Fort MacMurray Oil Barons, Halloween

The Fort MacMurray Oil Barons will play the game on Halloween against the Grove Saints on home turf, and this will hopefully be the beginning of a winning streak and the end of their current slump. Right now the Fort MacMurray Oil Barons are in a 2-5-3 stretch, and they have had more tricks this month than they have had treats. Hopefully this next game on Halloween will help the team turn their luck around. When the Barons faced off against the Saints last time on October 3 of this year they suffered a 7-2 loss, starting the month off badly. In spite of the current record Hunt still stands behind the Fort MacMurray Oil Barons, saying “If it was my call, we’d play them the next five in a rowI’d have Camrose come back up here too and we’d play them. All those top end teams to me, you want to play them as many times you can. They’re winning games because of the things they’re doing right and our guys need to get to that level.”

The signs of frustration are starting to show during the practice sessions fo rthe Fort MacMurray Oil Barons, and hopefully a win on Halloween will happen so that some of the stress the team is under is lifted. Brett McNeil and Taylor Lileikis went after each other and scrapped during a recent practice, although Likeikis down played the incident by stating “We were just going hard in the corners. It’s nothing serious — we’re good buddies. Just trying to get the energy level up for practice get the boys going ready for this weekend.”