We are now well into the 2018-2019 winter season of the Capital City Recreational Hockey League. My team, the Renegades, has been doing really well. We have been in 1st place in Division Nine for most of the regular season. Recently the league did a re-alignment and moved a bunch of teams around. After 17 games, of the 28 game regular season, we find ourselves moved up to Division Eight. This is a little discouraging as now most of our first 17 games don't count in the standings. The only two that do count are two games that we played against teams that previously got moved up and that we now find ourselves matched up against again. Unfortunately those two games were a loss and an overtime loss, so we started 2019 in last place.
We played our first game in Division Eight on Saturday night. This was an early ice time... 6:45PM at KofC Arena, against the Phantoms. We played these guys once earlier in the year and they beat us 10-9 in regulation. This time around it was a different story. The game was tight and close and after the first period we had a 1-0 lead. But we kept pouring it on and eventually beat them down. We coasted to a 9-0 victory... the first shutout in years for the Renegades, and maybe the first ever. I started the team about 15 years ago and through all those years of playing both summer and winter hockey, I can't recall a shutout....
Congratulations to our goaltender Steve...!!!
Hopefully he can continue to play well and carry us into to the playoffs. This victory sees us move up from last place to the middle of the pack after just one game...
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