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StadiumGambler · 02-11-2019, 04:51 PM

(Word count is..........2255 plus effort and screenshots? Wait, really? Did not feel like I was writing that much, and I even trimmed some, but here we go.

Since this is a long read I just recommend Ctrl+Fi searchng your dude to see if you did anything, or skipping to Game 6 cause thats the best part. Highlights of Game 7 will be uploaded tomorrow or Wednesday.)

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A wild and crazy SHL Draftee Showcase has seen the momentum swing back and forth, with both teams showing off their best talents to the packed MSG crowds. Theres a lot of break down and discuss here, so lets get right into it with our game-by-game analysis.....

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Game 1

(Screenshots~! - https://imgur.com/a/CkXdeDA )

-Everyone expected Team North America to roll over in front of the superior depth of Team World, but they got a shock.........

-Michael Scarn opened the scoring near the end of a surprisingly good first period for the North Americans, but Eric Vanderberg equalized for NA on an excellent solo rush just 20 seconds later.

-A scoreless second gave way to a wide-open third, where Team World popped ahead 3-2 after being down 2-1, only for Monkey D. Luffy to score from a desperate goalmouth scramble with just 50 seconds left in the game to tie it 3-3 and send it to an extra frame.

-Unfortunately, Goalie Tibuk Soonika ended up making a horrible error in OT that cost North America the game. After stopping a shot from Nikolai Evans, Soonika had a puckhandling mishap giveaway to Gordie Boomhover, who cut in front with the backhand and put it into an open corner. Team World escaped with the win, but a tone was set for the series........

-While only three penalties were called, there was some chippy stuff and unnecessarily solid open ice hitting, especially when Troy Reynolds, Nick Brain, and Jerry Mander were on the ice. Nick Brain scored in the 3rd and was also seen jawing with Dan Curry on his way to the bench, leading Curry to almost get a delay of game for berating an official.

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Game 2

(Screenshots~! - https://imgur.com/a/WKkZN7u )

-As promised, both teams changed goaltenders, with Peter Larson replacing Mike McKorsy and Casimir Stevens coming in for Tibuk Soonika.

-Nick Brain opened the scoring early in the first period with a clever one-timer and a celebration that was a little over-the-top for Dan Curry's tastes. Monkey D. Luffy equalled the game after a clever give-and-go with Michael Fox gave him daylight in the faceoff circle and daylight over Larson's shoulder with a good snapshot. Boddy Sharp gave NA the lead with a surprise shorthanded marker to send North America to the dressing room up 2-1.

-Knute Knurtsson tied it near the end of the second on the powerplay after Casimir Stevens lost control of a Gordie Boomhover shot and served it up to Knurtsson on a silver platter. Karlstrabe Scholz put Team World ahead off a shorthanded breakaway in the 3rd, after a long outlet clearing pass from Peter Larson caught the North Americans with their pants down.

-Kit Smeb was called for cross-checking Troy Reynolds late in the 3rd, but the penalty killers held out until the final horn to give Team World a hard-fought 3-2 win.

-Kit Smeb was called to the box three times in this significantly more chippy game, and seemed to be jawing regularly with the Team North America bench, with Troy Reynolds always throwing in his two cents. Dan Curry berated the World team afterwards for "cheapshot tactics", but seemed curiously unable to comment on two blatant hooking calls earlier in the game from Ricardo Cotalay and Donny McMasters.

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Game 3

(Screenshots~! - https://imgur.com/a/jBEJtkU )

-After two close games, the tide turned rapidly in the third. Game 3 saw the same goaltending from Game 1, with Tibuk Soonika back for North America and Mike McKorsy in for Team World.

-Team North America scored a contentious goal halfway through the first when Collin Gibbles beat a diving Mike McKorsy, who was given some borderline interference from defenseman Osbert Whacker nudging him. Anatoli Terrorov's protests were met with indifference by the officiating crew, while Dan Curry was spotted leaning past the glass divider giving sarcastic applause. McKorsy looked visibly rattled, and it soon began to show......

-Borromini Cannellini put North America up 2 after a gorgeous breakout pass from Osbert Whacker put him in clear. Bobby Sharp put North America up 3, trailing Liam Hutchinson on a 1-on-1 and getting a beautiful drop pass that he one-timed past Peter Larson. Monkey D. Luffy made it 4, jamming one in short side on McKorsy on an innocuous net rush from a bad angle.

-Cannellini got his second of the period with 30 ticks left when Luffy pounced on a turnover and got a pass to Cannellini in the slot, who rifled it past McKorsy to make it 5-0 at the end of the first.

