UPPER VALLEY HOCKEY LEAGUE

ODDS:	Blues by 4
OVER/UNDER:	8

In the first game of the night we the undefeated Blues hosting the Nords. The Blues come into this week off a shoot out victory and the Nords are coming off a 10-2 throttling by the Gamblers. The Blues took the first game of the year 4-2 and this one will be no different as the Blues will cruise to a 6-2 win to remain undefeated.

In the first game of the night we had the Nords hosting the Labatt Blues. The Nords are coming into this week after a 10-2 loss to the Gamblers and the Blues are still undefeated after winning in a shootout last week over Tuck. The Nords have had a tough season thus far and they were able to pick up two new players that just moved into the upper valley, Christen Machelski and Jerry Theiler. With some new players into the lineup the Nords came out hungry and firing on all cylinders. The Nords dominated the first six and half minutes keeping the pressure on the Blues and firing from all angles. The Blues would push back in the last half of the period but the score would remain scoreless after one period of play. Both goalies played well and had 12 saves a piece (Colin Farr for the Nords and Jay Seals for the Blues).

The second period started off much different than the first as this time the Blues came out hungry and continued to play hard like they did in the last half of the first. It only took a 1:37 into the second for the Blues to get the game"s first goal when Keith Lazarczyk was in front of the net to tap in a rebound that Farr couldn"t control off a Mike Anderson shot. The Blues would get the games second goal about half way through the period with Mathew Littler picked the puck from the Nords defensemen (questionable no call) and skated to the top of the slot and beat Farr high glove side to make it 2-0. The Nords wouldn"t give up as they would finally get on the scoreboard with 5:22 left in the period when Spencer Zaha was able to tip one past Seals to make the score 2-1. The Blues would have to kill off a 5 on 3. Thanks to both teams" goalies they were still in this game, Seals would bail his team out on the 5 on 3 and end with 11 saves on the period, whereas Farr would finish the period with 16 saves.

In the third period the Nords kept the pressure on the Blues and it paid off when Rich Golden would tie the game at two with a shot from behind the net that he banked in off of Seals with 11:22 to go. Shortly after giving up the tying goal the Blues would take three penalties in a row and it wasn"t until the last one that the Nords new comer Jerry Theiler would score on the PP with 3:51 to put the Nords up 3-2. The Nords were playing solid hockey and just letting the clock run out until with 50 seconds left Rich Golden was called for a hooking penalty to give the Blues a chance on the PP to tie the game. The Blues would pull their goalie and make it a 6 on 4, with a two man advantage the Blues were firing from all angles on Farr. It wasn"t until 23 seconds left that the Blues Tim Barrett would take a shot from the top of the circle and Nords Mike O"Neil would dive to try to tip it out of play but instead he tipped it past goalie Colin Farr to tie the game at 3 and force a shootout. Farr would end the period with 8 saves and Seals with 6.

The shootout goes as follows:
Blues-Justin Lawrence- shot- Save Farr
Nords-Greg Marsh-shot 5-hole-GOAL
Blues-Mathew Littler-deke-GOAL
Nords-Peter Scalia-deke-save Seals
Blues- Tim Barrett-deke to his backhand-GOAL
Nords-Jerry Theiler- save Seals

The Blues WIN!

 

Team:	Time:	Type:	Player:	Details:
1st PERIOD
NDQ	01:44	Penalty	Golden, Richard(6)	2 minutes for Interference
2nd PERIOD
LAB	13:23	Goal	Lazarczyk, Keith(9)	Assist(s): Littler, Mathew(3) Anderson, Mike (6)
LAB	07:48	Goal	Littler, Mathew(5)	Assist(s): none
LAB	06:14	Penalty	Littler, Mathew(5)	2 minutes for Roughing
NDQ	06:14	Penalty	Theiler, Jerry(1)	2 minutes for Roughing
NDQ	05:22	Goal	Zaha, Spencer(2)	Assist(s): Nightingale, Poli(1) O'Neil, Michael(2)
LAB	03:59	Penalty	Poirier, Garren(7)	2 minutes for Hooking
LAB	03:53	Penalty	Littler, Mathew(6)	2 minutes for Tripping
3rd PERIOD
NDQ	11:22	Goal	Golden, Richard(5)	Assist(s): none
NDQ	10:34	Penalty	Golden, Richard(7)	2 minutes for Hooking
LAB	07:32	Penalty	Billings, Trevor(5)	2 minutes for High Sticking
LAB	04:31	Penalty	Poirier, Garren(8)	2 minutes for Tripping
NDQ	03:51	Goal	(PP)Theiler, Jerry(1)	Assist(s): Golden, Richard(5) Phillips, Roger(7)
LAB	00:00	Goal	(PP)Barrett, Timothy(2)	Assist(s): Lawrence, Justin(6) Anderson, Mike (7)
NDQ	00:00	Penalty	Golden, Richard(8)	2 minutes for Hooking
NDQ	00:00	Penalty	Golden, Richard(8)	10 minutes for Unsportsmanlike Misconduc
SHOOTOUT
LAB	1	Lawrence, Justin		SAVE BY Colin Farr
NDQ	2	Marsh, Greg		GOAL Scored on Jay Seals
LAB	3	Littler, Mathew		GOAL Scored on Colin Farr
NDQ	4	Scalia, Peter		SAVE BY Jay Seals
LAB	5	Barrett, Timothy		GOAL Scored on Colin Farr
NDQ	6	Theiler, Jerry		SAVE BY Jay Seals

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