Des Moines 2 @ Sioux Falls 5
Bucs Momentum Stalls vs Sioux Falls
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“You can almost see this one coming the way we practiced yesterday,” Simon said. “We win two in a row and suddenly we’re world beaters again. You can't forget about the things that got you there.
It's a team we should beat, bottom line," Simon said. "I'm going to have be more hands-on with the guys. I know we're prepared for them. Do the guys really want to take it to this team or not?"
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So obviously, for the league’s lowest scoring team to score five goals and control most of the action to pick up their first win in nearly a month created a sense of relief and accomplishment for a group that has felt more snake-bitten than inept during this rough stretch.
“It just feels great to get back in the win column,” said Stampede forward Kyle Rankin, who scored his team-leading 12th goal of the season. “It just hasn’t felt like the hockey gods have been on our side lately, so tonight we turned the tables on them. It was a great effort. We really went out and earned this one by playing a full 60 minutes.”Before the game Stampede radio broadcaster Jim Olander asked coach Kevin Hartzell about the team’s chances of staying in the playoff race, and the coach said he’d stopped looking at the standings and “just wanted the guys to go out and find a way to win a hockey game.”
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