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Tuck overpowers Bruins 8-5
The Bruins started the game missing three key elements. Last year's league leading scorer, Ryan Sinclair, linemate Rob Pelletier and goalie Greg Hadley. Looking at the lineups you would think that Tuck, donning fresh hunter green Jerseys would jump out to a 3-1 lead. Gary Hunter started things off with a nice feed from Matt Waterbury at 14:45 of the first. Hunter's redirect was his 6 goal of the season. The rest of the first period was all Bruins, as Ken Lallier was solid filling in for Hadley who was out of town for business. The Bs gained the zone and cycled the puck down low. Steve Gieger walked out from the corner and dropped the puck to defensemen Jay Smith who fed a cross-ice pass to Andy Holland, whose one-timer found the short side at 10:55. Just a minute later Tony Defelice added another on a nifty uncontested, unassisted bid at 9:53. The next scoring was a blast from Eric Pearse at 6:38 from Warren and Geiger. Captain Matt Waterbury started the second with the league's first natural hatrick with goals at 14:05 from Hanrahan, 11:55 from Hanrahan and 6:51, unassisted. The Bruins skilled play-maker Dave Deschamps buried a hard shot to knot the game at 4-4 from Holland and Powers at 6:11 of the second period. The "Elan" turning point (sponsored by Hadley) occured when Hunter poked a cross-ice pass out of the zone, slit the Bruins D and scored on a forehand to backhand, rooferat 5:06. The rest of the second and the game was all Tuck, with two goals from Hanrahan and other from Hunter. Andy Holland was the lone Bruins scorer to get on the gmaesheet with an unassisted mishap with only 1:25 remaining. Meg Beker saved Holland's hard wrister only to have the rebound poked in by her own defensemen.