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S53 PGS Game #9 KEL @ ANA
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Knights Kelowna Knights @ Anaheim Outlaws  Outlaws
This was the 4th meeting of the season and so far its been pretty evenly matched. Goals for and against are identical to each other with both teams scoring  a total of 15 goals each.  While Anaheim has enjoyed the luxury of hosting with this one being the third home game for them in the season match ups. Kelowna on the other hand has not been intimidated by that fact as they have won the last two games between each other and the last one coming by the ways of a shut out for veteran net minder Cillian Kavanagh.

The starting goalies for this duel tonight:

G- Cillian Kavanagh 10-9-1 (2,83 GAA) 
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G- Strom Chamberlain 2-5-0 (3,35 GAA)

First Period

An early and only penalty in the game called against Anaheim, and Kelowna with only their 4th shot on goal, Vessot picks up his 5th of the season on a juicy rebound given out by Chamberlain.  The game settled down a little as the Outlaws fought back and even out the shot clock before just past the 17th minute mark of the period they tie the game up at 1 with a nice tip in by Bale who records his 10th of the season.  But Anaheim was not done yet, picking up the pace and winning multiple foot races to loose pucks they gain momentum.  With just 45 seconds remaining Hammarberg  accelerates through the neutral zone and drives one on net as he beats a surprised Kavanagh for his 5th goal of the season. Shots that period 9-8 in favor of Kelowna but trail the game 2-1.

Second Period

 Just a couple minutes pass in the second and both teams are throwing their weight around, Anaheim manges to apply some pressure on a tiered "D" who ice the puck and force a defensive zone faceoff. The draw was on back to the point and with a quick snap shot, Price notches his 8th goal of the season.  The game opens up a bit as Kelowna strikes back fast, right off the draw they get possession and mange to deflect a shot on goal, Barbashev with the tip in and gets his 7th of the year.  3-2 Anaheim.  Later on in the period Hammarberg picks up another one to make it 4-2, that was his second of the night.   Eriksson cuts the lead down to one as he sits a top the crease waiting for the rebound and tucks it home for his 7th and the period ends with a 4-3 lead in favor of the Outlaws.  The shots that period were 14-9, advantage Kelwona yet again.

Third Period

Anaheim's struggles to start periods persist as Rocco Berni manages to get one by early and ties things up at 4 with lots of hockey left in this game.  Kelowna looking to get the 2 points as they put on a great effort on the road with tons of shots on goal but Chamberlain does not falter.  Petrenko with a nifty pass from his own end springs bale in all alone on a breakaway and beats Kavanagh on the backhand.  That was Bale's 11th of the season and the Outlaws are up in this game 5-4.  With the 4th line out on the ice for Kelowna, they manage to impose some good fore checking on the Anaheim defense and catch a sleeping Chamberlain who lets a weak one go by him.  Defenseman Noah Nystrom ties things up at 5 at the 7:37 mark.  The rest of the period sees a net domination by the Knights with a large advantage in the shot column 37-22.  Moving on to the OT!


Overtime Period

This was so good and exciting it needed some extra time to help determine the winner,  Anaheim wastes no time, 31 seconds in and the puck behind the Knights goal line.  Ethan Price attempts a rap around, the puck is stopped but a scramble follows and Grant Thurber is standing there, takes a wack and beats Kavanagh for the win.

3 stars

  1. Hammarberg (Ana) 2 goals
  2. Barbashev II (Kel) 1 goal 2 assists
  3. Bale (Ana) 2 goals
The Knights came to play a hard nosed road game tonight and managed to pick up a big point in the standings.  They out shot, out worked and out hustled the Outlaws but could not hold it together defensively.  Not one of the stars tonight but C-Rocco Berni played a key role for the Knights.  Picking up 3 points, 4 shots on goal and dishing out 3 hits.  For the Outlaws, Bale had himself a huge night with 2 goals and 5 shots on goal.

Final Score

Knights  5  and   Outlaws  6    OT Final

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3 Stars

1st Star -Rikard Hammarberg (ANA) - 2 Goals

- Hammarberg was a key part in the Outlaws win today as his 2 goals helped propel his team to a victory in a old style shoot out as the teams piled on the goals. Getting on the board early and late (Goals 2 and 5) helped keep the momentum of the game in his teams favour from beginning to end.

2nd Star - Andrey Barbashev (KEL) - 1 Goal - 2 Assists

- What was a losing effort, ultimately still can't be ignored as 3 points is still a hell of a night for this youngster. Trying to will his team into a victory came just 1 goal short for the Knights as Andrey did what he could to make it a reality.

3rd Star - Bale (ANA) - 2 Goals

- A many of few words and even fewer names, Bale used his play to dictate the game and like his team mate Hammarberg was responsible for 2 of his teams goals (accounting for 60% of the offense from just 2 players).

