Beaner
02-18-2006, 12:25 AM
Another excellet game from the Giants tonight, as the first period was pretty even play wise, but the Giants dominated the 2nd and third periods and completely shut down the T-Birds. Bridges kept the T-birds in the game thru 2, but the birds could just not get anything going against the Vancouver D.
Vancouver fans were of course waiting for the Giants to get a little payback on Gibbons tonight, but the Giants were focusing on the win and once the game got to be about 4-0, Gibbons never saw the ice again.
NOTES
Slade and Bridges got the starts tonight
Giants got their first 40th win season in franchise history.
Slade got his 9th shut-out of the year.
Giants only dressed 16 skaters again tonight, Seattle only dressed 17.
Mikkelson (Knee), Watt (Shoulder), Rutherford (Shoulder), Kraus (Jaw), Reese (Shoulder) were the Giants scratches.
Scharff had to be helped off the Ice after taking a sucker punch from Olsen at the end of the game. No word on how he is, but Joey and Bill were saying he is more than likely will not play tomorrow based on how he was taken off the ice.
Shots 45/25 Giants
PPs' Giants 1/7, T-bird 0/5
GOALS
1. VAN Brule, (12) (Albers, Bartley), 19:21 (PP) Albers sends a pass to Brule at the faceoff dot and Brule one times a slapshot that blows right by Bridges.
2. VAN Fistric, (5) (Slade), 1:17 Fistric takes the puck from his own zone, all the way to the T-birds blue line and he just fires a bullet that beats Bridges High.
3. VAN Lucic, (9) (Repik, Brule), 9:54 Good forecheck from the Giants and Lucic ends up coming out form the corner all alone and he puts a backhand on net that beats Bridges.
3. VAN Brule, (13) (Fistric), 12:32 Brule gets a pass from Fistric skates into the zone, goes right thru the Dman and throws it at the net that Bridges catches 90% of but it manages to trickle thu him.
3. VAN Bliznak, (8) (Blum), 15:56 Point shot from Blum that Bliznak deflects right in front of Bridges
END OF GAME INCIDENT
So with about 9.8 secs remaining and a faceoff deep in the Giants zone, Bench boss Sumner throws McEwan and Olson on the ice. Puck goes to the front of the net, both Olson and McEwan crash the net, a melee of course ensues and everyone pairs up. Scharff is with Olson, they are mostly talking about going but neither has the gloves off. Festerling ditches his guy and goes over to break up Scharff and Olson. Mostly everyone else is pushing and shoving just jawing away.
Then while Festerling/Scharff and Olson are jawing at each other, Olson from out of nowhere, throws a short jab right on the button of Scharff, that knocks Scharff out cold and he crumples to the ice. Scharff was down on the ice for several minutes, and had to be helped off the ice.
3 - VAN Bliznak, 20:00 - Roughing , 2 min
3 - VAN Festerling, 20:00 - Major-Fighting , 5 min
3 - VAN Franson, 20:00 - Roughing , 2 min
3 - SEA Klinkhammer, 20:00 - Roughing , 2 min
3 - VAN Lamb, 20:00 - Roughing , 2 min
3 - SEA McEwan, 20:00 - Roughing , 2 min
3 - SEA Olson, 20:00 - Major-Fighting , 5 min
3 - SEA Richard, 20:00 - Roughing , 2 min
3 - SEA Schappert, 20:00 - Roughing , 2 min
3 - VAN Scharff, 20:00 - Roughing , 2 min
3 - VAN Slade, 20:00 - Roughing , 2 min
I am going to have to watch the end of the game again when the archive goes up, a it happened so fast I only caught a glimpse of it.
FISTICUFFS
Festerling vs. Olson
After Olson sucker punches Scharff, Festerling goes in and drops the gloves with Olson. Not many punches thrown as Festerling throws Olson up against the galass, and pins him there, mostly wrestling, and the linesman get in quick to break it up. NO DECISION. **Please see post below for better recap after watching the tape again**
OFFICIATING
Pat Smith got the call tonight, and did a nice job, in a game where it could have got out of hand very quick. Nothing he could have done about the end of the game incident.
INTERNET FEED
Had a few problems to start with choppiness, but was good the rest of the night. Commentators were fine.
OVERALL
Happy to see that the Giants focused on job one tonight, getting the win. As I said earlier the Giants completely dominated the game after the 1st as Seattle could just not stop Vancouver and could barely get anything going themselves. Both teams kept the stupidity that could have ensued in check until the final second, when the Seattle bench boss put out the goons to mix things up with a faceoff in the Giants zone with less than 10 seconds left.
A classless move by Sumner tonight at the end of the game considering that he had parked Gibbons firmly on the bench once the Giants had the 4-0 lead. Myself I was gaining some respect for Sumner for parking Gibbons so no stupidity would happen but sending out the goon squad to just be idiots just caused me to lose any respect I had for Sumner.
This could make for an extremely rough game tomorrow as these two teams meet again tommorrow night.
