SKATER & GOALIE OF THE WEEK #13
| CLARENCE SKATER | TEAM | GP | GOALS | ASISSTS | POINTS | PM | +/- | SOG | S% |
| Trottier, Bryan | CAP | 4 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 27% |
| CLARENCE GOALIE | TEAM | GP | GOALS AGAINST | G.A. AVERAGE | SAVES | SAVE % | |||
| Resch, Glen | PIT | 3 | 10 | 3.33 | 106 | .914 | |||
| WALES SKATER | TEAM | GP | GOALS | ASSISTS | POINTS | PM | +/- | SOG | S% |
| McNab, Peter | CHI | 4 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 33% |
| WALES GOALIE | TEAM | GP | GOALS AGAINST | G.A. AVERAGE | SAVES | SAVE % | |||
| Vachon, Rogie | SYR | 3 | 5 | 1.68 | 89 | .947 | |||
| Chicago Underground | |
| Weekly Preview: | Chicago played well last week at home & they hope it continues into week #13. |
| Syracuse Bulldogs @ Chicago Underground | Two early goals by the Bulldogs put the Underground in an uphill battle, but they score 1 in the 2nd and 1 in the 3rd to end the game in a 2-2 tie. Rogie Vachon has 38 Saves & Pete Peters has 33.
Final Score – Chicago 2 – Syracuse 2 |
| Biloxi Blades @ Chicago Underground | Chicago comes out on fire & puts up a 4 spot in the 1st period. Mike Bossy has a Hat Trick & an Assist, Pete Peters has 33 Saves once again. Peter McNab wins 19 Face Offs & has 4 Assists for the Underground. |
| Weekly Summary: | Chicago picks up 3 points out of 4 at home & feels good about themselves for a change. |
| Quebec City Le Blue | |
| Biloxi Blades | Tie game! |
| Philadelphia Firebirds | Le Blue takes the contest. |
| Weekly Summary: | One win and one tie. |
| Syracuse Bulldogs | |
| Weekly Preview: | Syracuse tries to stay on top in the Norris |
| Mackinac Island Moose @ Syracuse Bulldogs | Macinac wins a close one 2-1 Stars #1.Meloche 2. Barber 3. Larson |
| St. Clair Shores Saints @ Syracuse Bulldogs | The Saints double up the Dawgs 4-2 Stars#1.Wilson 2. Kelly 3. Liut |
| Quebec City Le Blue @ Syracuse Bulldogs | Syracuse wins a tight one 2-1 Stars #1. Vachon 2. MacAdam 3. Boldirev |
| Weekly Summary: | The division lead is slowly slipping away for Syracuse |
| Philadelphia Firebirds | |
| Weekly Preview: | Philly looking forward to the draft! |
| Biloxi Blades @ Philadelphia Firebirds | Philly takes a 2-0 1st period lead on goals by Dionne and Carlyle. But The Blades score 4 in the second with Sullivan putting in 2. Third period Dion stands on his head during three power plays and keeps the Blades up one until Jean Provonost puts in his 21st of the year to put the Blades up to stay. Dion was the star of this game. the Blades out shot Philly 8-0 to start the game but after that is was 38-15 Philly with Dion being the difference. |
| Weekly Summary: | Goaltending Goaltending Goaltending…as the Birds make a call to Bernie to see if he wants to come out of retirement! |
| Biloxi Blades | |
| Weekly Preview: | 3 Road Games for Biloxi, dressed in their long johns before heading home to play in skivies |
| Mackinac Island Moose @ Biloxi Blades | Blades Mike Rogers scores with 12 seconds left to tie it at 6-6. |
| Weekly Summary: | A tie 6-6 |
| HOME TEAM FOR GAME FILE ATTACHED | |
| Weekly Preview: | The Whales come home for three big games this week, hosting division leaders Vermont and Pittsburgh as well as rival Brooklyn. |
| Brooklyn Harbor Rats @ Silk City Whales | The Whales take an early 1-0 lead and things get testy. At the 5:20 mark of the first period, Silk City’s Perry Turnbull jumps Brooklyn’s Bengt-Ake Gustafsson and a melee breaks out. After peace is restored, all ten skaters get major penalties for fighting; Mike Gartner and Billy Harris are tossed from the game. As for the game, Silk City scores three third period goals to erase a deficit and hold on for a 4-3 win.
