Posted: Dec. 26, 2012

One of these days, the pucks are going to go in.

The Kettle Moraine/Mukwonago/Oconomowoc boys hockey team continues to mount a stronger attack than the opponent, but the Lasers still haven't been able to score consistently, and last week was a prime example. Despite outshooting Neenah on Saturday, 35-20, the Lasers came away with a 1-0 loss at Naga-Waukee Ice Park.

"Sooner or later, this team is going to start popping goals in, and when we do, look out," coach John Brymer said. "I guess it's good to be going through this drought now vs. February. I'm pretty confident come February, things are going to start going in the right direction."

The Lasers fell to 4-5-1 after Neenah scored a goal in the second period that held up.

"If you go back and look at our losses, we're outshooting every team," Brymer said. "We outshot Arrowhead, we outshot Neenah, we outshot Stoughton and Marquette. Our close games are losses or ties. The kids are doing all the right things; we just don't have an answer right now as to why the puck's not going in."

Marquette scored in the third period to tie the score at 3-3 on Friday, though the Lasers were able to hold on for a tie.

"It was like déjà vu from our sectional game last year where we were up by a goal, and they scored on a power play to tie it and came back down and almost slid another one in," Brymer said. "It went across the crease; I have no idea how it didn't go in. It was a credit to my guys that we had a heck of a finish to the third period and overtime. We were all over them, we just couldn't score."

Austin Freeman, Allen Moutvic and Jonathan Carfagna each had goals in the game, with assists coming from Sam Hart, Connor Freman and Greg Simandl. Quinn Disrud made 22 saves.

"We've got a group of nine forwards that work extremely hard, and they're all really talented hockey players," Brymer said. "They're just not finding the back of the net."