Montreal Militia 3 at Detroit Falcons 6
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Game summary
Both teams went into this one having started off dissapointingly after coming off very good preseasons. The Falcons used their most likely best in the league offense to come away with this one in what looked like it was never close.
Goal summaries
1st period

Quote:
Metzler dumps the puck, retrieved by Wesley Wells, OH LOOK AT THAT TOOHOOTS TAKES THE PUCK! Prince Daniel James is given the puck, pass to Sinikka.Montreal has shut down the rush, looks like Detroit will cycle the puck here. Toohoots with it, Moleman now, [b]OH MAGIC BY MOLE- HE SCORES! HE'S DONE IT AGAIN! DETROIT TAKES THE EARLY LEAD ON THE SHORTHANDED GOAL!
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1. Detroit Falcons , Hans Moleman 7 (Nucky Toohoots, Jari Sinikka) at 4:08 (SH)

Quote:Moleman retrieves the puck, starts moving it. Makes the pass to Cikgna- oh what a poke check by Bail- OH MY GOD VIKSTROM
SMASHES HIM! SENDS IT TO EVANS IN THE ZONE! [b]EVANS SHOOTS, SCORES!
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2. Detroit Falcons , Zach Evans 4 (Henrik Vikstrom) at 13:55

Quote:And Vas ices the puck. We're going to set up for a faceoff in the Militia zone here. Toohoots wins it, sends it to Berkis, to Moleman. Pass to Toohoots, back to Sinikka, he sends it to Moleman at the- OH HE SHOOT- BLOCKED BY RYAN VAS! [b]JAMES PICKS IT UP, SCORES WITH A TOP CORNER WRISTER![/b]

3. Detroit Falcons , Prince Daniel James 1 (Hans Moleman, Jari Sinikka) at 14:30

Quote:Zjang wins the faceoff agianst Jeziak, passed to Hipp- RUSSETT WITH A LATE HIT! Berzins now has i- AND HE'S SMASHED AS WELL BY ILMARI MAATTA! Jeziak now has the puck, passed to Maatta, passed to Orlov, who moves it back into the neutral zone. He's still skating, he's in the Falcons zone now, passed to Russett, laid off to Maatta in front of the ne- LECLERC WITH
THE SHOT BLOCK! [b]OBAMA RETRIEVES THE FREEE PUCK, HE SCORES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/b]

4. Montreal Militia , Laraque Obama 3 (Ilmari Maatta, Nathan Russett) at 14:52

Quote:Hallfredsson receives the pass, moves it into the the Falcons zone. Pass to Zyvleski, he shoots! Deflects off Forbrook and misses the net. James picks it up. passed to Moleman, back to James. James skates into the Militia zone, lays it back off to Moleman as Detroit calms down to go back into the cycle system. Moleman lays it off to Sinikka at the point, over to James, back to Moleman. Moleman skates around, goes back to Sinikka, OH MOLEMAN IN A GREAT POS- IT GOES WIDE! Berkis picks it up, [b]BACK TO MOLEMAN IN FRONT OF THE NET! IT'S A GOAL! KIRKSTONE HAS GOT TO BE DONE NOW!
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2nd period

Quote:Harris picks up the loose puck, layed off to Maatta. Ah, he fails the pass, that's icing. Zjang sets up against Granlund in the zone. It's won by Zjang now on Sinikka's stick. passed to James who decides to dump it as coach goes for a line change. Harris retrieves the puck and passes it to Granlund.[b] Passed to Maatta, moves it to Falcons zone, shoots, scores! Maatta with basically a solo goal![/b]

6. Montreal Militia , Ilmari Maatta 3 (Filip Granlund, Stephen Harris) at 3:38 (PP)

Quote:Berzins receives the pass, shoots, gloved easily by Harris. Toohoots sets up against Jeziak in the zone. He wins it, passed straight to Moleman, [b]who finds BERKIS HE SCORES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/b]

7. Detroit Falcons , Alex Berkis 7 (Hans Moleman, Nucky Toohoots) at 5:49 (PP)
3rd period

Quote:Zyvleski sets up against Toohoots in Falcons' zone. Zyvleski wins the faceoff, passed to Watson, over to Russett, who takes a chance, but it misses. Watson picks it up, goes to Zyvleski, over to Watson, who passes to Wells. [b]back to Zyleski, MAKES A MOVE! SCORES![/b]

8. Montreal Militia , Zach Zyvleski 7 (Wesley Wells, Johnny Watson) at 2:20 (PP)

Quote:Granlund wins the defensive zone faceoff, passes to Maatta. Granlund is hit late by Toohoots, who goes back and STEALS THE PUCK OFF MAATTA! PASSED TO MOLEMAN, OVER TO METZLER. Falcons settle down, Metzler goes back to Moleman, passed to Berkis, and back to Moleman. Moleman finds Toohoots in the slot but the shot is blocked by Maatta. Leclerc retrieves the puck, and shoots, AND ANOTHER SHOT BLOCKED BY MAATTA! [b]Moleman retrieves the puck, sinks it for the hattrick! This game is basically already over.[/b]

9. Detroit Falcons , Hans Moleman 9 (Marc Leclerc, Nucky Toohoots) at 2:58

TSN TURNING POINT
This game was never in Montreal's hands, but the game pretty much ended when Evans and James scored successively in under a minute. While Obama scored only 25 seconds later, finding yourself in a 3 goal hole at 15 minutes is almost impossible to come back from, as all semblance of momentum fizzled and died as easily as it came.

3 STARS
3rd: Nucky Toohoots
With 3 points, all of them assists, it's hard to deny his place as part of the 3 stars. He had some incredible moments, and won some very important faceoffs to help Detroit win this one without too much of a struggle.
2nd: Alex Berkis
While he only had 2 points, he was influential on the powerplay with 6 minutes played, and took 5 shots. He could have easily had more to say about his production than he actually did, so he deserves a place on this list.
1st: Hans Moleman
Moleman had 5 points. He's pretty good. At the time of writing he leads the league in goals, assists and points and is a lock for the Raymond Lindsay. Moleman absolutely carried this game, and had he not, this might have had a different outcome.