SKATER & GOALIE OF THE WEEK #18
| CLARENCE SKATER | TEAM | GP | GOALS | ASISSTS | POINTS | PM | +/- | SOG | S% |
| Taylor, Dave | SAS | 4 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 0 | -1 | 9 | 44% |
| CLARENCE GOALIE | TEAM | GP | GOALS AGAINST | G.A. AVERAGE | SAVES | SAVE % | |||
| Sevigny, Richard | SDM | 4 | 12 | 3.02 | 108 | .900 | |||
| WALES SKATER | TEAM | GP | GOALS | ASSISTS | POINTS | PM | +/- | SOG | S% |
| Mondou, Pierre | CHI | 4 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 36% |
| WALES GOALIE | TEAM | GP | GOALS AGAINST | G.A. AVERAGE | SAVES | SAVE % | |||
| Luit, Mike | SCS | 3 | 8 | 2.68 | 97 | .924 | |||
| CapJack Rangers | |
| Weekly Preview: | Due to blow out substitutions, the Rangers found themselves needing to start Wayne Thomas in net for the 2 home games this week as both Bouchard and Smith would have ended up 1 game over their limits. Keeping fingers crossed, the Rangers ended up 1-1 in the two games. Though Thomas did not really do poorly – the offense failed to show up for 1 game. |
| San Diego Mariners @ CapJack Rangers | Perreault (30) started the scoring with shot setup by Charlie Simmer near the midpoint of period 1. Douglas (27) ties it early in the 2nd. In the 3rd Simmer and Perreault team up again, this time setting up Holmgrem (30) for what proves to be the winning goal. But Mulvey (9) wanted to be sure and he drives one in the net 4 minutes later for a 3-1 lead. And despite the relentless 3rd period assault by the Rangers, Sevigny turned them all back. He ended up with 39 saves! Another notable for the Mariners – Bulley 15 penalty minutes – how appropriate. Gets worse – he got the 5 minute major and GAME at the 18:33 mark of period 3 (15 minutes of penalties but only 1:27 left in the game). STARS: ALL SDM 1. Sevigny 39 saves 2. Perreault 1 goal, 1 assist 3. TIE (my choice): Holmgrem 1 goal Simmer 2 assists |
| Charlestown Chiefs @ CapJack Rangers | Rangers not happy about the last home loss take it out on the Chiefs. Shutt (51, 52) gets two in the 1st. Esposito (23) gets 1 in the 2nd and Douglas (28) and Trottier (44) get goals in the 3rd. Then they give up a goal to Bourque (15) with less than 4 to go and skate to 5-1 win. STARS: ALL CAP 1. Shutt 2 goals 2. Robinson 3 assists 3. Esposito 1 goal |
| Weekly Summary: | Well 1-1 at home won’t help much against the mounting Spirit of Pittsburgh but a nod to Thomas for filling in well in the net. |
| Vermont Foresters | |
| Weekly Preview: | one home game for the foresters this week hosting the tough capjack rangers |
| CapJack Rangers @ Vermont Foresters | vermonts only home game of the week will see glen hanlon in net for a rare home start. vermont does not like the matchup against capjack and the 1st period showed why. capjack scored twice in the 1st 3:24 with deblois and douglas finding the back of the net. they held that lead until late in the period when reggie leach scored his 39th to cut the lead in half to 2-1. the 1st period was evenly played with capjack holding a 14-13 edge in shots on goal. the second period saw vermont take control and dominate with a 15-5 edge in sog but neither team was able to score and capjack headed into the 3rd period still holding a 2-1 lead. the 3rd period saw a lot of action, starting with eric vail tying the game with his 21st goal of the year just 3:26 into the period. macmillan gave the visitors the lead again less then 2 minutes later with his 13th. the rangers held the lead for 7 minutes until dale mccourt tied the game again at 3 with his 29th of the year. just over 3 minutes later at the 15:28 mark, murdoch scored his 19th of the year for a 4-3 ranger lead. vermont started pressing and less then 90 seconds later, reggie leach scored his 2nd of the game and 40th of the year to tie the game again at 4 with just over 3 minutes left. the game looked to be headed for a tie until mark howe unleashed a laser beam with 31 seconds left to give the foresters their first lead of the game and the 5-4 victory. leach had 2 goals and dale mccourt 1g and 2a. |
