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*Tomen* · 08-13-2016, 08:21 AM

<div align="center">Game#75(Game Link)

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

<span style='color:#54C571'>(10-7-2) at Prince George Firebirds

(11-6-1)</span></span>

Score: Whalers

2 vs

3 SO

Welcome to the George Sports Colosseum where we will a battle between 2 teams from BC. The Prince George Firebirds and the Vancouver Whalers.
The first period was a bit strange. PGF dominated in shots with 15! but was not able to score. On the other hand the Whalers were able to score 1 goal on 8 shots. The goal was scored in the 2nd minute after a penalty for PGF. the next two periods were really quite with VAN having a toal of 10 shots in the 2nd and 3rd period. PGF having only 8 shots in the next two periods. One highlight of the next two periods was a fight between Theodore Graham and Michael Young.
The game was eventually decided by a shootout in favor for the Firebirds.

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Highlights:

2:24 of 1st period GOAL 1 to 0 Vancouver Whalers Whalers

Power play for the Whalers. Triforce Link retrieves the free puck and hands it over to Corey Bearss who passes to Theodore Graham in the neutral zone. Graham is just able to skate with all the free time into the PGF zone. No one stops him. He decides to test his luck and fires a huge slapper at the FIrebirds goal. But the shot is wide , but wait. Alfred Holiday is able to get the puck on his stick, shoots and SCORES!. Just 2 minutes into the game the Whalers lead. GOAL

9:01 of 2nd period Fight Vancouver Whalers Whalers

vs Prince George Firebirds

The fight started ot of no where when Vancouver was in the Firebirds zone. Theodore Graham instigated a fight with Micheal Young. We can only speculate what the reason for that was but it seems like a unrational decision from Graham who is Vancouver's best defender. Prince George should be happy with that trade their 4th liner for VAN's best defender. The fight between the two was a draw. Graham got a fighting major, a instigating minor and got ejected from the game. Young only got the fighting major.

16:07 of 2nd period GOAL 1 to 1 Prince George Firebirds

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Sven Wolf intercepts the pass of Alfred Holiday in the neutral zone and proceeds to pass to Casper Jakobsson. Jakobsson sees Hunky Monkey and gets him the puck with a beautiful backhand pass. Monkey losses the puck as he enters Vancouver's zone but Sven Wolf is there to scoop it up. Skates towards the goal...... shoots and SCORES! Afterwards he bumps into the boards to celebrate infront of a Whalers fan. GOAL

19:40 of 2nd period GOAL 2 to 1 Prince George Firebirds

Prince George is on the PP. Casper Jakobsson wins face-off versus Jon Ross in Vancouver Whalers zone and passes to Johnny Pollak. Pollak pass back to his partner Hunky Monkey who takes a quick shot. That shot is blocked by Brynjar Tusk. Hylytyr NoRetornable gets the free puck and passes to puck to Pollak. Pollak with a huge slapper. SCORES!! GOAL

14:08 of 3rd period GOAL 2 to 2 Vancouver Whalers Whalers

Pass by Tyrone Savage is intercepted by Levi Kubrak in neutral zone. Kubrak passes to Connor MacDonald who skates in Prince Geroge's zone. MacDonald with a slapper that goes wide. Ieuan Llewellyn gets the puck on his stick and takes a quick shot and .............. SCORES! GOAL

Shootout GOAL 3 to 2 Prince George Firebirds

The Firebirds win it in the Shootout!. Thanks to a good performance by Ben Waters who stopped 2 shots and Eduard Selich scoring to only goal in the shootout. Selich scored a real beauty of a goal fooling the Whalers goalie. GOAL

Turning Point:
The turning point of this game is easy to spot it is all the Penalties Vancouver got but especially the fight that was instigated by Theodore Graham that got him ejected. Graham is the Whalers best defender and therefore they lost a big peace in their PK,PP and even strength game. The fight also sparked PGF giving them enough momentum to score 2 goals in the 2nd period.

Goalie Matchup:
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This was a really even battle. There was no real winner if you look at the stats. Waters was just a bt more clutch than Link by stopping all of the Shootout attempts. But overall both goalies had a really good performance today, not a stellar one but a real solid one. Both had a SV% of over 90 or at least 90% and a Rebound % of under 23%. Which is quite low. Link had way less bad rebounds than Waters though the only real bright spot for Link today in comparison to Waters. But one has to remember that this stat is also heavilly influenced by the teammates.
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