dondo
10-25-2008, 10:23 PM
homer three star choice of Carter Bancks, but meh he had no points but a decent game. I guess he was noticeable.
This should have been a touhg game for the Giants but it ended up ebing a pretty easy one. No fisticuffs. Little hitting from the Lethbridge side of things and they are a team capable of hitting and scoring, but tonight they were sounding fragile.
Well done Giants 3-0-0-0 on the road trip, winning the games they should be winning and beating teams handily that should have proved more of a challenge.
Giants Deflate Hurricanes
Vancouver 4 Lethbridge 1
Don Robinson
The Hurricanes were 7-1 in their own barn and tonight’s game should have been a major challenge for the Giants, but it ended up being business as usual and for the Giants business these days is pretty damn good. The Giants are built from the defensive corps out and their offense owes a great thanks to the work and passing the veteran blue-liners provide. Jonathon Blum was easily the best player on the ice and is making a very good bid to be knighted best player in the Dub, forward or defense. His three points in tonight’s tilt, with two assists and a goal which proved to be the GWG, were an extension of how well he sees the ice and guides his team, proudly wearing the “C” and leading by excellent example. His defensive partner Brent Regner gets a bit less press, but is no less effective as he quietly takes out attackers, and puts up points (two assists of his own tonight). The Giants dominated pretty much from the drop of the puck and their special teams were effective, they were taking the body hard and at one point had seven consecutive hits as the Hurricanes players found that possessing the puck meant seeing stars.
The Giants opened the scoring early in the first when James Wright found the twine behind Juha Metsola. Wright drove the net and has been using his size and skill to his best advantage lately scoring his 7th of the season. Some solid work from Adam Basford and Jonathon Blum made the goal possible. The Giants went up by two when the Hurricanes took a couple of lazy penalties. Scoring 5 on 3, Jonathon Blum rippled the mesh on the PP. From the doorstep Blum muscles Craig Schira’s rebound past Metsola. Schira benefited from some great work by Evander Kane who extended his point scoring streak to 10 games.
The Giants went up by three mid-way through the second with another PP tally. Craig Cunningham going hard to the net, getting the greasy goals as well as some skilful ones, powered it past Metsola to put the Giants up by three. Jonny Blum and Regner got the assists on the play. Lethbridge got one back late in the middle frame on their second shot of the period. The Hurricanes were held to only two shots in the second, but some fine work by Fadden and Ryckman opened the ice for Mitch Versteeg and he made no mistake putting the puck past Jamie Tucker, who got the start in the back end of back to back games. Apparently he’s back in Don Hay’s good graces, enough to get the start at least. The Giants out shot the ‘Canes 17-2 in the second, but both teams tickled the twine.
The Giants played shut down hockey in the third and an early goal helped them close out the home squad for the remainder of the game. Andrej Kudrna worked very hard to get his goal starting out with a Hurricane jerseyed backpack hanging off of him and ending up going hard to the net to get the goal. Regner and Basford got the helpers. Kudrna was a healthy scratch in Edmonton, but managed a point last night in Red Deer and a goal tonight in Lethbridge. Hay is trying to teach the young Slovak not to take shifts off and hopefully he drinks Hay’s Kool-Aid because at 6’2” and only 17 with obvious skill he has some seriously tasty up-side.
The Giants went 2 for 7 on the PP, while holding Lethbridge to 0 for 4. The G-Men out shot the ‘Canes 39 – 17 and were the stronger team on the puck all night long. They absolutely dominated for stretches and were much the better team even after playing 3 games in four nights and finishing their central road trip with a 3-0 record. Last nights first star, Garry Nunn, was scratched tonight due to an as yet undisclosed injury. The Giants get a bit of break before taking on the Tri-City Americans on Wednesday October 29th. The puck drops at the Coliseum at 7:00 pm PDT.
Three Stars
1) Jonathon Blum
2) Adam Basford
3) Carter Bancks
This should have been a touhg game for the Giants but it ended up ebing a pretty easy one. No fisticuffs. Little hitting from the Lethbridge side of things and they are a team capable of hitting and scoring, but tonight they were sounding fragile.
Well done Giants 3-0-0-0 on the road trip, winning the games they should be winning and beating teams handily that should have proved more of a challenge.
Giants Deflate Hurricanes
Vancouver 4 Lethbridge 1
Don Robinson
The Hurricanes were 7-1 in their own barn and tonight’s game should have been a major challenge for the Giants, but it ended up being business as usual and for the Giants business these days is pretty damn good. The Giants are built from the defensive corps out and their offense owes a great thanks to the work and passing the veteran blue-liners provide. Jonathon Blum was easily the best player on the ice and is making a very good bid to be knighted best player in the Dub, forward or defense. His three points in tonight’s tilt, with two assists and a goal which proved to be the GWG, were an extension of how well he sees the ice and guides his team, proudly wearing the “C” and leading by excellent example. His defensive partner Brent Regner gets a bit less press, but is no less effective as he quietly takes out attackers, and puts up points (two assists of his own tonight). The Giants dominated pretty much from the drop of the puck and their special teams were effective, they were taking the body hard and at one point had seven consecutive hits as the Hurricanes players found that possessing the puck meant seeing stars.
The Giants opened the scoring early in the first when James Wright found the twine behind Juha Metsola. Wright drove the net and has been using his size and skill to his best advantage lately scoring his 7th of the season. Some solid work from Adam Basford and Jonathon Blum made the goal possible. The Giants went up by two when the Hurricanes took a couple of lazy penalties. Scoring 5 on 3, Jonathon Blum rippled the mesh on the PP. From the doorstep Blum muscles Craig Schira’s rebound past Metsola. Schira benefited from some great work by Evander Kane who extended his point scoring streak to 10 games.
The Giants went up by three mid-way through the second with another PP tally. Craig Cunningham going hard to the net, getting the greasy goals as well as some skilful ones, powered it past Metsola to put the Giants up by three. Jonny Blum and Regner got the assists on the play. Lethbridge got one back late in the middle frame on their second shot of the period. The Hurricanes were held to only two shots in the second, but some fine work by Fadden and Ryckman opened the ice for Mitch Versteeg and he made no mistake putting the puck past Jamie Tucker, who got the start in the back end of back to back games. Apparently he’s back in Don Hay’s good graces, enough to get the start at least. The Giants out shot the ‘Canes 17-2 in the second, but both teams tickled the twine.
The Giants played shut down hockey in the third and an early goal helped them close out the home squad for the remainder of the game. Andrej Kudrna worked very hard to get his goal starting out with a Hurricane jerseyed backpack hanging off of him and ending up going hard to the net to get the goal. Regner and Basford got the helpers. Kudrna was a healthy scratch in Edmonton, but managed a point last night in Red Deer and a goal tonight in Lethbridge. Hay is trying to teach the young Slovak not to take shifts off and hopefully he drinks Hay’s Kool-Aid because at 6’2” and only 17 with obvious skill he has some seriously tasty up-side.
The Giants went 2 for 7 on the PP, while holding Lethbridge to 0 for 4. The G-Men out shot the ‘Canes 39 – 17 and were the stronger team on the puck all night long. They absolutely dominated for stretches and were much the better team even after playing 3 games in four nights and finishing their central road trip with a 3-0 record. Last nights first star, Garry Nunn, was scratched tonight due to an as yet undisclosed injury. The Giants get a bit of break before taking on the Tri-City Americans on Wednesday October 29th. The puck drops at the Coliseum at 7:00 pm PDT.
Three Stars
1) Jonathon Blum
2) Adam Basford
3) Carter Bancks