Admirals fall short in a pair of weekend road games

Admirals head coach Zack Gervais hopes to see his team be more disciplined this upcoming weekend.

It was a tough weekend for the Amherstburg Admirals as they lost a pair of games in Dresden last Friday night; they came up short 6-3 to the host Kings and back on the road the next night in Mooretown, were defeated 6-4. The two losses now have the Admirals at 3-3 in the West Stobbs Division.

Against the Kings, Stefan Djordjevic scored twice with the other coming from captain Drew Booker. It was 1-1 after the first period before Dresden went up 3-2 after 40 minutes. Jack Thomas made 31 saves on the night for the visitors.

Saturday in Mooretown, a penalty-filled affair saw the hosts battle hard all night and it was the Flags Carson Crawford with his third of the evening with 1:05 left to go that broke a 4-4 stalemate.

Brody Gillis fired in a pair for the visiting Admirals with Djordjevic getting one and defenceman Cameron Robinet notching his first of the season. In goal, rookie Landon Dimitroff made 41 saves. Both sides had a pair of powerplay goals.

“Our powerplay is starting to turn it on for sure,” said Amherstburg head coach Zack Gervais.

This game took 2.5 hours to play and saw misconducts from both teams. There was a total of 84 minutes in penalties.

“We lead the league in penalty minutes. You can’t win hockey games like that, it’s undisciplined. We’ve had a meeting with our team leaders. When we are sitting in the box, how are you going to win? There are going to be some ramifications,” commented Gervais.

After six games, the Admirals have compiled 167 minutes in the penalty box which averages out to nearly 28 per game.

Amherstburg will have a couple of practices this week to prepare for another weekend of back-to-back games.

They travel to Lakeshore Friday night to take on the Canadiens and then the next night puck drop in Amherstburg at the Libro Centre is 7:30 p.m. against the Wheatley Sharks.

“Lakeshore will be a good test. It’s never easy going there,” said Gervais.

SLAPSHOTS - The Admirals will play a home game in Harrow Thursday, October 18 against Walpole Island… After six games, Gillis and Stefan Djorjevic lead in points with nine each… Gervais said goalie Jack Thomas could be out for a game or two with a suspension from Saturday night’s game in Mooretown.

Admirals fall short in a pair of weekend road games

By Fred Groves