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Invicta Dynamos clinched a shutout win against the defending champions Streatham on Sunday.
The Mos were without a game last weekend, forced to sit and wait to bounce back from a disappointing showing in their previous outing, and they responded in some style, with a 3-0 win on the road.
Two goals from Stanislav Lascek and one for Richard Harris, all in the final period, clinched the win, with netminder Owen Rider playing his part in keeping Streatham at bay.
“It is a scalp that we are very happy to have got,” said the Mos head coach Karl Lennon.
“I am sure around the league people will be thinking ‘that’s an impressive result’ and I think more the point that not only did we get the win but we managed to shut them out.
“There were moments where we rode our luck a bit but we were the makers of our own luck because we worked tirelessly. The team really pulled together well to get the job done.
“It was a very complete performance from us and that was something I was really happy about.
“We had sat on that last result for two weeks. The loss against Slough hurt us, but it motivated us. We worked on a few areas in our game from the last four training sessions we had, especially things we thought would be productive against Streatham, and it worked, it was really well executed.
“The attitude and the application from the players was excellent and I said to the guys ‘I can’t complain because you have worked so hard’, that ultimately is the most important thing.”
Rider was a key man on the night.
“He was excellent,” said the coach. “We did well to help him in the game, at least by limiting the amount of chances they got in dangerous spaces.
“Owen is exceptional at catching and saving shots from distance and if we can keep them away from the dirty areas, around our goal, then we put ourselves in with a better chance.
“Admittedly, as the game went on it did get a little more gritty around the net and that meant he was called into action but he played like a man possessed! Fantastic.
“For him, he has been on the wrong side on quite a number of defeats against this team in the last couple of seasons and I was so proud of him. It was a fantastic achievement to do that in their rink and he fully deserved it.”
There was a little drama at the end of the game, when the buzzer went, as home player Josh Ealey-Newman wanted to fight Ruskin Springer-Hughes, but Lennon didn’t think there was much to it.
He said: “Every game we play against them there are always incidents. it is the nature of the rivalry between the clubs and that will never go away.
“I have always been a firm believer of conducting yourselves with high professionalism, on and off the ice, that is what we will do as a club, but we will also stick up for ourselves in situations where we feel we need to.
“It was much of nothing to be honest at the end and there weren’t many incidents throughout the game that warranted it.
“I spoke to the referee afterwards and he said it was probably the tamest game against Streatham that he had seen in a long while and that was the case but there were still moments, we lost Aaran Strawson to injury in the second period where he was hit behind the play with a crosscheck that the referee didn’t see.
“We can moan and complain about it but we can’t change it, it happened. He will be sitting there with a bruised body today but happy that we won, that is the guy he is.”
The Dynamos have another weekend off before returning to home ice on October 28 against Oxford City Stars.