1st Star – Ken Houston, SCW – 2G, A |
| Pittsburgh Spirit @ Silk City Whales | Ron Greschner scores two goals and Guy Chouinard gets a goal and two assists to lead the Spirit to a 6-1 win over the Whales. Chico Resch saves 34 of 35 Silk City shots.
1st Star – Ron Greschner, PIT – 2G |
| Vermont Foresters @ Silk City Whales | Rick Kehoe scores the game-tying goal with the goalie pulled and the Whales manage a 4-4 tie against the Foresters. Seldom-used fourth line center Mike Kaszycki scores two for Silk City.
1st Star – MIke Kaszycki, SCW – 2G |
| Weekly Summary: | The Whales have one of their best weeks of the season, getting three of a possible six points at home. Hopefully it will be something to build on for the remainder of the season. |
| Mackinac Island Moose | |
| Weekly Preview: | Saint Croix and Philadelphia take the ferry across the channel to visit the Moose on the Island. Philadelphia sits in the conference just one point behind Mackinac Island while Saint Croix sits at the top of the division a healthy 24 points ahead of the Moose. Odds makers have the Philly game a pick’em, while Saint Croix is a 1-1/2 goal favorite. |
| Saint Croix Falls Lumberjacks @ Mackinac Island Moose | Moose 7, Lumberjacks 3 – Hopefully you took the home dog in this one. The Moose are unstoppable in the first period with 4 goals, Lysiak, Lever, Larson and Ferguson. In one of the more interesting sequences, the puck hog Mulvey somehow shot from the point, followed by a wraparound, then another slapper, then another wraparound, and finally one more slapper, all stopped by Meloche, all in less than 20 seconds. All 5 shots by Mulvey.
In the second period, the Moose add 2 more to make it 6-0 before the Lumberjacks take off their girly clothes and get back in the woods chopping. In the final 25 minutes the boys get 3 goals in to one more for the Moose, and the game ends 7-3. Fans go home happy as the final score nets them free fudge at Rocky and Bullwinkles. And as they left the game, singing the famed Lumberjack song: Thanks to Monty Python. I’m a lumberjack and I’m OK 1st star – Sheppard 2g 2nd star – Larson 1g2a 3rd star – Lysiak 1g2a |
| Philadelphia Firebirds @ Mackinac Island Moose | Moose 3, Firebirds 0 – Meloche rules in this game, stopping 26 shots. For Philly, Stephenson also plays a good game, stopping the first 27 in a row. Then with the game at 0-0 early in the 3rd, McKechnie gets a steal and rush on the PK to break the tie. And then later in the period, the Moose take advantage of penalties by Siltanen and Carlyle to add 2 more goals by Napier and Larson and make it a total of 3 for the home team. More happy ticketholder as the shutout win means free waffles down at Boris and Natasha’s Waffle House. Get there early. Engblom 10 hits, Park 9 hits 1st star – Meloche 26 saves – shutout 2nd star – McKechnie 1g1a 3rd star – Larson 1g |
| Weekly Summary: | Best week at home in a month with 2 wins and 0 losses. But the Moose are still deep in the cellar of their division, more than 10 points behind those longjohn wearing Biloxi Blades.
Best visitor performance – Robert 1g1a, Williams 1g1a Moose – Larson 2g 2a 4 pts in 2 games – Meloche 2 wins, 1.5 gaa, 1 shutout |
| Pittsburgh Spirit | |
| Weekly Preview: | Spirit is in “last place” in the Patrick which is only 1 point from first place! SUPER competitive division!! |
| Charlestown Chiefs @ Pittsburgh Spirit | The Spirit lick their lips as the “Bruiser Losers” make their way to Pittsburgh for a little brotherly rivalry.
