Author: Coach Tooke

  • Thunder at Home

    Thunder at Home

    Our second meeting with Thunder ends up to be strong battles ending in a tie and a win, and we narrowly emerge winning the series. Lines Game 1 – Saturday, Nov 15 @ 6:15pm – Tied 4-4 Initial message was about staying focused, doing our jobs, and not taking Thunder lightly. Collins scored our first…

  • Queen City (away)

    Queen City (away)

    Our first league game happened Sep 13 at Extreme Ice in Indian Trails Game 1 – Saturday, Sep 13 @ 12:05 – Won 1-0 Our goal for this game was to extend what we have been working on in practice, focused on taking the initiative in 50/50 puck battles, aggressively moving to open support positions,…

  • Tampa

    Tampa

    The beginning of the season is always an exciting experience filled with anticipation of how our team will fare against the competition. What we hope for is to play teams that are challenging enough to give us a real sense of how we need to play and what we need to work on. Despite taking…

  • Attitude

    Attitude

    What’s your attitude? Read the following starting at the top…take a few seconds to absorb it…then read it from the bottom up. Today was the absolute worst day ever And don’t try to convince me that There’s something good in every day Because, when you take a closer look The world is a pretty evil…

  • Camp 2025

    Camp 2025

    The season has officially started with the completion of our opening training camp! The boys are getting to know each other, learning our culture, and shaking the dust off. We’re very excited about this season’s possibilities!

  • DC Tournament

    Game 1 – Greater NY Stars Saturday, Jan 18 – The St. James – Tied 1-1 Game 2 – Peconic Wildcats Sunday, Jan 19 – Haymarket Arena – Lost 4-2 Daegan and Noah R kicked out Game 3 – DME Swamp Rabbits Sunday, Jan 19 – 6:30pm – Haymarket Arena – Won 4-2 missing Daegan…

  • Game 34 – Canes Black

    Our 5th and final opportunity to play the U15AA Jr. Canes ended in a draw Sunday, January 12 at 11:25am – Factory – Tied 1-1

  • Game 33 – Canes White

    Game 33 – Canes White

    Third not terribly challenging game coming off of a long break, we were bound to have some bad habits, and it didn’t look good for a while. Overall lacking intensity and discipline. January 11, 2025 – Factory – 6:20pm – Won 8-3 We mixed up the lines a bit to see if any chemistry would…

  • Games 31-32: Golden Bears

    Games 31-32: Golden Bears

    Our second weekend playing this team turned out to be much more successful than we had earlier anticipated. In our previous contest, we won the first game 5-0, and then suffered an unprepared loss on Sunday 1-3. This weekend we were down a number of players, and coming back from a long absence and were…

  • Jacksonville Tournament

    Jacksonville Tournament

    Games 27 through 30 were played in Jacksonville, FL at the Jax River City MyHockey Tournament. It was a long way to go to only play Raleigh teams, but it was an excellent outcome, beating the Jr Canes AA Black team in the championship! All games were played at the Community First Igloo in Jacksonville,…