Juneau-Douglas High School senior forward Ryan Liebelt beat Hutchison goalie Alaya Brunty just 44 seconds into Saturday\u2019s match against Hutchison. Liebelt went five hole with a snap shot from center ice, the first of three goals he would score in the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s always nice to get those right off the bat,\u201d Liebelt said. \u201cVersus Friday night, we were moving the puck a lot better. Today was the first game we had better, harder passing, but we have to keep working hard on that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Crimson Bears, which benefitted from the power play nearly the entire game, would keep the goals coming all night in their 11-0 takedown of the visiting Hawks.<\/p>\n
Liebelt and senior forward Simon Marks both tallied triples in win with Liebelt\u2019s effort opening the game and Marks\u2019 closing it: he waited until the final two seconds of the game to complete his.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything just seemed to come together,\u201d Marks said, adding that the game was a confidence builder. \u201cIt\u2019s great, going into conference games it\u2019s good to be on the up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Junior forward Jacob Dale followed Liebelt and Marks\u2019 lead with two goals and an assist. Forwards Josef Monsef and Dalton Hoy and defenseman Jaime Moreno all scored a goal each.<\/p>\n
Cody Mitchell stopped all nine of Hutchison\u2019s sporadic shots as the Hawks struggled to get the puck out of their defensive zone.<\/p>\n
Though JDHS\u2019 offensive prowess highlighted the game, a lopsided penalty count made their win all but inevitable. Hutchison was charged with 73 minutes of penalty time compared to Juneau-Douglas\u2019 five. The Crimson Bears enjoyed at least a man advantage for nearly the entire game.<\/p>\n
Crimson Bears head coach Luke Adams said Hutchison\u2019s play didn\u2019t warrant the egregious amount of penalty time.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile I am happy we did well on the power play, I would have to admit that we didn\u2019t deserve to be on the power play for nearly the entire game,\u201d Adams said. \u201cSome of those calls shouldn\u2019t have happened and it\u2019s unfair.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adams went further, saying he\u2019s worried that if officiating continues to be \u201cinconsistently\u201d applied in Juneau \u2014 specifically by one official \u2014 the Crimson Bears home ice will gain an unsavory reputation. It takes a lot of fundraising and hard work to get Anchorage and Fairbanks teams to Southeast, and if the officiating isn\u2019t fair, they may stop coming.<\/p>\n
\u201cTeams aren\u2019t going to come down (to Juneau) and that\u2019s unfortunate because they work really hard to come down here but they\u2019re leaving with more suspensions than good feelings,\u201d Adams said.<\/p>\n
Hutchison head coach Jason Witt was dismissed toward the end of the game for unsportsmanlike conduct. Adams said Witt was just asking for clarification on a call.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the end the coach got two disqualification penalties for just trying to clarify a call. … Every time there is a collision that\u2019s not perfect, that doesn\u2019t mean you need to take someone out of the game for 10, 15 minutes. … There has to be some sort of standard but unfortunately, some of the standards here are different than the rest of the state. There has to be some consistency because right now we aren\u2019t getting teams leaving here with good feelings because the standards aren\u2019t consistent and that\u2019s a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n
After a Thanksgiving break, JDHS faces Dimond High School junior varsity Dec. 2 and 3 at Treadwell Ice Arena.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Contact Sports and Outdoors reporter Kevin Gullufsen at 523-2228 or kevin.gullufsen@juneauempire.com.<\/p>\n
Clarification: This article has been updated to clarify that Luke Adams was speaking of an official in particular, not the whole officiating crew who worked Saturday’s game. Adams was clear in initial interviews that he took issue with only one official but the article didn’t reflect that.<\/em><\/p>\n An earlier version of this story also incorrectly stated that \u201cKyle Farley-Robinson stopped all nine of Hutchison\u2019s sporadic shots\u201d in Saturday’s match. Kyle Farley-Robinson wasn\u2019t playing that night, Cody Mitchell played goalie and was credited with the shutout.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n The Empire regrets all errors. To report an error or request a correction, email editor@juneauempire.com or call 523-2265.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Juneau-Douglas High School senior forward Ryan Liebelt beat Hutchison goalie Alaya Brunty just 44 seconds into Saturday\u2019s match against Hutchison. Liebelt went five hole with a snap shot from center ice, the first of three goals he would score in the game. \u201cIt\u2019s always nice to get those right off the bat,\u201d Liebelt said. \u201cVersus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-19056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19056"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=19056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}