This one was never really in doubt. Spirit win 7-4. Not as “close” as it looked. |
| Game #2 – Home Team: | Pittsburgh Spirit |
| CapJack Rangers @ Pittsburgh Spirit | Division rival CapJack Rangers come to town… will CapJack get us high tonight? Let’s see…
A seriously back and forth evenly fought game. LaFleur finally finding his scoring touch with a hat trick. He should be playing WAY better than his numbers. An anomaly. Pittsburgh looks to be cruising to a 6-5 win but with the goalie pulled CapJack scores with 31 seconds remaining to seal the 6-6 tie. |
| Weekly Summary: | Two home games. One win, one tie. Not bad, but needed to beat Division Rival CapJack. With such a close division the ONLY way to gain ground is to beat divisional opponents head on.
Looks to be very interesting down the stretch! |
| HOME TEAM FOR GAME FILE ATTACHED | |
| Weekly Preview: | Hosting SD and Charlestown this week. 0-3 against San Diego so far, 3-0 against the Chiefs |
| San Diego Mariners @ Brooklyn Harbor Rats | Bobby Smith (1-3-4) helps the Rats open a 5-1 lead through 2 periods before the Mariners come hard in the 3rd, firing 14 shots, scoring 2 goals and getting the extra attacker on as the clock winds down. But Greg Millen held up for the 5-3 Brooklyn win, stopping 25 shots for his 17th win. |
| Charlestown Chiefs @ Brooklyn Harbor Rats | Pat Hickey scores a pair in the first period, Bobby Smith stretches the lead to 3-0 to begin the 3rd, and once again the Rats hang on desperately as the Chiefs score twice in the final five minutes to make it a one goal game and Mike Palmateer stops 21 shots in the final 20 minutes, 35 for the game and a 3-3 Harbor Rats win. |
| Weekly Summary: | 4 points in a pair of home games, including our first win of the season against division rival San Diego |
| CapJack Rangers | |
| Weekly Preview: | Patrick Division going into this week has all four teams with 56 points! Every game for a Patrick team is important. Rangers only get 1 home game this week and it’s against the Charlestown Chiefs. With echos of “Ooh, and it’s alright and it’s coming along We gotta get right back to where we started from” going through our heads, what will the game entail – hopefully no moons! |
| Charlestown Chiefs @ CapJack Rangers | Well the Rangers didn’t let a song or hi-jinks spoil the day. And like Chicago voters, they scored early and often (and they were all legal to boot). Trottier and Lapointe in the 1st, Trottier in the 2nd, and then DeBlois, Robinson, and Gare in the 3rd. Only thing spoiling a 6-0 shutout by Smith was Bourque popping one in with 7 seconds left. Rangers even get 2 PP goals (they had 7 chances). STARS (ALL CAP) 1. Trottier 2 goals, 1 assist (18 Faceoffs won) 2. Robinson 1 goal, 2 assists 3. Smith 29 saves |
| Weekly Summary: | 1 successful home game this week. Hope they road is as friendly, |
| Vermont Foresters | |
| Weekly Preview: | two games this week against patrick division teams, capjack and brooklyn. |
| CapJack Rangers @ Vermont Foresters | a wild game and ben and jerrys center tonight. glen hanlon gets a rare home start vs the rangers and dan bouchard. phil esposito scores less than 3 minutes into the game to give capjack an early lead. don marcotte ties the game with 61 seconds left in the 1st period, his first of the year in limited action. the second period starts the tidal wave of momentum as vermont nets 3 goals in the first 4:43 into the period, luce, nilsson and preston each scoring one, giving the foresters a 4-1 lead. the lead lasts less than 10 minutes as the monentum goes to capjack with 3 goals from trottier, shutt and carroll and the 2nd period ends tied at 4. the 3rd period swung even faster as foligno scored 36 seconds into the 3rd for a 5-4 vermont lead. cap jack scores 2 in 26 seconds at 14:09 and 14:35 by douglas and robinson to take a 6-5 lead. rich preston gets his 2nd of the game less then 2 minutes later to tie it at 6. steve shutt gets his 2nd of the game with 1:16 left to give the rangers the lead again 7-6. momentum makes its final swing though with hanlon pulled and mark howe score with 43 seconds left to even it a 7. larry robinson had a goal and 3 assists for the rangers who were 2-7 on the powerplay. rich preston had 2 goals and an assist for the home team. vermont wishes they had maple syrup night for this game to maybe slow things down. |
