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*kenvald* · 12-23-2019, 11:08 PM

Vancouver Whalers vs St. Louis Scarecrows
Whalers

6 - 3

Welcome to the post-game show for Vancouver Whalers vs St. Louis Scarecrows! Both teams entered this game with the same record from their last 10 games, 5-3-2. Vancouver did however have the mental upper hand as during the last 10 games these two teams fought once where Vancouver came out on top. But St. Louis were highly determined to get revenge on the Whalers.

Period 1
While Vancouver won the initial face off, St. Louis took charge immediately after and did not allow Vancouver to get away with anything. It might have had something to do with the penalty to Vancouver’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic Jr. that happened only 32 seconds into the game. St. Louis had strong zone pressure throughout the entire penalty and they did not let go even after Vancouver were full strength again.

And all this pressure paid off. After ¾ of the period had been played St. Louis got two goals in quick succession. After practically setting up camp in Vancouver’s zone, James Ronlain scored the first goal of the game after a counter attack that started with Yamamoto Mitsuharu intercepting a Vancouver pass. Only 15 seconds later Yamamoto himself got on the scoreboard after a face off win in Vancouver’s zone.

The first period was all about St. Louis. While the puck spent quite a bit of time in St. Louis’ zone, Vancouver had nothing going for them and finished with only three shots on goal.

Period 2
Vancouver turned it around in the second period. While they didn’t take over the game, they at least started playing on the same level as St. Louis and got multiple dangerous chances.

There was a lot of back and forth with a bunch of missed nets and blocked shots, nothing too exciting stood out until Ryszard Franciszek of the St. Louis Scarecrows was awarded a holding penalty just past the halfway point of the period. Vancouver had three shot attempts during their power play and just before the two minutes were up, they scored via Francois Breton.

After the goal the game went back to swinging back and forth, and with just under three minutes to go Noah Andros from the Whalers received a penalty. St. Louis had a lot of pressure during the first minute of the powerplay but were not able to score.

Period 3
From all that happened in the third period, it would seem that the first two periods were only warm up for the Whalers. Only 8(!) seconds into the period, Vancouver tied the game. And then 30 seconds later, they were suddenly in the lead. Two shots, two goals, after only 38 seconds.

The game stayed hot and we saw St. Louis take a penalty after just another 30 seconds. Once again Vancouver’s power play unit flexed their muscles when the rookie Nicholas Corrigan increased the lead to 2. Three minutes, three shots on goal, three goals. This called for a goalie change on St. Louis’ side and Marques Brownlee entered the game. Saying that Vancouver was on fire would be an understatement.

Now you probably think that they would cool down a little bit at least. Well if you did, you would be wrong. Barely 40 seconds after the last goal St. Louis got another penalty. And once again, Vancouver’s power play did exactly what they were supposed to do. They scored yet another goal. A little over four minutes into the period and Vancouver was now up by 3. By this point St. Louis had not had a single shot attempt.

After this St. Louis finally saw some longer puck possessions and managed a few shot attempts, but the Whalers were still a force to be reckoned with and continued their onslaught. They would come to score once again before the period’s halfway mark when Francois Breton scored his second of the night. A 0-2 deficit had now turned into a 6-2 lead.

The Scarecrows got some wind under their wings when they finally got another power play and James Ronlain also saw his second goal of the game after a real quick face off win and shot immediately after the penalty was called. Not many people had time to react before the puck was in the back of the net.

St. Louis kept fighting for more. Refusing to give up. We saw a few more penalties and a few dangerous chances on both sides but in the end, no more goals were scored. Vancouver won 6-3.

Three Stars
1 - Whalers

Francois Breton
2 - Whalers

Bobby Bobcalf
3 - Whalers

Jan Zacha

Nokazoa · 12-23-2019, 11:45 PM

Doesn't mention me or motivational speech. 5/10

RedCapeDiver · 12-24-2019, 04:19 AM

Getting overconfident

The scarecrows had the whalers on the ropes after the first period, up 2-0 and out shooting their opponents 13-3, they must have started busting out the champagne in the locker room. The second period was closer, with the Whalers out shooting the Scarecrows 10-6 and bringing the game within one. But the liquor must still have been flowing in the Scarecrows locker room because not much else could explain what happened at the start of the third period. 5 goals in 7 minutes, the first two coming in the first 38 seconds of the period, then the Scarecrows got frustrated and drew two penalties which the Whalers capitalized on. Even with scoring a late goal themselves, going from outshouting your opponents 19-13 and up 2-1 to giving up 5 goals and being out shot 16-5 is unacceptable.

Penalty kill needs work

Of the 9 goals this game 4 of them were on the powerplay. The Whalers converted on 3 of their 5 powerplay attempts, meaning that the Scarecrows were only 40% on the penalty kill. One thing the Scarecrows need to work on is finishing their penalty kills strong, both the first and second powerplay goals the Whalers scored were in the dying seconds of their man advantage, with only 10 seconds left in the 1st goals power play, and 11 seconds left in the 2nd powerplay. So whether it was just fatigue or lack of effort that is definitely something the Scarecrows coach should work on in practice.

