Bisons looking for offence

Justin Seward
Times Reporter

 

The Herd worked hard in a pair of home games over the weekend but just could not seem to find the back of the net as they dropped a 2-1 decision to the Calgary Flames and a 3-1 defeat to the St. Albert Raiders Nov. 28-29.
“It feels like we’re snake bitten. We’ve been playing some good hockey and we’ve been outshooting our opponents and just really haven’t been coming up with the goals,” said assistant coach Dave Attwood. “We’re going to focus on some of things that we’re doing right (and) practice some thing’s that needs some work. We’ve got to believe what we’ve worked on so far will bring us good things to come.”
The Bisons are still right in the mix despite the losses, but somehow have to find a way to keep pace with the teams around them.
“We’re right there with each team, so I mean it’s tight, there is no easy games and every one is a battle. We have as good of chance as anybody because it’s that tight,” said Attwood.
After coming off of a stretch of four games in seven nights, the team felt that they were refreshed and had their legs going the whole weekend.
“That’s the beauty of this league is that we play our games on the weekend and that last week was tough because of the Wednesday night. We got our legs under us and we felt we played good hockey this weekend,” said Attwood.
It was Austin Wong who scored in the loss against the Flames, and Gary Haden scored the lone goal against the Raiders.
The Bisons hit the road next weekend as they take on the SSAC Athletics (5:15 p.m.) on Dec. 6 and the Fort Saskatchewan Rangers the following day (12:15 p.m.).