| Weekly Summary: | a great come from behind victory for the foresters versus a team they dont match up well against |
| Syracuse Bulldogs | |
| Weekly Preview: | As the regular season is winding down Syracuse tries to hang on to their slim lead in the Norris. |
| Biloxi Blades @ Syracuse Bulldogs | Bulldogs Blank Biloxi 4-0 Stars #1. Herron 2. Young 3. MacAdam |
| Quebec City Le Blue @ Syracuse Bulldogs | The Syracuse GM gave a few dollars to the refs to call a “Fair” game. They did as the Bulldogs earned 7 power play opportunities to zero for Quebec. They scored on 4 of them on route to a 9-1 victory. Stars #1. MacAdam 2. Larouche 3. Halward |
| Weekly Summary: | Syracuse took care of their home games winning both. |
| Charlestown Chiefs | |
| Weekly Preview: | ATTN: San Diego,Pittsburgh,CapJack: Please don’t load this file until you’ve played our games. I made lineup changes for some players as I’m tight on limits; don’t want those changes to be loaded for our road games this week. Thanks! |
| Vermont Foresters @ Charlestown Chiefs | Charlestown builds a 3-1 lead early in the 3rd only to watch it evaporate into a 3-3 tie.
Ruskowski has a produtive old school game, scoring a goal and 12 PIM. |
| Weekly Summary: | You can beat us, you can tie us, but you’ll never out-PIM us… |
| Saskatoon Cyclone | |
| Weekly Preview: | Twelve games to go for Saskatoon to try and claw their way closer to .500 but this week last place Silk City and first-place Vermont try and get in our way. |
| Silk City Whales @ Saskatoon Cyclone | The game between Silk City and Saskatoon was a close one on paper but the scoreboard told a different story. The Cyclone scored five consecutive goals to head into the 3rd period with a 5-0 lead with the power play clicking (2/6 on the day) and Rogie Vachon playing his heart out to try and earn his first shutout of the season. Ken Houston of Silk City was called for tripping at 18:53 of the 3rd period and it seemed like Rogie’s shutout was in the bag. It was not to be though as Whales’ forward Bob Bourne picked off a cross ice pass and sent Paul Woods in alone on Vachon and bingo. Woods lifted the puck over Vachon’s left pad and into the net and gone went the shutout on a short-handed goal. Saskatoon outshot Silk City 32-26 but the teams were nearly dead even at 50-49 in favor of Saskatoon in shot attempts. Highlights of the game included a sucker punch by Sutter on Saskatoon defenceman David Shand with Sutter winning the ensuing scuffle handily. As a reward, he was given a game misconduct. Nicely done. SCORING SUMMARY First period: 1. SAS, Wilson (14) – Sirois (11) 2:25 Second period: 2. SAS, Taylor (39) – Potvin (6), Gretzky (72) 0:35 3. SAS, Tardiff (31) – Taylor (59), Maloney (21) 7:44 (PP) 4. SAS, Maloney (16) – Ashton (5), Shand (7) 8:10 5. SAS, Gretzky (51) – Lowe (15) 19:21 (PP) Third period: 6. SCW, Woods (4) – Bourne (13) 19:09 (SH)Game Stars: 1. SAS, Gretzky (1 G, 1 A, 15 faceoffs won) 2. SAS, Taylor (1 G, 1 A) 3. SAS, Maloney (1 G, 1A) |
| Vermont Foresters @ Saskatoon Cyclone | The Cyclone hoped that booking Saskatoon’s annual death metal festival in the same hotel as the Foresters were staying would help them out when they took to the ice the next day … Special teams played a key part in what proved to be a close but wide open game. Morris Luckowich got things started at 5:58 of the 1st period by batting a puck out of mid-air past Rogie Vachon while Lindy Ruff was in the box for checking from behind. Dave Taylor evened things up with his 40th of the season exactly six minutes later while Pat Price was off for tripping. The first period ended tied 1-1 with shots at 14-13 favoring Vermont. Yeah … it was