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Bracknell Hornets 13 – 2 MK Thunder
Period scores: 3-1, 2-1, 8-0
Penalty mins: Bracknell 12
MK Thunder
14
Shots on Goal: On Bracknell’s
David Wride 27
On MK
Thunder’s Mark Woolf 35
Kevin McGurk 8
Man of the match: MK Thunder:
Mike Knights
Well this was a game that Thunder will
want to forget in a hurry! They looked completely out of sorts and put in what
was easily their worst performance of this season and probably last season as
well. Bracknell are a fast skating and passing team and they found it easy to
break through Thunder’s defence time almost at will. With Thunder’s forward
lines slow to get back in support, their defence found themselves outnumbered by
the onslaught of Hornet’s attack resulting time and again in the home side
having the spare man on the far post to slot in the goal. Mark Woolf played
valiantly in goal but, having saved the initial shot, he was faced with having
to try and keep out the first, second, and sometimes third rebound when Thunder
failed to clear the puck from in front of goal.
Having said all that, Thunder looked
bright in the opening five minutes taking the game to Bracknell, indeed it was
Thunder’s Jamie Holland that opened the scoring in the fifth minute with an
unassisted goal. Hornets then switched on and were level three minutes later
before opening a two goal lead before the end of the period.
The home side then made it 4-1 within
seconds of the start of the second period. A second Jamie Holland goal at 32:59,
assisted by Dan Chaplen, was the culmination to Thunder’s attempt to get back
into the game which had seen some good possession coupled with desperate
defence. From that point it was all downhill for Thunder, they conceded a
powerplay goal three minutes later to go into the last period 5-2 down and then
inexplicably lost the final period 8-0! Thunder replaced an exhausted Mark Woolf at 45:31 with Kevin McGurk taking the unenviable position
between the posts for the remainder of the game.
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