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0708 Hockey Season is Over.....

Tonight's (Feb. 8th) rematch with the very accomplished St. Charles West team would have made any Wildcat's heart proud. Faced with a mountain to climb after losing last night's first game of two (Score: 6 - 2) in this first round of Wickenheiser Cup playoffs, the hockey Cats grabbed their ropes and pickaxes and went at it with raw determination. There was an energy tonight that was missing the night before. The Warriors were unable to move the puck without major Wildcat resistance. Observers could tell from the beginning that this game would NOT end like the first one had. Andrew Everett managed to break the stalemate early in the first period when he stuffed a rebound in on a recovering goaltender. The WCA crowd was hopping over a Wildcat lead. The teams continued the momentum back and forth across the ice. Neither side was able to plow through the other for a score until early in the 2nd when Daniel Kaufman charged the net in a short-handed situation and delivered the puck over the goalie's shoulder stick-side to establish the Wildcat presence in this game! "We're all the way here this time, Warriors!!" It looked like SCW just might suffer a shut-out until early in the third they managed a respectable score that would have been hard to stop. However, the Cats kept them at bay for the duration and they were unable to repeat the maneuver even after they pulled their goaltender with 30 seconds left on the clock. The game ended with a 2 - 1 win for the Wildcats, who had definitely "made the summit" after losing the night before 6 - 2. The Wildcat win propelled the two teams into a 10-minute sudden-death overtime to determine which team would move on to round 2 in the Wickenheiser. Hopes were high for the Cats as the puck dropped. They'd come this far and were looking to walk away with the win. The puck switched hands a time or two. The Cats managed a couple of shots to no avail. Then the unbelievable moment happened - The Warrior's captain, Rodney O'Neal, took a shot from the red circle........and nailed it. It was truly a pity, for clearly the Cats had plenty of fight left and were robbed of the chance to use it. Goaltender Taylor Smallwood played an excellent game tonight, making 26 big saves. WCA shots: 24. Assists: Munson - 2, Cascella - 1.

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Season Closer a Winner

The last game of the regular season (Feb. 2nd vs. the Ladue Rams) kept the scoreboard movin'........ Jimmy Munson was back on track tonight after being shut-out in last night's game.......five goals and two assists back on track! All were accomplished with Munson's trademark skill and style that we've come to expect and respect. He scored the first and last goals of the game and 3 in the middle. In addition to Munson's scores, Daniel Kim added 2 goals and 4 assists. Thanks to the return of defenseman Nathan Smallwood, Kim was able to move from his usual defensive position up to center ice tonight to cover for the missing Daniel Kaufman. Both shots for Kim's goals tonight were hard and fast. The first came from so short a distance that the goalie couldn't even react before the puck was wrapped in the net. The second came from further away and the goalie managed to snag it with his glove, but momentum won out and the he dropped the puck and let it trickle in. Vince Cascella was fed several nice passes in front of the net tonight. He managed to nail two of them for goals, one from Kim and one from Munson. The one from Munson was memorable because while the Cats were on a penalty kill, the ref raised his arm to signify that the Rams were going to receive a penalty as soon as they touched the puck. So the Cats pulled their goalie, added another skater, and played keep-away until they could set up for the score, which Munson and Cascella pulled off so well. Congratulations belong to Drew Moisson tonight for scoring his first goal of the season! Recently moved up to the forward line from his defensive position, Moisson made good by picking up a rebound and shooting it right in behind the goalie to the far corner. Congratulations, Drew! Not to be overlooked was Andrew Everett's goal. There was no stopping him as he skated the puck from our own blue line, through the neutral zone, down into the Rams' abode and without hesitation shot the thing up and in stick-side. Final score: 11 - 2, Wildcats. Additional assists tonight: Appelbaum - 2, Lillenberg, Longworth & Nathan Smallwood - 1 each. Wildcat shots: 36. Saves by Smallwood: 10. Watch the web site during Spirit Week to find out our play-off schedule! See you there!

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Wildcats Still Winning.......

