1983/84 SKATER & GOALIE OF THE WEEK #2

Texas wins 7-3

Final Score: St. Clair Shores 6 – Chicago 5

Labatts 3-Star Selection:
Star 1: SCS – Bengt-Ake Gustafsson 2G, 3 Pts
Star 2: CHI – Tom Roulston 2G
Star 3: SCS – Tom McCarthy 1G, 3 Pts

Game Winner: – Gaetan Duchesne

Notables:
SYR – Bernie Federko 17 Face-Off Wins, Ron Francis 15 Minutes in Penalties
CHI – John Paul Kelly 17 Minutes in Penalties

Final Score: St. Clair Shores 7 – Chicago 6 (Overtime)

Labatts 3-Star Selection:
Star 1: MIM – Jari Kurri 2G, 3Pts
Star 2: MIM – Paul MacLean 2G, 3Pts
Star 3: MIM – Mike O’Connell 1G, 2Pts

Game Winner: – Jari Kurri

Notables:
MIM – None
CHI – Richard Brodeur 37 Saves, Peter Stastny 16 Faceoff Wins

2nd period – wow – another tight-checking and low shooting period (8-5 New Castle) and no goals! Both teams had a player go off, but the Ducks PP was cut short when Walter drew the cross-checking penalty. So both sides ended up with abbreviated power plays. So, it’s still 1-0 Ducks as they skate-off for the 2nd intermission.

3rd Period – Suddenly it’s a totally different game. In the opening minute, Potvin scores to make it 2-0 Ducks. Then Bloomquist is nailed for interference at 1:02 and Pederson scores 40 seconds into the PP and it’s 3-0 New Castle (bring on the Brown Ale, we need it). The Rangers, however, don’t quit. DeBlois gets them on the scoreboard just before the 4-minute mark scoring it after winning the faceoff in the Ducks ends. The Rangers keep trying Ducks keep thwarting. The Rangers fire 18 goals on the net in the 3rd and with 6 minutes left, they start to miss Billy Smith and find the back of the net. Neufeld beats Smith stick side high with 6;10 to go. Then with 5:37 left, Daoust makes a great play getting one past Smith to tie the game!!! Garden fans are really going crazy after the major wake-up goals!! The play continues, both sides looking for an edge, both sides blocking the opponent’s efforts. The final minute of play in regulation arrives, still 3-3, Rangers dump it in, but the Ducks gain control, with 47 seconds left to tick. New lines, Meagher with the puck, slaps it into the Rangers ends, Ramsay gets it on the boards, to McCrimmon, to Shand, back to Meagher – shoots – GOAL! He Breaks the tie beats Resch on the low glove side and New Castle calls time with 32 seconds left. Rangers come out for the face-off, Trottier wins it, Crowder on as an extra attacker, they gain control in the Ducks end, but can’t get the shot off as the horn sounds – Ducks win it, 4-3!
STARS (all NCD)
1. Pederson 1 goal, 1 assist
2. Osborne 1 goal
3. Meagher 1 goal (GWG)
Billy Smith stops 30 shots!

2nd Period was a bit tamer, 10-9 SOG lead for Sasquatch, but bigfoot only got one past Resch as Sutter scores just before the halfway point in the period. Silk, however, matched that goal with 3 seconds left in the period to really deflate Big Foot as the intermission arrives and the Rangers hold a 5-1 lead of Portland.

3rd Period – Rangers say, let’s make it harder for them and play more defense than offense – they fire only 5 shots on goal. 1 off them from DeBlois finds the back of the net and it’s 6-1 CapJack, with 13 minutes to go! Sasquatch is determined to get back into the game, and even with the Rangers in defense mode, they manage to get 16 shots through the defense at all over Resch. But he stops all until the final 1:04 of the game when Gretzky manages to beat him to make it 6-2. But that was it, no more and the Rangers win the game by the 6-2 score!
STARS (all CAP)
1. DeBlois 2 goals 1 assist
2. Silk 2 goals, 1 assist
3. Daoust 1 goal
RESCH – 32 saves!

Charlestown scores 3 goals in the first to shell-shock Melanson and the Moose. They make a furious chargeback to try to pull it out, but ultimately fall 4-3.

