Friday, August 29, 2008

Exhibition Game 3: Smokies 4 Merritt 2


(Ryan Bulach putting in a gorgeous pass from Gehon. Picture by Randy Emery.)

I'm in a rush so I'll talk more about what I liked sometime tomorrow. For now I'll leave you with basics.

First Period

1. Merritt Goal: McDonald from Devin Hobbs

2. Merritt Goal: Brian Kang from Devin Hobbs (PP)

Second Period

3. Trail Goal: Ryan Bulach from Chad Gehon
(beautiful cross crease pass from Gehon for a tap in by Bulach)

Third Period

Jadon Porterfield and Tyler Barr fight right off the draw. Porterfield gets some shots in but loses his balance and Barr feeds him a couple of time son the way down. Both get kicked out.

4. Trail Goal: Paul Mailey from CJ Legassic and Andrew Pickering
(terrific moves by Legassic down his off wing into a cross crease pass that Mailey tapped in)

5. Trail Goal: JF Boisvert from Graeme Strukoff (PP)
(Smokies get caught in their own zone until Strukoff makes an outstanding outlet pass to Boisvert at the Merritt blue line for a breakaway that Boisvert wrists in on his forehand)

CJ Legassic and Zalba get into it and have a pretty good tilt. Legassic gets free of the wrestling and throws a few nice shots in. Again both players get ejected.

6. Trail Goal: Andrew Pickering from Jayson Reardon
(Reardon fires a good low point shot that Pickering knocks in on the rebound)

Goaltenders

Trail's Marco Raimondo stopped 25 of 27 shots for the win

Merritt's Graeme Gordon stopped 30 of 34

















(CJ Legassic in action, once again from Randy Emery.)

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