If you were a Wildcat fan tonight, you had to leave the North County rink with a smile on your face and pride in your gut about the WCA varsity hockey team. Why? Because even though they were missing nearly half their defensemen and even though they were down 5 - 2 at the end of the second period, they didn't give up.....and they pulled off the win. It didn't take defenseman Tim Appelbaum long to discover why Pattonville's # 38 Kaariainen is the #1 scorer in the 43-team league, and Appelbaum did something about it. Basically shut the guy down. He was all over the Finnish hockey star the whole game. Defensemen Hughes and O'Brien took care of everyone else. That's not to say that goaltender Taylor Smallwood didn't do his part to shut down #38, too. Smallwood faced this intimidator 1-on-1 TWICE in the game and came out smiling with puck in hand. In addition to those two saves, he racked up 33 more in tonight's game. Fantastic! Nice job, you guys! To compliment their defensive prowess, the Cats laid on the offensive moves as well. Apparently Jimmy Munson and Daniel Kaufman decided to pour on the steam tonight, and they wowed us with their moves. Munson racked up 5 big goals and an assist while Kaufman nailed a hat trick. Highlights: 4 goals in 6 minutes in the 3rd - two of them were back-to-back short-handed goals. The first was by Munson, a blast from the red circle to top shelf glove side. The goalie had no idea the puck went in. The second was by Kaufman which was spectacular because he made the shot on his way down as he was being tackled as in football. Everyone was in awe......at both the audacity of the tackle AND the shot! With 5 1/2 minutes left on the clock, the score was 7 - 6, Wildcats. Pattonville was pulling out all stops trying to tie up the game, but Munson sealed the win at 1:17 when he picked the puck away from an unsuspecting defenseman just behind the Wildcat blue line and skated into Pattonville-land unopposed for the kill.......with a stylish deek and a backhand. Final score: 8 - 6, Wildcats. Other assists tonight: Burgess, Longworth, Franz. Wildcat shots: 24.

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Varsity Hockey Winning Streak at 5

The Varsity Hockey team extended their winning streak to five games with an impressive 7-1 rout of the Clayton Greyhounds Friday night (Jan 25) in Chesterfield. Things started off shaky for the Cats when Clayton took a 1-0 lead just 20 seconds into the game. However this would prove to be Clayton’s only goal. Later in the 1st period while playing a man short Jimmy Munson and Daniel Kaufman broke in to the Greyhound zone on a 2-1. The lone defender let Jimmy skate in alone while he tried to cover Daniel, bad move, game tied at 1. Early in the 2nd period Jimmy won a face off in the Clayton zone skated towards the net for a few strides before ripping one over the goalies shoulder for a 2-1 lead. Daniel Kim put home a rebound after 2 big saves to give Westminster a 3-1 lead. As the home crowd grew in size and noise the Cats continued their relentless attack on Clayton. Daniel Kaufman fed a beautiful pass to freshman Matt Longworth who quickly put the puck in the back of the net for a 4-1 lead. Daniel Kim capped off the 2nd period scoring with a blast that the goalie at first stopped but the momentum of the puck kept it going for a 5-1 lead. The rout continued in the third with goals from Jimmy Munson and Daniel Kaufman. The Wildcat defense was solid only allowing 18 shots against winning goalkeeper Taylor Smallwood. Tim Applebaum and Vinny Cascella picked up two assists and Jimmy Munson, Daniel Kaufman, Andrew Everett and goalie Taylor Smallwood chipped in with one assist each. Next up for the red hot Wildcats is Pattonville at 7PM in North County on Saturday the 26th.

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#6 Cats Upset #1 Skatesmen!

What an upset! The 6th-ranked Cats walked away from tonight's game (Jan. 14th) with a victory over the Central District's number one team! And it was a solid win of the satisfying sort. The Webster Skatesmen got a hint of what was to come when Jimmy Munson scored just 14 seconds into the game on a snappy rebound from Bill Franz's shot. The Cats didn't let up from that point on. The Wildcat defense worked diligently to push the Skatesmen wide to keep their shots from being accurate. Goalie Taylor Smallwood was a big man in net tonight, using all his resources - glove, blocker, stick, pads, skates (and that brain!) - to keep the puck out of the Wildcat net. He used razor-sharp judgement, even coming out of his net to mid-zone to race an advancing Webster forward to the puck. Smallwood won the race and sent the puck into the neutral zone. Munson managed the impossible goal to close out the first period. He appeared to be nearly behind the Webster net when he shot. Best I can tell, he bounced the puck off the back side of the goaltender's pad. Regardless of how it happened, it put the Cats in a strong position, up by 2 with a period down. The second period held two goals for each team. John Burgess scored on a rebound. Then Munson rounded out his hat trick with a hard shot from the red circle that ended in that satisfying klink sound as it made contact with the under side of the cross bar and headed straight down. Webster's second goal was nearly a give-away, as the Cats had 2 men in the penalty box when it was scored. The Cats were finished scoring at this point. The Skatesmen managed a third goal late in the third, which put them within one goal of the Wildcats. They were hungry for the win and pulled their goaltender with 1:30 left to play. Shoot as they might, they could not get the biscuit past Smallwood and the Wildcat defense. With .9 seconds on the clock, Smallwood made the glove save of the game as he was pummelled by 6 Webster players who desperately did NOT want to lose! Desperation did not pay off in this case.......the clock ended the game and the score was still 4 - 3, Wildcats. Yeah! Assists tonight: Franz - 2, Munson - 1. Wildcat shots: 21. Saves: FORTY-TWO!!!!

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