Monday, 2/11/08 @ Parade Ice Arena
U10 Storm vs. Richfield
Click here to see Amy score vs. Richfield
Click here to see the final seconds of the game!
Sweet revenge! After two straight losses to Richfield in tournament championship games (one in overtime, one in the final minute of regulation), the Storm got a shot at revenge in the last district game of the season, and won a thriller!
Richfield jumped to an early lead with a goal at the 4:33 mark, and it looked like they might have our number again. With 2:00 left in the period, Richfield had a flurry of shots, but Storm goalie, Halley Fine, made several great stops, and the defense of Maggie Fisher, Natalie Omodt, and Amy Layton stopped further damage.
With 1:35 left, Emma Van Der Heide ripped a wrist-shot on goal, and Maddie Etienne knocked in the rebound to tie the game, 1-1. With 14 seconds left, Fine made another fine save, and the teams went into the first intermission tied, 1-1.
In the second period, Richfield again went ahead, ripping a shot into the upper left corner of the goal, just out of Fine’s reach, for a 2-1 lead. Midway through the period, Van Der Heide scored unassisted to tie the game again (click here for video).
With under three minutes left in the second period, Layton ripped a shot from behind the blue line that handcuffed the Richfield goalie and went in the left corner for a 3-2 Storm lead at the second intermission.
Early in the third, Richfield had a great scoring opportunity on a wraparound, but the defense was great, led by Etienne who blocked the shot on her hands and knees!
Richfield fired a shot off the side of the net a minute later, and midway through the period Caroline Riester and Julia Shepard stopped a Richfield breakaway.
With 1:17 left, Layton scored again on a wrist shot on the top shelf for a 4-2 lead!
Richfield struck back seconds later and cut the lead to one, 4-3, with 37 seconds left.
Richfield pulled their goalie, but couldn’t get a shot off in the final seconds, and the Richfield jinx was over!
“Everyone played great,” said assistant coach Tony Etienne. “The coaches had a ‘three Halls game’ we yelled so much. My voice is gone!”
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Saturday, 2/9/08 @ Bloomington
Girls U10 Storm vs. Lakeville
Tournament
The Storm had to settle for a 2-2 tie in a great tournament game Saturday morning versus Lakeville.
The Storm’s goals came from Julia Shepard and Caroline Riester, with Natalie Omodt picking up an assist. With seconds remaining in the game, Lakeville pulled their goalie, and a Storm shot hit the pipe just before the horn sounded. Storm goalie, Halley Fine, was excellent.
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In the Storm’s second tournament game, versus Burnsville, goals by Emma Van Der Heide, Amy Layton, and Rachael Moore, and the perfect goal-tending of Caroline Riester led to a convincing 3-0 shutout.
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Shepard Hat-Trick Too Much for Como!
Monday, January 14, 2008 @ Parade Ice Arena
U10 Storm vs. St. Paul-Como
The Storm exploded offensively Monday, trouncing Como, 10-0.
1:45 into the game, Julia Shepard scored, and she liked it so much she did it again 49 seconds later, giving the Storm a 2-0 lead.
Emma Van Der Heide just missed on a one-timer a moment later, and after goalie Caroline Riester made a terrific save on a Como breakaway, Amy Layton went coast-to-coast and scored the Storm’s third goal.
Maeve Lazor tallied with 4:20 left in the period, and ten seconds later Shepard completed her hat trick, giving the Storm a 5-0 lead.
The Storm had a lot of good shots down the stretch, with Maddie Etienne, Layton, and Rachael Moore each testing the Como goalie.
With a single tick on the clock left, Moore scored, and the period ended with the Storm up 6-0.
In the second period, Lazor got off a nice shot, and Moore just missed stuffing in the rebound, and Layton ripped a shot off the pipe.
Maggie Fisher stuffed in the rebound off her own shot giving the Storm a 7-0 lead, and Moore scored in traffic to push the lead to 8-0. Click here to see a video of the goal!
Etienne had a beautiful pass to Franny Kelliher, but her shot just missed wide, and with 1:14 left in the period Lazor scored her second goal of the game.
Shepard scored early in the third period to make the score 10-0, and the Storm coaches pleaded with the girls to avoid scoring the rest of the way, and the game ended 10-0.
The Storm out-shot Como 29-5, and Storm goalie Caroline Riester did a fine job as all the Como shots were quality ones.
The defense of Sarah Randall, Natalie Omodt, Franny Kelliher, and Olivia was excellent.
This reporter was especially impressed by the way Storm players, such as Maddie Etienne, used the boards.
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“Storm Goalie More Than Fine!”
Monday, December 16, 2007 @ Parade Stadium Ice Arena
MPLS-St. Louis Park Storm U10 Girls vs. Irondale Maroon
Storm goalie Halley Fine played a whale of a game Monday, stopping 16 Irondale shots, many in dramatic fashion, as the Storm lost a close one, 2-0.
Irondale, a speedy conglomeration, scored a minute into the game off a deflection, and again nine minutes in, but Fine stopped everything over the next two periods, giving the Storm every chance to win. Unfortunately, Irondale’s goalie was also awesome, and the Storm came close, but couldn’t put one in the net.
The Storm’s defense was great the entire game, with Julia Shepard, Maggie Fisher and Emma VanDerHeide leading the way during the first period.
The Storm had two great chances to score in the first period. Maddie Etienne missed just wide midway through the period, and with under a minute left VanDerHeide made a great pass out front, but no Storm player could tip it in.
In the second period, Irondale had a flurry of shots in the first minute, and Fine knocked everything away like an old pro! Later in the period, Maggie Fisher ripped a shot on goal that was stopped, then hit the rebound just wide left!
