UPPER VALLEY HOCKEY LEAGUE

Dead River and the Tuckies

ODDS:	Tuck By 2 Goals
OVER/UNDER:	8 Goals

In two games this season between Tuck & Cardigan, the Tuckies are perfect with a 6-3 and 6-4 win. In those two games the star has been Tuck's Brandon "The Harry One" Harrington who had 5 goals and 3 assists. Their last meeting was a bit skewed as Cardigan was without their offensive star Owen Carpino who leads the league with 44 goals.

Tuck's Mike Devine has been the league's best goaltender with a 12-3 record and a remarkable 2.87 GAA and will be the difference in this game. Cardigan hosts 7 players in the top 30 for scoring while Tuck has 5.

Cardigan has scored 107 goals this season to Tuck's 88.
Tuck has allowed a league low 53 goals to Cardigan's 94.

Two teams, two different team mentalities. Tuck plays from their goaltender out, Cardigan is an offensive juggernaut. Who will win? History says Tuck...Vegas says Tuck 5-3.

Carpino's 4 Goals Lift Cardigan Past Tuck

A classic battle between Tuck and Cardigan took place last night when #3 Cardigan hosted #2 Tuck. Owen Carpino was the difference maker as he scored all 4 goals for Cardigan including the game winner with just 9 seconds left to play.

It was a physical and hard fought battle that started out on the wrong note. "Within the first 6 minutes of the game I thought it was going downhill really fast, but things cooled down as the game went on. I think it was just such a fast paced game with so many turn overs that there were a lot of collisions (accidental) that the person on the other side of the collision may have considered hostile but was not...these tended to go both ways" was Tuck captain Tyson Seely's take on the game.

There were no goals in the first period and Cardigan couldn't convert on the only powerplay of the period. Eric "The Rat" Rautiola scored his 11th of the season at 9:01 of the first to give Tuck a 1-0 lead from Jake "The Snake" Gartner. Carpino notched a natural hat-trick with 3 goals in under two minutes. Dave McCusker assisted on two and Graham Gauthier assisting on the other.

Rautiola notched his second of the game to close out the second period from Peter Mellen. Jeff "The Wasp" Wannop tied the game with 5:56 to play in the game from Mike Nowak and it looked as though this one was heading to a shootout when Tim LeRoy set up Carpino with 9 seconds to play.

"Losing with 9 seconds was tough" recalled Seely. "Tazzy played pretty incredible in net. Their whole team is just so damn fast and they move the puck so incredibly well. They may have what it takes to take it all this year."

It was a great game between two top tiered teams.

 

Team:	Time:	Type:	Player:	Details:
1st PERIOD
TCK	01:02	Penalty	White, Michael(3)	2 minutes for Holding
2nd PERIOD
TCK	09:01	Goal	Rautiola, Eric(11)	Assist(s): Gartner, Josh(8)
TCK	08:37	Penalty	White, Michael(4)	2 minutes for Tripping
CDG	07:09	Goal	(PP)Carpino, Owen(45)	Assist(s): McCusker, David (4)
CDG	05:42	Goal	Carpino, Owen(46)	Assist(s): Gauthier, Graham(10)
CDG	05:16	Goal	Carpino, Owen(47)	Assist(s): McCusker, David (5)
TCK	00:30	Goal	Rautiola, Eric(12)	Assist(s): Mellen, Peter(4)
3rd PERIOD
TCK	05:56	Goal	Wannop, Jeff(11)	Assist(s): Nowak, Mike(11)
CDG	00:09	Goal	Carpino, Owen(48)	Assist(s): LeRoy, Tim(12)

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