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THE GAME I'LL
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VETERAN'SVIEWBY RONNIE HEIN
TAWK TO USWE WANT YOUR FEEDBACK
SEPTEMBERRECAPBY TIM HARWOOD
MAG-E-ZINEHAWK TAWK
NEVER FORGET
ALL ACTION SHOTS COURTESY OF STEPHANIE LYN PHOTOGRAPHY
SKATE WITH THE HAWKSQUESTION: A few years ago, there used to be several games where fans could go on the ice and skate with the team after the game. Will there be any of those this year?
– Jay D.
ANSWER: Yes! Mark your calendar for the Black Hawks’ two Sunday
games on February 14th against Sioux City and February 28th versus
Des Moines. Both games start at 3:05, so there will be plenty of time to
meet the players and still get home early enough to be ready for school
or work the next day. There will be no cost for fans who bring their own
skates to the rink to skate with the team, and rental skates will also be
available from Waterloo Leisure Services. One important note: unlike
past “Skate with the Hawks” events, anyone who goes on the ice MUST
be wearing skates (no shoes!). However, some Black Hawks players will
also be off the ice and will visit with fans who would like to meet them.
SEASON TICKET HOLDER PERKSCOMMENT: Thank you so much for the delicious meal you served for season ticket holders on opening night. We love Texas Roadhouse. We just wanted you to know how much we appreciated it.
– Sharen S. & Tina B.
RESPONSE: We are glad you enjoyed coming out for the event. What
a great afternoon to be outside, listen to some music, and cap it
off with a really exciting hockey game. A big “Thank You” from the
Black Hawks goes out to Texas Roadhouse. We are grateful for their
support and enthusiasm to be on hand and meet the greatest fans in
hockey. There will hopefully be one or two more surprises down the
road which we hope season ticket holders will enjoy this winter.
We’d like to hear from you.
let us knoW hoW We’re doing, both What you like and What could be improved. We appreciate your feedback.
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TO US
The opening
weekend of the
regular season is
under our belts,
and I thought it was a positive
weekend for the team – ending
up with three out of the four
points – with the exception of
losing at home. We take pride
in winning at our home rink and
don’t ever want to lose in front
of our fans. With that being said,
I thought Saturday night, after
being down 2-0, we battled hard
to come back and tie the game
at 2-2, to give ourselves a chance
to win. Although we couldn’t
finish it in the shootout, it was
a great learning experience at
the beginning of the season. It
shows us what it’s going to take
to win at this level. We have
Fargo coming in this weekend,
and it gives our team a chance
to bounce back at home.
Each week, the team is looking
better and better. New and
younger guys are picking up our
systems and catching up with the
pace of the game, and veteran
guys are stepping up to help
lead the way. Coming together
as a family has been huge for
us with many new faces around
the room. We have a great group
of guys here that want to work
for each other and succeed for
the team and individually. It’s
still very early in the season, but
we’ve come a long way since the
beginning of the preseason and
also have a long way still to go.
Yet, every guy in our locker room
has the same goal in mind, and
we are working as a group to get
to where we want to be every day.
VETERAN'S VIEW
"... EvERY GUY IN OUR LOCKER ROOM HAS THE SAME GOAL IN MINd,
ANd WE ARE WORKING AS A GROUP TO GET
TO WHERE WE WANT TO BE EvERY dAY."
BY ronnie hein
Ronnie Hein is opening his second season
with the Black Hawks. He spent the first part
of 2014/15 with the Aberdeen Wings of the
North American Hockey League. Joining the
Hawks at midseason, Hein scored 11 goals and
contributed ten assists in 33 Waterloo games.
He also had a +6 plus/minus differential,
which tied for seventh on the team. Hein is
committed to Ferris State University.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3RD // BLACK HAWKS VS. FARGO FORCE 7:05PM Be one of the first 1,000 fans in attendance in order to receive a 2015/16 Black Hawks Schedule Poster, presented by Karen’s Print Rite. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, presented by Great Clips and The Breast Care Center/Dr. Douglas Duven. Don’t miss the debut of the Hawks’ 2015 pink Breast Cancer Awareness Jerseys.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24TH // BLACK HAWKS VS. OMAHA LANCERS 7:05PM Breast Cancer Awareness Month in Party Town, wraps up presented by Great Clips and The Breast Care Center/Dr. Douglas Duven. After the game, make your best bid to take home a pink jersey; profits from the postgame jersey auction will benefit Beyond Pink TEAM and local breast cancer patients. You don’t have to wait for October 24th to wear pink in support of Breast Cancer Awareness. Visit Party Town Outfitters all month and check out this season’s pink Black Hawks t-shirt! A portion of each t-shirt sale will be contributed to Beyond Pink TEAM.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7TH // BLACK HAWKS VS. OMAHA LANCERS 7:05PM It's Peanuts Night at Young Arena. Enjoy giveaways throught the night and get your photos taken with Charlie Brown & his loveable pal Snoopy.
