SKATER & GOALIE OF THE WEEK #7
| CLARENCE SKATER | TEAM | GP | GOALS | ASISSTS | POINTS | PM | +/- | SOG | S% |
| Gretzky, Wayne | SAS | 4 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 17% |
| CLARENCE GOALIE | TEAM | GP | GOALS AGAINST | G.A. AVERAGE | SAVES | SAVE % | |||
| Millen, Greg | BRO | 3 | 7 | 2.34 | 86 | .925 | |||
| WALES SKATER | TEAM | GP | GOALS | ASSISTS | POINTS | PM | +/- | SOG | S% |
| Propp, Brian | SYR | 4 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 20% |
| WALES GOALIE | TEAM | GP | GOALS AGAINST | G.A. AVERAGE | SAVES | SAVE % | |||
| Smith, Billy | SCF | 2 | 5 | 2.52 | 54 | .915 | |||
| Chicago Underground | |
| Weekly Preview: | Chicago with 3 home games and the fans are hoping for at least 4 points. |
| Brooklyn Harbor Rats @ Chicago Underground | Brooklyn doubles up Chicago dubbing the Underground and making 4 points almost out of the question. Final Score: Brooklyn 6 – Chicago 3 |
| CapJack Rangers @ Chicago Underground | Cap Jack takes a 3-2 lead into the dressing room after 1 period of play. Chicago fights back and takes a 5-4 lead at the end of 2. Final Score: Chicago 7 – CapJack 4 |
| Vermont Foresters @ Chicago Underground | Vermont heads in with the most points in the MWOTHL and sits atop pf the Smythe Division with 35 Points. Chicago hopes to keep this one close, but ultimately fails. Final Score: Vermont 6 – Chicago 4 |
| Weekly Summary: | Chicago only picks up 2 points and home as they keep falling lower in the Norris Division standings. |
| Syracuse Bulldogs | |
| Saskatoon Cyclone @ Syracuse Bulldogs | The Bulldogs swarm the Cyclone winning 5-3. |
| Weekly Summary: | The Bulldogs try to stay in the hunt |
| Biloxi Blades | |
| Weekly Preview: | Three Home Games – Should be a good week |
| San Diego Mariners @ Biloxi Blades | 2 third period Mariner goals not enough. Biloxi 5 San Diego 4 |
| Brooklyn Harbor Rats @ Biloxi Blades | Blades collapse – 4 third period Brooklyn goals Brooklyn 6 Biloxi 4 |
| Pittsburgh Spirit @ Biloxi Blades | Prior Blade game, opponent scored 5 unanswered goals to win it, add these 7 and that’s 12 straight goals for the opponents against the Blades….still going. Pittsburgh 7 Biloxi 0 |
| Weekly Summary: | Move Along |
| Brooklyn Harbor Rats | |
| Weekly Preview: | Harbor Rats win two on the road and finish the week off with a pair of home games against Quebec City and Mackinac Island. |
| Quebec City Le Blue @ Brooklyn Harbor Rats | Jack Valiquette scores a pair of goals, Bob Miller adds a goal and an assist, and Greg Millen stops all 22 shots from Le Blue for his first shutout of the season in a 4-0 Harbor Rats win. Brooklyn doubles up on shots with a 45-22 advantage. |
| Mackinac Island Moose @ Brooklyn Harbor Rats | Trying to sweep the week, the Rats fall behind 4-2 heading to the final period. Don Ashby’s second goal of the game makes it 4-3 just :26 seconds after the faceoff. A five minute major penalty on Paul Ranheim puts the Moose in position to put the game away, but Brooklyn kills it off. Rick Martin’s 18th of the season ties the score with under 5 minutes left. Then another Moose power play is killed off before Doug Hicks slapper with just :31 seconds remaining snaps the tie and completes the comeback, 5-4 Harbor Rats. |
| Weekly Summary: | A 4 game sweep by Brooklyn moves them into Patrick Division contention. Also nice was goalie Greg Millen’s first shutout of the season. |
| Charlestown Chiefs | |
| Weekly Preview: | Three home games this week – predicting record beer sales and lots of goals (against). |
| Philadelphia Firebirds @ Charlestown Chiefs | First up – Philadelphia. As expected, lots of penalties. Somehow, Charlestown only surrenders 3 goals. Of course they only score 1, so it’s an L.
Scoring Summary Star 1: PHI Anderson 1 G GWG: John Anderson Notables: PHI None |
| Syracuse Bulldogs @ Charlestown Chiefs | Thanks to a late goal with about 3 minutes remaining, the Chiefs secure a 3-3 tie against Syracuse.
