Weekend in Wuhan

Weekend in Wuhan

November 25th, 2017 the Dalian Ice Dragons left Dalian to take on a rival of sorts, the “Wuhan Ice Dragons”. The weekend was an overall success in which new friends were made, and the Dalian Ice Dragons won the first of two games as well as a “Tie Breaker Period”. The first game was 4-3, the second game was a questionable, 3-1. Finally Wuhan decided to offer Dalian a chance for redemption in which a 13 minute period was played “probably the hardest anyone has ever seen Riley McIntosh play” said one of the dragons as McIntosh was driving the net as an Offensive-Defense Man.
The first game was held together with some solid stick handling and passing between offense. The dynamic duo Andy Kanmacher (put two goals on the scoreboard) and Jason Levy pulled it together and stuck it to Wuhan heavily. Andy Henderson (not just a pretty face) was not only being encouraging and enthusiastic buy also kind enough to show us the Henderson stick handling skills through the defense flawlessly (helping him through a goal on the board as well). In the last few run shuffles of the match up, McIntosh was able to calibrate his stick and fire one off onto the score board as well.  
A sloppy second game on the referee’s behalf, but everyone makes mistakes. Icing calls and physicality were some of the reasons the win was getting bleak half way through. #16 and #22 from Wuhan’s team were leading their offensive lines. “16 and I, we are friends” said Paul Gardner after a very heavy man to man straight up defensive play that kept #16 off as long as possible before firing one past Josh Lanthier.
A special shout out to the rogues who were willing to play as mercenaries for the other team while getting pummeled by Dalian-Alex Cotaras, and Spencer Duncan who relentlessly bombarded McIntosh knowing full well he was calibrating hard. Great oppositional defense by Danowski and sinking one on the other team for us (oddly enough, the only goal that counted for us in the second game). Levy let the Dragons know how much they needed him as he provided as a great winger for Wuhan. Bergmann was experiencing difficulties regarding the ice quality but was relentlessly after the puck for Wuhan without let up.  
Dalian arrived in Wuhan just before noon, at which point they were bused by the Team Captain of the Wuhan team (Vladamir). The bus ride was an hour to the Livat mall (located in the QingShan District). The Livat mall was five floors tall and about 3 buildings large (comparable to Dalian’s Outlet Mall Rink), the rink was not as easy to find as a person may think. The only other time Dalian had this much trouble trying to find a scheduled rink was, well-every time they had played in Shenyang. Meals at the “Frying Pan” and “Paddy field” were note worthy stops. Curiosity on how the team as a whole had felt after lunch though…note for the future, 30+ people CANNOT order that much chicken and get it that quickly without some mistakes.
Regardless of the scoreboard, big saves were made all night-not only by the goalies (Lanthier and Gray) on Dalian, but the Wuhan’s Russian acrobat. Although he couldn’t stack the pads the way Gray does or intimidate offense the way Lanthier can with his size-he was “oddly adequately” making saves with a focus on leg split movements Ben Jesseau mentioned.

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