UPPER VALLEY HOCKEY LEAGUE

Tuck Everlasting...or at least always winning against Dead River

ODDS:	Tuck by 3 goals
OVER/UNDER:	9 goals

Tuck has won both contests against Dead River this season, not in a dominating fashion, but nonetheless they are 2-0. With a 5-4 shootout win and a 4-3 win, Tuck should continue their dominance.

Dead River has found both a scoring touch & the defensive awareness that they seemed to be missing early in the season. Ricky Golden "Showers" leads this team with 19 points in 7 games, and Robbie "Burger" Pattison has a ridiculous 13 goals in 7, and 12 of those goals coming in the last 4 games.

Tuck is led in scoring by 2 defenseman, Chris Johnson leads the way with 4 goals & 13 assists in 8 games and Andrew "Hellboy" Helming has 7 goals & 6 assists in 7 games.

Arguably the best goaltender in the league wears the Turducken Green, as Dan "The Man" Yacey has posted a respectable 3.20 GAA and a 4-1-0 record. Greg "First Period" Feiden has returned back to form with a 3.33 GAA & 3-0 record in his last three games.

Being an early game should help to alleviate some of Dead River's roster issues, but Tuck should come out on top 6-3.

Tuck Survives Dead River, Prevails in Shootout 4-3.

The Tuckies looked great early, looked rough for 2 periods and then scored 4 out of 5 in the shootout to take a game they should have won handily. Dead River's Greg "First Period" Feiden lived up to his nickname and let 3 goals past him in the first period, then shut the door for the remainder of regulation to force a shootout.

Both goaltenders, Feiden (44 saves) & Tuck's Steve "The Beav" Kenning(38 saves) were outstanding in a game that saw 82 pucks peppered on net.

Tuck jumped all over Dead River in the first 5 minutes of play, tallying a pair of goals from James "The Farmer" Hay & Parker "Posey" Lytle. Hay broke the ice just 3:06 into the game from Josh Cherney & Andrew "Hellboy" Helming and then added an assist on Parker "Lewis" Lytle's tally 53 seconds later.

Things were NOT looking good for Dead River, especially after most of Tuck's roster had missed the past 4 weeks of hockey due to a Vacation Bug that was going around campus. Tuck was also missing some crucial cogs in their hockey machine as Coughlin, Johnson & Barnett were nowhere to be found.

Cherney made it 3-0 with 2:19 remaining in the first off of a BEAUTIFUL 50 foot breakaway pass from Ryan "El Magnifico" McGovern. Cherney broke in on Feiden all alone and schooled him like a pedophile teacher in grade school.

END OF THE FIRST: Tuck 3, Dead River 0

Tuck looked like they were in complete control after the first period and carried that energy into the second frame until Robbie "Beefcake" Pattison took a "Mean" Dean Cashman pass, dangled a little bit and fired a laser past Kenning at 11:05.

Dead River needed to kill a Ricky "Sticky" Hughes holding penalty in order to keep things close, and ended the second period strong.

END OF THE SECOND: Tuck 3, Dead River 1

Tuck looked as if they were still hung over from the new year as their legs stopped moving and Dead River continued to press. Hughes cut the lead to one with 9:21 remaining after another Cashman pass put him in the high slot for the tally. Tuck had to kill off their own penalty after McGovern tripped up a Dead River Rat deep in his zone. The penalty was successfully killed off but Cashman and Pattison hooked up again like long lost lovers with 3:30 to play to tie the game. Pattison did some dipsy-doing at the top of the zone before firing a quick snap pass at Cashman in front of the net that Cashman tipped up and over Kenning to tie the game.

END OF REGULATION: Tuck 3, Dead River 3

Dead River chose to shoot first and Pattison converted with a move to his backhand and a roofie that would make most date rapists jealous.

Feiden stopped Cherney on a 5-hole attempt to keep Dead River up 1-0 in a best of 3.

Kenning shut down a solid attempt by Chris "Wiggity" Warrington.

Hay beat Feiden with a quick shot, high Blocker side, which was about to become a recurring theme. Shootout Tied at 1 apiece

Evan Duggan put DR up 2-1 in the shootout with a move to his backhand.

Stevie Bates "Motel" tied it at 2 apiece with a QUICK SHOT HIGH BLOCKER SIDE.

"Mean" Dean Cashman made it 3-2 with a deke before sliding the puck 4-hole.

Andrew "Hellboy" Helming tied it again with ANOTHER QUICK SHOT HIGH BLOCKER SIDE.

Kenning stuffed Ricky Golden "Showers" to keep the shootout tied at 3.

Ryan McGovern had an interesting shootout move to win the game as he bobbled the puck at the hashmarks and threw a backhander that squeeked through Feiden for the game winner.

Maybe Feiden was thinking about how he was going to be roasted with his new nickname is now Greg "High Blocker Side" Feiden on the website instead of focusing on keeping his wickets closed. Regardless, Tuck wins in the 5th round of the shootout.

 

Team:	Time:	Type:	Player:	Details:
1st PERIOD
TCK	11:54	Goal	Hay, James(6)	Assist(s): Cherney, Josh(2) Helming, Andrew(7)
TCK	11:01	Goal	Lytle, Parker(2)	Assist(s): Bates, Steve(8) Hay, James(4)
TCK	02:19	Goal	Cherney, Josh(5)	Assist(s): McGovern, Ryan(3)
2nd PERIOD
LAB	11:05	Goal	Pattison, Rob(14)	Assist(s): Cashman, Dean(16)
LAB	07:28	Penalty	Hughes, Rick(4)	2 minutes for Holding
3rd PERIOD
LAB	09:21	Goal	Hughes, Rick(1)	Assist(s): Cashman, Dean(17)
TCK	07:38	Penalty	McGovern, Ryan(5)	2 minutes for Hooking
LAB	03:30	Goal	Cashman, Dean(3)	Assist(s): Pattison, Rob(5) Warrington, Chris(9)
SHOOTOUT
LAB	1	Pattison, Rob		GOAL Scored on Steve Kenning
TCK	2	Cherney, Josh		SAVE BY Greg Feiden
LAB	3	Warrington, Chris		SAVE BY Steve Kenning
TCK	4	Hay, James		GOAL Scored on Greg Feiden
LAB	5	Duggan, Evan		GOAL Scored on Steve Kenning
TCK	6	Bates, Steve		GOAL Scored on Greg Feiden
LAB	7	Cashman, Dean		GOAL Scored on Steve Kenning
TCK	8	Helming, Andrew		GOAL Scored on Greg Feiden
LAB	9	Golden, Richard		SAVE BY Steve Kenning
TCK	10	McGovern, Ryan		GOAL Scored on Greg Feiden

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