1,027 feet. Km's 18

Wed 20th, MTB group ride to Riverside Golf for 1hr 46mins, Average heart rate =155 Max =186, Elevation gain 1,135 feet. Km's 20

Sun 17th, MTB ride Mill Creek Ravine to Riverside Golf for 2hrs (Zone's 1-4) Average heart rate =146 Max =181, Elevation gain 1,401 feet. Km's 23

Sat 16th, Road ride @ Ellerslie Road with Mom for 2hrs (Zone 1/2) Average heart rate =97 Max =143, Elevation gain 436 feet. Km's 37

Wed 13th, MTB group ride to Mill Creek Ravine for 1hr 34mins, Average heart rate =132 Max =175, Elevation gain 787 feet. Km's 15

Sun 10th, MTB ride @ Mill Creek Ravine for 2hrs (Zone's 1-3) Average heart rate =130 Max =173, Elevation gain 1,250 feet. Km's 21. First ride on my new Trek Fuel EX 9.8 carbon fibre full suspension trail bike I bought from United Cycle  It handles & climbs great and is a fantastic ride.

Sun 3rd, Road ride @ Colchester Hall to Northern Bear for 3hrs (2 X 10min threshold) Average heart rate =133 Max =173, Elevation gain 892 feet. Km's 76

April 2015/2016 Capital City Rec Hockey League (Playoffs)

Thu 14th, (Game #5)
@ 9:45pm, Knights of Columbus arena Rangers vs. Bipolar Bears (L 2-1) I emptied the tank tonight and played through lots of bumps and bruises. I can look in the mirror and say I tried my best. We scored twenty seven seconds into the game. But They out played us in the first period. We battled so hard as a team and blocked shots and skated really hard. We have a really good team and just came up short. We lost the second round best of three series and are eliminated as they go on to the finals. They out shot us 23 to 18. James S 1G.

Mon 11th, (Game #4)
@ 9:00pm, Terwillegar arena Rangers vs. Bipolar Bears (L 4-3) I won lots of face offs tonight and I had a couple nice back checks where I stole the puck away. I missed my chance in the shoot out and I lost the puck and didn't even get a shot on net, I was disappointed. I would say that tonight as a whole they did out play us. They went up 2-1 in the third period. With the game tied we scored with only a couple minutes left. Then they scored on a six on four power play with their goalie pulled and a few seconds left in the game. They won in a shoot out. The difference was they scored three power play goals. The best of three series is now tied. They out shot us 26 to 20. James S 1G & 1A. Ryan S 1G & 1A. Daniel D 1G. Howard C 1A. Jeff M 1A.

Sat 9th, (Game #3)
@ 10:00pm, Callingwood arena Rangers vs. Bipolar Bears (W 5-4) I had missed a couple days of work this week for a medical condition but I felt good when the game started. That is until in the second period I blocked a slap shot off the foot and then later on I fell feet first hard into the boards jamming my leg up a bit. We came out and had a really strong first period. Then the second period came where I think we only had two shots on goal and got out played and our goalie Ryan L held us in there. The third period was fairly even and the difference was Ryan S goal on a break away short handed getting hauled down drawing a penalty and still scoring the game winner late. They out shot us 30 to 12. Ryan S 3G & 2A. Chris K 2G. Ryan DV 1A. Bruce C 1A. Jeff M 2A.   

Sat 2nd, (Game #2) 1 Goal
@ 8:15pm, Clareview arena Rangers vs. Toothwork Titans (W 4-1) On my goal our line did a good job turning the puck over in their zone where Robin M cycled it down low to Bruce C who then passed it to me right out in front and I made a nice move and went five hole. I had some really good back checking. We were missing four players tonight so we knew we had to play really hard to over come that. We had more of the play in their zone as I felt that we out played them. This was a full team effort. We out shot them 35 to 23. We took the first round best of three series 2-0 so now we get to keep playing in round two. Daniel D 2G & 1A. Chris K 1G & 1A. Robin M 2A. Jeff M 2A.  

Fri 1st, (Game #1) 2 Goals
@ 8:30pm, Edmonton Garrison arena Rangers vs. Toothwork Titans (W 5-4) On my first goal Chris K passed it to me as I was right beside the crease and I showed patience to pull the puck back and across to deke the goalie out. My second goal was the game winner as we were in overtime four on four where Robin M passed it to me and I was at the side of the net and one timed it in bar down. The game went back and fourth as both teams had really good scoring chances. Both goalies were really solid and Ryan L made a great glove save with the score 3-2 for us at the time. They showed a lot of battle as we were up 4-3 with 17 seconds left and a face off in their zone and they came and scored with six seconds left to force overtime. We got out shot 41 to 38. James S 1G. Daniel D 1G. Chris K 1G & 1A. Howard C 2A. Robin M 2A. Andy R 1A. Javan M 1A. Jeff M 1A.