<div align="center">Game 65: Kelowna Knights v Detroit Falcons
Game Thread



Goals

KEL- Anatoly Yanovich (Michael Burrows, Beau Bent) at 8:49 (PP) (1st)
KEL- Justs Sirmais (Kornel Kasparek, Cara Hohenberg) at 13:07 (PP) (1st)
DET- Nucky Toohoots (Alex Berkis, Prince Daniel James) at 3:29 (2nd)
DET- Alex Berkis (Marc Leclerc, Alexis Metzler) at 8:48 (2nd)
DET- Hans Moleman (Alex Berkis, Nucky Toohoots) at 2:20 (PP) (3rd)
DET- Hans Moleman (Jari Sinikka) at 13:38 (3rd)
KEL- Trevor Wilson (Beau Bent, Kornel Kasparek) at 18:29 (3rd)
DET- Cikgnar Konstantinov (Zach Evans, Edvins Berzins) at 19:23 (Empy Net) (3rd)

Penalties

DET- Chadathy Brodangleschlong for Interference (Minor) at 7:29 (1st)
DET- Erik Muller for Hooking (Minor) at 12:47 (1st)
KEL- Trevor Wilson for Hooking (Minor) at 5:20 (2nd)
DET- Marc Leclerc for Holding (Minor) at 11:57 (2nd)
KEL- Adriana Starosta for Interference (Minor) at 15:21 (2nd)
KEL- Fedor Shirobokov for High Sticking (Minor) at 18:42 (2nd)
KEL- Fedor Shirobokov for Hooking (Minor) at 1:13 (3rd)

The Game</div>

Detroit recovered after a bad start to defeat the Kelowna Knights 5 to 3 last night in a shellacking at the Jet Blue Airways Arena last night. The Falcons, looking to build on recent successes, crushed Kelowna in many areas including hits, face-offs, and shots on goal as Hans Moleman continued to build a case for multiple individual awards at the end of the season.

The game began with Detroit's customary poor special team performances, with a pair of penalties to Chadathy Brodangleschlong and Erik Muller resulting in power play goals for the Knights, the 6th and 5th goals of the year for Anatoly Yanovich and Justs Sirmais respectively. An impressive textbook performance by Jason Aittokallio thwarted all attempts to equalize before the end of the first period.

Detroit found their groove in the second period, with Aittokallio finally missing a catch, and Nucky Toohoots taking advantage on the rebound to beat him and score their first for the game. It was followed just a few minutes later by a brutal slapshot from Alex Berkis, and the scored were levelled at two goals each.

Kelowna completely lost control of the play in the third period, with an early power play goal by Hans Moleman setting the pace. Hans followed it up with a second goal ten minutes later, which was the eventual game winner. The Knights eventually finally replied with just 91 seconds to go, but pulling Jason Aittokallio backfired in the final minute, resulting in an empty net goal by Cikgnar Konstantinov. The win places Detroit as the top team in the eastern conference, ahead of St Louis on game wins. Kelowna retains their place at the top of the western conference, and at the top of the overall league.

<div align="center">The Crucial Point</div>

The game could have gone either way in the final period, but a hooking penalty by Fedor Shirobokov put Detroit on the power play. Falcons fans, wary of the teams terrible special teams play this season, would have been uncomfortable with this, and would have been frustrated with a terrible offside call thirty seconds in; but a team effort by all five skaters on the ice (Sinikka, Daniel James, Toohoots, Berkis, Moleman) resulted in the lead taking goal. If Detroit's 1st line looked happy, perhaps even surprised to have scored on the power play, in truth they were ecstatic, and fired up to the point where they dominated the play for the rest of the 3rd period.

<div align="center">Three Stars</div>

3rd Star- Nucky Toohoots had a goal and an assist on this game, and was on the ice for a third goal. He won nearly 80% of his 24 face offs and was a big part of why Detroit was dominant in the 3rd period.

2nd Star- Alex Berkis attained a goal and was important for two assists, resulting in his second third point game in the last week.

1st Star- Hans Moleman scored 2 goals, including the eventual game winner, and was responsible for 8 of the 39 shots on goal by Detroit this game. He also completes the Detroit 1st line's presence as the 3 stars of the game.