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khabib · 06-21-2019, 05:41 PM

St. Louis Scarecrows vs Vancouver Whalers Whalers

These two teams have already played each other this season, with the Whalers picking a 4-2 victory in Vancouver. St. Louis will be looking to even up the season series on their home ice and pick up their first win of the season while the Vancouver Whalers will look to keep on rolling and put together a dominant regular season. This was going to be a good one from the start.

Period 1: The first period started out slow for both sides with the last matchup being tightly contested and neither team wanting to make a mistake. Igor Volkov took a holding minor 5 minutes into the game but the Crows couldn't capitalize on the power play. Vancouver had their own powerplay shortly after and couldn't score either. The game was a defensive contest for the first period as both goalies stood strong and held their own. Vancouver led in shots 8 to 3 of St. Louis'.

Period 2: About halfway through the 2nd period, the Whalers had a strong shift deep in St. Louis territory and pestered goalie Billy Sorokin with shots. St. Louis just couldn't get a clear and Mattie Brunton ended up icing the puck which would turn out to be a mistake. Aaron Wilson won the faceoff against the tired Mika Kandinsky and Theo Morgan immediately fired it into the net for his first of the season and the Whalers were up 1-0 on the Crows. The Crows woke up for the rest of the period and although they didn't score in the second period, they were showing signs of life. Shots were 8-7 in favour of St. Louis.

Period 3: St. Louis came out hungry for blood in the 3rd period and immediately began to turn it around. 9 seconds into the third period Nicolas Fleming fired home a beautiful one timer with assists from Magnicotta and Muller to even it up. About halfway through the 3rd, Fork Spoon took a bad roughing minor and the Whalers powerplay went to work. Vancouver scored just 6 seconds into the powerplay with a nice slapshot from Cullen Gray, his second of the season, and they had the lead once again. St. Louis was determined to not go down without a fight however as Fork Spoon led the rush up the wing with the last second dish to Basil Magnicotta who potted it in just minutes after the last goal and we were tied again! The rest of the period was a blur however as something had angered the Whalers and they just pestered St. Louis with shot after shot and were absolutely determined to score. Nicolaj Muller ended up taking a high sticking minor penalty and Vancouver was too good to not capitalize on that opportunity. Bobby Bobcalf potted in his first of the season on the powerplay and the Whalers played great shut down hockey, limiting St. Louis to just 7 shots in the 3rd period. To ice the game, Aaron Wilson scored his 3rd goal of the season into the empty net and Jax Duggan picked up his 3rd assist of the night! The Whalers won yet another hard fought game against the St. Louis Scarecrows.

Final Score 4-2 Vancouver Whalers

3 Stars
1 - Jax Duggan (VAN)
2 - Aaron Wilson (VAN)
3 - Basil Magnicotta (STL)

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Zach · 06-21-2019, 07:45 PM

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BrewskyBoy · 06-22-2019, 11:53 AM

Comment 1: Jax Duggan

Tonight's first star of the game was defenseman Jax Duggan, and rightfully so. He came out of the gate tonight looking to set his teammates up, and that's exactly what he did from the blue line. He helped get his team on the board first in the second period when he tallied the primary assist on Theo Morgan's first goal of the season. He made his mark again when he helped to get the Whalers back in the lead with the primary assist on Cullen Gray's goal on the power play. Lastly, he pushed the puck up the ice to Aaron Wilson to seal the game with the empty netter. When it was all said and done, Duggan put together a 3 assist game with all of them being the primary assist.

Comment 2: Special Teams
A big factor in this game was the difference in special teams performance. On one end of the ice, we saw the Whalers go on the power play a total of six times and they were able to capitalize on two of them for a conversion rate of 33%. The Scarecrows on the other hand were only on the man-advantage on three occasions, and were unable to score on any of their chances. Those two power play goals for the Whalers both came in the third period, and each time broke a tie game giving the Whalers the lead back. The Scarecrows had a chance on the power play late in the third, but were unable to draw back even.

Comment 3: Shot Disparity
The Whalers managed to out-shoot the Scarecrows 31-18 in this one, a difference of 13 shots. This difference is highlighted even more if we focus in on just the third period, where Vancouver out-shot the Crows by a tally of 16-7. Goaltender Billy Sorokin was under constant duress during the third period and did everything he could to keep his team in the mix, while Casimir Stevens was able to turn aside a majority of the few shots that he had to face on the opposite end. Theo Morgan led the charge for the Whalers with a team-high 7 shots on the evening. Nicolas Fleming had the most shots for St. Louis with 4.

Whikadoodle · 06-27-2019, 10:10 AM

It's now time for the Canadian Tire Unsung Hero of the Game, presented by Titos Vodka. Titos Vodka, just Vodka, gets you drunk.

Tonight's honors will be awarded to Vancouvers Kaspars Claude! Claude notched both a primary and a secondary assist, with the primary assist contributing to Vancouvers game winning goal. Kaspars played the role of Iron man tonight, logging over twenty minutes on the ice and almost three whole minutes on the penalty kill.

Please give it up for our Canadian Tire Unsung Hero of the Game, Kaspars Claude!

Kaspars Claude 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0/0 21:18 4:42 2:41

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Keygan · 07-11-2019, 10:24 AM

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Aaron Wilson potting his third goal of the season on an empty netter.

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Aaron Wilson recording his fourth hit of the game.

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Aaron Wilson realizing his wasn't voted first star of the game.

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