2016-2017 PLAYER & GOALIE OF THE WEEK #15
| EASTERN SKATER | TEAM | GP | GOALS | ASISSTS | POINTS | PM | +/- | SOG | S% |
| Pavelski, Joe | JAG | 4 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 36% |
| EASTERN GOALIE | TEAM | GP | GOALS AGAINST | G.A. AVERAGE | SAVES | SAVE % | |||
| Luongo, Roberto | IND | 3 | 6 | 2.01 | 59 | .908 | |||
| WESTERN SKATER | TEAM | GP | GOALS | ASSISTS | POINTS | PM | +/- | SOG | S% |
| Zuccarello, Mats | WLJ | 4 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 54% |
| WESTERN GOALIE | TEAM | GP | GOALS AGAINST | G.A. AVERAGE | SAVES | SAVE % | |||
| Lundqvist, Henrik | MIN | 3 | 8 | 2.68 | 96 | .923 | |||
| Jagr Mullets | |
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| Weekly Preview: |
Just one home game this week against Ripon – and it’s a hum-dinger!
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| Game #1: | We’re not even 5 minutes into the game, and a MASSIVE brawl breaks out! Spooner, Jenner, Nurse, and Dillon take on Staal, Jokinen, Abdelkader, and Brodie – with all 8 getting 5 for fighting.Apparently Ripon’s fists got the better of the Mullets, as Jagr remained intimidated most of the game. Looks like we’ll have to dress Tom Wilson the next time we face the Rockets!
Jagr outshoots Ripon over 2-to-1 in the game, but finds themselves down 3-1 halfway through the 2nd. But TJ Brodie (6) finds the back of the net at 16:15 of the 2nd to rise the Mullet spirits and make it a game. The endless onslaught of Jagr shots continues into the 3rd, and Ripon actually becomes the intimidated team! And for good reason, as Pavelski (27) continues his MVP campaign with a goal at 11:17 to tie it up at 3. Ripon is on their heels, as the Mullet’s continue to throw shot after shot at Enroth… and the home crowd EXPLODES when Kadri puts one in the net with 11 SECONDS LEFT IN THE GAME! Jagr calmly wins the ensuing faceoff and dumps the puck to secure the amazing come-from-behind win in a game where they out-shot (45-22), out-faceoffed (37-30), out-hit (28-21) and out-attempted (75-38) the Rockets and nearly lost. 1 2 3 F Scoring Summary Penalty Summary SOG 1 SOG 2 SOG 3 RIP JAG Star 1: JAG Kadri 1 G, 2 Pts GWG: Nazem Kadri Notables: RIP Duchene 18 faceoffs won, Enroth 41 saves Ripon GA SV Save% TOI W L OL Rate Jagr GA SV Save% TOI W L OL Rate |
| Weekly Summary: |
Jagr very lucky to take 2 points in their only home game this week.
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| Hampton Blizzard | |
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| Weekly Preview: |
A single game to be played in Hampton this week with the Blizzard taking on division rivals New Jersey and their yeti defenceman Dustin Byfuglien.
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| Game #1: | Carey Price shakes off the cobwebs to take the net against Jersey’s Cory Schneider and at the start it looks like Price is in for a long night with Viktor Arvidsson getting a breakaway right after the opening faceoff. Lucky for Price goals come with crossbars which Arvidsson nailed sending the puck over the net and off the glass. The next 10 minutes of the 1st period were all Hampton after being spooked at the start as the Blizzard pelted Schneider with the next 10 shots of the game. Alex Killorn struck a revenge blow against the Deflection in Front of the Net Gods (hockey has gods for everything) by getting a rare one FOR Hampton rather than against as he tipped a Andrej Sekera point shot past the sprawling Jersey netminder for a power play tally. And I thought basketball was a game of momentum … The next five minutes were all New Jersey when Hampton ran into a couple of penalties. The Grizzlies, down 11-1 in shots at one point, stormed back to tie the shots but could not put the puck in the net with Price providing steady but not spectacular goaltending. Tyler Myers gave Hampton a 2-0 lead at 18:52 of the opening period with a blast from the point and that’s how #1 ended. Period 2 was a lackluster affair that seemed a lot like basketball with one team coming down taking one shot, missing and then the other team doing the same. A big snoozer for the fans for that 20 minutes except for once again the dreaded deflection paid a role. Surprisingly it was Hampton again getting the benefit as they bumped their lead to 3-0 when Patric Hornqvist bounced a shot off Vinnie Trocheck’s buttcheeks for the young Florida centre’s 19th of the year. Hampton coach Scotty Bowman gave the team his