Prince George Firebirds @ Detroit Falcons

A classic showdown between one of the hottest goalies in the league and the most potent offense in the league. Detroit game into the game with the highest goals for, while Prince George touted a goalie at or near the top of every goalie category. Let’s take a look at the starting goalies:


Ben Waters #31
Waters has had an amazing season to date, and proven many GMs may have made a mistake in passing over him in the draft. He sits at or near the top of all goalie categories, has a great winning percentage on a weaker team, and continually finds a way to win.


Sivy McSieve #69
After an early season struggle with management, McSieve has settled into a very good season with the Falcons, and also finds himself among the league’s best goalies. His job is always made easier by his teams incredible offense, which usually makes up for any bad nights McSieve is having.

First Period

From start to finish this game was all about the Detroit offense and the fact that every player on Prince George had an off night. Halfway through the first with Watkins in the box for hooking, Detroit wins the faceoff. Nucky Toohoots throws the puck on net and Moleman gets his stick on it for the deflection right past Ben Waters who never saw the puck

The period ended with a brief scramble around McSieve, but he showed his incredible hand speed and came up with two huge saves to carry the 1-0 lead into the second


Second Period

A little back and forth to open the second period but Prince George’s push didn’t last long, and suddenly off a faceoff in the PGF zone Kaspars Berzins rips a shot past a surprised Waters who doesn’t seem to be seeing the puck tonight

A short break for Waters before Detroit stormed the zone again. Monkey gets down to block the first shot from Berkis. Moleman fires a puck that heads wide but Toohoots knocks it down. Waters flops to make the save but Toohoots has an easy tap-in goal

Waters is taking deep breaths now and long drinks of water. His team couldn’t stop the pressure though and Detroit took the puck right back down to the PGF zone and set up shop. Waters was giving up multiple rebounds and didn’t seem to have any control of the situation. Hans Moleman put a puck on net and Berkis got the deflection past Waters who smashed his stick

That was it for Waters, and Ace Dafoe skated out to take over between the pipes. Dafoe fared a little better at first, and managed to stop the bleeding for the remainder of the second period.

Third Period

Prince George still couldn’t solve McSieve and despite some early chances in the third they continued to allow Detroit to control the pace of the game. Detroit added two goals 1:45 apart in the latter half of the period to put the game away. First Erik Muller with a nice rebound goal

And then a flurry of shots towards Dafoe resulted in Zach Evans making an incredible play to stuff a loose puck into the net

Final Score

Prince George Firebirds - 0 @ Detroit Falcons - 6

3 Stars

1 - Nucky Toohoots (DET)
Toohoots had 1G 2A and was dynamite in the faceoff circle which put his team in control for most of the game.

2 - Hans Moleman (DET)
Moleman also chipped in 1G 2A and was in the middle of almost every golden opportunity Detroit had.

3 - Alex Berkis (DET)
The third musketeer on Detroit’s top line not surprisingly put up 1G and 2A. When picking three stars out of this line you can pretty much put them in any order.