RIDGEFIELD — By their blue-chip standards, the Fairfield Prep and Ridgefield boys hockey teams played a ragged season opener Wednesday night at the Winter Garden. Passes were missed, pucks weren’t cleared, and quality scoring chances were few and far between.
That said, both head coaches — Matt Sather of Prep and Shaun Gallagher of Ridgefield — spotted encouraging signs. For Sather, one of those was his team’s response to allowing a goal.