The Amherst Knights 00 AA team traveled to Washington, DC to take on the Xtreme 2000s in what would be a home and home series. The Xtreme are scheduled to travel to Buffalo in two weekends, yes, the weekend before Christmas to face them in their barn.
The Xtreme took the first game of the two rather easily and only allowed one blip on the radar en route to a 7-1 victory. The coach actually started moving kids around after two periods when the score was 6-1.
In the Sunday rematch, the Knights came on a bit stronger and more physically and pulled out to a stunning 2-0 lead. It wasn't that the Xtreme weren't getting the lion share of the scoring chances, we just were putting them home. They managed to squeak a couple past Watier with some screens and just persistence. With 0:53 left on the clock, the Xtreme got an offensive zone faceoff and pulled Watier for an extra attacker. We couldn't maintain control and gave up an empty net breakaway. The Knights scored and took a 3-1 lead. The Xtreme managed a bittersweet goal by Mac Wiseman with 7.3 seconds left on a great individual effort, but it just wasn't enough. We outshot them 28-13 in the 3-2 loss. Just one of those games.
We'll see what occurs in the rematch on Dec 18-19.
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