SKATER & GOALIE OF THE WEEK #20

Final Score: St. Clair Shores 3 – Chicago 2

Three Star Selection:
Star #1 – Mike Allison – 2 Goals
Star #2 – Yvon Lambert – 1 Goal, 2 Points
Star #3 – Stefan Persson – 1 Goal, 3 Points

Billy Smith – 30 Saves for New Castle
Bob Lorimer – 12 Penalty Minutes, Mike Veisor – 32 Saves, Denis Savard 15 Faceoff won for Chicago
Game Winning Goal – Dave Debol

The first period ended as a 2-2 draw which is a miracle for Charlestown as they spent the bulk of the period killing penalties with the Cyclone enjoying five powerplays in the period. The Cyclone outshot the Chiefs by a wide 18-9 margin, but it was Paul Gardner with his 28th of the season that opened the scoring only 90 seconds into the game when he picked up a loose puck behind the Cyclone net and wrapped it around and past Glen Hanlon.

Keith Acton (12) tied it up at 4:28 with a slapshot goal from the slot that bounced in off the glove of Michel Plasse, but Mario Tremblay put the Chiefs back in the lead with a weak slapshot from way out. Tremblay’s 14th had the fans bracing for another high-scoring lousy goaltending game as the former Habs’ winger scored his team’s second goal on only their fourth shot of the game.

The remainder of the period was pretty much a never-ending series of power plays by the Cyclone including a 4-minute advantage when Ray Bourque was sent off for high-sticking Doug Risebrough. Dave Taylor notched his 44th when he batted in Wayne Gretzky’s rebound to tie it up right after the first of Bourque’s minor penalties expired. The Cyclone ended the period with a power play after McDonald took a late penalty for interference.

Fifty seconds into the 2nd period, the Cyclone took the lead with Dino Ciccarelli rifling a wrist shot past Plasse for his 4th goal of the year and his team’s 2nd power play goal of the game. Charlestown dominated the rest of the period and smothered the Cyclone offense just allowing three shots the rest of the period.

The Chiefs also enjoyed three power plays of their own in the period with Tony McKegney’s 30th of the year at 11:12 tying it up. His power play goal ended about a minute of passing all around the bamboozled Cyclone players in their own zone and came on a ripper of a slapshot from the top of the faceoff circle that Hanlon really had no chance on.

The Chiefs hard-checking game ground the Cyclone players almost into powder and two minutes later created a turnover deep in the Cyclone’s own end as Wilf Paiement stripped Kevin Lowe of the puck, fed it back to the point to Bourque who made a great cross-ice pass to Tom McCarthy who flicked the puck up and over the sprawling Cyclone netminder to give the Chiefs a 4-3 lead on his 14th of the year.

In the 3rd period with the Chiefs up 4-3, about a minute and a half in Denis Potvin and Darcy Rota drew coincidental minors for “whacking the be-jesus” out of each other with their sticks after a whistle in the Chiefs end. The penalties were important not only for their samurai-like duel entertainment factor but also cuz when the penalties were over while Potvin raced cross-ice to the bench for a line change Rota jumped into the play and set up Ciccarelli for his 2nd goal of the game when Rota knifed a pass to The Stars’ right winger who ripped a slapshot past Plasse to tie it up.

The Chiefs’ Grind-o-rama continued through the rest of the period offering up pretty much no chances for the Cyclone to mount any offense. Cyclone keeper Hanlon was steady in nets though and while his offense slept he kept his team in the game by making a couple of great saves including robbing McKegney and Bourque on breakaways.

Seemingly content to split the game points evenly the final few minutes of the game consisted of coasting by both teams until with one minute left on a faceoff just outside the Chiefs zone, Gretzky won the faceoff and set up a charge with a pass to Taylor streaking in down the right wing. Ciccarelli was hungry for the hat trick and despite playing on his off-wing the entire game on the #1 line, he completed a great game by snapping Taylor’s pass through the pads of Plasse for what turned out to be the winning goal.

Stars:
1. SAS, Ciccarelli- 3 goals
2. SAS, Taylor – 1 goal, 2 assists
3. SAS, Gretzky – 3 assists

2nd Period sees the Rangers scoring the 1st two goals – and even strength goal by Lonsberry (14). Minute and a half in, he hit Maxwell as he was receiving a pass – gained control, skated away, no help available, little deke, little fake, shoots, GOAL. Savard then gets a whistle for roughing 11 1/2 in and Schutt (36) makes the Chiefs pay with a PP goal. Period is winding down and the Chiefs don’t quit. Chiefs PP is winding down, Gradin gets leveled, but they keep playing as the penalty expires. McDonald has the puck, he sees Gradin back up and moving in, slides the puck to him, we winds, shoots and Goal (12)!. Score was in the final minute and it’s 4-3 CapJack after 2.

