When the Reeths-Puffer hockey team is playing well, it can hurt opponents in a lot of different ways, because the Rockets have a lot of guys who can score a lot of goals.
Most recently it's been sophomore Hayden Taylor, who just came off a red hot streak with eight goals in three games.
On Friday night it was Ayden Hartzell and Connor Anderson, who scored four and three goals, respectively, to lead the Rockets to a very convincing 10-2 win over Hudsonville at Griff's Georgetown Ice Arena.
It was the fifth straight victory for the Rockets, who are now 10-4-1 on the season. They hope to make it six in a row on Saturday when they play St. Clair Shores Lakeview at Muskegon's Lakeshore Sports Centre.
Ayden Hartzell, who scored four goals.
The blowout victory was slow to develop for R-P.
Hudsonville scored just 29 seconds into the game to take its only lead. R-P answered with goals from Anderson and Taylor, then the Eagles scored again, and the game was tied 2-2 after one period.
The Rockets blasted off in the second period with five unanswered goals - including an amazing three from Hartzell and one apiece from Anderson and Tyler Tindall.
They finished off the game with goals by Hartzell, Jordan Benkert and Anderson. The final goal stopped the game by mercy rule with 9:23 left in the third period.
Connor Anderson, who scored three goals
Tindall ended up having a huge night, as well, with five assists to add to his one goal. Hartzell, Anderson, Kaiden Benner, Eli Cuti, Trenton Hanks and Kaidyn Hill each had one assist.
Huck VanDyke was the starting goalie and got the win for R-P.
"It was a slow start, with too many guys trying to do it themselves instead of playing the team game," said R-P head coach Dustin Langlois. "We went into the locker room after the first period and just told the boys to play simple hockey and get pucks deep and grind them down. Once they started doing that, we started rolling!
"When we play smart, simple hockey, we are at our best. These slow starts can end up hurting us, though. We will make some adjustments and keep on rolling."