It was a bit of a rocky weekend for the Estevan Atom Tier One Bruins in their series with the Moose Jaw Warriors.
The Bruins lost a pair of games Friday and Saturday before dropping their 13th of the Southeast Minor Hockey League season 13-2.
“It was two completely different teams that showed up Saturday, (versus) Friday and Sunday,” said Bruins coach Chris Terrett. “I don’t know what to say about today. Everything we did today was wrong. And (Saturday), we got some big saves and guys worked way harder.”
The scores were unavailable from the source, but Terrett said the kids were “working their tails off” in the Saturday game.
“We weren’t losing races. Every puck battle we were coming out with it. The effort level was way better (Saturday),” he said. “That makes all the difference in the world.”
Moose Jaw Sunday jumped out to a 13-0 lead by the middle of the third period. Justin Folbar and Carson Deichert each scored goals to add their names to the scoresheet. Both Hayden L’Hertitier and Cowan Ludke played in net Sunday.
“We were down 5-0 nine minutes in,” Terrett said. “That’s just because we didn’t show up to play.”
Now the team heads to the practices with a renewed focus on effort.
“Our boys know what to do and they know how to do it, but if they don’t do it… “ he said. “We can’t bag skate them. That’s not going to do anything. At the start of the year we had a hard time getting pucks on net, and we did a lot better on that (Sunday). We did a really good forecheck sometimes and sometimes we had nothing.”
He counted only three goals on the power play versus a while lot of power play goals against.
“This weekend it was just on effort,” Terrett said. “That’s all it was.”
The Bruins next games are Friday at home to the Weyburn Woings and Sunday at home to the Yorkton Terriers, with game times and locations to be announced.
