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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

A little overdue, but better late than normal! We get started with a home game against the Wild.





We got a big, convincing win, which is nice. Five different goal scorers. Looking at the stats, it looks like we controlled the game overall. Biggest problem was too many giveaways. One of the two goals we gave up was when we were on the power play and gave the puck away cheaply. Hard to find too many complaints about a big win.

Injury bug struck again, RIP Cpig





Avalanche are next.


And are easily dealt with. They were the more physical team and the more aggressive team, looking at takeaways and them having a lot more penalty minutes than us, but we put our chances away. Four different goal scorers. Exciting.

Moat is about 10 days out from his injury so he'll be back soon. In the mean time, a road trip to San Jose.

So this was an utterly frustrating game. We gave up a powerplay goal and a shorthanded goal and capped that off by giving up a goal in the final minute of the game to go to OT. An uneventful OT means we went to a shootout. PMom, Diqnol, and Kashuno took care of business for us, thank goodness.

Pig is almost back from injury as well so we're almost back to full strength. Next!
Podima got the tying goal toward the end of the 1st Period by taking the puck away from one of their defenders in front of the goal and put it away. Way to go, Pod. Fisk, Busb, Murmur Twin, and Poque also found the net.

Unfortunately...
The good times can't last forever. PMush with a first period brace (do they call it that in hockey?), both being very good efforts, but... that was about all the team really did. PMom and Diqnol weren't able to convert in the shootout and, well, it is what it is.

Hoping to bounce back, we have a road trip to Winnipeg
And it, uh, does not go how we want. Diqnol scored, as did Wren, which I think is his first this year, but there's not really anything good to say about this one. Just... rough stuff all around.

Next up is Nashville. Surely this one can't go wrong.... can it?
Well, we tried to blow it. Dodged a bullet here. 

Pig got healthy quicker than Moat, who is still day-to-day.
So that seems as good a place as any to wrap up for this entry.

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