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Game 8 - Detroit @ St. Louis
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Final score:  Falcons 5:1 Scarecrows
*     Falcons Frederick Wanesly 3+0
**   Falcons Jmac NCheese 0+3
*** Falcons Guy O'Shea 0+1
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Hattrick Hero
Left wing Frederick Wanesly scored a beautiful hat-trick. He's more of a playmaker but can make a good shot too. In this match he proved that you can't sleep on him while defending. This British tower seems to have no weaknesses. He can use his size to his advantage. He makes a lot of space on the ice which gives him time to make a perfect shot or a perfect pass. Huge props go to Jmac Ncheese. Jmac is more of a sniper but in this match he showed his great passing abilities. He assisted on two goals of Frederick Wanesly. Especially the second pass that allowed Frederick to score back-door was truly astonishing. This duo works great together and should be a set line with a great center.

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A lot of people would agree that from all the SMJHL arenas this one is the best. Well unless you are playing against the Scarecrows. Fanbase of this team is truly amazing. They support their team even when there's no chance for a comeback. They showed it today. While losing 4-1 the arena was probably the loudest it has ever been. People from St. Louis love their teams and Scarecrows are one of them. Usually not even SHL arenas are that loud. The fanbase is also very respectful and so when Wanesly got his hat-trick there were quite a lot of hats coming from the hometown fans. We are looking forward to the playoff matches in St. Louis because they are gonna be electric.

Match review:
The match
The first period was scoreless. Two successful penalty kills by St. Louis.
In the second period, we saw Detroit getting a two-goal lead after Jack Kanoff and Frederick Wanesly scored. One successful penalty kill by Detroit.
In the third period St. Louis cut the enemies lead in half. When they seemed to have gain momentum, Ruslan Zaporozhets got a 2+10 interference and misconduct penalties. He is a very important player for his team because he is a star sniper in this league, but here he let his team down by not being present and getting his team shorthanded. After a successful penalty kill by St. Louis, Detroit's Frederick Wanesly finished up his hat-trick and as a nail in the coffin Edward Williams, who leads the league in goals and points scored to pad his stats.

St. Louis kept the game close until the second half of the third period. Detroit won with a convincing score 5-1.

Final words: The scoresheet is missing St. Louis GMs.

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Penalty Woes
Detroit are far and away one of the toughest teams to face up against while the game is at even strength. The pressure they put opponents under is unreal, so much so that there is no doubt how great their presence is when they take the ice. How could a team make this pressure even harder to handle? Well, by giving up a multitude of penalty minutes of course. Detroit are a tough team to frustrate at the best of times - but to give up 16 penalty minutes against a top class outfit like that of Detroit is akin to a death sentence. The game was one sided from the start, but the frustrations of the St. Louis players did not help their situation whatsoever.

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Hat-Trick Assist Man
The plaudits for today's runaway victory will rightly go to Frederick Wanesly - his performance in front of the net was simply inspirational, no one can deny that. However, Detroit fans would also be remiss to not heap praise onto another member of their squad that impressed today; that being Jmac NCheese. Jmac imposed an element of grace into his game today, sliding passes to his teammates some other SMJHL players could only dream of making consistently. A hat-trick of goals is something impressive for any professional hockey player - but the hat-trick of assists he earned today deserves as much plaudits as the prior. He earned the 2nd star today, but people will likely be talking about the assisting performance of Jmac NCheese for a long while after this game.

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Who Can Stop This Team?
The Detroit Falcons currently sit atop the SMJHL East division with a 27-4-2 record. Their closest competition in the division is that of the St. Louis Scarecrows; the team, of course, that just got blown out by this dominant Falcons team 5-1 at home. No other team sits anywhere near to the Falcons record, or their pure dominance whenever they get in their groove on the ice. Playoff hockey is only a short distance away, and coaches around the league will be asking the same question as we all are: is there anyway to consistently hold off from the pressure of the Detroit offence? And if there is, who will be the one team to finally cultivate that strategy and use it effectively come game time?

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Dominance Incarnate

What does it look like to be the better team? We can use this game as a prime example to show what Detroit is made of and why they've been so successful. Shots, check: 40-20, a clear-cut 2:1 ratio showing both offensive prowess and defensive cunning. Penalty Minutes, check: 2-16, another clear-cut example of how to maintain composure and let your maturity guide you to more opportunity. Goals, check: 5-1, you win games when you put the puck in the back of the net, and when you do it as often as Detroit does while taking less penalties and suppression shots and shot attempts at this rate, you'll win games. These are just a few examples of how to be dominant, take notes everyone else, this is how you do it.