-To everyone's surprise, Mike McKorsy did not get the hook to start the 2nd, and Team World's defense responded by letting in another awful goal, where Michael Fox drew 4 Team World defenders to him and slid a pass to Cannellini, who one-timed it in for the hat trick. A visibly furious Terrorov and McKorsky were screaming at the defence as the gap increased to 6-0!

-Team World peeled back a couple but it was not nearly enough, as North America won it 6-2.

-Curry was full of smiles on the post-game, saying his team had showed the media the true power of good ol' North American hockey. He did have some choice words for Michael Scarn though, criticizing him for a couple rough penalties and publicly predicting that Scarn would be a first-round bust. (This despite the fact Scarn had scored and was generally considered one of the least awful players for Team World that game).

-Curry also praised Tibuk Soonika for stopping 35 of 37 and playing much improved over Game 1. Terrorov, for his part, did not blame his goalie and put the blame squarely on the defence, saying they would work on the communication issues and come out better in Game 4.

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Game 4

(Screenshots~! - https://imgur.com/a/qVR7cEO )

-Game 4 saw the rotation back in play, with Casimir Stevens in for Team North America and Peter Larson in for Team World.

-Michael Fox opened the scoring shorthanded, winning a goalmouth scramble in front and putting it in through a sea of Team World players. Donny McMasters made it 2-0 in the second period, scooping in his own rebound after Peter Larson lost control of it. Unfortunately McMasters was the architect of a Team World response when he accidently poked the puck into his own net trying to clear it, with the goal being credited to Michael Scarn for being the last one to have touched it.

-Borromini Cannellini got credited with a goal to put Team North America up 3-1 later in the period, when his shot redirected off Larson's blocker, off the rushing defender Guy Zheng, and into the net. Nick Brain got one back with 37 seconds left when he pounced on a loose puck in the faceoff circle and put it past Stevens to make it 3-2 NA.

-3rd period saw Team World open strongly, and they got their tying marker when Michael Scarn put his own rebound past Stevens off a breakaway. Scarn then wrapped up a beautiful hat trick when Casimir Stevens suicidally came out for a loose puck and was beaten to it by Nick Brain, who fired a blind desperation pass from behind the net to a waiting Michael Scarn for the tap-in, giving Team World a 4-3 lead.

-North America pressed for the tying goal but overreached, as Gordie Boomhover got a PP goal and Michael Scarn got his 4th of the game to cap off a 6-3 win for Team World.

-Post-game press marvelled at the display between Nick Brain and Mick Scarn, who accounted for 5 goals and 3 assists between them and showed fine play all night. Curry blew it off, and insisted the comeback was on.

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Game 5

(Screenshots~! - https://imgur.com/a/HURPRvZ )

-Mike McKorsy was put back in net for Team World in a surprise move, with Tibuk Soonika rotated in for Team North America. Both would have great games....

-The first two periods were hard fought. Team World outshot North America 31-21 but found Tibuk Soonika in defiant form. Soonika stopped the best chance with an excellent glove save on a breakaway from Michael Scarn, but McKorsy was also called into action after a sheer robbery of Monkey D. Luffy with a blocker save.

-The play was fast and the hitting was ferocious. Troy Reynolds annihilated Kit Smeb with an open-ice hit of highlight reel quality, and later in the game got blasted with an all-out shoulder check from Jerry Mander in response. Nick Brain got a quality hip check on Monkey D Luffy at center ice that upended him, and then Liam Hutchinson responded with an attempted exorcism on Olivier Cloutier. Surprisingly it took until halfway through the second period for the first penalty to be called, as the play was kept hard but mostly clean.

-The third period looked to end the same way, with neither team scoring against some excellent goaltending. North America broke the deadlock using grit, luck, and a grim determination to score the only goal of the game, when Michael Fox shovelled in a loose puck after a deflection from a Borromini Cannellini shot fell right to him.

-26 seconds remained after the goal, which was enough time for Tibuk Soonika to make another excellent glove save, this one off of Kit Smeb. Norht America held out, with Soonika earning a deserved first star for his efforts.

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Game 6

(Screenshots~! - https://imgur.com/a/igslQhv )

-North America weren't totally home free just yet, but the feeling was that, with the unlikely NA d-corps gelling and the team showing tremendous spirit and character, the time was now for Team World to put the boot down, otherwise Game 7 could end up out of their hands. Larson and Stevens were the netminders once more for what proved to be the best game of the series so far......

-Michael Fox opened the scoring again for Team North America, with a one-timer off a 2-on-none rush with Monkey D. Luffy following a defensive breakdown from Team World. Liam Hutchinson made it 2-0 after putting his own rebound past Peter Larson in the slot, and then linemate Bobby Sharp pushed it to 3-0 after some more appalling Team World defense.