usual “don’t blow the lead like usual” pep talk and the team, of course responded. Or rather New Jersey did. The league’s best defenceman, Shea Weber, coolly cruised into the slot on the power play barely into the 3rd period and drilled a wrist shot high stickside past helpless Price to give the Grizzlies a breath of life. It was Shea’s 14th. Kyle Okposo – does he score against anyone else??? – followed it up two minutes later when he took advantage of a poorly timed line change and backhanded one from point blank range to make it 3-2. Nice pep talk Scotty. Thankfully, Killorn continued his inspired play hitting everything that moved (he finished with 7 hits!) and his unexpected promotion to the power play paid dividends once again when he parked his Fat Albert-like ass in front of Schneider, could not be moved and knocked in the puck from inside the crease. Hampton hung on with New Jersey pressing in the final minutes and came out with a 4-2 win.Scoring Summary: 1st period 1. HAM, Killorn 7 (Sekera, Stastny) 6:37 (PPG) 2. HAM, Myers 11 (McGinn, Burkovsky) 18:52 2nd period 3. HAM, Trocheck 19 (Hornqvist, Ribeiro) 13:14 3rd period 4. NJ, Weber 14 (Sedin, Arvidsson) 1:53 (PPG) 5. NJ, Okposo 11 (Johansen, Arvidsson) 4:43 6. HAM, Killorn 8 (Sekera, Stastny) 11:04 (PPG) |
| Weekly Summary: |
Hampton gets revenge two-fold by beating New Jersey after recently falling to them and doing it by scoring a couple of goals on deflections. Next … actually scoring a goal during a shootout.
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| Long Beach Ice Dogs | |
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| Weekly Preview: |
Long Beach hosts the 2 best teams in the league.
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| Game #1: | Long Beach (31-16-0-5) hosts California (35-15-0-3). This game was between the top 2 teams in the Pacific Division. The teams traded goals in the first by Reinhart & Stamkos. Perron gave Long Beach a 2-1 lead in the 2nd. For the last 10 minutes of the 2nd and first 10 of the 3rd, Long Beach peppered Holtby but couldn’t score a 3rd goal. Then California took over. Reinhart scored his 2nd goal of the game to tie it and Di Giuseppe scored the game winner with 2:10 left. Zbaneiad scored an empty netter to make the final 4-2. Holtby made 48 saves to give his team a chance to comeback.Stars: 1. Reinhart 2. Holtby 3. Zbaneiad |
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Long Beach (31-17-0-5) hosts Hampton (35-11-0-7). Hampton totally dominated this game, jumping out to a 4-0 lead in the 2nd period and went on to a 5-2 win. Ullmark had 25 saves in picking up his 12th
win.Stars: 1. Forsberg 2. Burakovsky 3. Hertl |
| Weekly Summary: |
This week was a test of the playoff readiness of the Long Beach team and they failed losing both games.
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| Alamo Defenders | |
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| Weekly Preview: |
Alamo plays host to both Brentwood and Scottsdale
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| Game #1: |
Brentwood at Alamo Cam Ward comes out of the starting lineup for Daniel Sedin. Parenteau starts up the scoring for Brentwood, but Alamo scores 3 consecutive goals to make it 3-1 for Alamo. Crosby and Malkin score consecutive goals for Brentwood – and its tied 3-3. Marchand and Sedin trade goals and its tied, 4-4. With 42 seconds to go, Pacioretty scores the game winner for Alamo. Alamo 5 Brentwood 4 1-Crosby |
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Scottsdale at Alamo Lucic and Pacioretty exchange goals and its 1-1. Boedker breaks the tie in the 3rd, and Scottsdale leads. Then, Alamo goes on a penalty killing spree as Scottsdale gets 4 of them in the 3rd period. Johnson scores 1 and its 3-1, Scottsdale. Alamo shows some heart and scores 2. Marchand and Gardiner get the goals for Alamo. Late in the 3rd, Scottsdale calls a timeout, and sets up a nice goal by Josi with 35 seconds to go. Scottsdale wins. Scottsdale 4 Alamo 3 |
| Weekly Summary: |
2 real exciting games there were decided with less than 1 minute left.
Alamo 5 Brentwood 4
Scottsdale 4 Alamo 3 |
| Thunder Bay Nor’Westers | |
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| Weekly Preview: |
Three of our four games this week are within our division so we want to dominate these games to make a statement that the Nor’Westers are going to be the team to beat. Looking to give O’Reilly a couple of days off.
