First Period: These Valentine's Day jerseys are rather distracting, but they match the goalie pads Desfosses wears quite nicely. Holladay is wearing No. 33 instead of his usual 17 for some reason, while backup goalie Pier-Olivier Pelletier is wearing 17. Guess they ordered the wrong jerseys for each number? Additionally, Desfosses is in 31 instead of 35. ... Only one whistle in the first five minutes, lots of back-and-forth play. ... Evan Schwabe just got a great chance on the doorstep and did a nice job elevating the puck to try to get it past Franck, but he was still able to make the save. ... Killer Bees take a 1-0 lead on their third shot, and a nice play by all three guys involved, at 7:06 in the period. Sean Muncy scored the goal on assists from Grant Goeckner-Zoeller and Aaron Lee. ... Scary moment as Jesse Bennefield was rammed into the boards and has been down on the ice for a long time. A fight ensued, with every player on the ice piling up on top of each other. ... Bennefield was able to leave the ice with the help of Rycroft and both team's trainers, and judging by the towel he was holding to his face, his nose may have been broken. Jarred Mohr just skated over to tell the ice crew to go clean the blood off. ... Uninjured players from each team have headed to the room with 11:47 still left in the period. ... Penalties have been decided, and somehow the Bucks ended up with a power play. That's very interesting. Shaun Landolt got two fighting majors; Dieude-Fauvel got one; Agarunov, who already left the ice, got a game misconduct; and Clouthier is serving the only penalty that's up on the board, another fighting for Landolt. ... Killer Bees killed that off easily. ... Darryl Smith to the box at 11:17 to serve two for slashing. ... Penalty killed. ... Tie game at 15:14 on a goal by Neil Trimm. He was in the right place at the right time and actually able to get a stick on a rebound to knock it into the net behind Franck, who was still committed to the initial shot by Schwabe. ... Agarunov's game misconduct was apparently a fighting intervenor penalty. Some of those other ones are still being sorted out on Pointstreak. ... Bucks get a power play with 1:29 on the clock as Clouthier heads to the box to serve a penalty of his own for holding. ... Nothing doing on the first-period portion of that. ... End of the period, game tied 1-1, Killer Bees up 13-10 on shots.
Second Period: The Killer Bees are going on the power play just after killing the remaining time from Clouthier's penalty off with Mohr headed to the box just 46 seconds into the period for hooking. ... And the Bees have capitalized to take a 2-1 lead at 1:24 in the period as Irving redirected a shot by Rycroft past Desfosses. Andrew Davis gets the second assist. ... Bucks get another power play now at 3:32 with Davis headed to the box for tripping Trimm. ... One of the Killer Bees and the team's equipment manager just headed to the room on separate runways. ... Desfosses just misplayed a puck and ended up stuck outside his net with one of the Bees right on the doorstep but somehow managed to dive back in time to keep the puck from crossing the goal line. ... Agarunov just walked through the press box in a suit and clearly fresh out of the shower carrying the blade half of a stick. ... Is it just me, or does Schwabe seem to be limping around on his skates? ... Couple close calls with the Bees pressing on offense, but Desfosses has been able to make some key saves. ... Lincourt just left the ice in the middle of a shift, hunched over and clutching his wrist. ... Clouthier headed to the box again, this time for hooking, at 13:44 in the period. ... Penalty killed. ... Wow. The Killer Bees have taken a 3-1 lead as Clouthier snapped a shot while skating up the wall toward Desfosses that clanked off the crossbar into the net. Don't think anyone was expecting that. Goal came at 18:18 in the period. No assists announced right away. ... Adam Rivet just left the ice with 5.1 seconds left in the period. No penalties on the board, and no one accompanying him. ... Clouthier and Irving just left, too. ... Okay, penalty up now, on Irving. Two for unsportsmanlike conduct. ... And now Rivet's penalty is up, two for slashing. ... Faceoff and nothing else doing to close out this one. ... End of the period, Killer Bees lead 3-1, up 30-21 on shots. ... There's a video on the Jumbotron with Jeremy Swanson and Justin Styffe teaching the crowd how to do the chicken dance. Cruelty toward injured players much?
Third Period: Bucks get a 4-on-3 power play with Perrin going off for tripping at 1:16 and Rivet and Irving still in their respective boxes. ... Close chance, but the Bucks couldn't bat the puck out of the air into the net. ... Franck was just shaken up on a play, not sure what happened there, but he is kneeling down with his face to the ice. ... No more power play with Bes heading to the box for high sticking at 1:59. Killer Bees will eventually get a power play out of that. ... Seems Rivet also took an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for that exchange at the end of the second period. ... Bucks have cut the Killer Bees' lead to 3-2 at 4:02 in the period on a goal by Billsten. The guys playing the best games aren't always the ones who get the goals, but Billsten and Trimm have been everywhere doing everything for the Bucks this afternoon, and for them, it actually shows on the score sheet. No assists on that one yet. ... Following a Jumbotron proposal (she said yes), the Bucks have drawn another penalty and will go back on the power play at 6:11 with Irving in the box for hooking. ... I really feel like the Bucks have yet to set up on the power play today. They just got a good scoring chance, but it was on a very even-strength type of rush. ... Penalty killed. ... Good wrist shot by Lincourt deflected over the net by Franck. ... And we have a tie game, complete with a very passionate goal celebration, as Mohr just flipped his second attempt over Franck, who was playing the angle down low. Rivet and Trimm get the assists on the goal, which was scored at 14:01 in the period. Mohr is one happy camper right now, and I guess you can say that makes up for the power-play goal the Killer Bees scored with him in the box. Game tied 3-3. ... Trimm was just hauled down, and no call was made, then Trimm got sent to the box for interference seconds later. Killer Bees on the power play with 3:20 to play in the period. ... Best chance so far was one for Perrin, but he one-timed it wide. ... Penalty killed. ... Whoa. Desfosses just made a highlight-reel glove save to keep this tied with 36.6 to go in regulation. That seemed to be on its way in the net for sure. ... These teams are incapable of ending a game in regulation at the LEC this season. ... End of the period, game tied 3-3, Killer Bees up 36-33 on shots.
