NAPHL Championship

Well what should have been the Motor City Metal Jackets crowning glory ended on a sad note. Tied for first when we began the weekend, we ended up in 7th out of 8th place. The only bright side of this was that Devin had his best weekend by far and stood on his head to keep the team in the running. Once again penalties reared their ugliest head yet. Game 1,instead of putting Devin in to start, coach started the other goalie. He allowed three goals and we lost that game. Game 2 Devin started and it ended with a tie of 1-1, even with 12 penalties, so we went into a shootout. We scored 2 and Devin didnt allow a single goal so we won that game. Game 3 was a must win if we had any chance of moving on. The game was a joke! We had more penalty minutes than game time with 72 minutes total. Devin stood on his head, killing off 12 minutes of 5 on 3 and the game was 0-0 until 7 minutes left in the third period. And what else, they score on a power play. Shortly thereafter they score again (one Devin said he should have gotten), we pull him and they score an empty netter. So in all those power plays the other team had, including three or four 5 on 3's, he only allowed two goals and we scored zip. He played awesome!! Now I will say reffing was bad, there were several penalties not called in our favor that were blatent; however, the other 50% was stupidity on our part as usual. The fourth game was a consolation game and Devin was in again, this time getting a shutout and we won 2-0. Now its on to states and we play Honeybaked, Compuware and either the Detroit Falcons or Lansing Capitals. If we play like we did this weekend we will get killed, if we come to play and dont take stupid penalties, we can hold our own. At the end of March is the 40's invite and we will have a better idea whether he makes the National team. Keep your fingers crossed.