Game Recap

The game that wouldn't stop with both the excitement and goals didnt disappoint if you decided to turn on some junior hockey tonight. The Knights and Outlaws tossed a bunch of wild punches tonight as they stacked up the score board consistently through the night. What more could you ask for as a hockey fan seeing a game where almost the same amount of goals were scored for both teams in each period (minus overtime naturally). A lot of the time you see games where it's a team is up by this many here, then an epic come back, which still had a few moments in this game as well, but a no point felt out of hand for either team. The Knights were stuck playing catch up for the majority of the game but made it a fun bout as both teams kept trading goals as they tried to get the win in regulation. What a treat for fans to see this one head into OT.

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Quality over Kuantity
Anaheim pulled off this win between two western powerhouses by picking their shots and making smart decisions when in the offensive zone. Even though they were lit up on defense with five goals they were able to hold of a closely contested back and forth without needing the pepper the net with shots. WIth 6 goals and 24 shots on net Anaheim score one out of every four shots compare to Kelownas 5 in 37. Lead by Hammarberg and Bale with two goals each plus Thurber's game winning OT goal the team was patient enough to know when to fire at the net. Kelowna didn't do a bad job on offense, but just could not keep up with the plays Anahiem brought to the table.

Bale Yeah!
Mr. Bale was lights out today on offense, scoring two goals and making the most of his time getting 5 quality shots on net. Even though he had one blocked and missed another, the five on target helped pressure Kelowna into a hole that the Knights were able to keep fighting against. Kelowna wins this without the offensive support from Bale and Hammarberg, both giving Kavanagh nightmares for games to come. Bale had an incredible 73 shifts wheras Hammarberg only need 31, but they teamed up together to give their team the W without even needing a single powerplay point. Ethan Price and Grant Thurber also made this victory possible, as Anaheim's offense looked to make a statement today.

Calm and Collected
One of the strangest things about this match despite the battle for the standings is the lack of penalties this game. Kelowna and Anaheim are fighting for the number 2 and 3 spots, with potential to move up to even first place in the west. However, this game was played cleanly and without mistake as only one early penalty by Andreas Stacks was made for Holding. After that not a single penalty was made and we had good clean even strength hockey for the remaining 56 minutes of play. There were plenty of hits to go around as Kelowna had 25 and Anaheim with 18, but they were all legal plays that nobody felt the need to retaliate with. Maybe the refs were letting everything slide, but the player did not seem to take offense to it.

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11 goals
11 goals? That is something unseen in a while. Impressive offensive game from both teams but Anaheim Outlaws came in a bit stronger and with some good luck ended game with a victory and important two points which can help a lot when there will play-Offs come. Anaheim Outlaws and Kelowna Knights will be insane opponents all this season just because how close they are in standings and this close game with a lot of goals just showed how interesting games they will have. Imagine if they meet in play-Offs. That would be really crazy and I think that every user would like to see these two teams face each other in series best of seven

Does Kelowna really are contenders???
Kelowna Knights are contenders but they had pretty bad start of the season. They have lost to Falcons with big deficit and now versus Outlaws. They are high in standings now but beginning of the season was really BIG <<struggle>> for them! These losses versus important opponents just makes everyone ask- does Kelowna Knights really are contenders or just a small shadow between other teams on SMJHL? I guess we will know the answer to this question only when play-Offs will come in our way. Right now I do not see Knights in finals and I think they have zero chances to get champion cup

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Winning the Numbers, Losing the Match
In spite of being down early 1-3 and eventually losing the game in overtime 5-6, the Kelowna Knights found themselves dominating in almost all the team stats. By the end of the game, the Knights had 37 shots to the Outlaws’ 24 meaning they took over 60% of the shots in the game. Another team statistic that the Knights dominated in was the faceoff circle. The Knights won 31 of 56 faceoffs against meaning they had a team faceoff percentage of just over 55%. The numbers don’t end there as the team had 6 takeaways compared to the Outlaws’ 3 as well as a total of 25 hits to the Outlaws’ 18. It is certainly safe to say that the Knights played exceptionally well that night and it was a shame that they weren’t able to convert it to a win.

Quiet Night in the Penalty Box
With over 60 minutes of play by the two teams, what is surprising is the low number of penalty minutes. Between the two teams, the combined total time in the penalty box is an astonishing 2 minutes total. The referees definitely put the whistles away this game as the only penalty was on Outlaws’ player Andreas Stacks for holding. The penalty could have certainly been avoided and would not have led to the Knights’ first goal which was on the powerplay. Looking back, the Outlaws could have won this game without going to overtime had they not have given the Knights the sole powerplay opportunity. Regardless hindsight is 20/20 and the Outlaws still came out with the win.

