THE

UPPER VALLEY HOCKEY LEAGUE

Tuck
Nordiques
1st
2
2
2rd
3
1
3rd
1
4
FINAL
6
7
Shots
51
37
October 13th, 2006 - 9:30PM
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Game ID: 310

Six Tuck Skaters Spank Nords until

It was ugly. Real ugly. Like a sexual encounter you'd like to forget after a night of beer goggling. Kinda like my entire University of Waterloo social experience until I met my sexy beautiful ballerina wife Alanna (that's my story and I'm sticking to it!). When the Nords finally woke up they were thoroughly thrashed by six superlative Tuck skaters that had schooled them all game. No really. ALL game until halfway through the third when fatigue set in. If it wasn't for a Hail Mary, last ditch effort, lucky-ass goal, it would have gone to an OT shootout. No joke, but Tuck stuck it to the Nords all game until the third period. The Nords offer no excuses and had 11 skaters, 5 more than Tuck did. Heavy hearts around the league were with Nords winger Will Meyer who received the very sad and tragic news that his father, Herman, had died suddenly that morning. Will was with family this night, and the thoughts and prayers of the entire UVHL and hockey community were with him and his loved ones. Tuck was just that good on this night, and they only had 1 sub on the bench! "The Wizard", Scott Turco, fresh off his 3rd period ejection in the first of his double-header UVHL games this evening was at his best wheeling and dealing puck magic to his teammates and frustrating the Nords defenders. JT even bestowed "The Best Player in the UVHL" honors upon Turco after the game. Combine Turco with smooth as silk Gary Hunter and Tuck has as much firepower as the Storm Kings all rolled up into one huge doobie, uh, I mean one huge dynamic duo. Hunter and Turco simply took over the game with the impressive James Greenthal, Michelle Labbe, Ben Kennedy and guest skater Sarah Carpenter as fine support. Turco shocked the Nords out of their slumber with an unassisted goal at 11:50 to start the game, and to make the Nords realize that Tuck meant business and the win, if any, had to be earned. Tuck shocked the shit out of the Nords again when Labbe pounced on a cross-goal pass from Hunter and Greenthal past the outstretched JT to go up 2-0 at 8:54. The Nords awoke from their slumber, and tied the game up with Kelly park's 5:37 goal from Poli Nightingale and Dan Jones, and then Jonesy's first of the season at 2:01 from Greg Marsh and Park returning the favor. In the second Tuck struck twice with Greenthal's marker at 13:12 from Hunter and Kennedy. Then it was Turco lighting the lamp at 7:11 from Greenthal and Labbe. By this point JT was seeing red in the Nords net. Abandoned by his team, left hung out to dry, the prospects of a Nordique win were very bleak at this point with the score 4-2 halfway through the game, and Tuck being completely dominant. PENALTY ALERT: the ONLY penalty of the game went to Nords captain Tao Smith for high sticking at 5:53, so suck on that penalty haters. This game was truly that much cleaner and just as hard fought as the other two contests on Friday the 13th. Late in the second Nords winger Poli Nightingale started to catch fire. Poli scored with 1:10 to go to give the Nords a glimmer of hope, assisted by Park and Shawn McDermott. However, Tuck snuffed out that little flame a mere 33 seconds later on Greenthal's second of the period from Hunter and Labbe. The score remained 5-3 in favor of Tuck for almost half of the third period, and only due to fatigue did the door of opportunity open for Tuck's listless opponents. Nightingale scored his second at 8:30 from Ian Bartrum and Tom Dakai, only to be answered AGAIN by the Terrible Tuckies at 8:10 with an unassisted goal by none other than Tuck captain Gary Hunter to bring the Tuck lead back to two. Nightingale picked up his Nords on his broad, ripped shoulders and got his fourth point of the night completing the Hatty at 6:36 from Smith and McDermott to narrow the gap back to 1. Tuck kept threatenting, and I promise you that if they had 2 subs on the bench instead of only 1 that they would have won this game. In the third, Michelle Labbe kocked down Fat Bastard while outworking him for the puck off a bad bounce behind the Nords net, and then hurt his feelings and made him cry after pushing his head into the ice as she skated away with the puck for yet another scoring opportunity. This 5'4" beast was bullying everyone in the corners for the puck tonight! Who wants it more, huh?! (You do, you do! Have mercy, Michelle!). Fatigue finally became a factor for Tuck, and Drew Crapser tied the game from Park at 3:36 and a shootout was on the horizon. It was with a "Hail Mary" stiff wrister towards a screened Anik Cote in the Tuck net from the neutral zone, that Marshy found the back of the net with a mere 19 seconds to go to give the Nords a gift luck-ass victory over a Tuck team that outplayed them for over 80% of the game.
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PICKS
THREE STARS

Poli Nightingale

GOALS: 3
POINTS: 4

Jamie Greenthal

GOALS: 2
POINTS: 4

Kelly Park

GOALS: 1
POINTS: 4

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