Posted by hockeybeats on 10/1/2005, 3:27 pm, in reply to "Re: Majors@Ottawa" Their style of play seems completely different too. Last season they were relying entirely on defence and goaltending, they played a real attacking style yesterday which made the game pretty exciting to watch. Even some of the Ottawa fans over in section 13 were saying how St. Mike's was such a great skating team and appeared to simply be too fast for the 67s. That being said, they did take too many penalties and appeared to sit back once they developed a big lead. There was very little attack in them once they were up 5-2 although the penalty trouble probably had something to do with this as well. In the first half of the game though, it seemed the Majors had a scoring chance on every penalty kill, they were quite aggressive and did get one short-handed goal scored by DiBenedetto. What really impressed me was their skating and fast-paced play. Peters was oustanding but it's clearly not like last year where he has to almost get a shutout to get a win.
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Even though they seemed to play better in the games I watched last year from the games I didn't watch as demonstrated by the debate about their contribution to the team, the Donatis appear to be vastly improved from last year, even the games when I saw them play well. While there were a couple of occassions where I wanted to yell "Tyler, please pass the puck!", this never led to turnovers like it did during a couple of games I saw last year and some of the moves/dekes that both brothers were making were literally making the Ottawa defense look like they were at a completely different level. A couple of times this even led to goals whether by them or a nice pass over to Vitarelli.
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