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How do You Solve the Problem of Efficiency?
In a game where 11 goals are scored cumulatively by both teams, you can't really say a lot of positive things about the goaltenders. What you can say, after looking at the stats, is that one team was simply more efficient on the offensive side than the other. You can have all the shots you want and win all you want on the stat sheet, but goals win games and Kelowna just couldn't win it no matter how hard they tried. 37 shots to score 5 goals would be decent normally - if they weren't facing a backup goalie with a 3.35 GAA, and letting up 6 goals in their own net with their starter against 24 shots. Defence like this has the potential to ruin Kelowna's season if it continues like this.

Hammarberg Hammers Brace
Rikard Hammarberg has a current shooting accuracy stat of 11 and a shooting range of 9. These middling stats wouldn't normally be of a level to expect performances of this magnitude; but in a game where the offences are on fire and the defences are less so, some shocks are more likely to happen. Upon looking through the summary, you can't even put it down to Powerplay goals - as both of Hammarberg's chances were taken during even strength periods, in a game largely placed with both sides at their strongest. With the first star earned with this performance, Hammarberg and his coaching staff will hope this performance blossoms into a great run of form as the 19-12-1 Outlaws look to push on.

Barbashev Will Feel Hard Done By
A winger who is offensively inclined will always be upset when his efforts up top go to waste, but on this night right winger Andrey Barbashev II will feel especially upset that his team could not get the job done. Netting himself a goal, whilst also bagging 2 assists on his way to the 2nd star, Barbashev controlled the game offensively for the team in every way he could. The team around him, however, could not hold the line and stop their opposite numbers for taking advantage of them every way they could. Barbashev will continue to be an important offensive piece for the contending Knights, but this will not stop him from feeling someone downtrodden by the result tonight at the Outlaw Saloon.

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Well-Behaved Violent Gentlemen
There’s an adage in sports that “if you ain’t cheatin’, you ain’t tryin’.”  Most players in hockey will definitely try to get away with some clutch and grab in order to give themselves advantages against their opponents, and most games end up with a small parade of players heading to the penalty box.  These two teams are decidedly not known for taking penalties, and this game was a microcosm of this fact.  Kelowna’s Luciano Vessot punished Anaheim with a powerplay goal just 2:50 into the game.  This must have scared both teams straight, since there were no more penalties for the rest of the night.  Those in attendance got a huge treat to see these two evenly-matched teams play even-strength hockey for about 60 minutes.

The Numbers Don’t Add Up
Most of the time in hockey, all things equal, the team that can hold on to the puck and rip the most shots is generally going to win.  Yes, goalies can stand on their heads and steal games, but that’s generally the exception to the rule.  Kelowna’s math just didn’t quite add up to the result they wanted.  The Knights outshot the outlaws 37-24 in a tightly-checked even-strength showdown.  The Outlaws simply converted more, getting lucky against an off-night Kavanagh between the pipes.  A few great chances slipped through the Knights' fingers, and that’s the reason we ended up with the result we did, as illogical as it is.

What’s a Save?
Neither goalie is going to want to stick this scoresheet in the scrapbook.  The normally solid and very skilled Cillian Kavanagh simply could not settle in to this game, posting an abysmal .750 save percentage. Strom Chamberlain could be slightly more excused, as this was only his 8th game of the year and he was still shaking a bit of rust off, but there’s really no way a goalie can ever justify in his own mind posting a .865.  It is only fair to point out that shooters were out in force tonight, replacing the SMJHL-typical barrage of low-quality shots with a much more finely honed assault of quality shots.  Regardless, the goalies need to step up to the competition every night, and tonight both tenders took the night off.  They’ll want to shake this one off as soon as possible and get back in the groove through whatever mental gymnastics they can muster.

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The Faceoff Circle

The Knights were the better team in the faceoff circle in this matchup : they won 31 times out of 56. This is good for a 55% success rate. Amongst that good overall performance, we can also note that there was a rare occurence of a faceoff that was taken by a defenseman for both team which Alex Ranch won for Kelowna over Andreas Stacks.

Faceoff Hero
Daniel Laforest  Knights 
Laforest was the definition of dominant throughout this game, as far as faceoffs are concerned. He won 12 duels, which is at least as much as any two other players on his team, while losing only five, giving him a tremendous 70.6% rate. This output in one game is even more surprising consider his weaker overall success rate this season of 46.4%.

Faceoff Zero
Taylor Johansson & C.T. Carragher Outlaws
Anaheim's top two centers were certainly relieved when their teammate Grant Thurber scored in overtime, because they had a less-than-stellar game at the dot. Both had a relatively decent game overall, but when a team's first two centermen combine for more than half of the faceoff taken and both manage to finish under 50%, it becomes clear why they had to go to overtime. Johansson won 8 times out of 17 (47.1%), while Carragher did slightly worse with 7 wins out of 16 tries (43.8%).