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| Game #3: |
Hampton (1) Thunder Bay (3)
Petry (3rd) opened the scoring but not until the 2nd period. Nestrasil (4th) tied the game at 1-1 after 40 minutes. Seth Jones (2nd) gave the Nor’Westers the lead 2-1 and then Barkov netted the insurance goal for the 3-1 win. Reimer with a solid 29 saves for the win. |
| Game #4: |
New Jersey (3) Thunder Bay (4) in a Shootout
Thunder Bay lead 1-0 after the first on DeKeyser’s goal. Anthansiou pushed the lead to 2-0 in the 2nd, but Shattenkirk (8th) and Johansen (7th) tied it up 2-2 after 40 minutes.The 3rd saw Thunder Bay jump back in front 3-2 on Nestrasil’s (5th) send of the week. New Jersey battled back at the big guy, Dustin Byfuglein tied the game with his 20th goal of the season.OT saw no scoring. Shootout: Okposo (G) – Barkov Miss Draisaitl Miss – Saad (G) Ryan Miss – Eberle (G) and the 2 points. |
| Weekly Summary: |
Solid week at home – now we will see what happens on the road against Corktown and 2nd City.
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| Corktown Suds | |
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| Weekly Preview: |
Corktown has one home games this week.
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| Game #1: |
Thunder Bay- Corktown gets a pair of goals by Neal (13,14) in the victory.
Corktown 4-1 |
| Weekly Summary: |
Corktown takes care of their one home game.
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| Bathgate Rangers | |
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| Weekly Preview: |
Bathgate has a fun week – we get to play Jagr twice, once at home and then once again on the road! Oh, boy. We also get to host Columbus – a family affair (and we’ve been
getting the best of it all year – wish we had to play them 82 times, it seems it’s the only time the defense can keep up with the offense. |
| Game #1: | JAGR MULLETS – Best vs. Worst in Metropolitan division and a miracle happens. Even after Jagr scores with 3 minutes left in the 3rd to tie it – Rangers give up nothing in overtime and actually win the shoot out.Rinne stops Pavelski and Smith while Kane and Benn both score for the win.Rangers took an early 1-0 lead in the first but Mullets came right back 26 seconds later to tie it up, then poured in 2 more goals in the 1st but only led 3-2.Kane tied it in the 2nd and King got his 2nd goal of the game midway through the 3rd to give the home team a 4-3 lead, but Stralman scored the tying goal at 17:02. Then the overtime – blank for both and shootout. STARS 1. BGR King 2 goals 2. BGR Kane 1 goal 3. JAG Stralman 1 goal |
| Game #2: | Local Rivalry – Columbus vs. Bathgate Like to say we’d be nice to the Brew Jackets, but that’s no fun. Zajac got the home team up 1-0 in the 1st. Then the Brew Jackets tied it twice in the 2nd on goals from Subban and Iginla sandwished around a Benn goal.3rd Period – Rangers get a PP goal from Klingberg and then a goal from Tierney to go up 4-2. Brew Jackets try for comeback with a PP goal by Nash with 21 seconds to go, but that was it as Rinne and defense manage to hold on during those final 21 seconds for the 4-3 win. STARS 1. BGR Tierney 1 goal, 2 PTS 2. BGR Benn 1 goal, 2 PTS 3. CBJ Subban 1 goal, 2 PTS |
| Weekly Summary: |
Rangers accomplish a 2 game win streak at home – woohoo!
Bathgate 5 Jagr 4 (SO) Bathgate 4 Columbus 3 |
| Jagr Mullets | |
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| Weekly Preview: |
Scheduling snafu results in Jagr realizing they have a 2nd home game this week, vs. Bathgate.
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| Game #1: |
Jagr jumps all over Bathgate, taking an early 3-0 lead. But Bathgate storms back with 3 goals in the 3rd… but also allows 3 more goals in the 3rd and ultimately the Mullets prevail 6-3. Pavelski scores his 29th and 30th goals to continue his MVP caliber season, and Vasilevskiy goes to 6-0 on the season as the backup Mullet Goalie. |
| Weekly Summary: |
Jagr continues to get balanced scoring, but has been allowing too many goals as we head into the final months.
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| New Jersey Grizzlies | |
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| Weekly Preview: |
New Jersey welcomes Minneapolis to the rock just before the circus arrives with all the bells and whistles.
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| Game #1: |
New Jersey goes into week 15 welcoming Minneapolis into the Rock just before the circus arrives. The Grizzlies struck a cord early when young Viktor Arvidsson started the scoring. NJ leads 1-0. Luke Schenn evened the game at 1. Derrick Brassard gave Minneapolis their first lead of the night at 2-1. In the second period Viktor Arvidsson tied it up and really has stepped up and grabbed the momentum back. Derrick Brassard netted his second and goal gave the lead back to Minneapolis. A late goal gave Minneapolis the 4-2 win.