Poor Control

When you play a team as good as Detroit, you need to maintain composure and keep your team out of the penalty box. This was a clinic on what not to do put on by the Scarecrows. When you give your opponent 16 penalty minutes to play with, you take opportunity from your team and give it away to what ifs and unfulfilled wishes. You put your team in a do or die situation, and the killer instinct on the Falcons part is going to leave you in the "die" category more often than not. I might be beating a dead horse here, but really, this was poor discipline and it directly contributed to how poorly the Scarecrows played this game. It could have at least been interesting, but they never gave themselves a chance.

On Another Level

You know your team is doing something right when you're leading the league by double digit points in the standings. Detroit appears to have gone into orbit at this point and there's very little anyone can do to bring them down. They've got the depth, they've got the scoring touch, they've got the defense, and the goaltending has held up remarkably. I'll go ahead and say it, if they don't win it all this year, there's something wrong and someone will need to feel real bad about how the team was managed. Realistically, the team could glide on it's own to a cup win rolling over every team as a bump on the road to glory. I'll hope I'm wrong for everyone else's sake, but reality is a hard pill to swallow. This team is the real deal, and they're coming for everyone's cup hopes.

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Detroit Shooting Off The Charts
Though the first period was scoreless, Detroit had a decent 11 shots on goal to St Louis' 9 shots - this proved to be the closest the Scarecrows would get as the Falcons dominated the shot count through the rest of the game. The second period saw Jobin only have to redirect 3 shots on goal compared to Majors fending off 13 and allowing 2 to get by him. The final period brought back a little parity with Jobin deflecting 7, however Majors still took the brunt of the Falcons offense pushing away 11 more and letting 3 more goals in.

Backup continues to struggle
While Detroit managed to put up a good amount of shots - the onslaught was not as severe as we've seen in some games prior to this. While St Louis have a strong starter in net usually with Doyle, Majors has yet to find any sort of rhythm in the net as the relief goalie. Letting five goals get by him in this game he continues to let the Scarecrow team down when given the opportunity to shine. Unfortunately, the Scarecrows cannot leave Doyle in net every game and need to provide some rest so they will be looking to push Majors to improve, or risk being replaced going forward.

Penalties the difference maker
With the Falcons being a dominant force at even strength, there is little reason to provide them with further advantages on the ice. In this area the Scarecrows failed to maintain discipline spending a total of 16 minutes in the box to the Falcons 2 minutes. While the PK team for St Louis was successful in the first period, the fatigue from 12 minutes of ice time in the third definitely affected their ability to nullify a powerful Detroit offence and making the task for Majors even more difficult than it needed to be. If the Scarecrows want to have a chance of overcoming a strong team like the Falcons they'll need to work on their discipline and keep all their players on the ice to keep things as even as possible.

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#1 A Battle At Dead-Even Strength
It’s always interesting when a game with a handful of penalties (five in this one) fails to have a single power-play conversion. And don’t get me wrong, Detroit and St. Louis both have pretty solid defensive play (in spite of the final score), but typically a man disadvantage and a “holding pattern” style of play from most penalty kill squads doesn’t work for an entire match – especially not when the team running the power play is freakin’ Detroit. What’s perhaps most surprising in this instance is the twelve minutes’ worth of penalties levied against St. Louis early on in the third period were swiftly counteracted by hooking on Detroit – which #44 must have been wringing his hands about after the game.

#2 Third Period Dominance
In some sense, it almost feels like this ridiculous Detroit squad waits until the third period to truly unleash on their opponents (in an ‘instill a false sense of security’ kind of way). For some optimistic St. Louis fans, the Scarecrows goal early in the third period was enough to get the crowd’s hopes up – as a 2-1 deficit is probably among the worst situations Detroit has been in all season (and that’s when they’re leading!). But the Falcons decided that their dilly-dallying was finished, and over a period of about six minutes in the middle of the third period thoroughly dashed any hopes the St. Louis fans had of taking down the titans in Detroit.

#3 A Heroic… But Unfruitful Effort By Majors
Though he made thirty saves on the day – 50% more than his counterpart A Jobin in Detroit – rookie Richard Majors was subject to hearing the buzzer sound behind him a total of five times against Detroit. And while Majors has, in general, been a fantastic netminder this season (.896 SV%) even when compared to more veteran SMJHL players, he couldn’t get things going in his favor for the entirety of this game. A barrage totaling 35 shots sailed his way over the course of the game, coming from snipers like Edward Williams and Kaarlo Kekkonen (some of the SMJHL’s point leaders) that left Majors overall helpless in goal. Regardless, his mark for saves remains largely intact (30 saves in 35 shots isn’t too far off from his typical performance).

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