RI Road Trip - 2010 Flames - 1 In Awesome Wonder

RI Road Trip – 2010 Flames

With the annual Army-Navy (Army won, 17-11 at Gillette Stadium) game being played just up the road, the 2010 Flames played three games against the Providence Hockey Club in Rhode Island over the weekend. With Providence being closer to the stadium than Boston, the Rhode Island capital was buzzing with activity. On the ice, the Flames played their hearts out.

Lynch Arena – 2010 Flames at Providence Hockey Club (North) (EHF). Tie, 2-2.
Cranston Veterans – 2010 Flames at Providence Hockey Club (South) (EHF). Loss, 3-1.
Lynch Arena – 2010 Flames at Providence Hockey Club (South) (EHF). Loss, 2-1.

The RI Road Trip began with me staying home. I was fortunate to spend Saturday and Sunday with my youngest daughter, to watch her skate and to watch her sing in her school chorus event. I was able to keep up with the hockey action through LiveBarn. Then, thankfully, I also had fellow hockey parents updating events in Rhode Island on our group chat.

Game one of the weekend was on Saturday at Lynch Arena. The Flames played well, but really didn’t take advantage of the opportunities they created for themselves throughout the game. They ended up outshooting their opponents, 37-24 in the game, but the scoreboard rules, and that read, 2-2. Both teams scored once on the power play, with the Providence PPG tying the game in the 3rd period.

Ingalls and Rosenbeck played well per usual. What gets lost in these games sometimes is that despite wins and tremendous team successes on the scoresheet, these two goaltenders come up with game changing saves all the time. Very few goals allowed are of the ‘soft’ variety. This is the job of the goalie. The last line of defense.

Team’s make mistakes that lead to breakaways and odd-man rushes, but a hockey team wouldn’t be a hockey team if goalies they didn’t include goalies. And as part of the team, they not only stop goals from being scored, but often times they allow the team’s momentum to continue rolling forward. Any good goalie would tell you, it’s team.

Flames first goal, on the power play – Soucy won the draw in the offensive end. Hawkes stepped in to push the loose puck back to Powers at the point. Powers fired from the circle and found the net inside the far post. Textbook win the O zone draw, shoot, and score. PPG – Powers from Hawkes and Soucy. 1-0.
Flames goal – Booth slid up the wall to keep the puck in the zone and get it deep, behind the net. Soucy grabbed the puck and worked his magic with a nice hard pass from Gretzky’s office out to the slot. Hawkes was in the slot and gathered the pass just in time to fire a shot into the back of the net. Great play. Hawkes from Soucy and Booth. 2-1.

Lynch Arena –

(MRYHA) 2010 Flames: 01 – 00 – 01 = 02

Providence Hockey Club (North): 00 – 01 – 01 = 02

2010 Flames Penalties:

Petrie (Interference).
Booth (Tripping) – PPG against.

: Quickstep Coop cuts to the middle looking for more open ice. (Photo by Mooney’s Moonshots)

: I didn’t ask Tyler, but I am assuming this is the old ‘doing what I gotta do to get it done’ face in a game where the forwards were double shifted. (Photo by Mooney’s Moonshots)

: Travis stays calm and lets everyone know that he’ll take this one sitting down. (Photo by Mooney’s Moonshots)

: Soucy is off to the races, and just like that, everyone joins in. (Photo by Mooney’s Moonshots)

: In this 2010 Flames world of math, when you add 31 plus 00, you get the #1 tandem in the league. (Photo by Mooney’s Moonshots)

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RI Road Trip Game 1

RI Road Trip Game 2

RI Road Trip Game 3

Game two of the weekend was on Sunday morning. The team stayed in hotels for the RI Road Trip, so the commute was pretty simple to the morning game. The 2010 Flames had to play Providence Hockey Club (South) twice on Sunday. Since losing (they split two games at West Side Arena) to the Flames back in September, this Providence team had won 10 while losing only two (the two losses were both to the undefeated Boch-sters).

For the doubleheader on Sunday, Rosenbeck played the entirety of game one, and he played very well. He made 25 saves, and allowed just a pair of even strength goals.

I didn’t catch all of this game on LiveBarn because I had ventured outdoors to get some yard and wood work done. When I did tune in, I thought the Flames looked a little sluggish, but not bad. Providence dominated the first period in shots, 11-3, but the score was tied 1-1, after one.

The 2010 Flames played a stronger second period, but allowed the only goal of the period. In the end, the Flames dropped the contest, 3-1. Providence did end up with a 28-25 advantage in shots over the course of the game. Each team was whistled for six penalties, and Providence scored the only power play goal of the game.

