Team Sherman Chan 8 vs. Team MDHL 5
MDHL's first ever loss in exhibition play…
Friday, September 27, 2002

The much-anticipated pre-season exhibition game against Team Sherman Chan turned out to be a humbling experience as the MDHL suffer their first-ever defeat against foreign competition. The enemy were indeed the better prepared team, never having relinquished the lead and having already played as a team (which helps I suppose) in a Tier 5 league on the North Shore. Rumour has it they've been undefeated there this season, but nonetheless, they took the play to the Doggers while most of us still had TV remotes jammed up our arses from the summer vacation with the energy levels displayed.

Too bad your lame captain wasn't able to convert on any of his three breakaways either. However, some bright spots, as Skate resumes his scoring pace with a hat trick and D-Master Oye nets one other. General consenus was that we missed the stellar play of MDHLers Ian "17+ hours to fly is too far for an exhibition game" Melhado and Chris "gee, is one ankle good enough to play with?" Archibald.

Team MDHL rolled their three forward lines quite nicely with new faces in the lineup including Dom "the Dominator" Kwong scoring a nice goal on a second effort while Basse Clement and AJ Vickery brought their lunch buckets and went to work. All and all Team Sherman Chan were the better conditioned atheletes on this night and their puck possession time and play in our zone showed, while drawing the game's only two penalties, the MDHLers able to notch a one powerplay goal in payback. A good "trial by fire" test to kick off the MDHL season this fall. See you on the ice!