A Good Goal and a Good Game

Because the team has been playing mostly out-of-town games, I haven't had the opportunity to shoot any of Jonathan's games for almost a month. I did get to one of those away games, but I prefer to just shoot in our local arena.

It was a good game because the boys managed to get a tie. While that doesn't sound great, please remember that they are winless in league play. And this was against a pretty good team.

They were actually winning 4-1 halfway through the contest, but then the quality of their opponents took over, and they were hard pressed to escape with the 4-4 draw. Their goalie played very well and was a big reason for the draw.

But the extra good news is that Jonathan scored his first goal in league play although he had previously also scored one in a tournament game.

He is a fairly fast skater, so he motored from his zone all of the way up the ice.

Trying to follow with my eye glued to the camera, I don't know whether he shot on the net or whether he lost possession of the puck, and it strayed beside the net. However it got there, it did end up to the side of the net.

Then I lost track even more, but he apparently brought the puck back to the front and banged in a goal. In the heat of action, somehow the camera got focussed on the referee, and JJ is all blurry at the front of the net, but this is the play that resulted in the goal. The referee signalled goal a second or two later.

I did a little photoshopping for fun and stitched three of the photos from Jonathan's rush up the ice. It wasn't that easy to blend the images because both the background and light changed to some degree, but it was worth trying. The three images, particularly when you get to the third, were quite far apart as he covered a lot of space on the rush.

With his personality type, Jonathan can be rather laidback; perhaps this will give him the confidence to push ahead more, for he has some skill, and while not the biggest kid, he is also not the littlest and has enough size to hold his own when fighting for the puck.