Quick follow up goals

One interesting stat this game is that there were 4 pairs of goals that all happened within a short duration of each other. Starting with the longest the 6th and 7th goals of the game happened just 1:20 seconds apart, and both on the powerplay by the Whalers. Next the 4th and 5th goals happened 30 seconds apart, with the 4th also only being 8 seconds into the period. The third pair, the 8th and 9th goal happened 20 seconds apart, and were each by a different team. And the fastest pair were the 1st and 2nd goals, both by the scarecrows, coming only 15 seconds apart. This shows how slow to the draw some teams were to the drop of the puck.

Mutedfaith · 12-24-2019, 09:27 AM

Breaks aren't meant to break you like this
The St. Louis Scarecrows scored twice in twenty seconds late in the first period, and saw the Vancouver Whalers close the gap to a one goal difference on their only powerplay in the second. So after 40 minutes, the Scarecrows were still leading by one, but then it all went wrong. Did someone forget to wake up Elizabeth Doyle after her power nap in the second break? Or was there something wrong with the St. Louis tea? Whatever it was, within the first 38 seconds of the third period, the Vancouver Whalers managed to score twice and turn their 1-2 deficit into a 3-2 advantage. And a little over two minutes later Vancouver turned up the pressure on the power play and scored their fourth goal of the night, leading to Elizabeth Doyle being substituted for Marques Brownlee. We'll probably never know what it was, but that second break surely broke Doyle this game.

Power play success
Power plays can really turn a game around for you, and the Vancouver Whalers capitalized on that perfectly this game. They scored on 3 out of their 5 attempts, for a 60% power play efficiency. Up until their third power play, the Vancouver Whalers had a 100% score, with Francois Breton scoring Vancouvers' first goal to start their come back on the first power play opportunity the Whalers got in this game and Nicholas Corrigan converting the the Vancouver Whalers second power play of the game and increase the lead they took less than three minutes before this goal to a two goal advantage. The third Whalers power play goal came only a minute and 20 seconds later, scoring on their third power play of the night. With the win already secured and the St Louis Scarecrows bringing in a fresh goalie, the last two power plays for Vancouver went by without any goals.

Squad depth
Hockey is a game of energy, passion and hard work. To be able to compete until late in the game and keep up with your opponent for all three periods, squad depth is needed. Both teams showed up to the game with eighteen skaters, and they were all given icetime as well. However, the Vancouver Whalers did a great job of dividing their icetime pretty evenly. With only one two players who saw less than 12 minutes of ice (versus four players on the St. Louis team), they made sure their top guys had enough left in the tank to come out of the dressing room hard in period three and clinch the win with four goals in less than five minutes.

Glyc · 12-24-2019, 01:38 PM

Comment 1 - Beefin' Up
To begin with today, we are going to be talking about those on the ice who need to start eating some meat and tatoes, those who were knocked off the puck the most tonight are as follows. For the most part, everyone was fairly good with keeping the puck and shedding hits, but we have a serial offender and a few who I decided to single out. To start with, we have Victor Toeman unfortunately, but with a lightweight number of 2 giveaways it could be worse, tying as a runner up is Danny Martson also with two. THe worst offender of the night really couldn’t help himself with Sasha Dangelchek losing the puck a total of four times after hits. Big oof. 123 Words.

Comment 2 - Best baker, icing edition
The best baker competition is coming back to Vancouver with a quick look at the best icers we witnessed this evening. Overall wasn’t very bad tonight as we saw seven individual players tie with the winning total tonight. Now that may seem like it would be a lot of icings, however it is only 14 which is lower than you’d expect in a juniors game such as this. Here are those who iced ‘er twice. Victor Toeman, Noah Andros, Borys Franciszek, Sasha Dangelchek, Tucker Centennial, The Stingray That Killed Steve Irwin, and Mikas Bieksa. Thats a long list, but with two each the impact here is minimal to both teams. 110 Words.

Comment 3 Stick Check, missing the net
A lot of pucks were missed tonight, but who were the worst offenders? Who should be getting their stick calibrated tonight? Well let’s take a dive in and see who’s home. In total it seems that 36 shots were missed tonight with 16 coming from our top three, which is a larger number than we’ve seen previously amongst our top three, so this will be interesting. At third in our countdown we have Danny Marston who missed a total of four shots compared to his two which made it on net. In second it’s Bobby Bobcalf with five misses and only one shot actually making it on net, it could have been a much better night for Bobby. First for last, it’s Mega Tron with a whopping 7 misses and 3 shots making it through. This night truly could have changed with a little hand eye thats for sure. 149 Words.

prettyburn · 12-30-2019, 03:21 PM

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