Week 5 in the SHC brought triumph and tragedy. The weekend started off with the Green vs Black franchises splitting the uprights. Killer Pandas found tragedy in an OT loss 7-6 to The Vikings. Leading the team to victory with 2 goals was their captain Sigve Klepsvik and a beauty mid air tip to cap the win in overtime by the soft hands of Brad Newly. Foo Dogs on the other hand found triumph in a big way defeating the Hairy Crabs 5-0 for their first win of the season. ‘Kool’ Kevin Lee was in fine form in net and got the shutout.
Saturday showed that it would be the same triumph and tragedy as the previous night. With the Red and White franchises kicking things off and Red hoping to knock off the beasts that are the White franchise. Fog Devils came out strong and kept the game close with Paper Tigers captain JP Girmard’s top shelf goal holding up until under 5 minutes to go. Kita returned the favour late, but the Fog Devils just couldn’t hold on and it was a late 0:08 second goal by David Smith that took the Paper Tigers to 5-0 on the season with a 2-1 win. Wanting to bounce back after a devastating loss in the previous week was Always Picked Last and that’s what they did defeating the Ice Cocks 3-2, despite missing top pick Jon ‘Das’ Boot. Ice Cocks pushed in the final minutes, pulling their goalie with 2:00 to go but just couldn’t find the power in the coop to score.
In the final franchise match up Blue vs. Yellow the dogs ran away with the bone. The Bulldogs looked strong with nearly a full bench and unfortunately the music stopped for the Dirty Blues losing 3-0 in a fast paced hockey game. Captain Tyler Perro and first mate, Calvin Wong, were dominant. The Puckhounds finished the weekend with triumph over the not-so-mighty Ducks 4-1. The ‘Hounds had control most of the game as the 11:30 start time definitely found the Ducks without any quack in their quickness. Jackie Cheng had a strong game between the pipes with Qin and Okuyama doing the offensive damage.
Honourable mentions go out to Matt Whately for reffing an A game on his own and Darryl Slaney and Mark Simon for reffing every other game this past weekend.
