Inconsistency continued to plague the Parkland Rangers in their annual trek north to play the Norman North Stars in Thompson.

Rangers head coach Tyler Carefoot was not pleased with the team’s play, in Saturday’s 6-4 loss, a game in which Parkland led three different times.

The Rangers rebounded to score a 5-4 victory on Sunday, improving their record to 2-5-0-0.

The Rangers, Carefoot said, gave themselves time to arrive early enough to properly prepare for Saturday’s game.

“So the first game, we can’t use any excuses that we weren’t prepared. We had three different leads in that game and we just didn’t lock her down,” he said. “We were playing outdoor rink hockey. We’re all a bunch of Hall of Famers on the outdoor rink. There was no buy-in into structure or doing the little things. We just thought we’d run-and-gun them because that’s sort of how they play. And when you do that, you have no structure.”

As a result, Carefoot added, you leave yourself open to mistakes and that is exactly what happened to the Rangers.

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