{"id":687,"date":"2020-01-07T21:24:26","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T02:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/boyshockey\/?p=687"},"modified":"2020-01-07T21:24:26","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T02:24:26","slug":"holiday-break-with-the-wildcats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/boyshockey\/2020\/01\/07\/holiday-break-with-the-wildcats\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Break with the Wildcats\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

On\u00a0<\/span>December<\/span>\u00a020<\/span>th<\/span>, the Williston boy\u2019s hockey team loaded up the busses and headed to The St. Sebastian\u2019s Holiday Tournament in Needham, MA for a late-night tilt against an already-seasoned Northwood team who came into the night having played close to thirty-five games.\u00a0 Northwood would get on the board\u00a0<\/span>once\u00a0<\/span>in the first half of the game\u00a0<\/span>and early<\/span>\u00a0in the second half,\u00a0<\/span>but\u00a0<\/span>Williston turned things on to tie and then win it in a shootout, 3-2.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For much of the first half, Williston stu<\/span>ck to its game plan and was only down 1-0 at the end of the period.\u00a0 Northwood got on the board a little more than two minutes in the second period when a shot was taken from off a rush from just over the blueline that kissed the left post and careened in past Williston goalie, Trevor Corsello.\u00a0 However, Williston\u2019s power play was clicking as senior captain, Tommy Harty scored twice to even the game.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The first\u00a0<\/span>c<\/span>ame on the power play when Harty took a one-timer from David Novotny who was sitting on the right hash marks.\u00a0 Harty found an opening on the far post past the Northwood goaltender.\u00a0 Tyler Varin got the other assist.\u00a0 The goal was scored at the 7:32 mark of the period.\u00a0 Harty got his second of the game\u00a0<\/span>when\u00a0<\/span>he took a pass, again in the slot, and le<\/span>t a lazy lightening of a\u00a0<\/span>backhand\u00a0<\/span>shot go that looked to beat the Northwood goalie in the middle of the net<\/span>, tying the game.\u00a0 Both teams would trade\u00a0<\/span>chances<\/span>\u00a0but n<\/span>one<\/span>\u00a0would fall.\u00a0 A five<\/span>–<\/span>minute overtime yielded no victor, either.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On to a shootout.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Northwood shot first and<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Corsello thwarted the effort.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Harty took the first shot for Williston and beat their goalie on\u00a0<\/span>a\u00a0<\/span>deke to a backhand.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Corsello stopped the next Northwood shooter.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Novotny was the second shooter for Williston in the best of three shootout and he capitalized sen<\/span>ding<\/span>\u00a0the Williston bench into jubilation.\u00a0 They would play the late game the following day over a very strong St. Andrews Saints team from Toronto.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The following day, Williston dropped a 6-1 decision to the Saints.<\/span>\u00a0 Novotny got the lone goal for Williston with assists to Sacratini and Varin.<\/span>\u00a0 Williston then faced St. Sebastian\u2019s on Sunday for the third<\/span>–<\/span>place game and lost 4-1<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0 Connor Hagness scored with an assist from Sacratini.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After the New Year, Williston reconvened back in Boston to take on Noble and Greenough School and, once again, St. Sebastian\u2019s.\u00a0 Williston was the home team against Nobles at St. Sebastian\u2019s and started out the game by finishing the first period even at zero.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the second period, Williston got on the board just three minutes into the frame when\u00a0<\/span>Hagness<\/span>\u00a0drove into the zone and put a backhander on Nobles goalie, Marc Smith, from the bottom of the circle.\u00a0 The odd-angle shot deflected at just about crossbar-height and Williston assistant captain and baseball extraordinaire, Matt Pimental batted in the rebound.\u00a0 Then, a little over a minute later, Charles Monteith gathered a puck just inside the blue line and a fortuitous screen by Ryan Deschamps allowed the puck to beat Smith once again.\u00a0 Things appeared to be going well for the Wildcats who dominated play.\u00a0 However, bad penalties in the second and third period\u00a0<\/span>and four Nobles power play goals\u00a0<\/span>erased all hope for a Wildcat win and Nobles took the game 6-2.\u00a0 Williston was outshot, 44-23, Corsello taking the loss.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The next day Williston played St. Sebastian\u2019s and took the loss, 5-1.\u00a0 Connor\u00a0<\/span>Hagness<\/span>\u00a0got the lone goal when he ripped a shot that went bar-down to tie the game at one<\/span>\u00a0midway through the second stanza<\/span>.\u00a0 Shaul Mitton got the assist.\u00a0 W<\/span>illiston hung close but eventually\u00a0<\/span>Sebs<\/span>\u00a0pulled away. W<\/span>illiston was outshot in this game 46-20, while Emile\u00a0<\/span>Savoie<\/span>\u00a0took the loss.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Williston has struggled out of the gate, but with the strength-of schedule that the Wildcats play has only helped to season them as they begin the next two-thirds of their schedule in the New Year.\u00a0 Williston is on the road again for the next four games with the next game this Wednesday at 3:30 at Canterbury.\u00a0 Both teams have identical records and are looking for their second win of the season and a chance to go on a run.\u00a0 See you\u00a0<\/span>in\u00a0<\/span>New Milford!<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On\u00a0December\u00a020th, the Williston boy\u2019s hockey team loaded up the busses and headed to The St. Sebastian\u2019s Holiday Tournament in Needham, MA for a late-night tilt against an already-seasoned Northwood team who came into the night having played close to thirty-five games.\u00a0 Northwood would get on the board\u00a0once\u00a0in the first half of the game\u00a0and early\u00a0in the … Continue reading Holiday Break with the Wildcats\u00a0<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hockey-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/boyshockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/boyshockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/boyshockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/boyshockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/boyshockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/boyshockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":688,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/boyshockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions\/688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/boyshockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/boyshockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/boyshockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}