Blazers 8
Shockers 7 (OT)
Shockers took on some heavy contention the other night at the Rinque as they played the gritty Blazers. The Blazers who are off to one of their best starts in the NABHL going 5-0-1 thus far this season. On the other hand, the Shockers have been struggling to play a full game and find their way out of their zone continued to fight to find the fire that they displayed the first four games of the season.
The game started and the Shockers came out slack in the first period as they immediately went down 4-0.
"We shouldn't need to take the whole first period to warm-up, that's what the 5 minutes before the game is for," commented Donald Toohey, Shockers' leading point-getter (9G-17A).
After the first intermission the Shockers knew they had to regroup and get their crainiums out of their rectums. Low and behold, the boys with the 'S' on their chests hammered in three back-to-back goals. Steve Towell picked up his 14th coming from a pass from filler-inner, Andrew Johnson, who took over the duties of Gary McDermott who was a healthy scratch. A few minutes later, Toohey, blasted his 7th in the net, from Towell and Steve Diabo. A minute later, Chris Diabo lit the lamp for his 7th off a pass from Big Ben Ducharme. 1:20 later, the Blazers edged their way a bit further when Jon Zukran popped it over Giancarlo Capaz, who had looked a bit nervous between the pipes. But before the intermission, a powerplay goal by Chris DiSensi gave the Shockers a spark of hope and put them back within one. Towell and S. Diabo picking up the assists on DiSensi's goal.
Third period kicked off and Blazers were putting on the pressure and managed to bag themselves two goals back-to-back, including a weak shot from Ronnie Ohayon that found its way through the Wall of Capaz. Those two goals looked to take the wind out of the Shockers sails but a quick time-out to regroup and the Shockers started their infamous comeback. Donald Toohey bagged his second of the game from Andrew Stevens and DiSensi with two ticks under the 4:00 mark. 1:30 left in the game and Towell would add another to his tally from DiSensi and Stevens and then a whole 8 seconds later, the big brown bomber, Donald Toohey, would get his hat-trick goal and the game knotting goal.
"I think [Toohey's] cat shitty on his stuff brought him some good luck this game," laughed DiSensi."I hate that f**king cat!" added Toohey.
Off to shootouts where Shockers have always been pretty successful selected Toohey, Towell, and S. Diabo as their go-to guys, however, all three were stone-walled by opposing goaltender Daniel Gates and the Blazers bagged the win.
"We were are pretty lucky just to grab the one point," said Francois Hamelin.
"We got to start playing a full game. We ran into the same problem last game and its tough on us to keep catching up everytime," added Andrew Stevens.
Next game for the Shockers in Monday, April 13th @ 6:30pm against the Decepticons (5-2-1). The Shockers had pretty good games against the Decepticons in the past and were only beaten once but with both teams revamped it should make for an interesting game. Both the Shockers and Decepticons are fighting for second place in their respective divisions, and even the Shockers have a chance to move into first place depending on how FW fesses up against the Huskies this Sunday.
**NOTE: The schedule has been updated on the blog according to NABHL.com **
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