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| Weekly Summary: |
New Jersey finally loses at home but it will be a long road to home on the home stretch.
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| Lakeland Flying Tigers | |
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| Weekly Preview: |
4 Games, Lakeland goes 1-3 Ripon 2-1 L |
| Weekly Summary: |
Lakeland goes 1-3.
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| Brentwood Bandits | |
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| Weekly Preview: |
Brentwood appears to be gaining some chemistry on and off the ice, even though they are resting up superstar center Evgeni Malkin.
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| Game #1: | Long Beach comes to town. Great game. All scoring in the first with Brentwood up 2-1. Goals scored by Ekman-Larsson (20) and Marleau (17) for Brentwood and Perron (8) for Long Beach.Score holds until the last 1:08 left when Phaneuf (3) puts it into an Empty Net to give the Bandits the 3-1 lead. Hainsey (5) adds insult to injury with another Empty Netter.Bandits win 4-1 in a game in which they dominated, but Talbot was equal to the task after allowing two in the first.
Brentwood outshot Long Beach 40-25 Star 1 – Marleau 1G, 1A Notables – LBD Soderberg 16 faceoffs won, Talbot 36 saves |
| Game #2: | Bathgate comes to The Hallow to try to knock Brentwood down a peg or two.Scoreless first period, despite Brentwood outshooting Bathgate 16-6. Pekka Rinne would be stellar this game.Second period Bathgate opens up the scoring with Donskoi starting things off with his 10th of the season, assisted by Klingberg (20) and Kane (39)Crosby answers back at 15:40 with his 30th of the season off a beautiful feed by (temporary?) new line mate Daniel Sedin (20).Enter the third period tied 1-1at 18:12 Patrick Marleau rips a slapper from the slot on a nice feed from Hemsky (9) for his 18th of the campaign. Niederreiter gets the second assist (15)
Bathgate pulls Rinne, after an outstanding performance, and does him no favors as they give up the empty netter to Daniel “Don’t call me Henrik” Sedin (10), assisted by Parenteau (30) and Crosby (38). Al “Inigo” Montoya is impressive in a rare backup appearance spelling MAF. Final score Brentwood 3, Bathgate 1 Star 1 – Sedin 1G, 1A Notables – BGR Rinne 36 saves |
| Weekly Summary: |
Bandits take both home games and seem to be putting things together around the right time. Coach Tom Atkins is very pleased and was unusually all smiles at his post game press conference.”I’m just glad that Cam Ward stayed in the press box and didn’t try to impersonate Daniel Sedin again…”Look out Mullets… we’re coming for ya!
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| Minneapolis Deep Freeze | |
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| Weekly Preview: |
Minneapolis gets only 1 home game this week, facing off against division opponent Lansing.
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| Game #1: | Lansing Capitals (2) @ Minneapolis Deep Freeze (3)
Minneapolis gets off to a strong start, outshooting Lansing 11-1 through the first 11 minutes. After making several great saves, Varlamov finally conceded a goal when Getzlaf (9) beat him to give Minneapolis the 1-0 lead. After another powerplay for Minneapolis in which Varlamov made 5 more impressive stops, Eriksson picked up a loose puck in the neutral zone and created a 3-on-2 rush for Minneapolis. After some tic-tac-toe passing between Eriksson and Boyle, Hoffman (17) extended the Deep Freeze lead to 2 with 3 minutes left in the first period. Minneapolis holds onto the lead and goes into the first intermission feeling very confident after dominating Lansing in the opening period. After only getting 1 shot on goal in the first period, Lansing peppers Lundqvist with 5 shots in the opening minute of the second period. Lansing gets on the board under 3 minutes into the period when Ward (13) made a beautiful deflection on Vanek’s shot from the point. They would tie it at 2 only 90 seconds later when Steen (8) beat undqvist with a shot that probably should have been stopped. Through 5 minutes of play in the second period, Minneapolis hasn’t mustered a single shot on goal. 40 seconds after I wrote that, Markov (2) would beat Varlamov with a blast from the point to give Minneapolis back ahead 3-2. Minneapolis would get back into their first period form and manage to outshoot Lansing 17-5 over the last 15 minutes of the period and leads by 1 entering the third. Lansing turned up the heat on the Deep Freeze in the third period, but couldn’t break through Lundqvist again, and Minneapolis holds on to win 3-2. Star 1: MIN Hoffman 1 G, 2 Pts GWG: Andrei Markov Notables: LAN Varlamov 43 saves LAN MIN |
| Weekly Summary: |
Minneapolis returns to form this week with a dominating performance in a tough divisional game. Minneapolis continues to be very strong at home, but needs to find a way to win more road games.
