SKATER & GOALIE OF THE WEEK #21
CLARENCE SKATER | TEAM | GP | GOALS | ASISSTS | POINTS | PM | +/- | SOG | S% |
Trottier, Bryan | CAP | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 20% |
CLARENCE GOALIE | TEAM | GP | GOALS AGAINST | G.A. AVERAGE | SAVES | SAVE % | |||
McKenzie, Bill | SAS | 1 | 1 | 1 | 39 | .975 | |||
WALES SKATER | TEAM | GP | GOALS | ASSISTS | POINTS | PM | +/- | SOG | S% |
Boldiev, Ivan | SYR | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 75% |
WALES GOALIE | TEAM | GP | GOALS AGAINST | G.A. AVERAGE | SAVES | SAVE % | |||
Gilbert, Gillies | QUE | 2 | 3 | 1.5 | 56 | .949 |
Saskatoon Cyclone | |
Weekly Preview: | Two teams with nowhere to go meet up to swap recipes. |
Silk City Whales @ Saskatoon Cyclone | Nowhere to go doesn’t mean not giving a crap apparently as the two teams spent much of the game beating the crap out of each other while Wayne Gretzky skated through them. The game featured wave after wave of Saskatoon Cyclone players screaming down on Whales’ keeper Bob Sauve, but it was like the surf pummelling the rocks at Peggy’s Cove. Saskatoon outshot the Whales 22-3 in the 1st period, but it was only the luckiest guy in the universe (Pat Hughes) that could find the twine. With Dave Taylor and Marc Tardif pretty much done for the season, Hughes was the lucky bastard promoted to play right wing alongside the great one. He continued to reap, one-timing a pass from Gretzky through the slot and past Sauve just over two minutes into the game. Hughes was doing his darnedest to earn a spot on the 1991 Cyclone team which will have four potential 50-goal scorers. It looked like it would be a long day for the St. Croix squad, but Sauve kept them in the game and then some. Silk City responded in appreciation to Sauve’s performance by getting the only goal of the period when Barry Beck connected on a tic-tac-toe passing play with Harris and Fitchner to blast one from the point high and over the shoulder of Rogatien Vachon. The game-breaker came pretty early in the 3rd period when one of the patched-together Saskatoon lines that found itself with Gretzky at centre stole the puck in the Whales’ end and finished with the Great One slapping a low shot under the pads of the Silk City keeper to make it 2-1. That was how it ended as Silk City could not muster any sort of offense in the 3rd period and were outshot 14-8 but with all the shots coming from outside. An entertaining game with a few smackdowns including Ian Turnbull flattening Darcy Rota and Jerry Korab getting bitch-slapped by Dave Maloney during a mid-3rd period intermission. Stars: 1. SAS, Gretzky (1 G, 1 A) 2. SAS, P.Hughes (1 G) 3. SCW, B. Sauve (41 saves) |
Weekly Summary: | Another game … another two points by Gretzky and the rest of the Cyclone just pretty much voyeurs. Two points is always nice, but … meh … good game. |
Mackinac Island Moose | |
Weekly Preview: | The Moose host division leading foe Saint Croix Falls. |
Saint Croix Falls Lumberjacks @ Mackinac Island Moose | Saint Croix Falls 4, Mackinac Island 2 – Saint Croix comes out aggressively with an early penalty followed up by a Robert shortie for the early lead. Federko adds another in the 2nd, matched by Dunlop to send the game to the 3rd at 2-1 visitors. Saint Croix erases all doubts on the game with goals by Roberts and Clarke in the first 3 minutes to make it 4-1. Lever with a meaningless goal late in the 3rd for a 4-2 final score 1st star Robert 2g1a 2nd star Clarke 1g1a 3rd star Federko 1g |
Weekly Summary: | The division leaders come in and show us who’s boss.
Robert with 2 goals and 1 assist. |
Syracuse Bulldogs | |
Weekly Preview: | Syracuse plays a home and home against the always tough team from the Chicago. |
Philadelphia Firebirds @ Syracuse Bulldogs | Syracuse takes advantage of their 5 to 1 Power Play advantages. They win it 7-2 Stars #1. Boldirev 2. Smyl 3. Young |
Weekly Summary: | Syracuse tries to secure the division. They get a home win to get 2 valuable points |
Chicago Underground | |
Weekly Preview: | Chicago takes on the Le Blue of Quebec City for the lone home game of the week. |
Quebec City Le Blue @ Chicago Underground | Quebec City jumps out to a 4-0 lead at the end of two periods of play before the Underground decide to show up on home ice. They score 3, but fall to the Le Blue by 1.
