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Employees picture / Brian Yauger Canfield’s Luke Berry slides on the ice throughout Saturday’s Four-2 loss to CVCA at Deep Freeze Ice Enviornment in Boardman. Berry completed with each of the Cardinals’ objectives.
BOARDMAN – “Psychological Errors.”
These had been the primary phrases out of Canfield coach Steve Covelli’s mouth after Saturday’s contest in opposition to Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy.
The Cardinals performed evenly with the visiting Royals, however spent an excessive amount of time on the penalty kill, leading to a Four-2 loss in what may very properly be a preview of a Baron Cup playoff sport.
“The entire sport is nearly psychological errors,” Covelli mentioned. “I do not assume that crew is healthier than us. We’re simply preventing ourselves.
“That is most likely two of the perfect groups (in our space) taking part in one another proper now. We beat this crew 4 weeks in the past and so they come again right here and beat us. It is a 2-2 sport after two intervals, proper the place we thought it might be, it is simply the psychological errors and the dangerous play penalties. It’s irritating.”
CVCA struck first, benefiting from a sluggish begin by the Cardinals to leap out to a fast 1-Zero lead. They’d not add to it that interval.
Each of Canfield’s objectives got here early within the second interval and every was scored by senior captain Luke Berry.
The Cardinals got here out with extra power within the second half, and that is simply the results of confidence.
“They believed in themselves,” Covelli mentioned. “If you happen to are available in there believing in what you are able to do and put what we educate you into follow, you’ll get outcomes. While you begin taking part in and also you make psychological errors in performs that should not occur and also you spend 10 minutes within the penalty field out of a 15-minute interval, your chances are high down and that is what I did.”
Whereas physicality is a bonus in hockey, relying on who you ask, it would even be necessary, ill-timed physicality does nothing however harm the crew. Canfield spent many of the backside of the second interval with a person down, and the Royals allowed a run to erase Canfield’s 2-1 lead and tie the sport.
The issues continued within the third inning and CVCA went on to show the 2-2 rating into Four-2.
“It is all psychological, they should work it out themselves,” Covelli mentioned. “I can not. I can let you know what to do, however I can not make you exit and do it. I inform the children on a regular basis I can not skate. Earlier than this sport, I mentioned, ‘No shot.’ “4 penalties had been for hitting on the incorrect time. Psychological breakdowns. That is my quote of the day. Psychological breakdowns value us once more.”
The Cardinals (9-Four-1) hit the ice once more Saturday on the street in opposition to Chagrin Falls. They return dwelling on Jan. 28 for senior night time in opposition to Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin. Covelli believes this may function the precise lesson the Cardinals want.
“We now have to win,” Covelli mentioned. “We will come right here to skate on Monday, work on the powerplay, breakouts once more, which we have executed again and again. Simply repeat, repeat, repeat. After they apply it, we’re exhausting to beat. After they do not, psychological breakdowns.”