Norsemen and Greyhounds Begin Their Series

45 seconds into the game, Tom Saunders made a stretch pass to Callum MacKinnon, but Matt Anderson managed to intercept the breakaway pass.  We didn’t see either team register a shot on goal until nearly 3 minutes had elapsed, and then they each got one within 10 seconds of each other.  The first real chance wasn’t until 12:15 when Stephen Warwick fed a pass to Callum MacKinnon who attempted the one timer, but he fanned on it.

At the other end, Michael Lawless got a partial breakaway and just missed the net with his shot.  Derick Levesque cut up the right wing, went all the way to the Norsemen goal line and cut in, but he couldn’t manage the shot on goal as Phil Sprague worked the poke check.

Norsemen forward Ryan DeWolfe got a chance as he was spin around and made the attempted spin between the legs shot which failed, and then he had his stick shot out of his hands and over the glass, dropping down on the opposite side of the Zamboni door.

Michael Lawless was doing his best to just throw pucks at the net for the Greyhounds and he came in, shooting a wrist shot from just inside the blue line and it went off Sprague’s glove and in to give the Greyhounds a lead with 6 and a half minutes left in the opening frame.

A beauty of a pass from Blake Isenor to Keaton Hicks just 30 seconds after his team went down, is how you show leadership.  Hicks one timed the hell out of that puck, launching a bomb past Logan MacLean in the Greyhounds goal, levelling the score.  A few minutes later, Ashley Leonard looked to make a pass in the neutral zone when Isenor pressured him and Ryan DeWolfe picked the pass off.  He went in towards the net and this wasn’t a fancy attempt, he just snapped it hard on goal with Connor Tousignant going to the back door for a rebound, but no rebound came as the puck went straight in. 2-1 for the Norsemen after 1, shots even at 14 apiece.

Blake Whebby trailed DeWolfe into the zone early in the second and called for the pass.  He got it and he had all day long.  His shot went just under Logan’s arm and in.  The Norsemen then took a penalty, but managed to get a 2 on 1.  Stephen Warwick took the shot and it pretty much went through Logan’s glove and landed on top of the net momentarily.  The Greyhounds responded.  Andrew MacDonald took the shot and beat Sprague above his shoulder, but the puck clanged off the crossbar and stayed out, the rebound bouncing around the goal mouth but staying out.

Logan MacLean started to see a ton of odd man rushes, but he kept shutting the door, giving his team a chance, and with 3:20 left, Phil Sprague opened the door for a Greyhound comeback.  He came out to play the puck with Scott Stewart rushing in to challenge him.  Sprague did not win this battle and Stewart got the puck and sent it into the empty net to bring his team within a goal.  This game just got interesting as the Greyhounds started to pressure more than any other point in the game thus far.  Sprague saves his own ass though as he didn’t let anything in, and Connor Tousignant was sent in on a breakaway by Stephen Warwick.  Tousignant was promptly denied by MacLean.  The Norsemen kept control and a shot on goal hit Michael Bourgeois up high.  The puck then dropped down to him at the side of the goal and he chipped it into the net for some security.  4-2 Norsemen at that point (1:28 left in regulation).  That is how the game would end.  These teams play Tuesday at 10:00 and the Greyhounds will be fighting for their lives.