Final Score: Quebec City 4 – Chicago 3 Star #1 – Vaclav Nedomansky – 2 Goals |
Weekly Summary: | Chicago disappoints the home crowd once again! |
Charlestown Chiefs | |
Vermont Foresters @ Charlestown Chiefs | Vermont has an easy time of it, winning 4-2.
Scoring Summary Star 1: VER McCourt 1 G, 2 Pts GWG: Kent Nilsson Notables: VER Hanlon 31 saves |
Weekly Summary: | Charlestown is playing out the string, trying to pad whatever stats they can. |
Pittsburgh Spirit | |
Weekly Preview: | Home game of a home and away against division rival CapJack! |
CapJack Rangers @ Pittsburgh Spirit | It was apparent from the start that there is no lost love between these two franchises.
1st Period 2nd Period 3rd Period Stats alone, Pittsburgh dominated the game outshooting CAP 43-24. CapJack made it count when it mattered going 3-6 on the PP while PIT only managed 1 PPG on 6 attempts. A great game and a hard fought season by these two teams. 1 2 3 F Scoring Summary Penalty Summary SOG 1 SOG 2 SOG 3 CAP PIT Star 1: PIT Lafleur 2 G, 4 Pts Notables: CAP Trottier 4 assists, Trottier 16 faceoffs won, A.Smith 39 saves CapJack GA SV Save% TOI W L T Rate Pittsburgh GA SV Save% TOI W L T Rate |
Weekly Summary: | A head to head washout tie with CapJack SHOULD seal the division (I was never any good at math). Pittsburgh gears up for a solid playoff run behind stellar defense and goaltending as well as a resurgent top line of Lafleur, Sittler, and Vickers. |
St. Clair Shores Saints | |
Weekly Preview: | SCS has a narrow 2 point lead over Biloxi. SCS hosts Biloxi in a late season game. |
Biloxi Blades @ St. Clair Shores Saints | Biloxi with a hot start and takes a 3-1 lead after one period – Walter scores his 33rd.
2nd period – The Saints score 4 out of 5 goals. Errol Thompson scores his 50th goal of the season. 3rd period – The Blades score 2 to take a narrow 1 goal lead. With 39 seconds to go, Nilsson plays hero and scores his 20th to tie the game for the Saints. Biloxi 6 SCS 6 1st – Nilsson 2 goals |
Weekly Summary: | One again, SCS collects a tie. Its the 14th tie for the Saints.
Biloxi 6 SCS 6 |
Silk City Whales | |
Weekly Preview: | Silk City welcomes the Great One and the Cyclones into the Blowhole this week. |
Saskatoon Cyclone @ Silk City Whales | Gretzky doesn’t disappoint with two first period goals as the Cyclone roll to a 5-1 win over the Whales. The highlight for the Whales came in a second period fight between Saskatoon’s Rick Vaive and Perry Turnbull. Apparently, someone from the Saskatoon media was heard referring to Turnbull as Ian Turnbull, and Perry Turnbull took it out on Vaive. “WHAT’S….MY….NAME” came with each punch raining down on Vaive.
