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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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