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A high-scoring affair
This game ended up being an unfortunate outing for both goaltenders, as Cillian Kavanagh and Strom Chamberlain both let in five goals in regulation before Anaheim came home with the win in overtime. Despite a relatively average shot output from both teams, this game was one of only four in which the two teams combined for over ten goals. Seven different players had at least two points in this game, including two-goal performances from first star Rikard Hammarberg and third star Bale, both of the Outlaws. The 5,613 fans in attendance at the Outlaw Saloon certainly got their money’s worth: not just a home win from Anaheim, but an entertaining game of hockey.

Nice, clean hockey
Another way in which this game stood out was, by and large, a lack of penalties. Normally in a high-scoring game such as this, one might expect a decent number of power plays from which these goals came. But this game had only one penalty: Anaheim’s Andreas Stacks was called for holding 1:41 into the first period. The following powerplay resulted in the first goal of the game, Knights defenseman Luciano Vessot’s fifth of the season. The next ten goals all came from even-strength situations as nobody on either team would end up in the penalty box for the rest of the game.



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Hit Out the Jams
Hockey is a physical game. And in physical games, you have physical plays. And physical plays for hockey are hits. The crowd love seeing huge, clean hits. The players love seeing hits. Almost every hockey fan loves seeing hits because it gives a boost of energy to the team making the hit. For the Kelowna Knights, this energy wasn't enough to secure that "W." The Knights outhit Anaheim 25-18, but tonight just wasn't the Knights night. James LeBond was the leading hitter tonight for Anaheim with a total of four hits during the contest, while six different players from Kelowna each had three hits in the game.

Shoot Up in the Saloon
Talk about an embarrassment tonight folks. Kelowna ends up losing this game 6-5 in overtime, despite having near double the amount of shots the Outlaws had. The Knights out shot the Outlaws 37 to 24. In the first period the Knights put up nine shots to the Outlaws' eight, the second period the Knights put up 14 shots to the Outlaws' nine, the period the Knights put up 14 shots to the Outlaws' five, and in the overtime period the Outlaws had two shots compared to the Knights zero. Fans, you can't expect to win games on just offense. You need to be defensively accountable, or you'll end losing a game where you near double the amount of shots the other team put up.

Keahi's Thoughts
After the game, we were able to get an interview with Kelowna Knights right wing Justin Keahi. When asked what went wrong, Keahi had this to say about the performance "Obviously we were playing pretty sloppy. We pert near out shot them two to one, but in our own zone we were terrible. Losing a game 6-5 when the other team only put up 24 shots is embarrassing to say the least. I wouldn't be surprised if coach has already planned out all the defensive drills we will be doing next practice. Maybe I'm just being too hard on the team though, because I was awful tonight in our own zone. I ended up being minus one on the night, but I know I was playing bad. Hopefully next game I'll be tighter defensively, but that is what practice is for."

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#1 A Thriller in Overtime
Whenever a game ends with overtime and a total of eleven goals, you know it’ll be an absolute blast for spectators. And this game was no exception, as Anaheim’s Hammarberg and Bale both ended with two goals, while Kelowna’s Barbashev claimed the second star with three points (1 G, 2 A). But for fans hoping for an intense, drawn-out sudden death overtime it ended a bit abruptly, as Ethan Price and Grant Thurber played their own haphazard game of squirrely keep-away that ended in Anaheim’s sixth goal for the game. At this point in time, the Knights have an impressive 63 points – and with 48 games played but six points ahead of Anaheim, earning just a single point in this game wasn’t a big deal for them.

#2 Uninspiring on Defense From Both Ends
The Outlaws – who are starting multiple rookies on their top two pairs this season – aren’t a terribly inspiring defensive team – in fact, they’re in the bottom half of the league in goals allowed (142, better than only Maine, Carolina, and Colorado). But what surprised most viewers in this matchup was the swiss-cheesed defense put forth by Kelowna. Anaheim’s offensive prowess isn’t exactly Detroit, even if they have multiple high-quality forwards, and are a top-half offensive power for the SMJHL this season. To see the Outlaws put up six goals on a normally stout Kelowna defense is surprising to say the least.

#3 What Are Kelowna’s Chances Against Detroit?
Let’s be honest with ourselves: Detroit is going to be in the finals for the SMJHL this year. They have a 25-point lead in the standings over the Scarecrows and have scored 50% more than most teams in the league while allowing some 60% of the goals. And while Kelowna has a small lead over the Armada as the solid favorite out of the West, performances like these against middle-of-the-table teams really begins to draw some question marks for the Knights should they meet the Falcons in the finals. Certainly, the Outlaws are a top-five team in the SMJHL – but they wouldn’t realistically stand a chance against the Falcons either. If Kelowna wants to stand a chance against Detroit, they need to batten down the hatches and lock down mid-table teams.

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