Coaches Report

Coaches Report - July 3

Weakness into Strength

By recognizing and admitting your own weaknesses, you begin to move beyond them. When you're clear and honest about what you need to work on, you can make real progress.

When you identify a weakness, you've found an opportunity. By exploring what's holding you back, you can create a realistic and workable path to success.

Weakness is nothing to hide from or to be ashamed of. For in each weakness is the promise of real strength.

From each weakness there is much that you can learn. By understanding your limitations, you can find a way around them.

Instead of constantly fighting against your weaknesses, work on getting rid of them completely. Then all your time and energy can be put into moving quickly ahead.

Have the courage to look clearly at your weaknesses. What you'll see in each one is the potential to create powerful, effective new strength.

This means we need to stay out of the Penalty Box and let the other teams take the penalties as we are outworking them.

When we reflect back on the 2008 season this coming weekend will be looked upon with fond memories as the weekend we gelled as a team and put our best effort forward, an effort that enabled us to make the final 4 and keep our goal of a National Championship alive and well. Yes a big weekend it is! The boys are coming off 2 solid performances, albeit one win and one loss and a great training session Tuesday. This weekend we need to take one shift, one period, one game at a time staying out of the box and playing Blue Tongue hockey (Fast, hard hitting, accountable hockey)

This weekend’s line-up is:

Goal:
#30 Simo Mustonen who after a strong weekend last week boast the 3rd best save % in the League for Starting Goalies. Back-up: #1 Brenton Cooney returns to the lineup after a long delay.

Defense:
#17 “A” Ross Howell, Ross continues to go from strength to strength
#4 Chris Kerr, Chris is injury free and back to his commanding self
#44 “A” Don Burke, Don is playing like a 20 something again
#8 Cam Trew, Cam is playing beyond his years

Forwards:
#22 “C” Gaetan Royer, Gaetan equal 1st in League goals needs to lead the team this weekend
#7 Brian Lachance, Brian continues to rack up the points, needs to shoot more
#16 Jack Connor, Jack is playing beyond his years

#14 Kristian Sullivan, Kristian has stepped up in Davey Upton’s absence
#10 Jonny Bale, Jonny continues to play solid hockey
#21 Chris Martin, Chris has played well upfront, scored his first of the season last Sunday, will also see time on D

#11 Matt Lehotzky, Matt continues to move towards his Australian Representative performances of years past
#5 Ben Spillane, Ben continues to thrive upfront, could also see some time on D this weekend
#18 Micheal Blackwell, Micheal delivered some thundering hits and chipped in with a timely goal last weekend

Marco Bertossa winds out the forwards and will see action on all lines this weekend.

Not joining the team this weekend:
#88 Davey Upton, Davey has a major assignment due for his future profession
#9 “C” Billy Crumm, Billy saw the specialist today and will be set to return to the lineup early August
#19 Robert Orosz, Robert like Billy will return to the lineup early August
|#23 Ben Maher, Ben just missed out on selection
#14 Eric Sewell, Eric is on Holidays with the family
#24 Rob Avey, Happy Anniversary Rob
#CJ Anderson, CJ gets a well deserved break

Check the Website for the positive results over the weekend

Regards,
Kevin

By Kevin Sands July 3, 2008

Upcoming Games

DATE	HOME	AWAY	TIME
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Season Schedule

Previous Games

Home teams on top row

Date	Teams	P1	P2	P3	F
24 August	Blue Tongues A's	0 3	0 3	0 1	0 7
23 August	Blue Tongues A's	2 0	0 3	0 0	2 3
17 August	Bears Blue Tongues	3 2	3 2	2 0	8 4
16 August	Knights Blue Tongues	3 1	2 2	4 3	9 6

Game Results

AIHL Standings

Final Season Standings
	GP	Pts
The Bears (Sydney)	28	61
Melbourne Ice	28	54
Western Sydney Ice Dogs	28	54
Newcastle North Stars	28	53
Canberra Knights	28	34
Adelaide A's	28	32
Gold Coast Blue Tongues	28	27
Central Coast Rhinos	28	21

Full League Standings

Individual Leaders

Final Season Statistics
Goals:	Gaetan Royer	22
Assists:	Bryan Lachance	22
Points:	Gaetan Royer	36
PIMS:	Bryan Lachance	188

GAA	Simo Mustonen	4.75
SV%	Simo Mustonen	85.16

Player Statistics