Overtime: Regardless of the end result, the Bucks are back in a tie for third place with the Texas Brahmas (25-17-5, 55 points) taking today off. The Brahmas will now have a game in hand, though. ... Schwabe got a great chance to start, but Franck made the save. ... No shots by the Killer Bees halfway through the OT period. Well, none on goal, as a couple have been blocked. ... Shot by Bes barely touched by Franck to deflect it high. That looked like it might end the game. Only 45.8 seconds left in OT. ... Killer Bees get a power play with 28.4 seconds to go with Schwabe headed to the box for a trip. ... Chris Brooks taking a time out to draw up a play for his team. ... Things didn't go as he had planned, and things are evened up at 3-on-3 now with Goeckner-Zoeller headed to the box with 19 seconds left. ... End of the OT period, game tied 3-3, shots tied at 36.
Shootout: Bucks opt to shoot second. ... Rycroft up first. ... He was able to draw Desfosses down and flip it into the net top shelf. ... Todd Griffith first for the Bucks. ... No elevation = pad save by Franck. ... Goeckner-Zoeller up next. ... Shot it right at Desfosses for a pad save. ... Smith now. ... Tried to go five-hole, and Franck closed the gap to make the save. ... Tom Sawatske next. ... Wow, that was... just wow. Sawatske seemed to be taking his shot and definitely faked Desfosses out to get around Desfosses and get the net. ... Bes now. ... Crossbar. ... Irving could win it. ... Stopped by Desfosses. ... Dieude-Fauvel trying to keep the Bucks alive. ... No such luck, as Franck makes the save.
Game Over: Bucks lose 4-3 in the shootout, move to 23-16-9 (55 points), tying them with the Brahmas for third place in the Southern Conference. Due to the jersey auction, players will be jumping in the showers before I can get down there, so I'll only be able to talk to Coach Ruskowski. ... Robin Richards got off the ice then stayed on the runway, and one of the linesmen went over to make sure he didn't come back out. Not sure who he was mouthing off to because the Killer Bees seemed to be ignoring him completely. ... Ruskowski spent a lot of time talking to the guys - no audible yelling, though - but didn't have much to say to me. This team's only consistent quality this season has been inconsistency, and it seems that is really weighing on him at this point. You can check out my story in tomorrow's Times to see what he had to say, and I'll post the quotes on here when I get to the office in the afternoon. Happy Valentine's Day, if you're into that sort of thing.
7 comments:
He needs to give this lazy hockey players a bagskate. Send the message that you have to play hard each and every night you put on the bucks jersey! Tired of Bryans bs. Oh IF THEY WIN TONIGHT THEY WOULD BE 4-1-1. BLAH BLAH BLAH ITS JUST LIKE MAN SHIT UP LET THE TEAMS PLAY. TIRED OF IT !!!
I actually enjoy Benway's broadcast. It is more enjoyable than most of the opponent's broadcaster's show. Benway does a good job, well at least that's what I think.
Be easy on "Bones" - He is being optimistic, and hopeful that this team turns it around. He is doing his job. He can't be blunt about the Buck's performance or else he'd get fired. See: Joe Dominey.
Anyway, to borrow most of a line from the "all mighty" Greg Rajan, ( I have to give some credit otherwise the Rayz fans get worked up), "If you don't like what he says, then don't listen to him."
- Message to Greg too: If YOU don't like what us annonymous folks write, then don't read this! Have a good day! :-)
He's entertaining and he always responds to fans e-mails. Something that not a lot of people do.
Joe Dominey didnt get fired. You seem to not have been around to know what your saying. Bryan doesnt call it as he sees it. Always calling it as a bucks fan, he doesnt do a good job. When the bucks score first he is oooo they always win when they score first blah blah blah its like calm down there is still time left in the game. Always excuses that we are shorthanded blah blah blah excuses have been the reasons why we lose. Its not that its because the team is lazy and they dont work hard we had 18 guys on Sunday and what happen? thank you.
Rich Bocchini is pretty unbiased. He has expressed his frustration with the Bees play many times. Benway is just flat out bad. For the communications/public relations rep of a professional team, his writing sucks, his voice is annoying and he's such an obvious homer. And to top it all off, he is constantly putting his foot in his mouth on the blog. I'll never forget the time he whined on the blog about how the Bucks might fold if attendance didn't get better . . . then had to retract it when I posted it in the CHL forums! Priceless!
Any guy in the CHL is better then Bryan right now. LOL I remember that too. Just doesnt know how to be professional. Poor guy. . .
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