close. Vermont started the second period trying to kill off Mike Foligno’s hooking penalty and once again special teams came through for Saskatoon as Mr. Gretzky blasted a slapshot from the blueline stick side past Glen Hanlon to give Saskatoon the temporary lead 2-1. About six minutes later, Gretzky once again got involved in the play poking a puck loose from a scrum and feeding it into the slot for Taylor who fired home a wristshot through Hanlon’s legs to extend the lead to 3-1. Bobby Lalonde’s hooking penalty for Vermont late in the 2nd period turned out to be a key turning point in the game. With the Cyclone pressing deep in the zone and Gretzky set up behind the Foresters’ net, Vermont defenceman Mark Howe ran over Brent Ashton and stole the puck, raced down the ice and deked out Vachon for a short-handed marker to make it 3-2. Once again, Vermont opened a period short-handed and in a very similar situation to the dying moments of the 2nd period it was none other than Don Luce whose ‘fro got in the face of Dave Maloney, momentarily blinding him. Luce took advantage of Maloney’s situation stole the puck and bore down on Vachon finishing it off with a snap shot that beat him high and tied it 3-3 with nearly a whole period to play. Two short-handed goals on the same Saskatoon power play … for f@#@# sake … really? The rest of the 3rd period was basically a case of Vermont flooding across the Saskatoon blue line, firing a shot or two at Vachon and then eventually once a Cyclone player found himself with the puck he cleared it out to the blueline. This seemed to go on for about 15 minutes by which time the Foresters had already fired almost 20 shots in the period on Vachon. One of these clearing shots eluded Vermont defenceman Ron Stackhouse and Gretzky and Company raced up ice for a rare offensive opportunity. Gretzky was checked off the puck by Foligno who was then trampled by Cyclone defenceman Barry Melrose sending the outraged Foresters bench to its feet. Melrose slid the puck over to Taylor who rifled a pass to Gretzky and with a one-timer fired the puck up and over Hanlon’s shoulder for his second goal of the game which made it 4-3 with a couple of minutes to go. Hanlon scrambled to the bench with just over a minute left but the Foresters spent the bulk of their man advantage just trying to keep Gretzky from getting a hat trick on the empty net and that was all she wrote. Saskatoon wins a wild one 4-3 despite being outshot 49-35. Ron Wilson won 18 faceoffs in the game with Gretzky taking 15 as the Cyclone at least dominated in that one category with almost a 60% success rate. Shockingly only the Gretzky line showed up to play but in this case it was enough. SCORING SUMMARY First period: 1. VER, Luckowich (31) – Stackhouse (25) 5:58 (PP) 2. SAS, Taylor (40) – johansen (7), Gretzky (73) 11:58 (PP) Second period: 3. SAS, Gretzky (52) – Taylor (60) 1:10 (PP) 4. SAS, Taylor (41) – Potvin (7), Gretzky (74) 7:09 5. VER, Howe (27) unassisted 19:49 (SH) Third period 6. VER, Luce (13) – unassisted 0:54 (SH) 7. SAS, Gretzky (53) – Taylor (61), Melrose (7) 17:56Stars: 1. SAS, Taylor (2 G, 2 A) 2. SAS, Gretzky (2 G, 2 A) 3. SAS, Vachon (46 saves) |
| Weekly Summary: | The Cyclone have 10 games left to make it to .500 … not likely but this was a good step forward. |
| St. Clair Shores Saints | |
| Weekly Preview: | Quebec and Chicago invade St. Clair Shores for two games. |
| Quebec City Le Blue @ St. Clair Shores Saints | Excellent game – 1st period – no score. The Shores score the first two goals and Quebec City matches those two goals. Then, they exchange solo goals.
Breakthrough is when Duguay and Wilson score. Nedomansky scores for Quebec City, but it’s too late. SCS 5 Quebec City 4 1st – Marshall |
| Chicago Underground @ St. Clair Shores Saints | Another close scoring bruising affair between the Underground and Saints.
