Posts on ‘March 21st, 2009’

After last night’s disappointing loss to the Danbury Mad Hatters, the Brooklyn Aces have one thing in mind today:

Defeating the New Jersey Rockhoppers.

That may come to the surprise to some of the conspiracy theorists out there that feel that this is a meaningless game for Brooklyn and they won’t give their all, especially with former Ranger sniper Ron Duguay in the lineup.

Quite the contrary, actually.

Not playing the same dominating hockey against both the Rockhoppers and Danbury over the past month, Brooklyn will look to go out with a bang in the regular season and do not see Duguay as a distraction at all.

“It’s going to be fun having him here,” said Aces forward Jesse Felten after last night’s loss. “We still know what we have to do tomorrow though. We want to beat those guys.”

After Danbury’s Chad Jones scored 57 seconds into overtime to give his team a 4-3 win and both the Brooklyn Aces and Mad Hatters skated off the ice last night, Blues Traveler’s “The Hook,” was the first song to play over the PA system at Aviator.

A more fitting song would have been the Bee Gee’s classic, “Stayin’ Alive,” as with the win, Danbury finds themselves just four points behind the New Jersey Rockhoppers with two games left for the final playoff spot in the league.

As for Brooklyn, a tune much more subdued would have done the trick as the Aces failed to put the nail in the coffin of a Danbury team that they may have to face in the playoffs.

“We should have won that game,” said Aces head coach Chris Firriolo, who was visibly irate after the game. “They outplayed us in the first period, but I felt like we dominated them in the second and were the better team in the third. There’s no reason why they should have won this game. The puck bounced their way a few times and we made a few mistakes.”