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The Houston Aeros are not the most skilled or talented of hockey teams. They win hockey games by playing smart, executing the fundamentals, and by not being stupid. Even then, they still struggle to pull off the win more often than not.
"It started off in the first period. We weren't ready to play," Corey Locke said after Saturday's 3-2 loss to the Peoria Rivermen. A loss which the Aeros might still have been able to avoid if Locke, who had pulled the Aeros back into the