After a rather hard working fitness week on the ice this evening was used for a scrimmage which turned out to be a rather paceful and intense game.
Generally being split up by colour of jerseys sees the same players playing together which suits me just fine and with the 3 up-and-comers (Samaai, Carlse and Best) matching up in black jerseys split the teams rather decently.
Myself, Magmoed, Millar, Reeves and Yates faced up against Joubert, Tchekashine, Van Rooyen, Stevens and Nebe and rather dominated the 60 minute non-stop action with 1 or 2 shifts being awarded to the opposition. On the 2nd lines the 2 ladies in white (Donne and Delene) were making some of the u18 guys look rather silly.
But once again Samaai, Carlse and Best were working their magic against a younger line of Krotz, Marrow and Obery who were taking a little bit of strain from the constant pressure of attack down the boards.
Tariq Ishmail was working on the 2nd line as support and assisting well on defence, still not passing the puck like everyone would want him to (like Samaai) but played a solid role on the ice.
The name of the game seemed to be "intensity" with pressure on and off the ice and a great team-spirit all round. Very little negative commentary from the bench and all players seemed to be skating really hard, committing on the boards, making hits (well some of us) passing the puck and shooting.
All the Cape Town based players are looking forward to the training camp and as team manager, Lloyd Birrell expressed to us this past Monday, he is really looking forward to seeing the team come together in the first of four training camps (20 - 21 February 2011)
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