3 Stars
1. VAN - 17 Gilbert Brule
2. VAN - 5 Mark Fistric
3. VAN - 37 Dustin Slade
Congrats of course to the Giants being the first team int he Western conference to clinch a playoff spot, and for overtaking MH for 2nd overall.
Vancouver fans were of course waiting for the Giants to get a little payback on Gibbons tonight, but the Giants were focusing on the win and once the game got to be about 4-0, Gibbons never saw the ice again.
NOTES
Slade and Bridges got the starts tonight
Giants got their first 40th win season in franchise history.
Slade got his 9th shut-out of the year.
Giants only dressed 16 skaters again tonight, Seattle only dressed 17.
Mikkelson (Knee), Watt (Shoulder), Rutherford (Shoulder), Kraus (Jaw), Reese (Shoulder) were the Giants scratches.
Scharff had to be helped off the Ice after taking a sucker punch from Olsen at the end of the game. No word on how he is, but Joey and Bill were saying he is more than likely will not play tomorrow based on how he was taken off the ice.
Shots 45/25 Giants
PPs' Giants 1/7, T-bird 0/5
GOALS
1. VAN Brule, (12) (Albers, Bartley), 19:21 (PP) Albers sends a pass to Brule at the faceoff dot and Brule one times a slapshot that blows right by Bridges.
2. VAN Fistric, (5) (Slade), 1:17 Fistric takes the puck from his own zone, all the way to the T-birds blue line and he just fires a bullet that beats Bridges High.
3. VAN Lucic, (9) (Repik, Brule), 9:54 Good forecheck from the Giants and Lucic ends up coming out form the corner all alone and he puts a backhand on net that beats Bridges.
3. VAN Brule, (13) (Fistric), 12:32 Brule gets a pass from Fistric skates into the zone, goes right thru the Dman and throws it at the net that Bridges catches 90% of but it manages to trickle thu him.
3. VAN Bliznak, (8) (Blum), 15:56 Point shot from Blum that Bliznak deflects right in front of Bridges
END OF GAME INCIDENT
So with about 9.8 secs remaining and a faceoff deep in the Giants zone, Bench boss Sumner throws McEwan and Olson on the ice. Puck goes to the front of the net, both Olson and McEwan crash the net, a melee of course ensues and everyone pairs up. Scharff is with Olson, they are mostly talking about going but neither has the gloves off. Festerling ditches his guy and goes over to break up Scharff and Olson. Mostly everyone else is pushing and shoving just jawing away.
Then while Festerling/Scharff and Olson are jawing at each other, Olson from out of nowhere, throws a short jab right on the button of Scharff, that knocks Scharff out cold and he crumples to the ice. Scharff was down on the ice for several minutes, and had to be helped off the ice.
3 - VAN Bliznak, 20:00 - Roughing , 2 min
3 - VAN Festerling, 20:00 - Major-Fighting , 5 min
3 - VAN Franson, 20:00 - Roughing , 2 min
3 - SEA Klinkhammer, 20:00 - Roughing , 2 min
3 - VAN Lamb, 20:00 - Roughing , 2 min
3 - SEA McEwan, 20:00 - Roughing , 2 min
3 - SEA Olson, 20:00 - Major-Fighting , 5 min
3 - SEA Richard, 20:00 - Roughing , 2 min
3 - SEA Schappert, 20:00 - Roughing , 2 min
3 - VAN Scharff, 20:00 - Roughing , 2 min
3 - VAN Slade, 20:00 - Roughing , 2 min
I am going to have to watch the end of the game again when the archive goes up, a it happened so fast I only caught a glimpse of it.
FISTICUFFS
Festerling vs. Olson
After Olson sucker punches Scharff, Festerling goes in and drops the gloves with Olson. Not many punches thrown as Festerling throws Olson up against the galass, and pins him there, mostly wrestling, and the linesman get in quick to break it up. NO DECISION. **Please see post below for better recap after watching the tape again**
OFFICIATING
Pat Smith got the call tonight, and did a nice job, in a game where it could have got out of hand very quick. Nothing he could have done about the end of the game incident.
INTERNET FEED
Had a few problems to start with choppiness, but was good the rest of the night. Commentators were fine.
OVERALL
Happy to see that the Giants focused on job one tonight, getting the win. As I said earlier the Giants completely dominated the game after the 1st as Seattle could just not stop Vancouver and could barely get anything going themselves. Both teams kept the stupidity that could have ensued in check until the final second, when the Seattle bench boss put out the goons to mix things up with a faceoff in the Giants zone with less than 10 seconds left.
A classless move by Sumner tonight at the end of the game considering that he had parked Gibbons firmly on the bench once the Giants had the 4-0 lead. Myself I was gaining some respect for Sumner for parking Gibbons so no stupidity would happen but sending out the goon squad to just be idiots just caused me to lose any respect I had for Sumner.
This could make for an extremely rough game tomorrow as these two teams meet again tommorrow night.
3 Stars
1. VAN - 17 Gilbert Brule
2. VAN - 5 Mark Fistric
3. VAN - 37 Dustin Slade
Congrats of course to the Giants being the first team int he Western conference to clinch a playoff spot, and for overtaking MH for 2nd overall.