PERIOD 3 -Paiement starts period 3 like period one getting called for tripping this time 14 seconds in. However, Rangers don’t score. Baxter and Crowder leave for roughing 4 minutes in. It’s chippy but no one is scoring. Barnes then gets his 2nd penalty for the Rangers but no Chiefs goal. 11 minutes in, McCarthy and DeBlois go off for roughing – still no scoring. That’s the end of the penalties and their is 5 minutes left when Crowder drills Potvin to gain control. He and MacMillan rush up the ice – odd man rush – back and forth they pass it until Crowder (7) shoots and scores for a nice 2 goal lead, 5-3 with less than 5 to go. BUT the Chiefs don’t fold tent and go home, instead they apply more war paint and with 2:05 to go Haworth wins a faceoff in Rangers end – to McCarthy, to Maxwell – he gets it to Haworth (7) who fires it past Bouchard to cut it to 5-4 with 2 to go. Some up and down action and hard hitting but Charlestown gains control with 1 to go, Plasse heads for the bench. Gardner in as the extra skater and Haworth gains the zone, to Paiement, back, back, to Gardner – shoots – Bouchard deflects it out of play. Trottier wins the faceoff, Shutt has control, to Trottier to Gare – who doesn’t miss the empty net for his 40th goal and a 6-4 lead with 39 seconds to go. And that’s how it ended.
Game was pretty even Chiefs had slight edge in SOG (35-31), Shoot attempts (49-43), faceoffs (50.7%) Rangers won the hits (27-17) and scoring chances (24-17) and they converted on 3 of 6 PPs – Chiefs were 1 for 3.
STARS
1. CAP Gare 2 goals, 1 assist
2. CHA Potvin 1 goal, 1 assist
3. CHA Haworth 1 goal, 1 assist

Heading to Pinehurst to chase the little white ball for a week, so an abbreviated report today.

1st star – Sharpley 1g2a
2nd – Propp 1g1a
3rd – Lysiak 1g1a

1st star – Callighen 2g
2nd – Stackhouse 1g3a
3rd – Barber 2g

Stackhouse and Sharpley with 4 pts. each for Ohio.
Lysiak 5pts, Barber 4 pts for the Moose

Scoring Summary
Per Time Str Team
1 4:45 EV CHA Charron (3), assisted by Bourque (26) and Kallur (15)
1 7:05 PP SCW Sutter (34), assisted by Kehoe (37) and Bourne (50)
1 16:34 PP SCW Turnbull (31), assisted by Ruskowski (42) and Messier (32)
3 2:34 EV CHA Haworth (8), assisted by Mike McEwen (26) and Tremblay (39)
3 10:44 EV CHA Gradin (13), assisted by McDonald (35) and Savard (34)
3 18:47 EV CHA Kallur (24), assisted by Bourque (27) and Charron (11)
3 19:18 EN CHA Gardner (29), assisted by Kallur (16)

Star 1: CHA Kallur 1 G, 3 Pts
Star 2: CHA Charron 1 G, 2 Pts
Star 3: CHA Gradin 1 G

GWG: Thomas Gradin

Notables: SCW None
CHA B.Maxwell 17 PIM, Plasse 33 saves, Bourque 12 PIM

A real barnburner and a great Ducks comeback results in a tie but a tie is not good enough given the Ducks place in the standings. New Castle took a 1-0 lead on a goal by Steve Kasper in the first period, against backup goalie Frank Parro. After Fraser tied it at 1, Tim Young’ s power play goal made it 2-1 Bulldogs early int he second period THe Ducks came right back to tie it on a power play goal of their own, by Ryan Walter. Then with 2:28 left in the second period, Rick Middleton put New Castle up 3-2 with his 35th goal of the year.
Trailing 3-2 in the third, Syracuse went to work against Billy Smith. Derlago netted his 25th to tie it at 4:43. Two minutes later Higgins scored his 26th to make it 4-3 Syracuse. When Young scored his second of the game, and 25th of the year, at 8:05 it looked like it was all over with Syracuse ahead 5-3.
THe Ducks would not die however as Mike Allison scored 25 seconds after Young’s goal. Allison’s 41st of the season! It was now 5-4 and the Ducks were flying. With 1:34 to goal and an empty net for New Castle Captain Bobby Clarke, from Walter and Middleton, tied the game!

Shots on goal were pretty even with New Castle 40 to Syracuse 39. Parro had 35 saves and Smith 34. Bobby Clarke won 19 faceoffs out of 23. Yvon Lambert of the Ducks had 5 Hits

THREE STARS
1- SYR Tim Young 2G 1 A
2- NEW Ryan Walter 1G 2 A
3- NEW Bobby Clarke 1G 2 A

Coming off the 5-5 tie against the Bulldogs, this time New Castle wins in a rout. Parro started in goal once again for Syracuse but was pulled after allowing 5 goals on just 16 shots (Don Edwards replaced him). The Ducks scored those 5 goals in the first period as they out shot Syracuse 17-8. Middleton (36), Schoenfeld (10), Silk (4), Vautour (11) and Currie (21) were the goal scorers.

