MLHA Classic Tournament

This weekend, Andrew and the Strongville Mustangs participated in the MLHA Classic Tournament in Pittsburgh, PA. The Mustangs played some good hockey, and every match was very competitive. In the opener, we skated to a 1-1 tie with North Pittsburgh. In the second game, we lost 2-4 to Southpointe.We almost tied our final game 3-3 against the tournament champs, the MLHA Hornets; however, our coach rolled the dice with a little less than two minutes remaining and pulled our goalie to see if we could get the win (which backfired, leading to a 3-4 loss). Still, it was one of our best all-around games of the year. Dunlay did outstanding in his goalie debut for the Mustangs in games 1 and 3. Here are some highlights:

Mustangs Versus Raiders in a Shootout

This past Sunday, Andrew and the Strongsville Mustangs took to the road to play their seventh regular season game of the season against the Shaker Heights Raiders. After falling behind 1-4, the Mustangs stormed back to take the lead 5-4 with only a few minutes left in the third period. Unfortunately, the Raiders snuck in two late goals past our goalie to win the game 6-5. Still, the team played hard and outshot the Raiders 33-22. Goals were scored by Keane (#31), Frederick (#97), Kanzig (#13), Treible (#51), and Dunlay (#15). Here are the highlights.

Mustangs Versus Pirates

This past Saturday, the Strongsville Mustangs resumed regular season league play in an away game against the Rock River Pirates. Overall, the Mustangs played pretty well, generating a lot of scoring chances. However, in the end, we let in more goals than the opposing team allowed. The final score was 1-8. Here are some good highlights of the many scoring chances we had, including the one goal scored by Kanzig (#13) that was assisted by Frederick (#97) and Vandenbusche (#91)

Motown Cup Recap

Over the weekend before New Year's Day, the Strongsville Mustangs played in the Motown Cup Tournament Series in Detroit/Ann Arbor, MI. As it turned out, all three of our games were played at Yost Arena in Ann Arbor, MI which was very cool (despite the fact that this is the home to the U of M Wolverines). It was a tough series, and one of the teams very good and clearly "misplaced" in the tournament. Nonetheless, the kids played hard for the most part. Andrew (#97) had a pretty good series assisting one of our only two goals, laying down a few nice hits, and ending up with a descent plus/minus score (despite the team giving up 14 goals in the tournament). Here are a few of the highlights.

Mustangs Exhibition Versus Fremont

A couple weeks ago, Andrew (#97) and the Strongsville Mustangs played an exhibition game against the Fremont Ice Wolves in Fremont, OH. The Fremont team was not allowed into the Cleveland Suburban Hockey League because they couldn't field a full team with kids at the proper ages. So, their team is made up of kids with birth years '99, '98, and '97 (older kids). Although they cannot participate in the league, they can still scrimmage other teams. Our agreement to scrimmage them was that their older kids would "take it easy" on our younger kids. In the end, they reneged on that agreement and the game got out of hand. In any event, here are the highlights, including two goals scored by our own Eisnaugle (#12) and a nice penalty shot stop by our goalie, Crossman (making one of his first starts between the pipes).

Mustangs Versus Cyclones x3

I am a little behind with my hockey highlight editing. Since my last hockey posting, Andrew (aka, "Freddie" wearing number 97) and the Strongsville Mustangs have played three regular season games, one exhibition game and three tournament games. Here are highlights for our last three regular season games - all played consecutively against the league leading Tri-County Cyclones. Unfortunately, our Mustangs lost all three games. However, we played a close game the third time around as our defense and goal-tending has improved.

First Night Akron 2013

As has been the Hollywood Four tradition the past few years, Abby and the O'Hare School of Irish Dance Ohio performed at the First Night Akron celebration New Year's Eve night. Afterwards, we had our normal Hollywood Four New Year's Eve party at home with hors-d'oeuvres, games, television and sleeping in our basement. The video below contains some pictures and video clips that mom took at First Night Akron.