Once again, these teams had big momentum changes. Behind, SCS scores 3 goals in a row. Chicago scores two in a row to take the lead. But, SCS hangs on for the tie as Nilsson nets one. Its a tie – 5-5. 1st – Mondou – 2 goals |
| Weekly Summary: | Very close games. SCS nips Quebec City and SCS and Chicago tie. |
| Silk City Whales | |
| Weekly Preview: | The Whales welcome three Patrick Division foes this week, including the latest in the battle for the Golden Caldero with Brooklyn. |
| CapJack Rangers @ Silk City Whales | Perry Turnbull’s second goal of the game, coming at thr 13:39 mark of the third period, gives the Whales a 4-3 win.
1st Star – Perry Turnbull, SCW – 2G |
| Brooklyn Harbor Rats @ Silk City Whales | Brooklyn is the one team Silk City has the number of this season and this one went down to the wire. The Harbor Rats’ Rick Martin score with 00:34 remaining in the third period to end this one in a 5-5 tie as the Whales remain undefeated on the season against Brooklyn. Bengt-Ake Gustafsson has three assists for Brooklyn and Lars Lindgren has four helpers for Silk City.
1st Star – Behn Wilson, BRO – 2G, A |
| Pittsburgh Spirit@ Silk City Whales | Robert Palmer scores the game-tying goal with 3:02 remaining in the third period to end the game in a 3-3 tie.
1st Star – Brad Selwood, SCW – G |
| Weekly Summary: | Three close games net four points at home for the Whales, YES! YES! YES! |
| Quebec City Le Blue | |
| Weekly Preview: | Quebec City has a new GM and Coach as Alan Raylesberg has taken over the reins – trying to make up some ground to get Le Blue into the playoffs. |
| Saint Croix Falls Lumberjacks @ Quebec City Le Blue | Quebec City wins 4-2 as Stan Jonathan scores 2 goals. After Jonathan opened the scoring, the Lumberjacks scored twice to take the lead at 16:25 of the first period. Stan Weir tied it for Quebec City with 27 seconds to go in the first. Jonathan scored the game winner in the second and Terry O’Reilly scored an insurance goal in the third. All three Quebec City goals were on the Power PlayThree Stars: 1. Stan Jonathan 2 goals 2. Tony Esposito 34 saves 3. Stan Weir 1 goal |
| Syracuse Bulldogs @ Quebec City Le Blue | In a big division matchup between the first place Bulldogs and second place Le Blue, the two teams skate to a 4-4 tie. Syracuse took a 2-0 first period lead on two goals by Young. Quebec tied it in the second on goals by Mike Milbury and Stan Jonathan (22). Later in the second, defenseman Bob Murdoch scored for Syracuse to make it 3-2 after 2. In the third, Pierre Larouche scored his 48th to give Syracuse a 4-2 lead. Le Blue stormed back as Jean Ratelle scored 18 seconds later, making it 4-3. Brad McCrimmon’s goal at 5:01 tied it at 4 and thats how it ended.THree Stars:1. Young with 2 goals 2. Jonathan with 1 goal and 2 assists 3. Murdoch with 1 goal and 1 assist |
| Weekly Summary: | Quebec City really needed a win over Syracuse to improve their playoff chances. With Syracuse beating Le Blue 9-1 this week in Syracuse, Le Blue has fallen further behind the divisional leader – and is even further behind in terms of getting a wild card entry into the playoffs. |
| Mackinac Island Moose | |
| Weekly Preview: | The Moose (22-35-11) host two division rivals, cross-state rival St. Claire Shores (31-27-9) and St. Croix (44-21-5). |
| Game #1 – Home Team: | Mackinac Island Moose |
| St. Clair Shores Saints @ Mackinac Island Moose | St. Clair 5, Moose 2 – Thompson with a hat trick ruled the day for the visitors. Liut steller in goal. 1st star – Thompson hat trick 2nd star – Liut 39 saves 3rd star – Kelly 1g |
| Saint Croix Falls Lumberjacks @ Mackinac Island Moose | Saint Croix 5, Moose 4 – Closer game this time. The Lumberjacks take a 3-1 lead and hang on in a hairy 3rd where 5 goals are scored by both teams. Fortunately for the visitors the clock runs out before the home team can get the equalizer. 1st star – Clarke 1g1a 2nd star – Federko 1g1a 3rd star – Sims 1g1a |
| Weekly Summary: | After a huge 7 points last week, a very disappointing homestand.
