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Hockey Action

Woodstock Academy's Will Smith and Tyler Huhtanan fight for the loose puck. Courtesy photo.

 

 

POMFRET — Feb. 8 the Woodstock Academy Ice Hockey team found out yet again that you can’t win hockey games sitting in the penalty box. It’s something the young Centaurs have struggled with all year and other teams are finding ways to exploit that tendency. 

The result was a loss in a  crucial game against the Taconic Braves from Pittsfield, Mass., by a score of 3-2. Taking advantage of the Centaurs’ inability to stay out of the penalty box with one power play goal and two goals with a two-man advantage Taconic recorded only their third victory of the season. 

Looking to improve their record to 5 and 5 Woodstock quickly took a 1-0 lead behind a Jon-Luc Cournoyer slap shot. Woodstock then suffered a barrage of penalties, 8 in the second period alone allowing Taconic the opportunity to score two second-period power play goals. Woodstock would fight back and even the score 2-2 with Nathan DeLuca taking a pass from Jordan Lamothe late in the third period. However Woodstock took three more penalties and allowed another power play goal that put Taconic up for good 3-2. Woodstock pulled their goalie with 1:38 left and desperately tried to even the score but had difficulty maintaining possession to sustain or get any kind of shot off. The Centaurs are now 4 and 6 with 5 games remaining three against the Division leaders.

 

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