| Brooklyn Harbor Rats @ Vermont Foresters | vermont turns to mike veisor to man the net against mike palmateer and the rats from brooklyn. the decision doesnt look to good when hickey nets his 24th goal 6:38 into the game for a 1-0 lead. bob murray scores his 7th 2:20 later to tie the game at 1. murray gets his 2nd of the game with 2:55 left in the 1st to give the home team a 2-1 lead. dale mccourt scored his 21st at 14:13 of the 2nd for a 3-1 lead. reggie leach gets his 24th 2:51 into the 3rd on the powerplay for a 4-1 lead. mike veisor doesnt allow another goal and the foresters have a dominating performance for the 4-1 victory. |
| Weekly Summary: | an exciting, disappointing tie and a strong victory for a 3 point home week for vermont |
| Saskatoon Cyclone | |
| Weekly Preview: | two games this week against for the Cyclone. |
| GCapJack Rangers @ Saskatoon Cyclone | 5-3 Home Team |
| Vermont Foresters @ Vermont Foresters | 4-1 Home Team |
| Weekly Summary: | 4 Points at Home for the Cyclone |
| San Diego Mariners | |
| Saskatoon Cyclone @ San Diego Mariners | 4-3 Cyclones win |
| Silk City Whales @ San Diego Mariners | Whales win 5-4 |
| Pittsburgh Spirit @ San Diego Mariners | Spirit win 7-3 |
| Weekly Summary: | San Diego goes 0-3 and their defense turns into a dumpster fire. |
| St. Clair Shores Saints | |
| Weekly Preview: | Saints play three at home against Chicago, Quebec City, and Saint Croix. |
| Chicago Underground @ St. Clair Shores Saints | SCS outshoots Chicago, 32-26, but Chicago is more effective with its shots. Chicago scores 4 straight goals during the 1st and 2nd periods. Low only saves 80.8 % of the shots. Clark Gillies scores the game winning goal.
Chicago 5 SCS 4 1st star – Mondou -1 goal and 3 assists |
| Quebec City Le Blue @ St. Clair Shores Saints | Mike Liut goaltends much better than Luit, and he tosses a shutout. Nilsson scores his 10th on a power play. Then, its a struggle, Esposito plays well for the Le Blue. But, the Saints break through in the 3rd and score 2 goals. Kelly and Babych score for SCS.
SCS 3 Quebec City 0 1st star – Liut 32 saves |
| Saint Croix Falls Lumberjacks @ St. Clair Shores Saints | 1st place vs. 2nd place as the Saints host the Lumberjacks.
Babych scores the first goal of the game, but the Lumberjacks score 2 in a row at the end of the period. SCS takes the lead on two consecutive Errol Thompson goals. But, in the 3rd, Saint Croix scores 3 in a row as the Lumberjacks prevail. Saint Croix 5 SCS 3 1st star – Stoughton 1 goal and 2 assists |
| Weekly Summary: | Both Chicago and Saint Croix defeat the Saints. In the middle game, the Saints beat Quebec in a shutout. |
| Charlestown Chiefs | |
| Game #1 – Home Team: | Charlestown Chiefs |
| Saskatoon Cyclone @ Charlestown Chiefs | Saskatoon and some stiff named Gretzky come to town and leave with a 4-2 victory. I don’t know what folks see in that skinny #99 — he couldn’t score one stinkin’ goal on Pat Riggin; he only accumulated 4 lousy assists. And he only won 7 of 15 faceoffs. Bum. |
| Weekly Summary: | One game at home, zero points. Good thing Carnac the Magnificent is a team consultant, so we can see the future. |
| Saint Croix Falls Lumberjacks | |
| Philadelphia Firebirds @ Saint Croix Falls Lumberjacks | Lumberjacks lose this one |
| Chicago Underground @ Saint Croix Falls Lumberjacks | Lumberjacks shutout the Underground 5-0 |
| Weekly Summary: | One win and one loss |