Pre-season ice schedule

Date

Time

Location

Notes

Wed Sep 9

9:45 – 11:15 PM

Polar Ice Arena

Team Practice [coach Molepske/Tyler]

Wed Sep 16

9:30 – 11 PM

Hopkins Pavilion

Scrimmage v. Wildcats (D2) [wear white jerseys]

Wed Sep 23

7:00 – 8:15 PM

Breck

Team Practice [coach Rob Little]

Wed Sep 30

9:45 - 11:15 PM

Polar Ice Arena

Scrimmage v. Chaos (D2) [wear white jerseys]

Wed Oct 7

9:45 - 11:15 PM

Polar Ice Arena

Scrimmage v. TBD

Wed Oct 14

8:45 – 10:15 PM

Breck

Team Practice [coach Rob Little]

Wed Oct 21

10:15 - 11:45 PM

Polar Ice Arena

Team Practice [coach Molepske/Tyler]

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Northern Horde - Champions!

Wednesday, August 26, 2009, St. Louis Park Ice Arena (east rink) - Champions! Say it again, Champions! Following eight tough games (and one scrimmage) against the Diablos hockey club, the Northern Horde claimed victory with a 6-1 defeat of the Diablos in the B-school championship game. After relentless pressure throughout the first period, which saw captain Jon Zimmerman shoot four easy opportunities into the chest of Diablos goalie Steve Peterson, defensemen Dan Kline opened the scoring at 5:50 of the first period with a slap shot from the point off a nice feed from Tyler LaMont. In the second period, the Horde scored again when center Mark Paska took a feed from Jon Nygren at 16:04 and beat the Diabols' goalie for a 2-0 lead. Shea Moyer scored at 15:32 to bring the Diablos within one, but at 5:24, the Horde answered with a Brian Hinderks goal set up by Dan Bolles. Bolles then led a strong shift at the end of the second period winning a face-off at 0:26 to Liam Monahan who fired a shot from the high slot past the goalie, showing his value to the Horde after a 3 week trip in California. A mere 23 seconds later, Jeff Nelson picked up the puck and drove hard to the net scoring to put the Horde up 5-1. The Horde controlled play in the third period and their effort paid off when left wing Jon Nygren forced a turnover at center ice that Jon Zimmerman picked up and slid past goalie Peterson for a 6-1 victory.
Following the game, a few bottles of $7 champagne were consumed in the parking lot, primarily by Dan Kline's friend, Martine. The Horde celebrated their 8-1 record against the Diablos. Jeff Nelson led the beginner league with 12 goals on the season and Dan Bolles led the league with 8 assists. Jeff Nelson and Jon Zimmerman led the league with 17 points. Pete Morrow led the league with a 2.78 GAA and a 7-1 record, to go with his 0.812 save percentage.
This was Liza Messinger's final game with the Horde as she leaves for Middlebury next week; she will be missed. The Horde are excited to welcome four new players to the roster for the fall season - Dana Cudo, Chris Haack, Suneel Arora and Jeff Cook. Cook and Arora fortify the strong Horde defense following an 0-20 campaign with the Abominable Snowmen in the 2008-09 AHA winter league. Cudo and Haack will strengthen the Horde's attack, with Dana coming off a summer season L5 championship with the Walking Sticks and Chris joining the league for the first time bringing his experience coaching Como mites hockey to the Horde (who skate like mites). With the new additions, the Horde are well positioned for the 2009-10 D2 winter season, where they will work to unseat the reigning champions, Chaos.
Go Horde!

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Horde Drop Second Straight - First Loss to Diablos

It was an off night for the boys (and lady) in white, as the Northern Horde lost their first game to the Diablos during the summer B-school season.  Diablos forward Dmitry Tovb was out with a shoulder injury sustained in Monday’s L5 playoffs opening round, and perhaps Dmitry’s missing physical play made the Horde play soft.

