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*Tomen* · 08-07-2016, 09:50 AM

<div align="center">Game #44(Game Link)

Vancouver <span style='color:#150567'>Whalers Whalers

<span style='color:#54C571'>(6-3-1)in Vancouver vs Prince George Firebirds

(5-5-0)</span></span>

Score: Whalers

2 vs

1 SO

Welcome to the Pacific Coliseum where we will a battle between 2 teams from BC. The Prince George Firebirds and the Vancouver Whalers. Prince George currently leads in the rivalry with 1 win on home ice. Today might be the day for the Whalers to bring this rivalry to a tie one their own home ice.
The first period was a really even battle between this 2 teams. Each team generating at least 10 shots. Vancouver had the upper hand though with scoring 1 goal. They also had the only penalties in this period with 3. Penalties were the only highlights in the second period to be honest. Every team was able to shoot the puck on the net but none had success. The Whalers dominated the Firebirds in the third period but were not able to score a goal. Prince George punished the Whalers inability to score by scoring themselves on 1 of the 2 shots they had.
The game was eventually decided by a shootout in favor for the Whalers.

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Highlights:

1:21 of 1st period GOAL 1 to 0 Vancouver Whalers Whalers

Just 1:21 in the game and we already have a goal.Corey Bearss intercepts a pass by Tapper Kotbulle in the neutral zone. Spots an open OG Bobby. Bobby shoots immediately. Obrana was just able to block that shot before any damage was done. Bobby is able to retrieve the puck around the hashmarks shoots. Stuart is able to get his blade on the shot and scores! GOAL

2:38 of 3rd period GOAL 1 to 1 Prince George Firebirds

Puck is dumped in Prince George Firebirds zone by Brynjar Tusk to get some air in the lungs. Karl Hertzberg retrieves the free puck and passes to Obrana in the neutral zone. He moves into the Vancouver zone and rop passes the puck back to Hertzberg. Skates towards the net and passes back to another defender named Kotbulle. Kotbulle sees Obrana and gives him the puck. Obrana with a huge slapper that is wide. Boone is able to retrieve the puck, shoots and SCORES ! GOAL

Shootout GOAL 2 to 1 Vancouver Whalers Whalers

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Conklin Owen and Patrick Kilgore are able to beat Ben Waters with some beautiful shootout moves to secure the win for the Whalers. Owen does it with a nice backhander. Kilgore beats Waters with a quick shot above his left shoulder.
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Goalie Matchup:
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At first it seems like Waters won the goalie battle but once you look at some more in depth stats like his Good Saves% you are able to see that Link had the upper hand in this battle. One should still not think that this was a bad performance for a goalie. In fact this should be one of the best goalie performances of this season by Waters. You could argue that Waters had to face way more difficult shots than Link. Both goalies still had a very high bad rebound % of 100%. It is amazing to see that none of these resulted in a goal. Waters still fell short in a clutch category in this game and that is his SO% which was 0 to Link's 50%. Waters did all he could to keep his team in this game but there is only so much a single person can do.

<div align="center">Three Stars:</div>
3rd Star: Triforce Link (VAN) 16 saves from 17 shots - (0.941), 3 Rebounds, 13 Good Saves
Link had a really good performance today which is awared with the 3rd star of this game. He was very clutch vor VAN in the shootout and put them in a place to succeed with blocking 1 shot. Under 20% of his blocked shots are rebounds that is very good % in that statistic and of course his 94% save procentage.

2nd Star:
Frederick Boone (PGF) 1G, 1Shot, 100% Shot%, 6 HIts ,50% FO%, 1 Intercepted Pass
Boone truly deserves this 2nd star. He had a stellar performance with scoring the game tying goal which gave PGF 1 point out of this game. He truly was a physical presence this game laying out 6 hits which places him 1st in the hits department. He also won 50 % of his face-off and intercepted 1 pass.

1st Star:
Ben Waters (PGF) 29 saves from 30 shots, SV%: 96,97% , 8 Rebounds, 21 Good Saves
Ben Waters and Frederick Boone combined were the only reason PGF made it to the shootout. Waters had a phenominal game. Maybe just a tad too many rebounds but I think the reason was that Vancouver had a lot of high quality scoring chances. The statistics this game that were not superb for Waters are his SO%. Other than that this should be Waters best performance of this season.I mean almost 97% save procentage is just crazy good.

Thank you all for the amazing sigs & player cards
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