After much delay on my part here is my postgame recap of the second home game of the New York Riveters.

We lost, again. But we lost better this time, which I feel like it something that I’m going to be saying for a while but not the whole season. This game compared to the previous three games that I’ve seen was much better to my untrained unprofessional eye. There were a lot less flubbed passes, a lot more possession of the Riveters side and a lot more shots on goal. Mind you the Riveters have always had a lot of shots on goal they’re just not scoring any goals.

Unlike the first game it wasn’t as packed as a house as previously. It was still a really good turnout and a lot of people, myself included were wearing their Riveters jersey which was nice to see. The Riveters were not wearing their normal jersey but a pink jerseys that were auctioned off at the end of the game for a breast cancer charity. As it was pointed out to me similar to NHL teams they did not win the game they wore their charity jersey’s at.

Let’s start the period by period breakdown, I was a couple minutes late to the game and missed the puck drop by seconds. Then I was fumbling with setting up my camera. But once I was up and paying attention the game was very fast. As in quick paced and players moving about with a lot less hesitancy. This is the second game that the Riveters played against the Whale. I feel like it was slightly less physical than the last Riveters games but that might have to do with the lack of boarding and roughing penalties in this game than it actually has to do with how physical the game really was. In the first period the Riveters only had two penalties both given to Lyudmila Belyakova (#9) for hooking. During one of these penalties Alyssa Wohlfeiler (#88) of the Whale (which is so weird to write cause I want to say Whales as in plural but that’s not right).

However answering back right also on the Power Play at the top of the second period came a goal from Ashley Johnston (#10) of the Riveters. This tied up the game which it stayed tied for all of the second and into the third period. The Riveters managed a whole period without a penalty which was nice. Though we didn’t manage to capitalize on the power play which started out as 4 on 5 then progressed into 3 on 5 because Kelli Stack (#61) & Sam Faber (#28) had overlapping penalties for tripping & hooking respectively. I feel like there were a lot of better attempts that could have been made during that opportunity that were simply missed. In theory the Riveters have all the pieces to make it work and were presented with a golden opportunity it’s just didn’t happen that way. And it’s a combination of the Riveters still working out the team work chinks in the dynamics, the Whale defense is really solid and Nicole Stock (#24) being really good at goaltending.

The third period saw Gabie Figueroa (#21) with a high sticking penalty within the first two minutes if even that of the period. And there was a no goal called on a Riveters goal in the third. Which was really upsetting because it would have tied the game up and probably changed the outcome. This is in my recollection the third no goal that the refs have called on the Riveters in two home games. I’m not calling conspiracy I’m just pointing it out. And because there is no jumbotron, no on ice commentary and the ref’s don’t have mics I’m never sure why they’re making the calls they make. And if the announcer is saying it over the PA system I still can not for the life of me understand what he’s saying if he is explaining the calls. And I know they have someone doing commentary because DC said there was commentary on the live stream. That however is a discussion of another day. Kelly Babstock (#8) of the Whale scored an empty net goal as the Riveters pulled Nana Fujimoto (#33) from her net in the last minute. To be honest it couldn’t have made much of a difference they needed to score two goals in under a minute which is a doable thing but not something they did end up doing.

So the game closed out with a score of 3-1, the Whale with the win where they add to their undefeated standing. This could go on for a while as The Whale don’t play the equally undefeated Boston Pride until the end of November the same time the Riveters play the equally winless Buffalo Beauts.

Until next game. This has been KA with your Interruption of Play post game recap.