The Storm defense was solid again in the second period, with Natalie Omodt, Sarah Randall, Maeve Lazor and Franny Kelliher all doing a great job of denying shots—Irondale could only muster three the entire period! Fisher had the defensive play of the period with a great back-check.
In the third period, Irondale put the pressure on early, but, again, the defense warmed to the task. Fisher lost her stick, but still managed to kick the puck away from the net, and Caroline Reister, Rachael Moore and Camille Nimmer-Guentner all did a great job keeping the puck out of the Storm zone.
Amy Layton, the Storm’s slapshot specialist, ripped a shot from the blue line with three minutes left in the game, the puck was stopped but bounced back toward Layton, so she shot it again, and missed just wide!
VanDerHeide had a great shot on goal with two minutes to play, but, again, the Irondale goalie made the stop. With a minute left, Irondale had a breakaway, but Fine made a great stick save, and Lazor knocked the puck away from the net from her knees!
For the game, Fine stopped 16 of 18 Irondale shots! The Storm had 9 shots.
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Monday, November 19, 2007
@ Parade Ice Arena
MPLS-St. Louis Park Storm Girls vs. St. Paul Highland
Park played their best game of the young season Monday, throttling Highland, 10-1, with an offensive explosion.
Highland actually took the lead in the first period, scoring past goalie Halley Fine, but Fine, playing her first game in goal this season, would have no more of that, and stopped every shot the rest of the game.
Meanwhile, Park scored like crazy, and shared the wealth as seven different players tallied. Emma Van Der Heide led the way with a Hat Trick + 1 (four goals!), and Park got single goals from Amy Layton, Maeve Lazor, Carlie Gustafson, Caroline Riester, Julia Shepard and Maddie Etienne.
”Julia passed to Maeve,” explained Etienne. “And I shot it right off her pass to me. I was about four feet from the goal and I lifted it into the corner of the net.”
”Our passing was great,” said assistant coach Tony Etienne. “We moved the puck really well.”
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Thursday, November 15, 2007 @ St. Croix Recreation Center
Girls U-10 Hockey vs. Mahtomedi
The only thing worse than driving an hour and half in rush hour traffic to make it to a 6:00pm hockey game is to lose when you get there! Park was hit with three quick goals in the first period Thursday night, and couldn’t recover in a 4-0 loss to Mahtomedi.
Mahtomedi’s star wing scored all three goals in the first period, and all were neatly placed in the top corner of the net. About a minute into the second period, Mahtomedi added their last goal when a shot came out of a wild scrum in front of the net and was deflected in. From that point on, Park played even with theirs hosts, but just couldn’t put the puck in the net.
The last two periods featured a lot of up and down action, but both defenses were stifling, with neither team getting off any quality shots.
Park wing Sarah Randall forgot her jersey, so had to wear an extra that was collecting dust in the equipment bag, with her number written in black hockey tape. She might not give the jersey back as she played her best game of the year, hustling on both ends of the ice, and earning the game puck.
“The passing was better,” said assistant coach Tony Etienne. “And the defense was good. But when they scored those quick goals it kind of took us out of the game early.”
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Monday, November 12, 2007 @ Parade vs. Irondale
Park lifted the lid on the new hockey season at Parade Ice Arena Monday, losing to Irondale 4-2, in a great game.
Park’s goalie, Caroline Riester, was given the game puck for a phenomenal performance, stopping 17 shots, most in dramatic fashion.
The first period was back and forth, with both teams feeling each other out. With 3:05 left, Maddie Etienne grabbed the puck, skated through two defenders, and shot on goal, with the Irondale keeper making a nice stick save. Thirty seconds later, Etienne again broke free, but this time her wrist shot hit the left pipe.
Irondale had a great chance to score with :48 seconds left, but Riester did the splits, and knocked a slapshot away, and the period would end in a scoreless tie.
Two minutes into the second period, Irondale scored to take a 1-0 lead, and they could have added another a minute later, but Riester again made an incredible save on a breakaway.
With two minutes and some change left in the 2nd period, Park’s Amy Layton got the puck behind the net, faked one way, skated the other way, wrapped the puck around the goal, and it deflected off a defender into the net to knot the score at one.
The momentum stayed with Park for exactly 10 seconds! Irondale won the face-off, skated down and scored to take back their one-goal advantage.
Park’s Maeve Lazor had a break-away with five seconds left, but her shot hit the pipe as the second period ended.
Layton scored the equalizer, her second goal of the game, a few minutes into the third period on a wrist shot just inside the blue line.
“I was just trying to shoot it toward the goal and it went in,” explained Layton. “I was pretty excited.”
Riester was peppered with several shots early in the period, and she methodically knocked each one away until an Irondale wing snuck one by her on a breakaway with just under six minutes to play.
Down by a goal, Park turned their game up a notch. Emma Van Der Heide ripped a shot just wide left, Sarah Randall blasted a shot wide right, and Carlie Gustafson also missed wide left. Park had no choice but to pull their goalie in the last minute, and Irondale ended up scoring an empty-netter with eight second left to make the final 4-2.
Park’s defense was excellent throughout, with Natalie Omodt, Layton and Camille Nimmer-Guentner leading the way.
“We played very good for the first game,” commented assistant coach Tony Etienne. “We need to work on our offense, passing the puck, using the boards. But, we were really proud of the kids. Great hustle and attitude.”
Roster:
Carlie Gustafson, Sarah Randall, Amy Layton, Maddie Etienne, Rachael Moore, Sarah Edenburgh, Emma Van Der Heide, Natalie Omodt, Maeve Lazor, Camille Nimmer-Guentner, Maggie Fisher, Caroline Riester, Julia Shepard, Franny Kelliher, Halley Fine. Head Coach Amy Black, Assistant Coach Tony Etienne, Assistant Coach Dave Van Der Heide, Assistant Coach Tony Reister
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