Trailiing 5-0, Syracuse mounted a comeback on goals by Stan Smyl (26) and Terrion (3). With 17 minutes to go it was 5-2 and the Ducks fans feared another 3rd period collapse. But Rick Lanz netted his 6th at 4:37 for a huge insurance goal and Silk’s second of the game and Lambert’s 28th of the season closed out the scoring.

New Castle outshot Syracuse 42-21 as they dominated with nearly 9 minutes on the attack to 2:32 for the Bulldogs. The Ducks had 23 scoring chances to 9 for Syracuse.

THREE STARS
1. NEW – Dave Silk 2 G
2. NEW – Yvon Lambert 1 G 1 A
3. NEW – Rick Lanz 1 G 1 A

Lanz, D John Barrett and Lambert all were +4 for the game. Ryan Walter had 5 Hits. For Syracuse D Bob Murdoch and RW Tim Higgins were -4 for the game

The Ducks have to start third string goalie Don Edwards against the powerful, rough and tough Firebirds. Despite a valiant effort, New Castle comes up just short.

Middleton continued his great season opening the scoring at 6:36 of the first with his 37th goal of the year. Philadelphia tied it later in the period when Enforcer Al Secord got his 4th goal of the season. Less than 2 minutes later the Ducks regained the lead as seldom used offensive defenseman Russ Anderson scored his 2dof the year. 2-1 Ducks. With Duck fans quacking and hoping for an upset the great Marcel Dionne doused those hopes as he scored just 13 seconds after Anderson’s goal. For Dionne, it was his 43rd goal of the year and the first period ended tied at 2-2.
In the second period, Secord did it again putting the puck behind Edwards at 9:27 (from Bridgman) for his second goal of the game and 5th of the year. 3-2 Philly after two.
In the third, Paul Holmgren got called for holding at 1:26. The Philly bad boy now has 200 PIM on the season. New Castle took advantage as Middleton scored the power play goal, his 38th of the year, assisted by Clarke and O’Reilly. 3-3 with 18 minutes to go.
At 4:39, Dennis Maruk scored his 36th for Philly (from Tonelli and Van Boxmeer) to put the Firebirds ahead for good. New Castle outshot Philly 12-9 in the third but could not beat Don Beaupre who had 31 saves in the victory.
For the game the Ducks had a 34-32 edge in shots on goal while dominating Time on the Attack. Philly’s Rissling got a misconduct penalty in the first period after arguing a hooking call against him. Langway, Holmgren and Tonelli of the Firebirds had 3 Hits each. Lambert had 3 hits for New Castle. Richie Dunn of New Castle was -3 for the game

THREE STARS:
1- NEW Middleton 2 G
2- PHI Secord 2 G
3- PHI Maruk 1 G

1st Star – Rick Kehoe (SCW), 2G
2nd Star – Brian Sutter (SCW), G & A
3rd Star – Willi Plett (SCW), G & A

Don Maloney notched a pair of goals and had an assist to lead Ohio to a 4-2 win against St. Clair Shores.

Glen Sharpley’s 13th goal 1:47 into the contest gave Ohio a quick 1-0 lead. That held through the opening term. The Saints won the shots battle, 7-5.

In the second, Maloney notched his 29th at 11:32 to build the lead to 2-0. St. Clair Shores cut the deficit late in the frame when Al Hangselben scored at 16:43 to leave the score at 2-1 after 40 minutes. The shots favored the Saints in the middle frame, 13-3.

In the third, St. Clair Shores tied the game at two, when Don Kelly picked up his 32nd goal at 4:30. Maloney was awarded a penalty shot off a Behn Wilson trip at 7:35. Maloney converted the penalty shot and Ohio took a 3-2 edge.

The contest nearly was changed when JIm Korn was called for a major penalty fort spearing at the midway point of the frame. The Legends killed of the penalkty and collected an empty net goal from Willy Lindstrom with 39 seconds remaining. The shots again favored the Saints, 9-5. For the game, St. Clair Shores held the shots edge, 29-13.

St. Clair Shores was zero-for-six, while Ohio was zero-for-three. Denis Herron picked up the win, stopping 27 shots, while Mike Liut turned away nine shots.

Chicago 1 SCS 1

1st star – Ramage 1 goal
2nd star – Liut 21 saves
3rd star – Astrom 22 saves

Mackinac Island 2 St. Clair Shores 0

1st – Meloche 25 saves
2nd – Napier 1 goal
3rd – Robert 1 goal

Columbus 4 St. Clair Shores 3

1st – Goulet 2 points
2nd – Brownschidle 2 points
3rd – Zuke 1 goal