Knights 2 - DiamondBacks 5

This Sunday's matchup brought the two top teams in B Div. Arenex League to a head. With both teams having their full rosters in the lineup this looked to be a dandy of a game. The DBacks scored first with a shot from the slot as they worked the ball around and got the shot off to go up 1-0. The Knights had to battle hard to score in this game as the Diamondbacks kept collapsing around their net time after time giving the Knights forwards no room in front of the goalie to score. Knights did tie a short while later as Ryan Bhala got a nice feed from Clayton Weston and then tallied his 7th goal of the year, tying his last years total in goals eight games into this season. Then before the half, Kevin Singh trying to take a pass along the boards got his stick caught in the boards turning over the ball to the Diamondbacks who broke in on a two on one and scored to make it 2 - 1 before the 1st half buzzer. The second half was not so kind to the Knights on this night as the DBacks took advantage of the Brighouse turnovers and scored 3 more times. Weston notched his 11th goal of the campaign but it was too little too late as the D-Backs took the first round victory 5 - 2. Our third line played an excellent game by going hard to net creating chances and battling hard in the offensive end. Tank Randhawa had a few chances in front of the net but could not put it by the D-Backs goalie as the top of Gurs stick hit the roof of Arenex everytime he wound up! The D-Backs played a patient and simple game as they did alot of dumping and chasing and waited for us to turn the ball over and then they made us pay by scoring on their chances. We couldn't score on our chances and didn't SHOOT the ball enough in this game....especially the D-men. Take that wrist shot... get the ball on net and anything can happen.. we have to keep it simple in games like this. In the end we got outworked by the Diamondback team as they wanted this game more than we did. Controversy started to swirl around the Knights team after the game as the line of Sanghera, Lalani, and Kaila was not clicking on all cylinders and will be broken up causing the other lines to separate. Overall we're at 5 wins, 2 losses, and 1 tie... not too bad lets not panic...next game next sunday versus the our nemesis the Generals at 6:45 p.m..

3 Stars
Gur "The Tank" Randhawa
Dan "Kamikazee" Ko
Mandip "The Maniac" Kaila

Stats
Clayton Weston - 1G 1A
Ryan Bhala - 1G
Kulvir Kaila - 1A
Dan Ko - 1A
Mandy Parmar - 1A - 2min roughing, 2nd half
Mandip Kaila - 2min highstick, 1st half