A Reading Jr Royals Hockey Blog

The Royals played a 630pm game at the Grundy Recreation Center ice arena which is a pretty nice arena. The seating area consists of concrete bleachers with wooden boards strung up for seats makes it a pretty nice arena compared to some. Oh one of the coaches gives the Grundy snack bar an 8 out of 10, which is pretty high praise for arena food.

The Grundy arena has two ponds which both have the same type of seating. Video games for kids to suck your funds out of your wallet are a plenty. With a Wii and an XBox being the prizes of one of the games which requires a buck per try.

The hockey game in review.

The first period saw no goals for either Grundy or the Jr Royals, and the Royals were out shot 19:6, but the Royals Goalie did a super job as always in keeping Grundy at bay.

The first goal of the game was scored by Grundy at 1113 in the second period with 24:8 shots. At this point in time the Royals had not woken up.

Soon after the goal, a melee in front of Grundy’s goal resulted in two penalties for Grundy, one being for their goalie. At this point the Royals seemed to wake up quite a bit, making about a dozen unsuccessful but relentless shots on Grundy’s goal.

The next and only other goal of the youth hockey game was at 4:44 in the second period during a power play with 26:22 shots the Jr Royals tie it up at 1:1. The second period ended with 31:24 shots on goal.

The last period was to remain scoreless, with 40:30 reported shots on goal. I actually counted about 6 more shots for the Royals, but that is just my count.

Overall, the boys really did not seem to be at the top of their game. Grundy was continually getting the Royals zone by placing a player in the middle. They also seemed to be passing a lot more and using the boards less which is what the Jr Royals PeeWee Black needs to do as well. As one parent said, they need to break some of their bad habits now, or else they are not going to fare well in the 2008 games.