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It’s not all brawls and bad behavior on the high school ice

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by Bruce Felps

Yesterday’s news about some reprehensible hockey behavior generated a fair amount of discussion and comment.

One comment, though, didn’t show up on the interwebs. It came straight to my inbox, where the father of a Southlake Carroll High School hockey Dragon asked why the team failed to garner any local media coverage for its recent second-place showing in the USA Hockey High School Nationals.

“I wonder where all the local news people were when Southlake Carroll Varsity Gold team played for the national championship this past Sunday morning in Chicago. That deserves coverage. Why not report the good stuff too?”

Fair question, Mr. Mochulsky. Since we’re all fair and balanced here — wait, that’s not NBC … and that didn’t come out right, either — here’s the other side of the North Texas high school hockey coin.

The Dragons went 5-0 en route to the title game, which they lost to New Trier out of Chicago, a national power, according to the Southlake Journal.

Southlake goalie Aaron Smith posted sterling numbers during the tournament — 1.95 goals against average, stopping 130 of 140 shots faced, and there’s a save percentage in there somewhere, but I’m lousy at math — and Mochulsky’s son, Christopher, netted a goal.

No shame in coming out second best in the United States.

They accomplished all that without any ugly cheap shot artistry, and good for them.


Bruce Felps owns and operates East Dallas Times, an online community news outlet serving the White Rock Lake area. His faith in the future of hockey is restored.
 

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