Whaler Wednesday

 

I saw the Whalers play the Owen Sound Attack Wednesday and the Whalers lost 3-1. I think we might have lost because we did not have two of our best players, Ryan Hartman and Alex Peters. Ryan is a good forward and might be the best player on the team. I think I saw a brace on his arm when I saw him at the rink last week. I also saw Alex walking around crutches so hopefully they will both be back soon!

But now on to the game. Owen Sound came out quick and they scored after like 15 seconds and then they scored again. A little later we scored and going in to the second period it was 2-1 Owen Sound. Then a little bit into the 3rd period, the Attack scored. I said to my dad if the Whalers want to get back into this game they should bring it the puck to the point to Gianluca Curcuruto who is a really good defenseman who has a good shot. With around 2:00 left in the game they pulled the goalie Zack Bowman who came in for Ned who started. The Whalers tried to score a lot but they did not and I saw an Attack player winding up and take a shot and it hit the post. I was kind of happy because I did not want this game to go to bad, like 4-1 or something but it did not.

Well maybe tonight we can get a win at home against Oshawa and we are going.

Thanks for reading!

Whalers take care of the Petes

 

The Whalers beat the Peterborough Petes 4-1 tonight. The Whalers played pretty awesome and got 58 shots. Peterborough is not very good and I think only Ottawa is a team I saw this year that is worse.

One thing we noticed is that the Petes let the Whalers sit in the slot a lot and do not move or pick up the guy so that gives a lot of good scoring chances. Matt Mistele had two goals and one was from the slot and Gianluca Curcuruto had two goals and he always gets his on slap shots from the point. Gianluca has a real hard shot and he also almost always puts the puck on net. Other guy's shots from the blue line sometimes miss the net. I give Matt Mistele the Whaler Town player of the game. Matt is a really smooth player. He's also pretty cool. At the first autograph game this year, I was wearing my Hartford Whalers hat and when he was signing my cards and smiled and said "I like your hat!"

One cool thing is that my brother caught an MGM Grand Casino t-shirt and it fits him too.

It was Trading Card Night tonight and I got my pack of Whalers cards and they look really good this year, maybe the best ever. One good thing is they were able to get our new players Vincent Trocheck and Sebastian Uvira in the set. I am going to get the cards signed at the second autograph night in two weeks. I already have over 200 signed Whaler cards and I am going to get more.

Now the bad news. Real bad news! I have to miss both games next week. Friday, I have to do something and I would rather see the Whalers but I am signed up for something. Saturday, I have a night game in my league at the same time as the Whalers. I don't mind missing Saturday because I want to play every game I can. My brother is going Saturday but not Friday so he can tell me about the Saturday game. This is the first time since we have been season ticket holders that I missed two games in a row.

So go Whalers and win while I am gone next week!

Whalers with a great win over Owen Sound!

 

The Whalers won a great game yesterday against the Owen Sound Attack. The Whalers were winning 3-0 in the third period but Owen Sound scored two pretty goals that there was no way Alex Nedeljkovic could stop. Then Owen Sound scored a weak goal that went five-hole and tied it up. There were a lot of Owen Sound fans there and they were all cheering and blowing their horns and I was thinking "What is going on?"

Then with 13 seconds left in the game, Gianluca Curcuruto got the puck at the point and shot a really hard shot and it went in! Everybody was cheering like crazy and this was the loudest Compuware Arena was all year. Because of his great shot to win the game, I give Gianluca Curcuruto the Whaler Town player of the game. When Alex had a shutout going in the third period, I told my dad that he would probably be the Whaler Town player of the game but after the three goals, I had to think of someone else. Gianluca is a good choice because he scored the first goal too. Gianluca has the hardest shot on the Whalers I think.

Another good thing is that they announced my name over the loudspeaker because I won a signed photo of Alex Aleardi. It looks pretty good. Alex is my favorite player so that makes it even better.

Kingston comes back against the Whalers

The Kingston Frontenacs beat the Whalers 7-6 tonight.

The Whalers should have won this game! The Whalers outshot Kingston by a lot and were winning in the third period but then we gave up three easy goals on weak shots. Two of them were "five-hole". Every time there is five-hole goal against the Whalers I always say to my dad "Five-hole!". Matt is a good goalie but he needs to close up the five-hole. I know on my team when a five-hole goes in, I am usually thinking, "Man, did that really go in." But it is a team game and I make mistakes on defense too so you can't get too mad.

Matt Mistele had a hat trick tonight so I give him the Whaler Town player of the game for his three goals. I wish it could have been in a win. Matt Mistele is really nice. During autograph night a few weeks ago, he said to me "I like your hat! What team is that?" and I told him it was the Hartford Whalers.

Gianluca Curcuruto had a another good game and was really carrying the puck and making some scoring chances. He also is good at bringing the puck up the ice like Beau Schmitz used to do. My dad told me to watch his shot from the point because it is strong and it is. We are liking Gianluca.

I forgot to mention, Kingston had a guy who grabbed and threw a punch at Tom Wilson while he was sitting on the bench. He only got two minutes for fighting from the bench. He should have been kicked out the game. He's lucky.

Oh, well. I bet the Whalers are going to pick it up next week.

Go Whalers!  

Spitfires crash at Compuware!

 

The Whalers beat the Spitfires tonight 3-0. It was a good game and a fun one to watch.

The Whalers outshot the Spitfires by a lot. We thought the Spitfires were ok for the first two periods but in the third period they started taking really dumb penalties and getting kicked out of the game. We sit right by the visitors tunnel and each time the Spitfire players were getting kicked out and went to the tunnel, I was standing up and waiving goodbye to them. A lot of them were slamming the door and that is cool.

That Patrick Sieloff is a rough player and he was throwing some real big hits. He is tough. At the end, he was losing it and was threatening players on the ice and then going to the Whaler bench and threatening everybody. The Whalers were laughing at him on the bench especially Rickard Rakell who was leaning over and laughing like crazy.

I give the Whaler Town player of the game to Gianluca Curcuruto who played good defense and was putting shots on the goal from the point. We never noticed before how hard his shot is. Gianluca's best play was when Windsor had a four on one and Gianluca was the only one back and he stopped them all on his own. The crowd was really cheering on that. Me too.

Next game is Friday against Kingston.

Go Whalers!