Shockers Bounce Back to Smoke Chiefs

Final Score
Shockers 6
Chiefs 4

"It was a nice comeback on our part, we just got to figure out how to play all three periods," stated team captain, Alain Godard in regards of last night's victory against the Chiefs, 6-4.

Shockers once again fell behind in the first period (2-0) marking another straight game where they have experienced a slow start in the first period.

"We haven't figured it all out," added Shockers' scoring leader, Andrew Stevens, "at least we're putting the ball in the net but we have to stop it from going in ours, especially in the first period."

A positive of last night's game is that the Shockers had production from both the first and second line as well as from their defense; including firsts for Nick Sullo, Kosta Kastrounis, and Marc "DFEK" Calavaris.

Despite being down 2-0 after the first period an early second period goal from Kosta Kastrounis' point shot from a face-off deep in Chiefs' territory put the Shockers within one. However, Chiefs would reply with two quick goals to make it a 4-1 game. Shockers battled back when Stevens lit the lamp by burying home a Ben Ducharme shot from the slot and then not even two minutes later Calavaris banged home a feed from Goppy Sandhu to close out the second period at 4-3. The third would be all Shockers when Stevens capitalized on the Chief's goaltender being out of position not once but twice to complete his hat-trick. The game would be ended with Nick Sullo coasting in the nail-in-the-coffin on an open net.

"Les defenses étaient malade en penis, les gars en avant ont jouer bien aussi, Giancarlo [Capaz] a fait son job pis on a pas fourré le chien dans deuxième et troisième. C'est un victoire, pointe finale," commented assistant captain, Marc Boucher, during a post-game interview.

The Shockers will need to step it up next week when they play Sunday and Monday back-to-back against the team to beat, FW and the Grinders respectively.

Game Notables: Ben Ducharme smokes a Chiefs defenseman into the boards at the beginning of the third period to pump up his team, there was no call on the play. On the official scoresheet, Alain "PTB" Godard picked up three assists. Jeff Jasmin rounded up two assists and Kosta Kastrounis got a goal and one assist. Since Kastrounis, Sandhu, Dfek and Sullo each scored a point, there is only one player on the Shockers roster to not have a point, and that is Mr. Jon Sante.