Highlanders Continue Hot Streak During Winter Cold Snap, News, Minor Bantam, 2013-2014 (Grey-Bruce Highlanders AAA Minor Hockey Association)

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Feb 03, 2014 | hribey | 1660 views
Highlanders Continue Hot Streak During Winter Cold Snap
Written by:  The Trainer
The Minor Bantam Scandinave Highlanders would not allow the coldest winter in 50 years to freeze their hot play.

Jan 17 to the 19th would see GBH make it to the quarter finals in the Huron Perth Tournament. Despite outshooting the Elgin\Middlesex Chiefs by a 2 to 1 margin in the quarter final game, they would lose a close one to the eventual tournament champs.



Back in league play The Highlanders were looking to build on those games when the polar vortex hit. Grey and Bruce county took it on the chin, 80km winds and 3 feet of snow grinded everything to a halt.  Closed roads, closed stores, closed schools and closed arenas had players and parents taking an unscheduled two week break.  When the weather finally let up, and some roads were reopened, the Highlanders loaded their equipment onto dog sleds and made their way to their home rink in Chesley to do double header battle with the Welland Southern Tier Admirals. No practices or games in two weeks had the home town fans wondering if the red and white would continue their improved play. Well, not to worry as the home team came out flying in the first game and despite easing off the gas a little as the game wore on the good guys would enjoy a 5-1 win.

With the 2 points in the bag the team ventured off on the snowy roads to a potluck lunch buffet in between games. What a buffet it was. The players and parents ate until they could eat no more. As expected, the team would get off to a lethargic start in the second tilt. It took the first two periods for the hot roast beef sandwiches, plates of meatballs, pasta salads, chicken and rice, caesar salads, pulled pork, polish sausage, macaroni and cheese, chili dip and nachos, devilled eggs, veggies and dips, fruit trays, apple crisp and cookies to work its way through the system. By that time, the GBH would have dug themselves into a 2-0 hole. Despite some bullets ringing off the goal posts and a goal at the end of the 2nd, the Highlanders would stay in a hole until the final 3 min of the 3rd period. And then the red and white seemed to finally get their second wind. Was it the pulled pork or the devilled eggs? No one knows for sure but after killing off a 4 minute penalty, with the goalie pulled and the extra attacker on the ice, in short order it was 2-2. Settle for the tie, no way, not today, not this team. Like a dog sled team in unison, this team mushed on and got the go ahead goal with under a minute to go. What a finish. A 3-2 win and the first doubleheader victory in 3 years!

Next Game: Sunday Feb 10 vs. Halton Hills
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