Colorado Mammoths vs Vancouver Whalers - Game 64
Score: Colorado 1 - Vancouver 4

Starting Line up
Colorado
Left Wing|| Center || Right Wing
Master Maguku|| Steven Stamkos Jr.|| Frontdoor McGraw

Defense|| Defense
Ben Dover || Maverick O'Dooley

Goaltenders
Ekaterina Rudnikova

Vancouver
Left Wing || Center || Right Wing
Conklin Owen || Jon Ross || Ace Redding

Defense || Defense
Theodore Graham || Connor MacDonald

Goaltenders
Maximilian Wehner

HERE. WE. GO.

Tonight’s Matchup is once again between what seems now like neighbors in the amount of games these two teams have played one another at this point so early in the season. Unfortunately like many low budget comedy movies the relationship has been one sided with the whalers dominating the series. But with 1 recent win for the Mammoths maybe the tides are turning. With the Whalers seeming to have trouble generating shots and relying heavily on their defense and goaltending maybe this could be a game for the Mammoths to break out.

1st Period

- Shots 12 Whalers -7 Mammoths

- 3 Penalties Mammoths

- Fight Between Max Wilburn/ Serj Kovalchuk – Draw



The game started with a bang, with the apparent bad blood slowly brewing with these teams and maybe the Mammoths sick of losing to their inter conference opponents we had an early fight break out. Not the usual suspects you’d expect either. It is safe to call the bout a draw between Wilburn and Kovalchuk but the fists were flying hard and fast in this one. The period was pretty even until the back half where the Whalers pulled ahead to make it 2-1.

1. Colorado Mammoths , Steven Stamkos Jr. 3 (William Goddard) at 5:33

After tusk coughed the puck up from a hit by FrontDoor mcgraw Stamkos Jr. picked up the gift left for him and goes top corner on Max Wehner. With such a fast Bang, bang play (Literally) Max has no time to react and the Mammoths go out to an early 1-0 lead.



2. Vancouver Whalers , OG Bobby 4 (Theodore Graham, Connor MacDonald) at 8:22

After a nice pick up the the whalers end, MacDonald got the puck around the boards to Graham who found a nice little outlet to stretch the pass to an already streaking Bobby. He made short work of the play with a nice shot to beat the goalie.



3. Vancouver Whalers , Conklin Owen 7 (Connor MacDonald, Jon Ross) at 12:51 (PP)

Did you buy your tickets? No? Are you sure? Because if not, Conklin Owen would like to invite you to the snipe show. A beauty pass by MacDonald on the PP made short work of this man advantage and gave the Whalers their first (and only one needed) lead of the game.



2nd Period

- Shots 11 Whalers -2 Mammoths

The Period that got away. The title of the Mammoths summary of what happened in this second period. After having a fairly even outing in the 1st, the Mammoths found themselves quickly behind even further going down 3-1. Penalties causing them issues again as the game went helped to push this game out of grasp, and the lack of shots did not help them much either.

4. Vancouver Whalers , Corey Bearss 4 (Olson Stuart, OG Bobby) at 3:14

The Youth line of the whalers cashes in like their visiting a pawn shop and starts to make this game out of reach for the Mammoths. With the Whalers slowly pushes the pillow over the Mammoths collective faces, they use the heavy shot advantage to start to put this game away.



5. Vancouver Whalers , Adam Kaiser 3 (Connor MacDonald, Corey Bearss) at 12:24 (PP)

Seriously at this point, if a team isn’t respecting the play of the 2 D men on the whalers PP by now they need to start paying attention. Between the passing of MacDonald and the threat from both D men being able to shoot the puck, team need to watch out. Kaiser blasts one home to give that nice comfort zone of 3 to put the Whalers comfortably ahead



3rd Period

- Shots 7 Whalers-5 Mammoths

2 Penalties Mammoths

A fairly uneventuful period with some good opportunities both ways but no red lights to speak of. The Mammoths seemed to end on somewhat of a high note not getting throttled in the shot column to close another loss out to the Whalers.

Post game Report:

Summary: The whalers cashed in on the Mammoths in ability to stay out of the box this game. Nearly tripling them in penalties, Colorado allowed themselves to fall victim to the Whalers pestering from players like Ieaun Llewellyn and were promptly burned by the Whalers power play twice. Rudnikova was chase by the mid way 2nd period and although the Mammoths had a more even effort 3rd period it was to little to late to push back against the Whalers..



3 Stars

1 - OG Bobby (VAN) G: 1|| A: 1 || PTS: 2 || 14:43 MP

Having a fairly good season for this scoring winger has continued into this game which the Whalers dominanted from start to finish with key plays by this young winger. He nabs the first star with his offensive push.

2 - Corey Bearss (VAN) G:1 || A: 1 || PTS: 2 || 15:55

A player that seemed to struggle at first to start the year seems to slowly coming into his stride. Putting up a few points to help with the convincing win over the Mammoths his contribution was another big part towards the win.

3 - Connor MacDonald (VAN) G:0 || A: 3 || PTS: 3 || 21:49

What can be said about this young defenseman? He keeps putting up points to start the season as a rookie while quarterbacking the power play and starting to eat up top line minutes. The sky seems to be the limit for this young player and if he keeps dishing like he is, Gordan Ramsey might be calling soon for copy right infringement.



Colorado Mammoths - Hits : 24 - Faceoff Wins : 31 - Blocked Shots : 6 - Penalty Minutes : 19
Vancouver Whalers - Hits : 17 - Faceoff Wins : 43 - Blocked Shots : 2 - Penalty Minutes : 7