No such thing as a good loss

Last night was game nine in our season. Going into the game we were 5-3. Of our five wins, three have been by shutout, and two were by five goal margins. Of the three losses, one we were mercy ruled, one we were killed, and the other loss was our first game of the season, a game that if we played today we would probably win.

In a nutshell, we have crushed the teams we were supposed to beat, and lost badly to the teams that were better than us.

Bring up last night. We started slow, and fell behind 3-0 after 6 minutes were gone in the first period. We fought back, though, and by the time the period ended it was 3-2. We tied it in the second, fell behind 4-3, and tied it again going into the final period.

The guys on the floor had a miscommunication as to who was playing up and who was on defense, which led to a breakaway, and a goal and a 5-4 loss.

This was a team that if we played ten times, I think we would win at least four of those games. Even though we lost, I can feel our team improving, from our defensive coverage to our puck movement, we are playing much stronger now than we did at the beginning of the season.

Losing sucks, but this was a hard-played game where we competed with an evenly matched team. We'll get em next time.