Scoring Summary
Per Time Str Team
1 3:20 EV CHA Smith (2), assisted by Tremblay (3) and MacInnis (3)
1 17:52 EV CHA Krushelnyski (3), assisted by Stastny (1) and Nicholls (2)
1 19:19 PP CHA Stastny (3), assisted by Kisio (2)
2 :33 EV MIM Lysiak (2), assisted by Kurri (5) and O’Connell (3)
2 6:22 EV MIM Price (3), assisted by Quinn (3) and Beers (1)
3 1:06 EV CHA Coffey (1), assisted by Stastny (2) and Nicholls (3)
3 13:18 EV MIM MacLean (4), assisted by Quinn (4) and O’Connell (4)

Injuries: Shedden(CHA)-game

Star 1: CHA Smith 1 G
Star 2: CHA Krushelnyski 1 G
Star 3: CHA Stastny 1 G, 3 Pts

GWG: Paul Coffey

Notables: MIM Ladouceur 15 PIM
CHA Coffey 15 PIM, Bouchard 34 saves, Marian Stastny 15 PIM

But wait!

The Chiefs explode for SIX unanswered goals against Froese to win big 6-2.

And just like that, the Chiefs are 2-4.

Scoring Summary
Per Time Str Team
1 4:34 EV CHI Stastny (3), unassisted
1 6:10 PP CHI Persson (1), assisted by Savard (4) and Stastny (3)
1 16:50 EV CHA Krushelnyski (4), assisted by Nicholls (4)
2 9:24 EV CHA Kisio (3), assisted by MacInnis (4) and McKegney (1)
3 1:57 EV CHA McKegney (2), assisted by Kisio (3) and Coffey (3)
3 14:12 EV CHA Krushelnyski (5), assisted by MacInnis (5) and Eloranta (1)
3 16:01 EV CHA Kisio (4), unassisted
3 18:38 PP CHA MacInnis (1), assisted by Stastny (3) and Sulliman (2)

Star 1: CHA Kisio 2 G, 3 Pts
Star 2: CHA Krushelnyski 2 G
Star 3: CHA MacInnis 1 G, 3 Pts

GWG: Tony McKegney

Notables: CHI None
CHA Garrett 38 saves

2nd period is dominated by the Moose. 12-4 SOG advantage and 6-1 goal advantage. The Moose transition defense takes over and gets rewarded with not 1, not 2, but 3 breakaway goals on 4 opportunities. In the end, goals by Giles, Rogers, Ruskowski, Lysiak, Propp, and Campbell are countered by only a single goal by former Moose, Stan Smyl. Jensen gets knocked out of the net, and we go to 2nd break 7-4 Moose.

A very quiet 3rd period sees just one tally, a goal by Beers (I’ll drink to that) making the final 8-4

1st star – Kurri 1G 3pts
2nd – Chouinard 1G 3pts
3rd – Propp 1G 2pts

In the 2nd period, Federko scores another, and Duchesne scores his 2nd. It’s 4-0 after 2 periods.

In the 3rd, the Chiefs score 2 goals, and the Saints score one. Preston and Coffey get their first goals of the season, and Gustafsson scores his 4th.

SCS 5 Charlestown 2

Stars

1st – Federko 2 goals and 1 assist
2nd – Gustafsson 1 goal and 1 assist
3rd – Verbeek 1 goal

1 – Tanti 1 G 3 A
2 – Kerr 2 G
3 – Yzerman 1 G 1 A

The Bulldogs got the only goal in the middle stanza, as Reed Larson collected his second goal of the campaign with a power-play blast from the point. The deficit was reduced to 2-1, as the teams headed to the dressing rooms. Syracuse once again held the shots advantage, 11-10.

The Bulldogs tied the game at 2-2 when Curt Fraser tipped in a shot at 3:13.

Then, all lights shone on Ray Bourque.

The Ohio defenseman collected the next two goals to complete his hat trick at 4:44 (power play) and 8:31 to open a 4-2 edge for the Legends. Brian Bellows lit the lamp with two seconds remaining to get Syracuse to the final score of 4-3.

The Bulldogs dominated the shots on goal, 46-28. Mike Liut stood tall in net for Ohio, turning away 43 shots, while Greg Millen re-directed 24 shots. Bourque had three goals for the Legends, while Pierre Larouche commanded the faceoff circle with 16 wins.

Syracuse threw everything at the Legends, taking 67 shot attempts (to 35), but Ohio was able to block eleven of those efforts. The Bulldogs were one-for-three on the man-advantage, while Ohio went one-for-two.