Flames scored first – St. Pierre got a passing poke in with his stick to break up a play at center ice. The puck slid toward Beal who was skating backward. Beal was setting up to make a pass to Warren as he was tripped from behind. Beal fell, but the puck made it to Warren who shot from out high between the circles. The shot trickled through the goalie and into the net. Warren from Beal and St. Pierre. 1-0.

Cranston Veterans Ice Rink –

(MRYHA) 2010 Flames: 01 – 00 – 00 = 01

Providence Hockey Club (South): 01 – 01 – 01 = 03

2010 Flames Penalties:

Powers (Hooking) – PPG against.
Powers (Interference).
Soucy (Trip – Leg Check*).
Warren (Hooking).
Hawkes (Roughing).
Powers (Cross-Check).

* – Rule 639 | Tripping/Clipping/Leg Checking/Slew Footing – (Note 3) Leg check is the act of extending the leg from the front or from behind for the purpose of tripping the opponent.

Game three of the RI Road Trip was back at Lynch Arena. It was a rematch of the morning game against Providence Hockey Club (South). For game two of the doubleheader, Ingalls played the entirety of the game with a whopping 40 saves.

I thought the Flames skated really well in the opening period, and they were tied, 1-1 after one. RI had 9 shots on goal, while the 2010 Flames had 8. Then from there, it seemed as though the Flames ran out of gas as far as chances went. In other words, their remaining opportunities took on a weight of four-fold. They were outshot for the rest of the game, 33-9. They had chances but they didn’t always materialize into shots on goal, or shots at all.

This 2010 Flames team has been missing two forwards for several weeks due to health related issues. Then, for the RI road trip, two of their top goal scorers didn’t even make the trip due to sickness and injury. No excuses made, nor asked for. Nothing left on the ice in RI. The team played very hard, and there may be more injuries to the team from leaving everything they had on the ice in RI.

Flames goal – Soucy took the puck off of the huge defenseman along the boards and beat it for the corner. As he turned the corner he fed a beautiful pass to the slot for Beal. Beal was there and ready, and he buried the shot before the goalie could slide side to side. Great pass play. Beal from Soucy. 1-1.

Lynch Arena –

(MRYHA) 2010 Flames: 01 – 00 – 00 = 01

Providence Hockey Club (South): 01 – 00 – 01 = 02

2010 Flames Penalties:

Soucy (Roughing).
Soucy (Misconduct).
Soucy (Slashing Major*).
Soucy (Game Misconduct).

*- Rule 634 | Slashing – (b) A major plus a game misconduct penalty shall be assessed to any player who recklessly endangers an opponent as a result of slashing.

Countless hours of my life have been spent in the tracking of numbers while loving the sports and players that produce them.

: Strat-O-Matic baseball board with my own notes written on the board. The two Sporting News magazines that I kept from 1977, with my favorite two players, Dr. J and Pistol Pete. Red Sox Yearbook from a trip to Fenway, Fred Lynn’s last season in Boston.

: My brief note sheet tracking the 2010 Flames six goals on Saturday at JFK. My notes were significantly shorter than the game itself.

: The other side of Saturday’s notes. Multiple games, and a practice autograph to make sure a new pen writes the way I like. Plus you never know when one might run into autograph seekers.

: I would ask for the Sporting News Register for hockey, baseball, basketball, and football every year for Christmas. Every box score, every stat, pictures, and countless stories. Those were my favorites.

You can find more 2010 Flames material in these pieces, here. 2010 Manchester Flames.

The current look at my ‘hockey office’. So many hours spent in this space, tracking numbers and capturing season after season. (C) 1inawesomewonder 2023.

The beginning of every article. (C) 1inawesomewonder 2017.

The thoughts and opinions expressed here are those of the individual contributors, mostly mine, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the schools, coaches, players, or characters listed in any of these blog posts. Or, maybe they do, but you would have to ask them directly.

Either way, “It’s a great day for hockey” ~ the late “Badger” Bob Johnson.

“We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we’re too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams.” ~ the late Herb Brooks.

“To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought. Number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be happiness or joy. But think about it: If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day. That’s a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you’re going to have something special.” ~ Jim Valvano on how to live life, during his ESPY speech.

“I started writing sports stories 20 years ago. I still do. I write because somewhere, in some game, a kid might be having the time of his or her life. That’s awesome to think about. It’s all about the kids.” ~ Steve Beal Sr.