dondo
09-27-2009, 12:02 AM
JT Barnett is on a roll, scoring two tonight from his office, the front of the net getting those greasy goals Don Hay loves so much. His two push his goal tally to 6, leading the team. The Giants lose this one in a shootout after a weird goal from the Tips to tie the game. Tucker was pretty good tonight and got a bit of help from the red iron.. keep praying to the post gods Tucker. Star selection was laughable as it usually is in Everett -- I've taken the liberty to right some wrongs and post them as they should have been. If you are going to give a goalie a star tonight, give it to Tucker not Heemskerk who never had to be excellent, just solid.
cowbells should be outlawed.. a more irritating sound I cannot imagine
Tips Rainbow Giants
Vancouver 3 Everett 4 - OT S/O
Don Robinson
The Silvertips came out by scoring a short-handed marker and a PP goal before the Giants got on the board in the first. Craig Hartsburg has his team working well, using their speed and tenacity. The Giants were mostly equal to the task clawing their way back into the game with a goal in each period, scoring three unanswered. The Tips tied the game with the goalie pulled and time ticking down as a rainbow shot found its way up and over Tucker who had no clue where the puck went. The Tips pressured the puck well, and forced the Giants to make plays more quickly than they were hoping. Jamie Tucker was very solid and again very lucky in net hearing the dulcet tones of the red iron a few times, while still making some great stops, flashing the leather and not getting caught scrambling. Nothing was decided in OT, went to the shootout and extra shooters. Everett gets the extra point.
It was tenacity versus speed and tenacity almost won. The Silvertips opened the scoring while killing a penalty. Dailey chipped the puck past Kevin Connauton at the point, giving the Tips a 2 on 0 breakaway. The puck went to Iwanski who made a great move to bury the puck. The home squad padded that lead on the PP, when euro phenom D-man Gudas buried the puck from the slot. The Giants managed to get that one back before the end of the first as Lance Bouma put the puck on net and JT Barnett, waiting in his office, pounced on the rebound lifting it up and over Heemskerk.
The Giants tied the game up just past 5 minute mark of the second when Lane Scheidl drove the net from the sideboards muscling his way through traffic, James Henry was on the doorstep to put away the garbage. Jamie Tucker had a very good second period holding his team in there, flashing some leather and battling hard for his saves. There was one flurry where he turned away about five shots in a row. The period would end with the Giants getting the only goal.
The third was a bit more even as the Giants had to hold off the Silvertips aggressive forecheck. At one point the Silvertips were given a penalty shot when their guy was disrupted from behind. Tucker had the angle, but breathed a huge sigh of relief when the puck clanged off the post. Late in the period JT Barnett got his second of the night, once again going to the net and putting home a Mike Piluso rebound. The Tips would tie the game with their goalie pulled off of a truly bizarre play. As far as I can surmise they were coming into the zone, the puck went high into the air and dropped down behind Tucker for a goal. I don’t think Tucker even noticed it go in the air and was staring at the ice as it trickled in behind his shoulder. OT solved nothing and the game went to a shootout where Henry scored for the G’s and Harper and Maxwell scored for the Tips.
The Giants allowed a few too many seams tonight and had a few defensive break-downs early on that had them working from behind. Credit the boys for earning the point by coming back from a two goal deficit to take the lead before a weird bounce tied the game. Tucker had a very solid game and had to be good often as the G-Men were giving the Tips too many quality chances around their net. Reffing was a bit precious tonight as they called some pretty soft stuff, but in the end wasn’t criminal.
Everett’s obscenely biased star selections are completely pathetic, the worst building in the league for pulling this homer crap. The one choice was such blatant homerism that I will post the ones as they should have been not as they were in the most egocentric building in the league. What would have happened had the Giants won that shootout? 2 Tips and 1 Giant? The Giants have a day or two to prepare for the Lethbridge Hurricanes in their barn on Tuesday. 7:00 game at the Coliseum.
Three Stars *(as they should have been)
1. Levko Gudas
2. JT Barnett
3. Zach Dailey
cowbells should be outlawed.. a more irritating sound I cannot imagine
Tips Rainbow Giants
Vancouver 3 Everett 4 - OT S/O
Don Robinson
The Silvertips came out by scoring a short-handed marker and a PP goal before the Giants got on the board in the first. Craig Hartsburg has his team working well, using their speed and tenacity. The Giants were mostly equal to the task clawing their way back into the game with a goal in each period, scoring three unanswered. The Tips tied the game with the goalie pulled and time ticking down as a rainbow shot found its way up and over Tucker who had no clue where the puck went. The Tips pressured the puck well, and forced the Giants to make plays more quickly than they were hoping. Jamie Tucker was very solid and again very lucky in net hearing the dulcet tones of the red iron a few times, while still making some great stops, flashing the leather and not getting caught scrambling. Nothing was decided in OT, went to the shootout and extra shooters. Everett gets the extra point.
It was tenacity versus speed and tenacity almost won. The Silvertips opened the scoring while killing a penalty. Dailey chipped the puck past Kevin Connauton at the point, giving the Tips a 2 on 0 breakaway. The puck went to Iwanski who made a great move to bury the puck. The home squad padded that lead on the PP, when euro phenom D-man Gudas buried the puck from the slot. The Giants managed to get that one back before the end of the first as Lance Bouma put the puck on net and JT Barnett, waiting in his office, pounced on the rebound lifting it up and over Heemskerk.
The Giants tied the game up just past 5 minute mark of the second when Lane Scheidl drove the net from the sideboards muscling his way through traffic, James Henry was on the doorstep to put away the garbage. Jamie Tucker had a very good second period holding his team in there, flashing some leather and battling hard for his saves. There was one flurry where he turned away about five shots in a row. The period would end with the Giants getting the only goal.
The third was a bit more even as the Giants had to hold off the Silvertips aggressive forecheck. At one point the Silvertips were given a penalty shot when their guy was disrupted from behind. Tucker had the angle, but breathed a huge sigh of relief when the puck clanged off the post. Late in the period JT Barnett got his second of the night, once again going to the net and putting home a Mike Piluso rebound. The Tips would tie the game with their goalie pulled off of a truly bizarre play. As far as I can surmise they were coming into the zone, the puck went high into the air and dropped down behind Tucker for a goal. I don’t think Tucker even noticed it go in the air and was staring at the ice as it trickled in behind his shoulder. OT solved nothing and the game went to a shootout where Henry scored for the G’s and Harper and Maxwell scored for the Tips.
The Giants allowed a few too many seams tonight and had a few defensive break-downs early on that had them working from behind. Credit the boys for earning the point by coming back from a two goal deficit to take the lead before a weird bounce tied the game. Tucker had a very solid game and had to be good often as the G-Men were giving the Tips too many quality chances around their net. Reffing was a bit precious tonight as they called some pretty soft stuff, but in the end wasn’t criminal.
Everett’s obscenely biased star selections are completely pathetic, the worst building in the league for pulling this homer crap. The one choice was such blatant homerism that I will post the ones as they should have been not as they were in the most egocentric building in the league. What would have happened had the Giants won that shootout? 2 Tips and 1 Giant? The Giants have a day or two to prepare for the Lethbridge Hurricanes in their barn on Tuesday. 7:00 game at the Coliseum.
Three Stars *(as they should have been)
1. Levko Gudas
2. JT Barnett
3. Zach Dailey