It was the Knights' Night

After the Shockers demonstrated one of their most whole-hearted efforts this season in the 5-2 loss to the Grinders last Monday, the Shockers returned to their bad habits and were dismantled 9-1 last night against the all-surprisingly quick District 5 Knights.

The Knights proved to be the balls, bronze and grit as they pummeled the Shockers in all aspects of the game. New-comer Gary McDemott commented: "...their a much younger team, they're quick. Our guys ran out out of steam quick and it looked like we weren't even running or trying to run."

Shockers did not catch any breaks during the game as they had a handful of great opportunities to score but could not seem to find the back of the net. Also, the Shockers bared witness to a bouncing ball that seemed to find its way to an opposing player to bury it passed Giancarlo Capaz. Capaz, despite not enjoying a 9 goal-against night made all the neccessary saves to keep the Shockers in the game but it was the rest of the team that would let him down.

"We got to get the ball out and stop making bad turnovers in our zone," commented Capaz after the game.

One thing that lacked in the Shockers performance was the denfensive man-to-man play that we saw the other night against the Grinders. A game where the forwards were more concentrated on defense rather than looking for the long-bomb breakouts and ended up panning out well for them that night.

"We fell back into our old habits of standing at the other end of the ice looking for the long passes. Their defense were picking off our passes from the point and we were stuck in our zone for more than half the game," explained Andrew Stevens who remained off the scoresheet for the first game this season.

The Shockers will need to have a big game tonight as they take on the struggling Expos to snap a three game losing streak.