Skyron Varsity Hockey team’s first tie of the season is with Pioneer

Skyron Varsity hockey had their first non-winning result of the season Wednesday night, tying Pioneer 2-2 even after an eight minute overtime period. This was an unbelievable game throughout that lived up to the rivalry in spades.

Skyron led 1-0 after junior forward Kendall Clavier sent a pass into the slot from behind the net, and it bounced off junior forward Audrey Wells’ foot and went into the back of the net with 2:27 to go in the first period. That score held until Pioneer tied it with under seven minutes left in the third, on a wrist shot from the top of the left circle. Skyron answered on the powerplay with 3:06 left in the game on an incredible individual effort by senior Ava Heung. After having her stick tied up with a defender during a battle for the puck behind the net, Heung wrenched her stick free, and between three defenders snuck a shot into the net blocker side to give Skyron the 2-1 advantage. Then just a minute and a half later during a scrum in front of the Skyron net, Pioneer answered with the puck finding a Pioneer stick who then put it behind senior goalie Monique Dionne to tie the game at two. Where the score remained through another nine minutes of play before referees ended the game tied.

Puck luck goes both ways

After scoring the first Skyron goal bounced off a foot and went it, Pioneer got some puck luck of their own in the middle of the second period.

A Skyron wrist shot from the slot hit the corner of the post above the glove of the Pioneer goaltender. After a brief conference, referees decided that it indeed didn’t cross the line and ruled no goal. This was the best scoring chance either team had in an otherwise uneventful second period, and it proved crucial in what ended up being a tie game.

Chances galore

As they usually do, Skyron totally controlled the pace of this game throughout. They dominated possession as most of the game was spent in the Pioneer end. They pounded Pioneer with 51 shots on goal while only surrendering eight total shots through 53 minutes of play. Skyron had four powerplay chances, but they only converted on one of them.

Skyron had every chance. to win this game, but simply couldn’t get it done. Their neutral zone game was on point, but they looked out of sorts at times in the offensive end.

Maybe the best scor- ing chance Skyron had was with five seconds left in the game, and again it was Heung who was right in the middle