BI Knockouts - Mister X's

BI Knockouts - Mister X's 5-2 (1-1, 3-0, 1-1)

1-1 Topi (Anni)
2-1 Topi (Miika)
3-1 Topi (Sarah)
4-1 Kalle (Topi)
5-2 Topi (Kalle)


We've made some BIKO history, folks: we've lost 6 games in a row. Now, in history as long as ours, this should not come as a big surprise to anyone. It just feels very annoying, when it's you who's making that little piece of the history.

SO LET'S REJOICE! The losing streak is PAST!

If you didn't happen to notice the numbers at first glance, we won, and quite convincingly yesterday. It was, as you can see, totally Topi's show. Begs the question, what did he eat before the game. I tried to push forward some cautious ideas about playing away from the center in our end, and running for it, when the chance comes, but practically, we were just running for it.

The defense did work very well, however, we had enough players to build good pairs or trios in each position in the rink, and it worked really nicely until the end of the second period. Our opponent tried to pickle us in our end, and there was some hasty stick work from our defense, resulting in a penalty. Killing the penalty went ok, and was supposed to end 18 seconds to the third period. Exactly one second after the penalty was done, we got another one, again in defense. Oh well, we thought, we have to go through the grinder again. And we did. Now, closing to the end of the second penalty, Miika did some real rough defending right in front of our goal, and lo and behold, a third penalty. I think - again - just one second had passed from the previous one. The third one we couldn't do anymore, and Mister X's scored.

The rest of the third period was so totally our game, that there are really no noteworthy things to say about it, except that Mister X's was the receiving part in many ways. Some nasties happened in our end as well, Jani got quite badly hit on his knuckles, and had to be attended to for a couple of minutes. With half grip strength he managed to tackle the last minutes. Good job.

I'm willing to call the past six games a statistical fluke.

See you in the next game!

Anni