FINAL: Ohio 4, Syracuse 3

Ohio opened a 3-0 lead in the first period and a late goal by Dallas closed it to 3-1 after a period. The Legends collected the first two goals of the middle period to open a 5-1 edge and held a 5-2 advantage after two. The lead was up to 8-3 for Ohio, before a pair of goals in the last four minutes brought the count to the final of 8-5.

Ohio won the shots battle, 31-30. The Legends capitalized on their only power-play chance of the game, while Dallas was stymied in three tries. Mike Liut stopped 25 shots, while Glen Hanlon re-directed 23 efforts.

Newcomer Rick Meagher scored the first goal of the game and veteran Craig Ramsey then made it 2-0 Ducks after one. The Dynamo’s superstar center Dale Hawerchuk cut the lead in half late in the second period. In the third, Bobby Clarke made it 3-1 Ducks at 3:16 before Anderson brought Charlotte back to within one. But at 17:32 Tiger Williams got a huge insurance goal and NCD led 4-2. The goal proved critical when Hawerchuk got his second of the game with 51 seconds remaining. With the Charlotte net empty the Dynamo pressed in the final minute but Don Edwards stood tall in goal as the Ducks came away with a hard-fought 4-3 win.

THREE STARS:
1- CHD Hawerchuk 2G 1 A 3 PTS
2- NCD Meagher 1 G 1 A 2 PTS
3- NCD Clarke 1G 1A 2 PTS

Charlotte outshot the Ducks 31-28. Clarke won 9 of 12 faceoffs

The 5-1 Saints are off to a great start with a much-improved team featuring a powerhouse offense that currently leads the MWOTHL in scoring. St. Clair Shores draws first blood as the MWOTHL’s leading scorer, Tom McCarthy, adds to his lead with his 9th goal of the year at 7:04 of the first. The Ducks tie it on a goal by Ramsey and the teams go to the locker room tied at 1-1. In the second, NCD takes the lead on newcomer Mark Osborne’s fourth of the year. Just over a minute later SCS ties it on a goal by Mark Taylor. And then at 11:44 of the second defenseman, Jim Benning nets his first of the year to put SCS ahead 3-2. The Ducks come out flying in the third period and it pays off at 7:07 when Tiger Williams ties it, assisted by Shand and Savard. It looks like the teams are headed for OT when the Ducks get too aggressive and McCarthy gets a 2 on 1 and puts the puck past Billy Smith – his second of the game and 10th of the year. 4-3 Saints. New Castle pulls the goalie, uses a timeout, and presses hard but Tom Barrasso is impenetrable in the SCS net and the Saints hold on for a 4-3 win.

Barrasso made 40 saves as NCD outshot SCS 43-25 including 18-9 in the third period.

THREE STARS:
1- SCS McCarthy 2G
2- SCS Benning 1 G
3- SCS Barrasso 40 saves

The second period was all Portland as they get 3 goals – 2 from Gretzky and 1 from Hamel on a shorthanded breakaway with 51 seconds giving the Sasquatch a 4-2 lead after two periods.

In the 3rd period, Pittsburgh tried to fight back into the game on a goal from Laughlin but Portland responded on another shorthanded goal from Hunter to win going away 5-3

Portland outshot the Spirit 39-26, won 30-47 faceoffs, had 9 more hits, and 21 more scoring opportunities as they controlled the game.

Star #1 – Gretzky (Por) 2 goals, 1 assist
STar #2 – Ciccarelli (Por) 1 goal, 1 assist
STar #3 – Foligno (Por) 3 assists

With 5:07 left in the second period, Charlotte’s Poulin gets his second goal of the game and Portland is left befuddled and frustrated. In the 3rd the Sasquatch came out with some energy and got a goal from Hunter with 21 seconds eclipsed and Gretzky added his 13th goal of the season with 8:08 remaining and you could begin to sense a comeback in the works. A tough tripping penalty on Sutter put Charlotte on a PP late in the game when Portland needed to get some attack and the Dynamo were able to withstand the clock to earn the upset win 4-2

Star #1 – Poulin (Cha) 2 goals
Star #2 -Perreault (Cha) 1 goal
Star #3 – Gillis (Cha) 1 goal

Three stars:
CHD Poulin 2 G
Tex LaFontaine 2 G
TEX Poddubny 1 G 2 pts

Notables: Herron with 33 saves for Texas.