I'm really tired of seeing all the posts on how Mcnick did not deserve that win. It seems like you'd let it go by now. lets replay that night. It was cold, windy, raining like crazy; all of which are terrible conditions for goalie. I know since i've played that position for 11 years and its common sense. This means keepers need to wake up before the game and be ALERT. Both keepers on both sides are two amazing players. Thats obvious. Yet, despite the skill of smoker he made one extremely significant error, which ultimately led to the defeat of finneytown.
I am not blaming the game on smoker. that would be ridiculous. After the error the entire team should have busted ---, and put 2 more in the goal, to negative the one they put on themselves, and put em one up.
as a keeper i am always hesitant about playing balls back to me in extremely bad conditions. One bad hop.. and its in the goal. Both defenses played amazing however. Each side shut down key players: both racoczy and sandmann. However though i doubt you should judge any player, no matter how good or how bad they played on only one game. For seeing sandmann and the rest of this team play the entire season, i know, they hadn't played their best the entire night. so i think its rude and ignorant to judge them based on how they played during a game with crappy conditions.
So despite the fact that both teams manage to shutdown key players, the conditions were terrible, and pressure was high for the tourney, mcnick managed to pull through and defeat finneytown. Finneytown could beat Mcnick 9 times outta ten, i personally doubt that but hey thats me. The point is the didnt beat mcnick that night which makes Mcnick the better team that night. So stop poutin around and grow up and accept the defeat. and remember. HEY! theres always next year.