Most every coach will tell you they want their team to be playing its best at the end of the season. The West…
Most every coach in every sport will tell you they want their team to be playing its best at the end of the season. After what coach Jeremy Szczurek agreed was a rocky start to the season, the Leafs put it together when it mattered most.
"We started hot and hit road bumps throughout. There was a large shift in the mentality on how we had to go about the rest of the season -- either buy in or fall apart, essentially. Little things had to be acknowledged that we were not doing the best of our ability and our leadership group took charge."
But the Leafs did just that, before falling 2-1 to the Rochester Grizzlies in the title game. The West Dundee-based team includes players from Hampshire, Elgin, Algonquin, Lake Zurich, Palatine, Cary, St. Charles, Batavia and Huntley, as well as Plainfield and Rockford. "I don't think it ever really truly set in until the car ride home after the championship when I was looking back through some of the highlights of the weekend and I just thought to myself, 'Wow, I just played in the national championship,'" he said."The memories I have from that tournament with my team is something that I will cherish forever."
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