Beaner
10-15-2005, 12:02 PM
Well, interesting game last night at the Coliseum. Lots of hits, some nice place plays, some very sloppy plays, both teams were working hard but some lapses in concentration cost the Giants the game. Cougars got some good goaltending when they needed it Vancouver did not. Vancouver took a lot of stupid penalties tonight, and it cost them.
NOTES
Rutherford, was out for Game 3 of 5 of his suspensions.
Scharff and Voytechuk did not play either with injuries for the Giants.
Andy Rogers was in the lineup tonight for the Cougars.
Shots were 33/21 in favour of the Giants.
Giants PK streak of 7 straight games without a PP goal against was finally broken tonight.
Cougars 3/9 on the PP, Giants 0/7, Giants got 1 Shorthanded tonight.
Slade was pulled after the 3rd PG Goal.
GOALS
1. P.G Rai, (1) (Wishart, Rogers), 5:48 (PP) - Wishart makes a nice bench side to penalty box side pass to Rai, Albers try to deflect the puck but misses, Rai is sent in alone from the Giants blue line and he puts it past Slade.
1. VAN Machachek, (3) (Watt, Albers), 14:37 - Watt gets a bouncing puck at the Blue line manages to settle it down and makes a no look backhand pass to Machachek who one times it past Bowles. No chance for Bowles.
2. VAN Albers, (1) (Bartley), 9:03 (SH) - Albers has the puck and takes a big shot that is saved rebound comes out near the blue line, Bartley gets the puck, passes to Albers who is between the circles, who then fires it past Bowles. PG called a Time out after this goal.
2. P.G Drazenovic, (4) , 9:26 (PP) - Drazenovick has the puck thru the Neutral zone, Watt catches him with high stick but he keeps going, delayed peenalty. Giants basically stop including Slade, Drazenovic comes into the zone and roofs one past Slade form the top of the circles. People say Slade was screened, I say he wasn't paying attention.
2. P.G Cooper, (2) , 13:51 - - Another bad goal allowed. From the Blue line Cooper just throws it at the net High, and Slade missed it. I don't think he was paying attention again. That was it for Salde as he was replaced by Tartaglione.
3. P.G King, (1) (Hunter, Drazenovic), 4:25 (PP) - Faceoff in the Giants Zone, Cougars win, King gets the puck slides close to the middle and fires it past Tartaglione.
3. VAN Lucic, (1) (Lamb, Franson), 6:58 - Shot from lamb bit of a bad rebound with a goal mouth scramble, Lucic manages to get a stick on the puck and tap it in for the goal.
3. P.G Patterson, (5) (Hunter), 17:41 - Patterson breaks down the right side cuts into the middle just in front of the crease and puts it past Tartaglione.
3. VAN Czibere, (1) (Franson), 18:44 - Giants have the extra attacker out, Franson takes the shot from the point, big rebound to Czibre in the slot who put it in the back of the net.
FISTICUFFS
None tonight. Even though Gordichuk, dropped the gloves and wanted to go with someone nothing happened.
OFFICIATING
I wasn't happy with the Smith tonight. Semmed to be a lot of calls that I felt were questionable and some blatent ones that he just missed. Im going to give him a C tonight. Besides that I have not much else to say about him.
DUMB PENALTY OF THE NIGHT AWARD
Hmm lets see, so many to choose from, Giants and Cougars with both having a too many men on the Ice, Slade with playing the puck in the corner, but I'm going to go with Repik shooting the puck over the glass in third that led to PG's 5th goal. He was near the blueline at the time, that should have never happened.
OVERALL
PG worked better than Vancouver tonight. Vancouver had spurts where they out worked the cougars but too many lapses to give them a chance to win. The goaltending for Van was not good tonight as well, and so were some of the defensive zone plays. Props to the Cats, they came in worked hard, fell behind but stuck to their game plan and got the win.