The Horde knew they were facing a rejuvenated Diablos who played a strong game in the L5 playoffs, until the Butterflies scored a few in the third period to bust it open.  In the first period, the majority of  play was in the neutral zone, but the Diablos managed three goals on four shots and took a 3-0 lead to the last minute of the period when center Andrew Dayton, playing his last game for the Horde, scored off a Tyler LaMont pass from behind the net to bring the Horde to within two.  In the second period, the neither side looked particularly impressive.  In the third period, the Horde turned it up and kept play almost entirely within the Diablos zone.  However, the Horde were not able to mount a comeback and the game ended with a 3-1 loss.  For the game, the Horde outshot the Diablos 27-8, but were unable to put the shots where they count – in the back of the net. 

A special thanks to Andrew Dayton who finished his Northern Horde career with 6 goals and 5 assists in 9 games.  He departs for his second year of law school at Michigan soon and will not make the championship game.  The Northern Horde look forward to the B-school championship on Wednesday, August 26, at 8:00 pm at St. Louis Park.  Bill Messinger is expected to return for the Horde making his first appearance of the season.  Will Bill be enough to turn the tide in the Horde’s favor?

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Dung Beetles Hand Horde First Loss

Despite a valiant effort that saw the Horde put up 37 shots, the 10 skaters on the Horde bench could not hold off the Dung Beetles in the first round of the L5 summer playoffs and lost 6-3.  The Dung Beetles opened the scoring at 11:01 of the first period when a shot from the point took a bad bounce and was deflected by goalie Peter Morrow into the goal.  The Horde drew two penalties but were unable to capitalize and the Dung Beetles pounced on a loose puck and put it in late in the period to go up 2-0.

In the second period, despite outshooting the Dung Beetles, the Horde have up two more goals and opened the third trailing 4-0.  Finally, the Horde offense took life in the game.  Mark Paska opened the scoring at 11:58 of the third banging home a nice pass from Brian Hinderks.  4 minutes later, Jeff Nelson put in the rebound off a Jon Zimmerman shot from the point and followed that up with a goal of a series of passes from Dan Bolles and Jon Nygren.  The Horde ultimately lost 6-3, but it was a good effort with a short bench, evidenced by the Horde keeping most of the play in the Dung Beetles’ end and outshooting the Dung Beetles in every period.

The Horde return to the ice Wednesday at Breck at 9:30 pm against their archrivals, the Diablos.  This is the Horde’s final tune-up before the B-school championship on August 26.

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Big Third Period Keeps Horde Undefeated

A shorthanded Northern Horde battled hard through the first two periods Wednesday night before breaking the game open in the third period. Tyler LaMont opened the scoring at 12:07 of the first period. The Diablos quickly answered to tie the game. Later in the first, Jeff Nelson scored two goals 33 seconds apart, with the second on an assist from Ryan Chester, to put the Horde up 3-1. Dmitry Tovb of the Diablos scored the only goal of the second period to make it a 3-2 game. Early in the third period, the Horde faced nearly 2 minutes of 5 on 3 hockey when Tyler LaMont was called for Interference, followed quickly by an Andrew Dayton roughing call in the Horde offensive zone (a stupid penalty, but the correct call). The Horde nearly killed the penalty, but Joe Gandsey was able to tie the game for the Diablos.
Following those penalties, the Horde offense came alive. Liza Messinger scored her first goal for the brick red at 12:19 of the third on a nice pass from Jeff Nelson. She followed that up with her second goal on an assists from Dan Bolles and Mark Paska. Dan Bolles would then twice feed Andrew Dayton for goals in the third period and Mark Paska slipped an unassisted goal past Diablos' keeper Steve Peterson. The 11 skaters for the Horde were exhausted come the end of the game, but their hard work paid off with another victory taking the Horde's record to 6-0 on the 8-3 win.
On Sunday night, the Horde enter the L5 AHA summer playoffs facing the Dung Beetles at Wakota (rink 1). The Horde expect to skate only 10 on the night as a number of players are either nursing injuries or unavailable. This should be a tough test . . .