Scoring Summary Star 1: SYR Young 1 G, 2 Pts Notables: SYR Larouche 15 faceoffs won |
| St. Clair Shores Saints @ Charlestown Chiefs | Three games in a row where Charlestown goalies elevate their game. But also three games where the Chiefs can’t summon enough offense to make it matter.
Scoring Summary Star 1: SCS Liut 37 saves GWG: Bill Clement Notables: SCS Liut 37 saves |
| Weekly Summary: | 1 out of a 6 possible points, while an expansion team is in the Stanley Cup Finals. Yeah, we suck. |
| St. Clair Shores Saints | |
| Weekly Preview: | The Saints host CapJack and Pittsburgh at home. |
| CapJack Rangers @ St. Clair Shores Saints | Steve Shutt scores his 21st and 22nd for the Rangers to get the Rangers off to a quick start. SCS scores the next three goals as Ramage, Babych, and Trimper connect on even strength goals. Late in the 2nd, Douglas scores for CapJack and we have a tie game.
We go to the 3rd period. At 8:44, Errol Thompson scores his 12th goal to put the Saints on top. The Saints get a late power play opportunity, which makes it tough for the Rangers to come back. Saints 4 Rangers 3 SOG: Saints 31 Rangers 25 1st star – Schutt 2 goals |
| Pittsburgh Spirit @ St. Clair Shores Saints | This was a one-sided affair. Pittsburgh scores 3 in the 1st, 1 in the 2nd, and 3 in the 3rd. Amazingly, SCS outshoots Pittsburgh, 49-26! Resch has 49 saves!!!
Pittsburgh 7 St. Clair Shores 0 1st star – Resch 49 saves |
| Weekly Summary: | Two very different games. The Saints nip the Rangers, 4-3, but get shutout by the Spirit, 7-0. |
| Quebec City Le Blue | |
| Vermont Foresters @ Quebec City Le Blue | 3-2 Quebec loss |
| San Diego Mariners @ Quebec City Le Blue | 3-2 Quebec loss |
| Weekly Summary: | Quebec loses two close home games to two division leaders. |
| Vermont Foresters | |
| Weekly Preview: | only 1 home game for the foresters as philadelphia takes a ride up north to the ben and jerrys center. |
| Philadelphia Firebirds @ Vermont Foresters | the foresters will be without star mark howe as he gets a game off for an unspecified reason. after an uneventful and scoreless 1st period, the wild momentum swings that have been a characteristic of vermonts season begin in the 2nd. reggie leach and mike foligno both score their 14th goals less then a minute apart early in the period. less then 2 minutes later rod langway cuts the lead in half getting a shot past grahame. then mel bridgeman ties the score at the 12:09 mark. it doesnt stay tied long as dave keon gets his 1st of the year just 15 seconds later giving the visiting firebirds a 3-2 lead. the 3rd period begins with reggie leach scoring his second of the game at the 2:57 mark. morris lukowich nets his 15th at the midpoint of the final period putting the foresters back on top. another bad bob murray penalty with just over 2 minutes left and bobby schmautz ties it with less then a minute to go for another kiss to vermonts sister. grahame had 31 saves for vermont while wayne stephenson stopped 32 for the visitors. kent nilsson tallied 3 more assists for the foresters. |
| Weekly Summary: | yet another tie for vermont and more assists for nilsson, nothing surprising this week in vermont. |
| Saskatoon Cyclone | |
| Weekly Preview: | three games at home this week … roll them bones, Fate! |
| Philadelphia Firebirds @ Saskatoon Cyclone | Sask wins 6-4 … yay! |
| Biloxi Blades @ Saskatoon Cyclone | sask explains what ice is to Biloxi and then Sask wins 4-2 |
| Quebec City Le Blue @ Saskatoon Cyclone | QC may be le blue, but it was Sask that blew it losing 3-2 |
| Weekly Summary: | Sask wins two, drops one |
| Silk City Whales | |
| Weekly Preview: | Whales look to have a big week, with an unusual four home games this week. It will be a tall order as all four teams have better records to date, but then again all the teams in the league do! |
| St. Clair Shores Saints @ Silk City Whales | Whales hold off Saints to win 3-2.
1st Star – Brian Sutter, SCW |
| Chicago Underground @ Silk City Whales | Chicago first period power play attack too much for Whales to handle as Underground win 4-1.
