Brooks Bandits (AJHL) beat the Wisconsin Lumberjacks (SIJHL) 23-0 in an exhibition game

Sidney the Kidney

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Is it me or is the Wisconsin goalie(s) really bad in particular? Being outshot 56-12 is obviously bad, but even semi-competent goaltending shouldn't allow 23 goals on 56 shots. With that kind of shot discrepancy you'd expect maybe 8-10 goals against, not 23-0.
 

tarheelhockey

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How do you win 23-0 and no player scores more than 6 points?

That might actually go a long way toward explaining how the score got so out of hand. It's not like the first liners had 10 points apiece. This looks more like all four lines scored 5-6 goals.

If you're giving a bunch of 4th liners double shifts in an exhibition game where the next step down is probably the end of their competitive career, and they have the opportunity to score a hat trick, yeah, they're probably gonna go ahead and do that.
 
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MarkusKetterer

Shoulda got one game in
Even if they scored on every shot they still would've lost.

Reminds me when we lost 13-1. I faced 73 shots and we had 7

One time my team lost 26-0. The other team had half of their lineup out because they were all playing OFSAA football.

We recorded 1 shot the entire game. I think the other team ended up with 60 shots, and they spent their time just passing the puck around mostly.
 

Leon Lucius Black

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If I was coaching my team, by the time they get, say NINE goals up, I'm double shifting my bottom 6, putting my PKers out on the PP, and basically treating it like a practice.
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Brooks plays the Okotoks Oilers on Saturday night in Okotoks.
$10 ticket for an adult.
 

57special

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If I was coaching my team, by the time they get, say NINE goals up, I'm double shifting my bottom 6, putting my PKers out on the PP, and basically treating it like a practice.
There is never a good way to play a game like this. I live in a town where the minor hockey is very, very good. W/o fail they end up in a laugher a couple of times a year. 6-0 down in the 1st, and the other team has barely touched the puck. The coaches tell their team to enter the Blue line, then retreat to behind their own net, then break it out, then cross the Blue line, circle back, break it out... bottom six or top 6 matters a little, but not too much, as the bottom six is still much better than the other team's bottom six.
Meanwhile, the other team and team's parents gets pissed because they think they are being disrespected. Sometimes things get a little ugly, with the kids on the losing team chopping at ankles, boarding, etc..

IMO the best way to play it out is give your bottom players more ice time than usual, and caution the team to act with class. In a 14-1 game, the other team will be happy when they score, weird as it might sound. What they don't want is to be patronized.
 

Steerpike

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Is it me or is the Wisconsin goalie(s) really bad in particular? Being outshot 56-12 is obviously bad, but even semi-competent goaltending shouldn't allow 23 goals on 56 shots. With that kind of shot discrepancy you'd expect maybe 8-10 goals against, not 23-0.

Once they got up a certain amount I doubt they were looking to just get pucks to the net. They were probably just playing around in the offensive zone until they had an open net to shoot at. It would be disrespectful and patronizing to NOT shoot and score once you have an open net.
 

CF84

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After years of watching an average Brooks AJHL team, it's great to see my hometown team become one of the top places to play in Canada. 10 years of arguably being Canada's best junior team. Go Bandits Go!!

Makar is my favorite Bandit of all time after Curtis Glencross.
 
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JMCx4

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Who'da ever thunked this would turn into a Canadian juniors thread in the All other USA Amateur, USHL, NAHL, USNTDP etc. forum? :whaaa?:
 

CF84

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Who'da ever thunked this would turn into a Canadian juniors thread in the All other USA Amateur, USHL, NAHL, USNTDP etc. forum? :whaaa?:
The thread is also posted in the National Hockey League Talk forum for some reason. That may explain why people are also talking about Canadian junior teams...and also the fact that a Canadian junior team was a part of the game.

Edit: change "is" to "was."
I can still see the thread, but it is no longer being bumbed in NHL Talk.
 

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