UPPER VALLEY HOCKEY LEAGUE

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Leafs de-rail Tuck

LEAFS WIN! LEAFS WIN! The Leafs won BIG over Tuck, who abandoned their MVP candidate goaltender and last week's Player of the Week Anik Cote with another pathetic showing of numbers. Only 8 skaters showed for Tuck, and one of them wasn't Scott Turco, and the three Tuck co-captains (who deserve credit because they are ALWAYS there) could not hold off the hardworking Leafs who executed their game plan to a tee! The Leafs had a strong line-up that worked well together, and they outworked the Tuckies and got them tired so that several chances were created in close against Cote that turned into goals. Tuck tried to mount a comeback, but it was too late and the damage was done.

There were only two penalties in this hard fought game, both to Tuck in the first period. Co-captain Gary Hunter went for tripping early in the contest at 14:31, and then co-captain Alek Roomet went for roughing at 9:38. The Leafs capitalized on the second infraction when Todd Nalette buried the first goal of the game on the PP at 9:13 from Dave "Boots" Bouthillier, and Joe Hayes. Brian Racicot made it 2-0 Leafs at 4:43 when he scored off feeds from Nalette and Chris Gogan. Tuck kept up in the first, and Hunter answered with a huge individual effort after collecting the puck from Cote's pass, and Hunter beat Ken Lallier in the Leaf net at 2:03 on a near end-to-end rush. Natural goal scorer Peter "Hands" Hanbury tied the game at 2-2 after getting set-up by Jamie Greenthal and Alek Roomet, and that's how the period ended.

In the second the Leafs took over. Hayes added a goal from Nalette and Racicot at 11:29, but at this point the Tuckies were still in it, and they tied it 3-3 on Hanbury's second of the game from Marc Schegerin and Roomet at 6:49. The second half of the period belonged to the Leafs, and John Thomas netted one past the always tough Cote off feeds from Ed Sheehan on D, and winger Jason Loomis at 5:17. The late period onslaught had begun. Boots rapidly roofed two beauties over the shoulder of the squared-up and butterflied Cote right under the crossbar, the first at 3:26 from Nalette, and then another almost identical goal at 2:40 from Nalette, who earned his 4th assist and fifth point of the night on the play, and from Joe Hayes. The pendulum had swung in favor of the Leafs, and their hard work in the Tuck zone caused turnovers, confusion, rebounds, and fatigue. Lallier was super sharp in the Leaf net, and he kept Tuck's attempts at bay for almost 15 full minutes.

The third started 6-3 for the Leafs, and they continued their attack, successfully solving the abandoned Cote on Gogan's goal at 10:05 from Thomas and Loomis, and then at 9:48 when Hayes got his second of the game from Boots, giving each forward a 4-point night. Game over, but Tuck mounted a comeback, and had the Leafs spinning on a few shifts just trying to hold off Hunter and Hanbury's attack. Both Sarah Carpenter and Alek Roomet laid the body a few times defending Tuck's zone, but only the first period roughing call to Roomet sent anyone to the sin bin. Mark Schegerin scored to cut the score down to a doubled-up 8-4 at 7:32 from Hunter and Alex Tatum. Hunter solved Lallier again at 5:24 from Carpenter and Hanbury, and that ended it, and the Leafs completed the huge upset of first place Tuck! Yaaaaaaahh!

 

Team:	Time:	Type:	Player:	Details:
WHL	00:00	Goal	Nalette, Todd(1)	Assist(s): Bouthillier, David(1) Hayes, Joe(1)
WHL	00:00	Goal	Racicot, Brian(1)	Assist(s): Nalette, Todd(1) gogan, chris(1)
TCK	00:00	Goal	Hunter, Gary(1)	Assist(s): none
TCK	00:00	Goal	Hanbury, Peter(1)	Assist(s): Greenthal, Jamie(1) Carpenter, Sarah(1)
WHL	00:00	Goal	Hayes, Joe(1)	Assist(s): Nalette, Todd(1) Racicot, Brian(1)
TCK	00:00	Goal	Hanbury, Peter(1)	Assist(s): Schegerin, Marc(1) Roomet, Alek(1)
WHL	00:00	Goal	Thomas, John(1)	Assist(s): Sheehan, Edward(1) Loomis, Jason(1)
WHL	00:00	Goal	Bouthillier, David(1)	Assist(s): Nalette, Todd(1)
WHL	00:00	Goal	Bouthillier, David(1)	Assist(s): Nalette, Todd(1) Hayes, Joe(1)
WHL	00:00	Goal	gogan, chris(1)	Assist(s): Thomas, John(1) Loomis, Jason(1)
WHL	00:00	Goal	Hayes, Joe(1)	Assist(s): Bouthillier, David(1)
TCK	00:00	Goal	Schegerin, Marc(1)	Assist(s): Hunter, Gary(1) Tatum, Alex(1)
TCK	00:00	Goal	Hunter, Gary(1)	Assist(s): Carpenter, Sarah(1) Hanbury, Peter(1)
TCK	00:00	Penalty	Hunter, Gary(1)	2 minutes for Tripping
TCK	00:00	Penalty	Roomet, Alek(1)	2 minutes for Roughing

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