v Eskimos

The Statesmen kicked off the winter season with their first win against the Cambridge Eskimos. With the two previous encounters ending with a goal in it, the Statesmen were expecting a close game. The Statesmen welcomed three new players in their first game Tom Lahtinen, George Prich and Dmitry Selimir.
The Statesmen got off to a nice start with a goal from Tom on his first game for the Statesmen and bouyed by this jumped off to a 3-0 lead after 15mins, though this could have easily been tied with the Eskimos getting 3 clear breakaways but some great goaltending for Ben kept them out.
The 2nd period was a more back and forth affair with the Eskimos and Statesmen trading goals but the Statesmen getting the better of the period 5-3 with Mike getting a brace to lead 8-3.
The third period went to the Eskimos with the goal hungry Statesmen pushing more forward but unsuprisingly only scoring 1 to the Eskimos 3, 9-6 the final score. MOTM James