Player of the week was Thompson with the hat trick for St. Claire Shores |
| Brooklyn Harbor Rats | |
| Weekly Preview: | Big test for Brooklyn this week, hosting a pair of division rivals ahead of them in the standings as they attempt to stop a slide that has seen them fall out of playoff position. |
| Saskatoon Cyclone @ Brooklyn Harbor Rats | The Harbor Rats 4 goal 2nd period blows this one open and they coast to an easy 7-3 win over the Cyclones to begin the week. Bobby Smith leads the offense with a goal and 2 assists. |
| Pittsburgh Spirit @ Brooklyn Harbor Rats | Greg Millen stops 25 of 26 shots and Brooklyn stops 6 of 7 Spirit power plays to take a 4-1 over the Patrick division leaders. Bobby Smith picks up 3 assists and 3 blueliners record goals for the Rats with McCarthy, Lapointe and Lewis all beating Chico. |
| San Diego Mariners @ Brooklyn Harbor Rats | The team directly in front of Brooklyn for the final East conference playoff spot comes to town and Brooklyn breaks open a one goal game with 3 early 3rd period tallies. Mike Gartner scores a pair of goals to become the 3rd Harbor Rat with 30 goals this season. |
| Weekly Summary: | A great week as the Rats pass the test, taking 7 of a possible 8 points to climb back into the playoff race. The season is not over yet in Brooklyn! |
| Chicago Underground | |
| Weekly Preview: | Chicago looking to put points on the board at home & not be the laughing stock of the Mid-West Old Tyme Hockey League. |
| Mackinac Island Moose @ Chicago Underground | In a back and forth affair Chicago puts the last tailey on the board, but all that does is knot the score at 3 apiece.
Final Score: Mackinac Island 3 – Chicago 3 Star #1 – Tom Lysiak – 1 Goal, 2 Points |
| Quebec City Le Blue @ Chicago Underground | In a high rivalry match up this one was rather contained with scoring & penalties. Chicago put up 2 & then Quebec City stormed back with 3, but with under 1 minute left Chicago tied it at 3 & that’s the way it ended.
Final Score: Quebec City 3 – Chicago 3 Star #1 – Jean Ratelle – 2 Goals |
| Weekly Summary: | Chicago gets 2 points at home. 2 More Goals in the home stand would have netted them 4 Points, but they really are not a good team this season. |
| Philadelphia Firebirds | |
| Weekly Preview: | Philly has three teams coming in this week..Syracuse, The Pound and Biloxi |
| Syracuse Bulldogs @ Philadelphia Firebirds | 1st- Philly greets the tough dawgs with a schmautz show early on. The Bulldogs had Schmautz all over after he nets 2 goals in the first 5 minutes. After the 2nd a bench clearing brawl breaks out and Mr Delorme is shown the door. Late in the period McAdam tips in his 28th on a drive from Propp. 2nd- Only action was a slaphot goal from Rod Langway and Philly enters the thirds up 3-1 3rd – All Syracuse as Propper scores his 29th on a breakway and the Stan Smyl gets his 32nd in a scrum in front of the net. The Birds hold on as Picard hits the post with a minute left |
| Chicago Underground @ Philadelphia Firebirds | The hated Underground comes in next…i threw up in my mouth a lil 1st – Dionne starts this off with his 37th, Then Peter Lee redirects an Anderson shot to put Philly up 2-0. Al Hill scores a late goal his 12th 2nd period- Gordie Roberts drives his 10th of the year past Hogosta to be followed up by Dionnes 38th of the year. Philly has outshot the Unground 28-13 at this point…and thennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn Bernier gets his first of the year and Gary Unger nets his 6th to pull the ground within 4-3 3rd – The Ground kill a 4minute power play and as it ends Clark Gillies puts in his 23d followed 2 minutes later with a McNab goal. Norwich closes out with an empty netter But we outhit them so there is that! |