1st Star -Pierre Mondou, CHI 2G 1A |
| Mackinac Island Moose @ Silk City Whales | Mackinac Island four unanswered goals beach the Whales; Moose hold on to win 4-3
1st Star -Tom Lysiak,MAC |
| Syracuse Bulldogs @ Silk City Whales | Syracuse’s Propp has second period natural hat trick, leads Bulldpgs to 6-3 win over the Whales
1st Star – Brian Propp, SYR 3G |
| Weekly Summary: | Whales gain two out of a possible eight points at home this week….same as it ever was. In other news, Silk City has now scattered scouts around the globe to start research on the next draft. |
| CapJack Rangers | |
| Weekly Preview: | 2 home games against Saint Croix Falls Lumberjacks. CapJack – LumberJacks, I could say there will be a lot of j***ing off this week, but I won’t. |
| Saint Croix Falls Lumberjacks @ CapJack Rangers | Game 1 belongs to the Lumberjacks – in a BIG way as they skate to a 7-2 blowout. Rangers took early 1-0 lead, the 7 straight Saint Croix goals stole the show. Payne the big weapon as he records the Hat Trick. STARS (all Lumberjacks of course): 1. Payne 3 goals 2. Clarke 1 goal, 3 assists 3. Sims 3 assists |
| Saint Croix Falls Lumberjacks @ CapJack Rangers | This time it was the Rangers who won the day and the game – but not as potent as the previous tilt. Rangers score 1st again, then Lumberjacks, then the Rangers, then the Lumberjacks, then the Rangers. Oddity – Rangers score at 15:04 in the 2nd AND 3rd periods. Shutt records 2 goals. FINAL 3-2 Rangers. STARS (all Rangers) 1. Shutt 2 goals 2. Kindrachuk 1 goal 3. Trottier 2 assists (and 18 faceoffs) |
| Weekly Summary: | 1-1 Split with St. Croix Falls this week. |
| Mackinac Island Moose | |
| Weekly Preview: | The Moose (8-12-4) host Charlestown (6-15-3) and powerhouse Vermont (14-3-7), losers of only 3 games in 24 matchups. |
| Charlestown Chiefs @ Mackinac Island Moose | The Chiefs come out much stronger than their record indicates, getting a poweplay goal (Gradin) and even strength goal (McDonald) in the 1st period to take a 2-0 lead into intermission. The home team responds with a goal by Barber to cut the lead to 1, but Ruskowski and Miller respond for the visitors to push the lead out to 3 before the Moose convert a powerplay (Bobby Hull) to get the game to 4-2 Chiefs at the end of 2. Zanussi on the powerplay cuts the lead to 1 early in the 3rd and with the Moose thinking game-on, spirits in the arena are up. But Anders Kallur had other ideas and quickly runs off with a breakaway and makes the game 5-3 Chiefs. 15 more minutes of spirited play results in no scores, and the Chiefs leave with the win.
1st star McDonald 1g1a 2nd star Gradin 1g 3rd star Ruskowski 1g |
| Vermont Foresters @ Mackinac Island Moose | Vermont dominates the 1st 30 minutes and the Moose dominate the last 30 minutes resulting in a 3-3 tie. McCourt, Nilsson and Foligno propel the Foresters to a 3-0 lead at halftime, only to see Zanussi, Sheppard and Barber respond, the last one with the Moose pulling the goalie the last 2 minutes for the advantage and equalizer. 1st star Barber 1g1a2nd star Sheppard 1g3rd star Nilsson 1g |
| Weekly Summary: | After getting pounded by Charlestown, it was a good comeback to squeeze a tie against the best record in the league (Vermont). But only 1 point in 2 home games will not see the team climb out of the cellar. |
| Saint Croix Falls Lumberjacks | |
| Weekly Preview: | Saint Croix Falls will play SanDiego. Capjack was schedule, however due to a unforeseen problem wasn’t able to play. |
| San Diego Mariners @ Saint Croix Falls Lumberjacks | San Diego 6 Saint Croix Falls 2 Star #1 Zuke Star #2 Holmgren Star #3 Smith |
| Weekly Summary: | Saint Croix Falls is near |
| Pittsburgh Spirit | |
| Weekly Preview: | On the heels of two road wins BOTH by a score of 7-0, Pittsburgh tries to ride the wave. |
| Syracuse Bulldogs @ Pittsburgh Spirit | Bulldogs and Spirit skate to an exciting 5-5 tie. Pittsburgh scores at 19:49 with the goalie pulled to force the tie. |
| St. Clair Shores Saints @ Pittsburgh Spirit | The Shores score the first goal at 1:40 of the 1st, but that would be all the muster as Pittsburgh notches 4 unanswered goals to skate to a 4-1 win. |
| Weekly Summary: | Pittsburgh gets 3 of 4 home points. With two road wins, not a bad week at all. |