Welcome everybody to this post game show, I'm your host Harry Hans! and tonight we got are selves a barn burner hockey game between the Vancouver Whalers and Kelowna Knights this should be a good one!
Period 1:
Man do we have a lot of goals this period, first we got 2 power plays from Kelowna from the start of the period as Michael O'Dowd scored the 1st goal of the game then 2 minutes later Peter Walker scored the 2nd goal and Kelowna got 2 powerplay within 2 minutes, (we will take look penalties in just a second).Buck Maverick scored the 3rd goal of the game and make it 2 -1 and that was also a powerplay goal. Near the end of the first Vancouver scores as Benis Smol gets his 4th goal of the season. They're so many penalties this period alone so lets take look at the following, Michael O'Dowd (KEL) Roughing (Minor), Herb Robert (VAN) Roughing (Minor), David Kastrba (VAN) High Sticking (Minor), Greg Connors (KEL) Holding (Minor), and finally Noah Nowes (VAN) Hooking (Minor), damn that's a lot of penalties and they're still more this game!
Period 2:
to start off this period, three minutes in Peter Walker scores his 2nd goal of the second period and his 9th goal of the season and Kevin Maddox follows that up three minutes, a shot from Maddox and goes behind the net its now 4-2. Vancouver manged to score at the 13 minute mark from Alex Andani and that makes it his 4th goal of the season but Kelowna scores their 5th goal of the game from Ryan Gardiner. However Vancouver scores 30 seconds later from Guts O'Bigbers and the second period ends 5 - 4 Kelowna.
Period 3
It went downhill for Vancouver right here as Kelowna took control of the score board this period as they score 3 goals and 2 being from the powerplay. The first goal comes from Michael Fischer which he scored on the powerplay, Elias Svensson scores for Kelowna and that was his 1st goal of the season for him. Finally James Dekens scores in the 15 minute mark and this game end 4-8 Kelowna. Many penalties this game especially from 1st period.
Overall this game was intense and exciting, lots of goals and lots of penalties.
3 Stars of the Game
1 - Peter Walker (KEL) 2 Goals 1 Assist
2 - Ryan Gardiner (KEL) 1 Goal 2 Assists
3 - James Dekens (KEL) 1 Goal 2 Assists
The scoreboard does not tell the whole story in the Whaler's big 8-4 loss to the Kelowna Knights. However, Vancouver Whaler's head coach claims that his team "just did not want it as bad". "They were beating us in to every corner and winning all the important puck battles. This loss wasn't about being less skilled; it was about being less tenacious. The coach's contention rings true. This was a one-goal game going into the final frame and when everything was all said and done, The Kelowna Knights only had two more shots than the Vancouver Whalers, 35-33. Coach went on to clarify that goal tending was not the issue
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Where the Whale Went Wrong Part II
The margin between winning and losing can often be pin pointed to a specific moment--even in lop-sided affairs such as this one. For instance, the two plays--which happened in quick succession and wound up being this game's TSN turning point--illustrate the coach's argument well. Considering, at the 5:43 mark of the third period, with the Kelowna Knights hanging on to a one-goal lead, there was a lose-puck battle, which was won by Kelowna Knights player, Fenton Uriel. As Uriel dished the puck over to his teammate, Matej Elias, Vancouver Whaler defender Tokek Takshak was caught flat footed and forced to take a minor penalty for hooking.
What unfolded next sealed the victory for the Kelowna Knights, as again the trend continued; a puck battle was won by Michael Fischer for Kelowna Knights. Fisher fired a shot that was blocked, but then again retrieved the puck before burrying his own rebound.
This power play goal proved to be more than enough cushion for the Kelowna Knights to secure victory.
The Kelowna Knights went on to add three more unanswered goals, as the Vancouver Whalers coasted to defeat, completely deflated of air in the tires.
"We need to clear the garbage in front of our crease" is how Whalers captain put it.
This game between the Vancouver Whalers and the Kelowna Knights brought us a lot of goals but one of them definitely qualifies for Harvey's Fail of the Game title.
The Knights were only leading by one goal at the beginning of the third period, and Vancouver had scored the last goal right before the end of the second. Hope was still on the Whalers bench when ZzJRsSnoopLion makes the tragic mistake shown in the following clip. No matter how hard Vancouver tried after that, they couldn't come back from that two-goal deficit, and Kelowna actually doubled their lead before the game ended.
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Week Six. Game 81. Kelowna Knights versus Vancouver Whalers
Analysis of the First Star:Peter Walker
In a game in what could be considered a premonition for the 4-Star Cup finals, the Kelowna Knights came out of the gate with something to prove. The team was led by an incredible performance by Peter Walker. His all-around incredible play helped lead his team to a win in this high scoring thriller.
One of his two goals came in the first period on the power play. He took an incredible pass from James Dekens and fired a bullet through the five hole to make the Knights fans lose their sploosh.
His second goal came in the second where he picked up what Xavier Paquette was layin down and buried it deep in the netting. It was more impressive than his first goal.
He completed his incredible game with an assist to Ryan Gardiner's goal with help again from Xavier Paquette. A great win for a great team.
You wanna win in todays SMJHL and SHL? Then you better get some good special teams, like, I don't know, a powerplay that can score on 80% of their chances? Because that's exactly what the Kelowna Knights did in this beating that the delivered to the Vancouver Whalers. Quite a lot of people expacted a spectacle in this game between the two uncontested top-teams in juniors this season and boy did they not get disappointed. Not often do you get to see a game that ends on a score of 8-4, with both teams putting up 33+ shots and a momentum that swung both ways over the course of the game. It was the Whalers who started stronger, outshooting the Knights 17-9 in the first period but it was at that moment, that the Kelowna powerplay started to drive the dagger, or should I say harpoon, into their Whaler hearts. Michael O'Dowd and Peter Walker both scored on the man advantage and suddenly the team that was dominated early on was leading 2-0. The Whalers came back, tieing the game until the first break but in the second, it was all Kelowna and the Knights started pulling away. Their PP-squad would add two more insurance goals in the third, raising their total to an impressive four goals - on just five powerplays! A truly amazing performance, and a worthy ending to a great game.
There was only one penalty kill for the Vancouver Whalers that ended successfully. We're going to take a look at this penalty kill with just under four minutes remaining in the first period on a hooking penalty on Noah Nowes.
While you would expect this could be a more profound experience, the one time the strategy worked in a situation where they were eaten alive. You would be incorrect. This was a situation where the Knights held all of the power, and maintained possession of the puck constantly. The only thing that actually worked for Vancouver -- thus proving this to be their potential downfall and a true weakness of their game -- is luck.
Jean-Luc Picard managed to clear the puck twice on pass interceptions, showing some form of learning on these plays. Picard was the only one able to learn and adjust, however. Picard did well to get the puck out of the zone whenever on the ice, the second unit instead was only able to collapse into the slot and switch consistently on each pass to ensure they aren't too tired while being hemmed into their zone.
The weakness of this defense and penalty kill comes into their willingness to chase the puck and attack the forecheck. Kelowna capitalized most of the time, able to force the play out to the outside and allow openings to creep in to the middle or attack quickly off the face-off. However this once, Jean-Luc Picard was aggressive in the right moments and collapsed well, others knew to switch off and the Whalers actually managed to end a penalty kill. This could be the ultimate undoing of Vancouver in the long-run if they continue to show an unwillingness to learn and adapt on the fly.
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Harry Hans
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