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Nords and Leafs Engage in Goalie's Duel on 10/24

Fresh off an exciting shootout win last week against the Bruins, the Leafs were confident and ready, and none more so than veteran goaltender Ken Lallier. This might have been Lallier's very best game ever in his 4 UVHL seasons, and he left the Nords players shaking their heads going back to their bench empty handed time after time. Not to be outdone, John Turner was equally solid in the Nords net, but was not quite as spectacular as Lallier since the Nords tested Lallier moreso than the Leafs tested Turner. But JT kept his team in the game with several Brodeur-like saves at key points in the contest, and even flashed the glove more than once. Lallier was sensational, and made I don't know how many sprawling saves, but also demonstrated a calmness and poise with great positioning and squareness to the Nords shooters who had nothing but that incredibly sexy and intimidating Maple Leaf on Lallier's chest to shoot the puck at. The first scoresheet entry was not a goal, it was a penalty, to Nords F Ian Bartrum for interference at13:38, not the way the Nords wanted to start off. Then it was Kelly Park off to the box at 6:52 with a blatant hook to stop a Leaf scoring play. The only goal of the first was Will Meyer putting the Nords ahead at 3:23 from centerman Ian Coates and Drew Crapser. Crapser went to the box for tripping at 7:38 of the second for the only penalty of the period and three consecutive penalty kills by the Nords defenders. The Leafs tied it up at 2:18 when supersniper Kevin Louzier found the back of the net from his Hartford Hurricane linemate Todd Nalette, who when reunited always make a dangerous combo. Park scored a backbreaker and momentum changer with only 5.7 seconds left in the period on, what he would call, a beautiful point shot that beat Lallier cleanly and went straight to the back of the net. In reality it was a deflection off of 7 people and it trickled past Lallier for a goal that Park insisted Lallier buy him a beer for after days of trash talk leading up to the game. Meyer assisted on the shit-luck Park goal, but they all count, and it put the Nords up 2-1 to enter the third. A fourth consecutive Nords penalty was doled out to Tom Dakai at 14:03 for interference, and then Crapser followed him to the Nords box at 13:27 for tripping thereby putting 2 Nords D in the box. Somehow the Nords killed it off, and it was in no small measure due to JT's own heriocs in net. Finally the Leafs got caught for a hold at 11:06 when Joe Hayes went to the box. The Nords killed it off, and the goalie clinics at both ends continued. Nords F Poli Nightingale took a tripping penalty with 2:49 to go, and on the PP Sean Casavant just got the puck on his stick after a pursuing Shawn McDermott could not catch it behind the Nords net after poking it away from a Leaf Forward. Casavant shovelled it in front and it went to Loomis whose shot was saved by JT but the rebound found its way onto the stick of Hayes who tied the game with only 2:23 left. Captain Casavant should have gotten an assist on the play, but the refs missed it (shocker). The game was tied and it looked like a shootout was on its way, and both teams would have been deserving of at least a point from this well played game. McDermott got a hold of the puck near teh Nords blueline and found Coates in the neutral zone. After a brief scrum Coates fed Meyer who broke into the Leaf zone and scored the only nice goal of the contest (the other goals were ugly, real ugly, like my ex-girlfriends - at least that is my wife's story and she's sticking to it!). Meyer roofed his shot over Lallier's glove in tight just under the crossbar to give the Nords the lead with 2:11 to go, and that's how it ended.

 

Team:	Time:	Type:	Player:	Details:
NDQ	00:00	Goal	Meyer, Will(1)	Assist(s): Coates, Ian(1) Crapser, Drew(1)
WHL	00:00	Goal	Louzier, Kevin(1)	Assist(s): Nalette, Todd(1)
NDQ	00:00	Goal	Park, Kelly(1)	Assist(s): Meyer, Will(1)
WHL	00:00	Goal	Hayes, Joe(1)	Assist(s): Loomis, Jason(1)
NDQ	00:00	Goal	Meyer, Will(1)	Assist(s): Coates, Ian(1) McDermott, Shawn(1)
NDQ	00:00	Penalty	Bartrum, Ian(1)	2 minutes for Interference
NDQ	00:00	Penalty	Park, Kelly(1)	2 minutes for Hooking
NDQ	00:00	Penalty	Crapser, Drew(1)	2 minutes for Tripping
NDQ	00:00	Penalty	Dakai, Tom(1)	2 minutes for Interference
NDQ	00:00	Penalty	Crapser, Drew(1)	2 minutes for Tripping
WHL	00:00	Penalty	Hayes, Joe(1)	2 minutes for Holding
NDQ	00:00	Penalty	Nightingale, Poli(1)	2 minutes for Tripping

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