I witnessed it from the bench as I looked at my team and thought, “battered and bruised”. We had 9 skaters compared to a full bench. One forced to sit out do to injury, one came sick, one with muscle injury but played, one took a puck to the wrist but played on. All exhausted, but dug deeper each time they went on the ice. Each refusing to loose their individual battles. Great passing, even under pressure. For-checking as hard as we have seen to date. Deserving to be playing at a BB level when I had questioned it myself. We out-shot Kitchener 19 to 8. We lost 2 to 0, but won as a team ...