Altona Maroons

Posted By: Turk Loeppky on Monday Dec 01, 2008

Seventeen seconds into the game on what appeared to be a routine dump in the hometown Notre Dame Hawks were up 1-0. The rest of the first period proved uneventful for either squad. In the second period the Maroons would get on board by a mid slot blast from Brent Toews. The Hawks would respond with two goals, one on the powerplay, before Matt Dyck would score for the Maroons. Going into the 3rd period trailing 3-2 the Maroons picked up the pace but were not able to capitalize on some strong chances in the Hawks end. Instead it was the Hawks that pounced on a rebound from Maroons netminder Reggie Lagace to go up 4-2. Pulling Legace with just under two minutes left in regulation would result in plenty of close plays in the Hawks end eventually Brent Toews would score his second of the night but available time left on the clock was the enemy as the Maroons would drop the contest 4-3.

NOTES: A few injured players and a few unavailable bodies left the Maroons a touch on the short side for the road game, however it could be said that the game was either teams to win as it seemed to be a matter of bounces going one way or the other.

The Maroons hope to regroup before heading into Warren on Friday night.

Posted By: Turk Loeppky on Monday Dec 01, 2008

After winning the first three games of the season, the Maroons were host to the Carman Beavers on Nov. 27th.

The Beavers struck first on the powerplay on a high slot slapshot goal by league leading scorer Warren McCutcheon. McCutcheon would add his 2nd goal of the game midway through the first. The Beavers quickly scored again to lead 3-0 after the first period. In the second period Matt Dyck would get the Maroons on teh scoreboard on a nice play from Jon Froese and Keith Bially. With just under 7 minutes to play in the second period Marshall Rempel blasted a Keith Bially past Beavers netminder Adam Zacharias to bring the Maroons to within one goal of Carman. Working hard in the Beavers zone in the final minute of the 2nd period Keith Bially would score to bring the game to a 3-3 deadlock after 40 min. In the third the Maroons short bench ran out of steam and the Beavers would add 3 unanswered goals to finish the game with a 6-3 win.

Notes: Defenceman Jeff Hildebrandt left the game in the second period with an upper body injury and will be out of the line up until the new year.

Posted By: Turk Loeppky on Tuesday Nov 25, 2008

The Maroons traveled to Oakville and left with a 7-3 victory over the hometown Seals. Keith Bially and Jon Froese each recorded Hat Tricks while Jesse Arbuckle scored a lone goal. The game was well paced with the Maroons winning the races to the puck and the battles in the corners. Although Seals netminder Justin Carloni played well there were plenty of scoring chances for the Maroons that weren't capitalized on. Marshall Cox was strong in net for the Maroons.

Posted By: Turk Loeppky on Thursday Nov 20, 2008

Please check back soon for more updates to the Maroons roster, schedule, game summaries, points etc.

Posted By: Turk Loeppky on Thursday Nov 20, 2008

In the second game of the season for the Maroons they managed to maintain a one goal difference for a 4-3 road victory.

Opening the game the Maroons scored three quick goals, including two from newcomer Matt Dyck both set up by Keith Bially and were cruising through the first period. In the second period the Xpress would get on board with goals of their own and in the third period would tie the game before the visiting Maroons would score the go ahead and stay ahead goal giving the Maroon and White 2 points to ride home with.

NOTES: Maroons forward Rod Neustaeter left the game in the 3rd period with a lower body injury and will be out of the line up for 2-4 weeks.