BUDDY TICKETS Put those Buddy Tickets to good use! October and November are the best times to bring a buddy to the game. We encourage you to use your Buddy Tickets for friends and family during the coming weeks. Get them excited about Black Hawks hockey now so that they want to come back all winter… you’ll have someone who wants to come to future games with you and they will be die-hard supporters by the time the Hawks are making their playoff push!
EVENTS & REmINDERS
SEPTEmBERA PRODUCTIVE MONTH FOR THE WATERLOO BLACK HAWKS
inaugural iowa ClassiC & THE HoME oPEnEr
September proved to be a
productive month for the
Waterloo Black Hawks. Just
a matter of days after getting together
for their first practice, the Hawks
claimed a solid exhibition road win
against the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders,
3-2, on September 9th. A little over a
week later, Waterloo protected home
ice during the inaugural Iowa Classic.
Home fans had the opportunity
to cheer a 6-1 win against the Des
Moines Buccaneers, as well as a 3-1
victory versus the RoughRiders, while
watching all five of Iowa’s teams come
to town. All totaled, the Hawks finished
their preseason schedule with a 3-3-0
record.
Starting last Friday, the games began
to count, and the 2015/16 Hawks
answered the bell with a 4-2 road win
in Bloomington, Illinois, against the
Thunder. The next evening at home,
Waterloo rallied to earn one standings
point from a 3-2 shootout loss to the
Muskegon Lumberjacks. Through
one weekend of 2015/16 action, 2015
Carolina Hurricanes draft pick David
Cotton and 2017 NHL Draft prospect
Shane Bowers are tied for the team’s
scoring lead with three points apiece.
Bowers tallied a goal during each Black
Hawks game.
Meanwhile in goal, Cale Morris
(pictured above) picked up his 20th
victory as a member of the Black Hawks
in the season opener. With 19 saves,
the Notre Dame recruit got off to a solid
start, following up his 2014/15 efforts
from which he secured a place on the
All-USHL Third Team. Morris is one of 15
junior era Waterloo netminders to have
earned 20 victors. He has achieved that
win total in just 30 appearances.
OCTOBER 4 12th Anniversary (2003) of Kevin Regan’s first shutout, a 2-0, 30-save effort versus the Des Moines Buccaneers.
OCTOBER 11 Marshall Moise’s 18th Birthday
OCTOBER 2020th Anniversary (1995) of Mark Eaton’s first USHL goal. It was scored during his first USHL game, a 7-6 overtime loss to P.K. O’Handley’s North Iowa Huskies.
OCTOBER 247th Anniversary (2008) of Eriah Hayes’ superb performance against the Des Moines Buccaneers, during which he capped a hat trick with the overtime winner during a 6-5 decision.
OCTOBER 311st Anniversary (2014) of Brock Boeser’s “scary good” game against the Lincoln Stars. Boeser recorded his first USHL hat trick during the 6-4 road victory.
UPCOMING ANNIVERSARIES & NOTABLE DATES
EVENTS & REmINDERS
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I WILL NEVER FORGETby SHANE bOWERSFORWARD #15
THE GAMEn my second bantam year, we were
playing at Atlantics,…the Atlantic Irving
Oil Cup Challenge Tournament. It’s a
combination of four provinces, so to
you guys it would probably be like four states.
We were called the Bubba Rays Gulls,
but since we won our league to get into
this tournament, we represented my
home province, Nova Scotia. We had
Nova Scotia jerseys on, and the socks,
and the whole getup, so each team
represented the province they came from.
It was April, in a province called
Newfoundland, way east, like right in the
middle of the ocean between Canada and
Europe. If I remember, it was probably
mid-April and there was still about
three feet of snow on the ground there.
I remember a little bit of adversity. When I
got there, my gear didn’t come on the plane.
Everyone else on the team’s gear came,
except mine, so I had a little panic attack
before the whole tournament started.
I was freaking out. We were waiting in
the airport, and all my buddies and my
coaches and teammates were there, and
I remember we had all our gear stacked up
on a couple carts. We’re waiting and one of
my coaches, he’s like “Did your gear go yet?”
and I said “No. Still waiting, still waiting.”
So, it never came that night, and I remember
just sitting at the hotel thinking “We’re
out here in the middle of the ocean on an
island. If my gear doesn’t come this is a
long trip; we’re going to have to go buy
some equipment and then try to work it in.”
Luckily, one of my mom’s friends works in
the airport, so she was trying to track it
down. They just hadn’t put it on the plane.