| Biloxi Blades @ Philadelphia Firebirds | Bad blood was brewing as the Blades come to Philly 1st- Hunter scores early his 8th after that an 8 man fight erupts and when the dust cleared Rod Langways night was over. Al Secord ripped his 15th to tie the game and the McKegney put Philly up with his 24th. Sullivan tied the game up to end the 3rd. 74 PIMS and 5 Fights 2nd – McTavish nets his 9th to start the 2nd and then Tony McKegney gets his 2nd of the game and put philly up 4-2 thennnnnnnnnnnnnn Middleton puts in his 36th of the season to pull Biloxi within 1 4-3 3rd- Chipperfield redirects a Marios blast to tie the game and not to outdone Mario scores his own. Ryan Walter puts Biloxi up 6-4 with his 29th. Philly stayed in it as Hartsburg blasts his 8th making it 6-5. Sullivan then nets his 2nd of the game 7-5 …late in the game Dionne gets his 39th but the Birds just cant tie it up. |
| Weekly Summary: | 0-2-1 at home. But all were great games and Randy Holt almost scored a goal
good times in Philly ….anyone heard of this guy name Kurri? |
| San Diego Mariners | |
| Charlestown Chiefs @ San Diego Mariners | Mariners handle business at home 8-3 |
| Saskatoon Cyclone @ San Diego Mariners | Mariners take one on the chin and lose 5-2 |
| Weekly Summary: | San Diego’s inconsistent 2nd half continues as they spiral downward 1-1 |
| Pittsburgh Spirit | |
| Weekly Preview: | The Spirit is moving the city of Pittsburgh as they are on fire! **No time for elaborate write-ups. |
| Vermont Foresters @ Pittsburgh Spirit | Smythe Division leaders come to town for a battle to be #1 in the league!
Vermont takes a 3-1 lead into the 2nd, and then a 3-2 lead into the 3rd, but Pittsburgh scores 3 unanswered goals to win 5-3. 1 2 3 F Scoring Summary Penalty Summary SOG 1 SOG 2 SOG 3 VER PIT Star 1: PIT Sittler 2 G, 3 Pts GWG: Rejean Houle Notables: VER Hanlon 34 saves Vermont GA SV Save% TOI W L T Rate Pittsburgh GA SV Save% TOI W L T Rate |
| Charlestown Chiefs @ Pittsburgh Spirit | The Chiefs come to town so that GM/Coach John Niespodzianski can see his family because the Chiefs were out of contention at the All-Star Break. 😉
Much more of the same here as Chris wins the battle of the brothers in this league. Always a good time. Pittsburgh feasts on future GM Jim Rutherford to the tune of 8 goals as the line scores 7 of the 8 goals en route to a final of PIT 8, CHA 2. 1 2 3 F Scoring Summary Penalty Summary SOG 1 SOG 2 SOG 3 CHA PIT Star 1: PIT Lafleur 3 G, 5 Pts GWG: Guy Lafleur Notables: CHA None Charlestown GA SV Save% TOI W L T Rate Pittsburgh GA SV Save% TOI W L T Rate |
| Weekly Summary: | Two games, four points. Business as usual this second half of the season as the Spirit march closer to the division title and the playoffs! |
| Saint Croix Falls Lumberjacks | |
| Weekly Preview: | Saint Crois Falls host Philadelphia this week. |
| Philadelphia Firebirds @ Saint Croix Falls Lumberjacks | Philadelphia 4 Saint Croix Falls 4 1st Star Keon 1g 2 pts. 2nd Star Saganiuk 1 g. 3rd Star Mulvey 1g. |
| Weekly Summary: | Saint Croix. Falls goes 0-0-1 for the week |