1st Star – Wayne Gretzky, SAS – 2G, A 2nd Star – Bill McKenzie, SAS – 39 saves 3rd Star – Brent Ashton, SAS – G, A |
Weekly Summary: | The good people in the state of Connecticut can’t wait for this season to end. The bad ones can’t either. |
CapJack Rangers | |
Weekly Preview: | 2 games this series, road game to Pittsburgh and home game with Pittsburgh with ever so slim chances of catching the Spirit it will be fun to play them twice – although the road game ended in a tie, we will still work hard here. |
Pittsburgh Spirit @ CapJack Rangers | In a game that appeared to be fought with defense in mind – 48 Pittsburgh shot attempts (33 on goal) and 40 CapJack shot attempts (19 on goal), you would think it would be low scoring. BUT NO! Rangers want this one and they pounce on Resch quickly and often scoring 4 times in the opening period. 1:19 into the game and Esposito makes it 1-0. Then Trottier gets into the scoring – but not the way the Rangers wanted. He goes off for 2 minutes and Sittler nabs his 34th goal (PP) to even it up. But then Gare, Douglas and Schutt score in 5 minute span to make it 4-1 at the end of 1.Spirit won’t sit around useless, in the 2nd they close the gap to 4-3 on Tkaczuk SH goal and then Houle scores midway through the period and we go to the 3rd with GAME ON!Trottier scores early (2:44) and then sets up Shutt 3 minutes later to make it 6-3 Rangers and home crowd is in a frenzy. But late in the game, the crowd is silenced when Labraaten gets one form Houle and Edberg to make it 6-4 and a minute later (16:22) Lafluer puts one past the pipes to make it 6-5. Spirit yank Resch for the final minute and laFLURRY really starts – but the CapJack defense and a battered Smith hold on and take the game 6-5. Spirit really dominated the 3rd period outshooting the Rangers 14-5 – but percentage wise the Rangers hit on 40% of those shots and it carried them.STARS – for a win, it’s interesting that 2 of the Stars came from the losing team. 1. CAP – Trottier 1 goal, 2 assists 2. PIT – Laflure 1 goal, 1 assist 3. PIT – Houle 1 goal, 1 assist |
Weekly Summary: | So, in what was probably too little too late, but a great effort anyway, the Rangers pulled of the victory against the Spirit and hope to see them again in the post season |
Quebec City Le Blue | |
Weekly Preview: | Quebec City trails Syracuse by 8 points with 4 games left. So Le Blue need to win all four games and Syracuse needs to lose all 4 for there to be a tie atop the division |
Philadelphia Firebirds @ Quebec City Le Blue | QUEBEC CITY 6 PHILADELPHIA 1
It was all Le Blue in this one as Stan Weir scored 2 goals (and an assist) and Richie Dunn had 3 points (1 G, 2 A) to lead Le Blue to victory. Gilles Gilbert made 27 saves to get the victory. Philly’s Phil Myre allowed all 6 goals on 32 shots QC’s Vaclav Nedomansky had 3 assists. Weir won 17 faceoffs. Three of Le Blue’s goals came on the Power Play. |
Weekly Summary: | With the win, Quebec City trails Syracuse by 6 points with 3 games remaining. |
Biloxi Blades | |
Weekly Preview: | Two points separate these two clubs in playoff race., the Saints holding the slim lead. Lots will be decided by this match |
St. Clair Shores Saints @ Biloxi Blades | Game not about the team high scorers, Bordeleau gets #6 for Saints to kick things off, the Jude Drouin’s 4th, a shorthanded goal ties it after one period. Lindstrom #16 with 8 seconds remaining in the 2nd for the Blades makes it 2-1 after two. In the third, Robbie Ftorek ties it 6 minutes in and that is all she wrote. Game ends up tied, 2-2 so turns out nothing was decided, other than these teams evenly matched. |
Weekly Summary: | Blades and Saints remain close in standings as the season drags on. |
Vermont Foresters | |
Weekly Preview: | vermont’s season is coming to a close and they find themselves 1 point behind pittsburgh and st croix falls for the best over all record. a home and home with charlestown this week and every point is important. |
Charlestown Chiefs @ Vermont Foresters | vermont trying to close out the season strong goes with glen hanlon in net facing eddie mio for the chiefs. the foresters strike first 1:16 into the game when bob murray netted his 12th of the season. mike foligno made it 2-0 later in the period with his 30th of the year. the score remained that way until half way through the 2nd period when morris lukowich scored his 37th of the year. charlestown tried to get back in the game with michaletti scoring his 1st of the year. vermont responded with a goal by eric vail 1:39 later to make the score 4-1 at the end of the second. mark howe scored 6 minutes in to make it 5-1 and 50 seconds later the chiefs and foresters get into a brawl with 6 fighting majors each and rich preston and ray bourque getting game misconducts. the ancient stan mikita got targeted and laid out by terry ruskowski in a unfair matchup. kent nilsson, thomas gradin and reggie leach score to make the final 7-2. kent nilsson had a goal and 3 assists for vermont. gradin had a goal and assist for the chiefs. |
Weekly Summary: | a win at home as vermont tries to finish with the best overall record |
Saint Croix Falls Lumberjacks | |
Weekly Preview: | The Lumberjacks will host Mackinac Island Moose. |
Mackinac Island Moose @ Saint Croix Falls Lumberjacks | Saint Croix Falls 3 Mackinac Island 1 Star #1 Smith 27 saves. Star#2 Stoughton 1 g Star#3 Roberts 1 g |
Weekly Summary: | The Lumberjacks go 1-0 at home. |