3 Stars
1. P.G - 20 Eric Hunter
2. P.G - 10 Nicholas Drazenovic
3. VAN - 15 Spencer Machachek
Even though the Giants lost, it was an entertaining game.
NOTES
Rutherford, was out for Game 3 of 5 of his suspensions.
Scharff and Voytechuk did not play either with injuries for the Giants.
Andy Rogers was in the lineup tonight for the Cougars.
Shots were 33/21 in favour of the Giants.
Giants PK streak of 7 straight games without a PP goal against was finally broken tonight.
Cougars 3/9 on the PP, Giants 0/7, Giants got 1 Shorthanded tonight.
Slade was pulled after the 3rd PG Goal.
GOALS
1. P.G Rai, (1) (Wishart, Rogers), 5:48 (PP) - Wishart makes a nice bench side to penalty box side pass to Rai, Albers try to deflect the puck but misses, Rai is sent in alone from the Giants blue line and he puts it past Slade.
1. VAN Machachek, (3) (Watt, Albers), 14:37 - Watt gets a bouncing puck at the Blue line manages to settle it down and makes a no look backhand pass to Machachek who one times it past Bowles. No chance for Bowles.
2. VAN Albers, (1) (Bartley), 9:03 (SH) - Albers has the puck and takes a big shot that is saved rebound comes out near the blue line, Bartley gets the puck, passes to Albers who is between the circles, who then fires it past Bowles. PG called a Time out after this goal.
2. P.G Drazenovic, (4) , 9:26 (PP) - Drazenovick has the puck thru the Neutral zone, Watt catches him with high stick but he keeps going, delayed peenalty. Giants basically stop including Slade, Drazenovic comes into the zone and roofs one past Slade form the top of the circles. People say Slade was screened, I say he wasn't paying attention.
2. P.G Cooper, (2) , 13:51 - - Another bad goal allowed. From the Blue line Cooper just throws it at the net High, and Slade missed it. I don't think he was paying attention again. That was it for Salde as he was replaced by Tartaglione.
3. P.G King, (1) (Hunter, Drazenovic), 4:25 (PP) - Faceoff in the Giants Zone, Cougars win, King gets the puck slides close to the middle and fires it past Tartaglione.
3. VAN Lucic, (1) (Lamb, Franson), 6:58 - Shot from lamb bit of a bad rebound with a goal mouth scramble, Lucic manages to get a stick on the puck and tap it in for the goal.
3. P.G Patterson, (5) (Hunter), 17:41 - Patterson breaks down the right side cuts into the middle just in front of the crease and puts it past Tartaglione.
3. VAN Czibere, (1) (Franson), 18:44 - Giants have the extra attacker out, Franson takes the shot from the point, big rebound to Czibre in the slot who put it in the back of the net.
FISTICUFFS
None tonight. Even though Gordichuk, dropped the gloves and wanted to go with someone nothing happened.
OFFICIATING
I wasn't happy with the Smith tonight. Semmed to be a lot of calls that I felt were questionable and some blatent ones that he just missed. Im going to give him a C tonight. Besides that I have not much else to say about him.
DUMB PENALTY OF THE NIGHT AWARD
Hmm lets see, so many to choose from, Giants and Cougars with both having a too many men on the Ice, Slade with playing the puck in the corner, but I'm going to go with Repik shooting the puck over the glass in third that led to PG's 5th goal. He was near the blueline at the time, that should have never happened.
OVERALL
PG worked better than Vancouver tonight. Vancouver had spurts where they out worked the cougars but too many lapses to give them a chance to win. The goaltending for Van was not good tonight as well, and so were some of the defensive zone plays. Props to the Cats, they came in worked hard, fell behind but stuck to their game plan and got the win.
3 Stars
1. P.G - 20 Eric Hunter
2. P.G - 10 Nicholas Drazenovic
3. VAN - 15 Spencer Machachek
Even though the Giants lost, it was an entertaining game.