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| Wausau Lumberjacks | |
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| Weekly Preview: |
The Lumberjacks will play the following opponents at home. Lansing and Minneapolis. Also Lumberjacks will play road game at Chicago
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| Game #1: |
Wausau 4 Chicago 1
Wausau-Zuccarello 1 goal 3 pts. Chicago -Wennberg 1 goal |
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Wausau 5 Minneapolis 2 Wausau- Holland, Giroux , Zuccarello all had 1 goal |
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Wausau 6 Lansing 5 (so) In a wild game Wausau wins in a shoot out. |
| Weekly Summary: |
Wausau goes 3-0. Great 3 games for the Lumberjacks.
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| Indiana Sycamores | |
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| Weekly Preview: |
4 games – a roadie at Lansing, home vs. the dangerous Lumberjacks, then a pair vs. division rival Corktown.
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| Game #1: |
IND(1) @ LAN (5) This one was no contest from the start – Lansing jumped out to a quick 3-0 lead, IND got frustrated and took 6 consecutive penalties (Bergeron with a major + a 10-minute misconduct)…this game was over early. Lansing was outshot but still had a 14-4 edge in ‘scoring chances’. 3 stars: #3 Maroon 1G, #2 Steen 1G, #1 Little 1+1 |
| Game #2: | WAS(3) @ IND(4)
Looked like a repeat of the Lansing game at first.. Wasau dominated early play, and jumped out to a 2-0 lead with just over 3 mins to go in the first…but FINALLY the Sycamores sprung to life, as ‘ironman’ Doughty potted his 15th just seconds after Wasau’s 2nd goal. A goal from Koivu tied it up early in the 2nd, but a few minutes later Zuccarello scored his 2nd of the game to give Wasau another lead. Captain Toews to the rescue one more time, with a mid-2nd period goal. We went to the third tied, and it looked like OT – but then 4th-liner MAtt Read found himself in alone and buried it for the win. 12 of Indy’s 18 skaters recorded a point. As usual, Indy dominated the faceoff circle and the shot clock. Stars: #3 Toews 1G, @2 Koivu 1G, #1 Zucarello 2G |
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CRK(0) @ IND(2) Pretty boring game. Neither team had that many shots or PPs – Indy killed a double-minor late in the 1st, scored two early in the 2nd, and that was that. Bobby Lu was strong when he had to be. Stars: #3 Letestu G, #2 Koivu G, #1 Luongo 25 saves |
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CRK(3) @ IND(4) After a boring, scoreless first period..things got CRAZY. Indiana took three leads only to see Corktown return fire every time. There were 8 combined power plays in the last two periods and the Suds were outshot 28-13 over that span, but it took a late power-play marker from little-used Tomas Plekanec to seal the deal. Bobby Lu was off this game, giving up three on 19 shots. The rest of the Sycamore squad was dominant – 34 shots to 19, 63% on faceoffs, 3-6 with the man advantage. STARS: #3 Doughty 1+1 #2 Bergeron 1+1 #1 Methot 2G |
| Weekly Summary: |
3-1 keeps Indy in the hunt…for now.
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| Ripon Rockets | |
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| Weekly Preview: |
Ripon hosts Alamo
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| Game #1: | February 4 2017 Galaxy Centre 01-31-2017
1 2 3 F Scoring Summary Penalty Summary SOG 1 SOG 2 SOG 3 ALA RIP Star 1: ALA Greiss 29 saves GWG: Jay Beagle Notables: ALA Thornton 15 faceoffs won |
| Weekly Summary: |
Alamo takes Ripon 2-1 in a tight checking game.
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| Second City Chiefs | |
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| Game #1: |
Hampton wins over Second City 4-3 in the shootout.
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| Game #2: |
Second City outshoots Thunder Bay 38-22 but a craptastic performance from Rask who allows five goals, and a great performance from Mason who shuts out the Chiefs. 5-0 Thunder Bay wins.
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| Game #3: |
Second City leads the whole way until Chicago ties it with the empty net with under 30 seconds to go. Then Chicago wins it in OT 2-1.
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| Weekly Summary: |
Second City loses all three because they suck. Front office is open to trades.
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| Scottsdale X-Men | |
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| Weekly Preview: |
2 Games Against California
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| Game #1: |
California Wins
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| Game #2: |
Scottsdale Wins
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| Weekly Summary: |
1-1 Both Against California This Week
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