Killing Time in the Box

This game, like many this season, was marred with penalties.  Anaheim spent 10 minutes down a man while Halifax was down for 12 minutes.  Games can be won and lost on special teams but both PK units did pretty well tonight.  Halifax's Josef Kubinec opened up the special teams scoring during the first Power Play of the game, though it was a 4 minute contest as Anthony Banthony took a terrible roughing double minor.  This was followed in the 2nd period by a goal from Noah Tedla during a Oliver Klozoff trip to the sin bin.   This was actually Noah's first goal of the season although he had racked up almost 20 assists.  This game also saw 2 4-on-4 showdowns as well with neither team putting points on the board.  There were a few close calls, but Halifax was able to exploit Anaheim's even strength weaknesses and came out on top.

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3 Stars of the Game

3 - Taisei-Tiikeri Wawazat  

Wawazat came in to this game like a wrecking ball.   He put up Halifax's first goal of the night at 3:23 into the 1st period and followed it only a little over 3 minutes later with a secondary assist on the Power Play to put Halifax at a 2-0 advantage early in the opening period.

2 - Timmo Kyllonen  

Timmo put up two goals in tonight's contest which were his 8th and 9th goals of the season.  Both came in at even strength and both also came off of assists from Haley Knight and Ricky Spanish.

1 - Ricky Spanish  

Speaking of Ricky Spanish - he's our first star of the game.  Ricky had an impressive showing tonight with 2 assists and 1 goal on 5 shots.  This is an extremely impressive showing from the 3rd line winger and the 3 point night brought him up to 21 points for the season.  Outings like this will likely get him bumped up to top 6 minutes in no time.

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