October 8 Game Recap – Hawks Win!

The Delta Ice Hawks hit double-digit wins on Tuesday night, thanks to an 8-2 victory over the Coastal Tsunami, where the Hawks outshot the visiting team 60-18.

It was the one-hundredth game of captain Tye Hemenway’s PJHL career, and his team did him proud to make it a special win for him.

The Hawks got going early, scoring on their first two shots of the game. Ryden Mathieson streaked in down the right wing from the blue line and fired the first shot of the game over Finn Morrison’s blocker-side shoulder. Then about 30 seconds later, Lucas Jakubec picked up a rebound out front from a Brandon Petrie shot and was able to send it to the back of the net for a quick 2-0 Hawks lead.

Coastal cut that lead in half before the midway point of the period, with Ethan Smid finishing off a bit of a scramble out front of Delta’s net to make it a 2-1 game after one.

In the second, Mathieson again struck within the first minute, redirecting a point shot from Tye Hemenway past Morrison to reclaim the Hawks’ two-goal lead – Mathieson’s eighth of the season.

Number 16 was involved in Delta’s fourth goal of the game as well, as he went in looking for the hat trick and was denied, but league-leading goal scorer Mateo Sjoberg was there to clean up the rebound to make it 4-1 through 40 minutes.

Delta added on in the third period, first while they were short-handed. Beckett Cross took the puck from centre and, while fighting off some tight defence, he was able to get a shot up and over the left shoulder of Morrison for the goal of the night, his sixth of the season.

Not long after that, Miller Bruckshaw sent Teegan Sara and Chayse Hainz on a 2-on-1, and Hainz finished off the play by putting in the rebound for his second goal of the year and a 6-1 Hawks lead.

Tsunami player Ben Walker scored a power play goal for Coastal, his second goal in two games against his former team to make it 6-2, but the Hawks fired right back.

Defenceman Miller Bruckshaw scored his first goal in the PJHL while on the power play, thanks to a pass from Declan Warburton and a helpful bounce off a skate out front to make it a 7-2 game.

Brogan Kennedy rounded out the scoring with a fortunate bounce of his own, flipping it up onto the shoulder of Morrison and it rolled behind into over the goal line to make it an 8-2 Delta final.

 

Highlights: https://youtu.be/NPxZfsCh11g