When taking the ice for its first game of the season, the first dilemma encountered by the Southern Regional ice hockey team was it was without the services of two of its top forwards and No. 1 goaltender, who were away for a showcase event with their club teams.

It also didn’t help that junior goaltender Kaitlyn Braun required nearly seven minutes of what would have been quality preparation time to change the neck guard attached to her mask that got cracked by a head-high shot a minute into…