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Hockey HistoryMountain Bees lose to Strathroy in
heart-breaker Even with a lot of scrambling around the net in the later stages of the game, the Hamilton Mountain Bees could not get any more goals past the Strathroy Rocket goalie, losing a tight 2-1 effort to the Rockets. The Bees loss also eliminated them from the next round of the all-Ontario Junior B championships for the 1968-69 season, losing the best-of-seven semi-final series 4-2. “I really thought we were going to tie it near the end,” said Bees coach Jack Perkins after the final game. “We did everything but put it in.” Going into this sixth game, held in Strathroy in mid-April, it could have gone either way, but this game, as the previous four, was decided by one goal, including the 5-4 overtime win to Hamilton in the second game. “They were a much better club than we thought,” said Rockets coach Jim Strachan after the match. “We underestimated them because our scouting reports indicated they weren’t too good.” Bee goalie Norm Hann was cited as putting in a great performance. “I’d have to say that Hann kept them in it,” said Strachan. “He made this a great series with stops you don’t see in the big league. He has a good future. The club in front of him was a good skating unit.” Hann made several key stops in the final period to help his team, and although the Bees did everything they could, including pulling Hann late in the game to add a sixth attacker, they could not score on Strathroy. The Bees were outscored 29-25 by the Rockets during the series,
and the loss concluded the team’s 64-game season.
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