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Statistics Correction

Team Statistics Updated:

 

Team	Shots	Goals	Assists	Points	PIM
Diablos	63	13	10	23	16
Northern Horde	178	44	35	79	2

 

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Statistics Update

Below are the team’s stats halfway through the beginner school season, having played 5 of our 10 games. 

 

Team	Shots	Goals	Assists	Points	PIM
Diablos	63	44	35	79	16
Northern Horde	178	13	10	23	2

 

Player	Games	Goals	Assists	Points	PP	SH	PIM
Zimmerman, J	5	10	5	15	0	0	0
Nelson, J	5	7	4	11	0	0	0
LaMont, T	5	7	4	11	2	0	0
Kline, D	5	4	3	7	1	0	0
Dayton, A	5	2	5	7	0	0	0
Paska, M	4	4	1	5	1	1	0
Hinderks, B	5	3	1	4	0	0	0
Monahan, L	5	2	2	4	0	0	0
Schultz, W	5	1	3	4	0	0	0
Bolles, D	5	2	1	3	0	0	0
Chester, R	5	1	2	3	0	0	2
Nygren, J	4	1	1	2	0	0	0
Homel, D	4	0	2	2	0	0	0
Messinger, L	2	0	1	1	0	0	0
Messinger, B	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals:		44	35	79	4	1	2

 

Goalie	GP	GA	Avg	Shots	Sv%	W	L	T	OTL
Morrow, P.	4	12	3.00	53	0.774	4	0	0	0

 

 

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Morrow Posts First Shutout

Pete Morrow played his finest game in goal Monday night backstopping the Horde to a 2-0 win against our rivals, the Diablos, at Wakota.  This was the first B-school shutout of the season and Pete’s first career shutout.  While the defense of Ryan Chester, Dan Kline, Brian Hinderks and Tyler LaMont had a strong night limiting the Diablos to 13 shots, the Horde offense looked sluggish throughout.

The first period ended scoreless, with both teams limited to low quality shots.  Andrew Dayton scored the first goal of the night for the Horde six minutes into the second period on a beautiful pass from a streaking Dan Bolles, who picked up the puck on a David Homel pass.  The Horde had two good scoring chances later in the period when they drew two consecutive tripping penalties, but were not able to capitalize. In the third period, Jon Nygren stole the puck from a Diablos defenseman and fed Dan Bolles for his second point of the night.

All in all, the Horde hung in for an impressive victory against a rejuvenated Diablos who had their goalie, Steve Peterson, back in net for the first time in a few weeks.  We rematch on Wednesday night at Breck.

 

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Horde's Winning Ways Continue

Tyler LaMont led the Horde charge with the second Horde hat trick in history.  The scoring opened at 14:11 of the first period with a Jon Zimmerman goal which was set up by Andrew Dayton stealing the puck behind the net and making a tough pass to Jeff Nelson who slid the puck to Zimmerman in the slot.  At 10:17 of the first period, Brian Hinderks got on the board with a beautiful end-to-end rush.  Jeff Nelson put the Horde up 3-0 at 9:33 of the 1^st.  The Diablos rebounded at 8:15 and 7:02 with goals by Joe Gandsey and Shea Moyer of the Diablos.  The Horde then stepped it up with back-to-back goals by Tyler LaMont, including a slap shot from the point and a sweet deke.  His first goal came on the power play following a rough hit on Dan Kline against the boards.  Jon Zimmerman followed his own rebound in the third period after picking up the puck following a good defensive play to dislodge it from the Diablos by Brian Hinderks.  Tyler LaMont put up his third of the night in the third period and Andrew Dayton put in the final goal of the night set up by Tyler LaMont and Liam Monahan. 

Jon Nygren had an assist on LaMont’s first goal and led a strong fore-check by the Horde forwards – this may have been Nygren’s break out night.  He was also likely pumped by the thought of his Colt 45 12 pack chilling in the trunk of his car.  David Homel returned to the lineup and set up some good scoring chances for the Horde. The defense was tough again all night as Ryan Chester helped limit the Diablos to only 9 shots on the night.  Dan Bolles had a number of key defensive plays from the center position to keep Pete Morrow undefeated in net.

 

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