-Team World immediately responded through their top line, as it was Michael Scarn putting it past Stevens off a feed from Nick Brain to make it 3-1. Borromini Cannellini restored the 3 goal edge, sliding one under Larson on the break to make it 4-1 at the end of the first.

-To their credit, Team World didn't give up and got it back together after a brutal start. After a careless penalty by Donny McMasters, they struck hard against the North American PK, and a point slapper from Knute Knurtsson put them back within 2. Kit Smeb made it 4-3 after taking the puck off his arch-nemesis Troy Reynolds in the slot and putting it past Casimir Stevens.

-North America bounced back to make it 5-3 after Cannellini took a drop pass from Michael Fox and put it past Peter Larson. Team World pressed, but found themselves handicapped after a slapshot from Troy Reynolds hit Nikolai Evans in the jaw and knocked him out cold. Evans would be hauled off to the locker room and would not be back for the 3rd, with Team World's emergency spare Johnny Sins put into service.

-Team World pressed desperately for the comeback, and got partway there from their hotline of Michael Scarn and Nick Brain, this time seeing Brain finishing off a pass from Scarn to make it 5-4. Kit Smeb then got the critical tying goal off a solo rush followed by a clever deke sequence to beat Stevens.

-Both sides went for the win, but the 3rd period ended tied with OT beckoning. Guy Zheng took a delayed hooking penalty applied to the start of OT, and that set off some fireworks, with Terrorov protesting the call and Curry shouting him down. A brouhaha took place in the tunnel between Nick Brain and several Team North America players (holding back a furious Dan Curry) before it was broken up by security. Troy Reynolds was also shouted at by several World players, who accused him near a live mic of intentionally headhunting Evans with the slapshot earlier in the game.

-A lengthy delay ensued, where it was made clear by Showcase staff that any further violent incidents would lead to an automatic forfeit and a lawsuit over breach of contract.

-The OT period produced some breathtaking hockey, with end-to-end action. Team World survived the Zheng penalty and a Kalevi Karhunen penalty shortly after, but left Borromini Cannellini a free puck in the slot towards the end of overtime and Cannellini scored to complete his second hat trick of the series, winning a wild one 6-5 to force Game 7.

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An excellent series thus far. North America is within striking distance of completing the comeback down 3-1 and taking the series. Starting netminders for tomorrow's Game 7 will be Tibuk Soonika for North America, who was stellar after his nightmare error in Game 1, and Mike McKorsy for World, who rebounded from a bad Game 3 with a strong effort in the Game 5 loss.

The game is scheduled for local broadcast tomorrow, with highlights being uploaded to YouTube.

ArGarBarGar · 02-11-2019, 05:15 PM

8 goals and 10 points in 6 games?

Ball so hard motherfuckers wanna fine me

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sharksisback · 02-11-2019, 05:19 PM

So in the span of six games, I've gotten under Kit Smeb's skin, blasted Kit with an open ice hit that would make Scott Stevens tear up out of joy, and killed Nikolai Evans with a slap shot.
This is what dreams are made of

*slothfacekilla* · 02-11-2019, 05:51 PM

Big yikes to my draft stock

TnlAstatine · 02-11-2019, 05:53 PM

@slothfacekilla goes undrafted

*slothfacekilla* · 02-11-2019, 05:55 PM

02-11-2019, 05:53 PMTnlAstatine Wrote: @slothfacekilla goes undrafted

I think someone threw my jersey on the ice after game six Surrender

TnlAstatine · 02-11-2019, 06:00 PM

02-11-2019, 05:55 PMslothfacekilla Wrote:
02-11-2019, 05:53 PMTnlAstatine Wrote: @slothfacekilla goes undrafted

I think someone threw my jersey on the ice after game six

that was me tryna undress you Wink

*slothfacekilla* · 02-11-2019, 06:06 PM

I'm too old for you Luffy!

sharksisback · 02-11-2019, 06:11 PM

02-11-2019, 05:55 PMslothfacekilla Wrote:
02-11-2019, 05:53 PMTnlAstatine Wrote: @slothfacekilla goes undrafted

I think someone threw my jersey on the ice after game six

what is it with you and game 6's

*slothfacekilla* · 02-11-2019, 06:15 PM

02-11-2019, 06:11 PMsharksisback Wrote:
02-11-2019, 05:55 PMslothfacekilla Wrote: I think someone threw my jersey on the ice after game six

what is it with you and game 6's

Live look at Team World's GM speaking to me in the locker room:

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FuzzSHL · 02-12-2019, 06:26 PM

4 goals and 6 assists in 6 games?? Let’s go Foxy

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