Juneau-Douglas may have been the team with the most scoring opportunities on Saturday night, but it was visiting Monroe Catholic that made the most of its chances.<\/p>\n
The Crimson Bears (1-9) fell 3-1 on Saturday on its home ice to the Rams, which remain perfect on the season at 9-0. Monroe Catholic, of Fairbanks, won Friday\u2019s contest 6-4.<\/p>\n
Despite the tough loss at Treadwell Arena, the teams were evenly matched for most of the game, with Juneau-Douglas controlling the puck and offensive tempo for most of the first two periods and taking 30 shots compared to 22 by Monroe Catholic.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had a better overall effort,\u201d JDHS head coach Luke Adams said. \u201cWe had a lot of players who stepped up today and took the role of setting the tone for everybody. That was a big part of it.<\/p>\n
\u201cRight now we\u2019re struggling with finding the net, but we\u2019re making adjustments and trying new line combinations,\u201d Adams continued. \u201cIt\u2019s tough to score goals. We\u2019re definitely in a rut right now when it comes to goal scoring. The most important thing is getting the goals when you need them. We got one when we needed today but we fell a little short. We had a lot of opportunities but the quality of opportunities is where we\u2019re struggling.\u201d<\/p>\n
Monroe Catholic drew first blood Saturday after senior forward Grant Olson found the back of the net with 12:17 remaining in the second period.<\/p>\n
Juneau-Douglas evened the score early in the third thanks to a goal by junior forward Quin Gist at the 11:47 mark. Niko Hebert and Ryan Liebolt were credited with the assist.<\/p>\n
But the game didn\u2019t stay tied for long.<\/p>\n
The Rams fired back with two consecutive goals by senior right wing Dylan Steele and sophomore forward Ryan Michel for the final score of 3-1. Michel also racked up two assists on the night.<\/p>\n
\u201cCompared to the game yesterday, we moved our feet,\u201d said first-year Rams head coach Shawn Lundgren. \u201cWe competed the entire game. I think Juneau came with a little more today, too. I think it was a better hockey game. For us it was a matter of playing as a team.\u201d<\/p>\n
JDHS\u2019s Adams said he\u2019s been pleased with the progress he\u2019s seen from his freshman goalkeeper. Kyle Farley-Robinson had 19 saves; the Ram\u2019s Nathaniel Jankowski had 29.<\/p>\n
The Rams registered five penalties compared to three for the Crimson Bears.<\/p>\n
Next weekend\u2019s game against Whitehorse has been cancelled, meaning the Crimson Bears won\u2019t have another home game until early January.<\/p>\n
Scoring Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n Monroe Catholic<\/p>\n 2nd \u2013 12:17, Steele (Michel and Grahnek assist)<\/p>\n 3rd \u2013 7:33, Steele (Coiley and Michel)<\/p>\n 3rd \u2013 5:18, Michel (Szumigala)<\/p>\n Juneau-Douglas<\/p>\n 3rd \u2013 11:47, Gist (N. Hebert and Liebolt assist)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Juneau-Douglas may have been the team with the most scoring opportunities on Saturday night, but it was visiting Monroe Catholic that made the most of its chances. The Crimson Bears (1-9) fell 3-1 on Saturday on its home ice to the Rams, which remain perfect on the season at 9-0. Monroe Catholic, of Fairbanks, won […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":20979,"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-20978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20978","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\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20978"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=20978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}