Prince George Firebirds 2 at 1 Halifax Raiders
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Short summary
This game was very important for both sides as they played back to back games against each other this sim. Halifax needed to get out of the bottom and prove they could make a run and contend this year, while PGF had to attempt to keep their first place in the league (Spoiler: they both failed)
Goal summaries
1st period

Quote:Obrana receives a pass, and he dumps it into the Raiders zone. Pel retrieves the puck, passes to Lindstrom. Lindstro- INTERCEPTED BY PHAM. OH WHAT A 1-2 BETWEEN HERTZBERG AND PHAM, HE SHOOTS! Oh it misses![b] SELICH PICKS IT UP, IT'S IN! WHAT A GOAL TO START OFF THE FIRST PERIOD![/b]

1. Prince George Firebirds , Eduard Selich 8 (Steven Pham, Karl Hertzberg) at 12:53 (PP)

Quote:Obrana retrieves the puck, passes to Gutler, back to Obrana. Obrana moves into the Raiders zone and dumps it. Reed picks i- UH HYLYTYR HAS IT NOW! Passed to Monkey, Wolf, CJ, back to Wolf, finds[b] HIGHLIGH- IT'S IN!!!! Prince George takes a 2 goal lead off that one, despite only having 4 shots this period.[/b]

2. Prince George Firebirds , Hylytyr NoRetornable 9 (Sven Wolf, Casper Jakobsson) at 18:44

3rd period

Quote:Lindstrom takes a shot! it misses. Reed now has it behind the net. He wraps around! REBOUND! OH WHAT A SAVE BY WATERS!!!! OH LINDSTROM HAS IT, OH MY GOD KOTTBULLE BLOCKS IT! Lindstrom has it again, he moves past Kottbulle, shoots! misses. Iversen picks it up, takes a shot herself! misses as well. [b]Flower now has it OH HE SCORES! With 5 minutes to go, and in a game completely dominated by the Raiders, They finally got past Waters![/b]

3. Halifax Raiders , Niklas Flower 7 (Greta Iversen, Victor Lindstrom) at 15:25 (PP)
Stats breakdown
Halifax Raiders - Hits : 12 - Faceoff Wins : 29 - Blocked Shots : 4 - Penalty Minutes : 8
Prince George Firebirds - Hits : 17 - Faceoff Wins : 34 - Blocked Shots : 9 - Penalty Minutes : 6
Surprisingly enough, when it comes to defensive stats, the Firebirds actually did very well compared to the Raiders. You'd think if a team held another to only 10 shots, they'd be pretty good defensively, but I guess this proves that it was PGF being incredibly weak on the offensive side.

Georgette Pel (HAL), 8 saves from 10 shots - (0.800), L, 3-6-1, 59:07 minutes
Ben Waters (PGF), 22 saves from 23 shots - (0.957), W, 16-3-5, 60:00 minutes
Waters absolutely stole this game, and it's one of few, despite his stats, that he's really completely won with barely any help. Halifax had double the shots of PGF in this boring and low shooting/scoring game, and yet Waters manages to go insane against Halifax, and Pel fails and gives up 2 goals on only 10 shots. ouch. Way to lose.
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Halifax Raiders - 1 on 3 Attempt(s) - 33.33%
Prince George Firebirds - 1 on 4 Attempt(s) - 25.00%
In close games like this, special teams can make all the difference, and both teams did alright on special teams. Neither has anything write home about unfortunately.
3 stars
3 - Sven Wolf (PGF)
the Center managed an assist and 3 hits this game, and in a low scoring, and especially low shooting game like this, that's actually pretty impressive. Wolf has already shown that he can produce and isn't no slouch when it comes to the draft this year.

2- Hylytyr NoRetornable (PGF)
Hylytyr had 2 shots. Those 2 shots represented 1/5th of PGF's shots this game. That's insane. We've already gone over how bad PGF was this game, but considering the contributions both athletes made despite this. it's deserving of 2nd and 3rd stars.

1- Ben Waters (PGF)
This can't be a surprise. He stole the game from out under Halifax's noses, Had Dafoe been in net, this would've been a completely different ball game. That's why he deserves a first star.