The Perth Jr. B Blue Wings are still searching for that elusive first win of the EOJHL season after a pair of weekend losses to Stittsville and Ottawa West.

But now, the bench bosses are looking to replace a few players.

"We're reducing the roster," said Colin Glenn, head coach and general manager. "We're getting rid of the weakest links."

Friday night, the Blue Wings hosted the Stittsville Royals in front of a decent crowd of 400, where they dropped a 7-1 decision.

"Too many soft goals," Glenn said. "It's not even nerves anymore. It's absolute brain farts. Five goals... costly mistakes."

The coach admitted that some of these guys are stuck in minor-hockey mentality. "Some haven't even been coached before," Glenn said, as he is struggling to teach them some simple systems that they should already know.

"When I ask them what they did in their (minor hockey) practices they said they would just shoot some pucks around."

The coach wasn't impressed with the team's losing streak, stating that much of their demise was due to "bonehead mistakes."

Stittsville 7 Perth 1

Stittsville had three goals in the first period Friday night coming from TJ Patterson, Shane Hiley and Mitch Kerwin. Another three were added in the second period from Joey Laird, Troy Hass and Mike Dibello with their seventh coming in the third from Laird before Perth could solve the Stittsville netminder with Cole Timchuk's marker with less than half a period remaining. Blair Barr assisted on the Perth goal.

Stittsville netminder was Connor Ellis for the win turning away 29 shots. In nets for Perth were both goalies as Phil Miller was tagged with the loss, with 17 of 21 saves. Alex Desjardins played for 38 minutes, saving 25 of 28 shots.

The Royals were hit with 10 minutes of penalties on five infractions, to Perth's six minutes on three minors.

Ottawa 8 Perth 4

On Saturday night, the Blue Wings were in Ottawa where they were doubled by the Ottawa West Golden Knights, 8-4.

Anthony Scattolon opened the scoring for Perth with his goal from Joel Cunningham at the :52 second mark.

But Ottawa shot back with four goals credited to Mike Darnowski, Phil Edgar, Matt Connolly and Cole Peck for a 4-1 lead after the first period.

In the second Robbie Pickard gave Ottawa a 5-1 lead before Perth's Andrew Davis scored on the power play to end the frame in the home team's favour, 5-2. Perth came out of the third period with two more goals from Joel Cunningham and Davis (power play) but Ottawa added three more from Zach Cross for two and Pickard with a single as the Knights claimed the 8-4 win.

Perth was his with 20 minutes on six infractions to Ottawa's eight minors.

Coming up The Almonte Thunder is in town Friday night at 7:30 p.m. and on Sunday, the team travels to Arnprior for a 2:30 p.m. start.

"Arnprior's got a good veteran team, and we'll have some new players on the roster, so anything's possible," Glenn said. "Almonte's got a good young club and it will be a good test."