The La Ronge Ice Wolves' home opener at the Mel Hegland Uniplex was held Nov. 6 against the Nipawin Hawks. (Derek Cornet/larongeNOW Staff)

By Derek Cornet

Regular season

Ice Wolves lose penalty-filled home opener

Nov 9, 2020 | 4:45 PM

La Ronge Ice Wolves Head Coach Kevin Kaminski doesn’t have very good thoughts about the team’s home opener where there were 25 penalties including two 10-minute misconducts.

Players on the Ice Wolves racked up 15 of those penalties for a total of 46 minutes. Spencer Kennedy was responsible for 20 of those penalty minutes including a 10-minute misconduct, blow to the head, two for unsportsmanlike conduct, hooking and diving. Holden Knights was responsible for the second 10-minute misconduct, as well as a blow to the head.

“We’ve got to get disciplined. Penalties cost us the game,” Kaminski said. “There were five powerplay goals. I know it’s only four, but they got a powerplay goal one second after we got out. Five powerplay goals aren’t healthy for any team.”

The Nipawin Hawks quickly took the lead on the Nov. 6 game securing four goals in the first period. The Hawks made two more goals in the second and another in the third to win the match 7-3.

Holden made a second-period goal, while Nolan Allan and Kaiden Collumb each scored one in the third.

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“We didn’t play with controlled emotion,” Kaminski said. “We were trying to settling scores for ourselves and not worry about the team. We’re taking a run at guys when there’s a lot of time you can have that containment instead of trying to kill someone.”

The Ice Wolves were supposed to travel to Nipawin Nov. 7 in back-to-back action, but the game was postponed until Nov. 17 due to a snowstorm.

The Battlefords North Stars will be in La Ronge Nov. 13 for the Ice Wolves’ next home game. The Ice Wolves are then expected to travel to North Battleford the following day.

“Our team is going to be focusing on finding ways to win instead of finding ways to lose,” Kaminski said about training between now and then. “We have to get disciplined, and focused and prepared mentally and physically.”

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derek.cornet@jpbg.ca

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