UPPER VALLEY HOCKEY LEAGUE

ODDS:	Kings by 2 goals
OVER/UNDER:	10 goals

This should be a great game, and generally speaking the Tuck Fighting Turkey's would generally be the favorite in this epic battle, but riding a short bench matched with the ridiculous offensive production by the Kingers, the tides have turned in favor of the Storm Kings.

The Kingers, winners of their last 4 including a 14-5 thrashing of the Bruins, are on cloud nine and looking for their 5th in row. Tuck on the other hand has won 7 in a row and does seem unstoppable.

My prediction, Kingers 6, Tuck 4

Kingers end Tuck's Winning Streak

In what was tagged to be an excellent hockey game and picked up by multiple networks, ended up being just that, with the 2nd place Storm Kings(6-2-1) hosting the first placed Tuckeroonies(8-1-0). The Storm kings were entering week 10 on a 4 game win streak while Tuck was holding onto an impressive 7 game win streak. No matter what, one team would be leaving with their streak being shattered.

The First period was more or less uneventful, other than 2 penalties by Mike Adair & Ryan McGovern & the Kingers Greg "Loosey Goosey" Gosselin taking a Brian Fleming shot to the face while he went behind his own net. Both netminders played extremely well with John "Temper Tantrum" Turner rejecting only 4 dismal Tuck shots and Ryan "The Leprechaun" Fitzgerald turning away only 7 pathetic Kingers shots. The Turco-less Tuckians were still trying to find their scoring touch, especially supporting their shortest bench of the year and missing Ryan Burkhart, Michelle "LA BABE" Labbe, Jamie "The Gardner" Greenthumb.....I mean Greenthal, and Trevor Martin. The first period absolutely flew by, as it was an amazing transitional game spanning all 3 zones. There may have only been 4 whistles total, two of them coming from penalties.

END OF THE FIRST: Storm Kings 0, Tuck 0
SHOTS: Storm Kings 7, Tuck 4

The second period was more of the first, great flow, few whistles and even fewer quality scoring chances. It was two very good, well rounded teams that were able to shut down opposing offenses with their positional play. The Kingers mounted 3 penalties to Tuck's 1 in the 2nd period while the keepers turned away 11(Fitzgerald) & 8(Turner) shots respectively.

END OF THE SECOND: :Storm Kings 0, Tuck 0
SHOTS: Storm Kings 18, Tuck 12

The third was............more of the second, with nobody wanting to make a mistake out there in this precision chess match, that is until Brian "The Flying Squirrel" Fleming took a roughing call with 11:06 remaining in the game. On the ensuing power play the Kinger's were having quite a bit of trouble gaining the blue line, which turned into a Timmy "Tool Time" Leroy tripping call at 10:18, putting the teams 4 on 4. From the drop of the puck in the Tuck zone it only took 7 seconds for Kinger's stud, Bob "The price is ABSOLUTELY Right" Barker to forced a turnover high in the Tuckster zone. Barker walked into the slot, juked a Tuck defender, and cut to his backhand for the goal, sliding the puck along the ice past Fitzgerald. With the two teams still locked up in a 4 on 4 battle, Tuck was determined to tie the game up and did so just 44 seconds later Nathan "The Bookworm" Berner walked into the Kinger's zone on the near boards, and fed Takashi "Man of Steel" Mikoshiba across the slot. Mikoshiba one timed the pass alone the ice past a two-pad-a-stackin' Turner. Other than the 44 seconds of offense, the 3rd period was played as well defensively as you can get.

END OF REGULATION: Storm Kings 1, Tuck 1
SHOTS: Storm Kings 28, Tuck 21

SHOOTOUT
With the Storm Kings being the home team, the selected to go second first in the shootout, this is how it went DOWN!!!!!!

1. (SK) Robbie "The REAL DEAL" Barker made a move to his backhand lost it, but it rolled in 5-HOLIO!!!!!! GOAL!
2. (TK) Brian Fleming flew down the right side of the slot and beat Turner high glove with a TWISTED WRISTER!!!!! GOAL!!!
3. (SK) Timmy Leroy down the middle, faked the slap shot, forehand to backhand move, back to forehand, 5-hole...SAVE!!!
4. (TK) Adam Mantin down the right side of the slot, fired a hard low shot that somehow got stuck in the side of the netting. SAVE!!!
5. (SK) Dean "Cash Money" Cashman Twisted wrister off the high post and in....GOAL!
6. (TK) Pete "The Meat" Handberry tried going mid glove.....SAVE!!!!

STORM KINGS WIN!!!!!! STORM KINGS WIN!!!!

 

Team:	Time:	Type:	Player:	Details:
STK	00:00	Goal	Barker, Rob(1)	Assist(s): none
TCK	00:00	Goal	Mikoshiba, Takashi(1)	Assist(s): Berner, Nate(1)
TCK	00:00	Penalty	Adair, Mike(1)	2 minutes for Hooking
TCK	00:00	Penalty	McGovern, Ryan(1)	2 minutes for Hooking
STK	00:00	Penalty	Gill, Ian(1)	2 minutes for Roughing
TCK	00:00	Penalty	Fleming, Brian(1)	2 minutes for Interference
STK	00:00	Penalty	Fitzgerald, Mike(1)	2 minutes for Checking
STK	00:00	Penalty	Peraza, Dan(1)	2 minutes for Tripping
TCK	00:00	Penalty	Fitzgerald, Ryan(1)	2 minutes for Roughing
STK	00:00	Penalty	LeRoy, Tim(1)	2 minutes for Slashing
TCK	00:00	Penalty	Kennedy, Ben(1)	2 minutes for Slashing
TCK	00:00	Penalty	Adair, Mike(1)	2 minutes for High Sticking
TCK	00:00	Penalty	Kennedy, Ben(1)	2 minutes for Tripping
STK	00:00	Penalty	LeRoy, Tim(1)	2 minutes for Tripping
STK	00:00	Penalty	Fitzgerald, Mike(1)	2 minutes for High Sticking
SHOOTOUT
STK	1	Barker, Rob		GOAL Scored on Ryan Fitzgerald
TCK	2	Fleming, Brian		GOAL Scored on John Turner
STK	3	LeRoy, Tim		SAVE BY Ryan Fitzgerald
TCK	4	Mantin, Adam		SAVE BY John Turner
STK	5	Cashman, Dean		GOAL Scored on Ryan Fitzgerald
TCK	6	Hanbury, Peter		SAVE BY John Turner

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