By: M. Ahmadad

An unfortunate loss occurred for Scots Hockey on November 24th, their first official game being held at the Tria Ice Rink the day after Thanksgiving, against Mankato East. The match started of with both teams having close shots on net, until Scots Hockey had the first goal. They then had a second goal from player #6, Mustafa “Moose” Ahmadad, a defenseman. He was also the first player to be put into the penalty box at the very start of the game.

With the Scots up 2-0, the parents of Mustafa’s teammates were patting his mother on her back and laughing. But the confidence did not last long as the other team began playing more aggressively, getting one goal in, and then another, tying the score until they were up one: 2-3.

In the final minutes of the 3rd period, Scots Hockey chose to pull their goalie and go full offense on the rival teams’ end, but this only lead to Mankato managing another far-stretch shot, that didn’t really even look that cool or surprising, but the other team went crazy over it anyways.

After the game, I asked my brother for his thoughts, because I was pretty sure I was supposed to find a recent personal news story for my current events class.

“I mean I’m pretty chill ‘cause I got my first goal of the season, and I wanna get put on offense instead of defense, so I mean…next game I bet I’m gonna get another,” he said before going to eat food. He was relatively happy over his own shot, but didn’t talk about the ending score.

My mom was also quite satisfied that Mustafa started off strong, but more worried about a minor ankle injury he received. My dad also feels similarly, though my younger siblings find the loss very funny because of how the Scots took the lead quite well before getting lapped in points.

They did win against Baldwin on November 28th, 2-0, so that’s nice. You can watch a livestream of the game at: https://www.meridix.com/event/240246