The flight exceeded the weight limit, and
they just took one bag, and it happened to be
mine. I can’t believe they didn’t realize all the
other hockey bags were going somewhere
and they just decided to take one off.
I
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"A COUPLE SHIFTS LATER, I GOT HAULED DOWN, SO THE
GAME WAS TIED 2-2 AND I HAD A PENALTY SHOT."
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I woke up the next morning and checked
my phone, and my dad said that the gear
came early that morning. We were playing
during the early afternoon, so it came just
that morning in time for the first game.
During the tournament we played each
team, so four games, round-robin.
Then the top two teams went into the
championship. We went undefeated, but
we had a couple tough games. I remember
our first game, we were down 3-0 in the first
period. We were able to come back, but
we were just kind of sleeping that game.
Throughout the whole process of getting
to that tournament we were always
saying we wanted to always score the
first goal and get the momentum early.
The final game stood out for a couple
of things. Obviously it was the biggest
tournament around and it was a big
game. If we won it, we were pretty
much the best team in eastern Canada.
I remember we didn’t score the first
goal, so it was kind of an “uh-oh,”
but I think our team, like, we were
pretty close. We all gelled together.
One play from that game I will always
remember: the other team took a slap
shot from center and hit the post. They
were already up 2-0 at the time. Their
player dumped that puck in and it hit the
post, it went off our goalie, Kirklin Allen’s
back, and it trickled out the other side.
I don’t know if he just over-read it. He was
the top goalie of the tournament, so it
wasn’t as if he just didn’t see it, but it went
over his shoulder, right off the post on a
slap shot, and it was just like, “Okay, we’re
still alive,” because I think in a big game
like that, if a goal was to sneak in, I think
that would have been pretty heart-breaking
I remember that was just a huge, huge
turning point. I think that probably would
have crushed us if that went in. It’s crazy
how that turned everything around, and we
kind of knew, “Hey, it’s time to get going now.”
When we were behind 2-1 – we were sitting
in the dressing room between the second
and third – there was no doubt that we knew
we could win that game, and that we were
in control of the game the whole time. It
was pretty cool, the character in the room
that we had. We weren’t really down in the
second and third, because we knew “Hey,
we beat this team already. We CAN beat
them. We’re better than them.” And that’s
the attitude our coaches came in with, so
I think when we came out in the third and
the clock started to wind down, everyone
started to get a little antsy, but we were
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able to just to keep together, and we stayed
positive to be able to get through that.
I scored to tie it on a scramble in front.
The puck came up to the point to our
defenseman, and he shot it, then I kind of
looped back and went skating towards the
net and was looking over my shoulder as
he took the shot. It came off the goalie’s
pad, and it kind of handcuffed me on my
backhand. I didn’t really shoot it that well,
it just came off his pad, off my stick, and
right back in the net, so it was kind of lucky.
I was in the right place at the right time. I
didn’t get a lot on it, but it just snuck in there.
A couple shifts later, I got hauled down, so the
game was tied 2-2 and I had a penalty shot.
Coming in, I tried to deke to my backhand…I
tried to fake with my forehand and go to
my backhand. I just didn’t get the puck
up enough and it rolled off my stick and
went just past the side of the net. I was
a little down on myself, but I knew I had to
get back up because we still had lots of
time left in the game and it was tied still.
But then just a couple shifts after that, we
scored. I remember it exactly. Nick Fewer,
our teammate, he came down the wing
and he made a crazy cross-ice pass on his
back hand to Connor Kirby who was driving
the net, and I remember the celebration,
like the hands went up and everyone was
jumping. And I remember seeing like all
the parents, the dads were jumping too.
They had a power play late when we were up
3-2 and we killed that off. I remember being
on the ice for that last minute and seeing
the clock count down. With four seconds
left while they had the goalie pulled, their
best player was on the point. His name
was Ethan Crossman, and he took a shot,
and Bradley Shaw blocked it. He kind of
slid, and he over slid the puck. Crossman
got it again and Shaw spun around while he
was laying down, and he just got a stick on
it and it rolled out of the zone. I remember
looking up, and you see :01, and then all
the gloves came off, thrown up into the air.
Afterwards we were up all night. There
was snow everywhere, so we were outside
running around. We left on Monday. I
remember flying home with the trophy. It’s a
big trophy called the Irving Atlantic Challenge
Cup, probably like three or four feet tall, and
we had it on the plane. We got off the plane,
and family members that hadn’t come were
there when we got off, so it was pretty cool.
It was definitely the biggest thing I have won
so far. With that team, we played together
pretty much for two years, and to be able
to win that tournament,…it was a pretty big
tournament. It was a pretty special game
that I’ll never forget. -SB
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