Blades vs. Hawks - Game 12 · Wednesday October 24, 2007

The Portland Winter Hawks finally gave the Home crowd its first win of the season (4-2) against the visiting Saskatoon Blades. With the first win came many other FIRSTS for the team:

  • Mark Guggenberger’s first start at Home stopping 29 of 31 shots for the game.
  • A goalie other than Mucha to notch a win since Butler in Jan 2006.
  • Out shooting its opponent (34-31)
  • Out scoring its opponent in the third period (2-0)
  • Hawks came from behind to win a game
  • Hawks looked good on the PP
  • Aaron McGill gets assaulted by TWO Saskatoon Blades (John Flatters and Ryan Funk).

Attendance: 2317
MC

 SCORING  1  2  3  Total 
Blades  1  1  0  2
Hawks  1  1  2  4

SHOTS 1 2 3  Total 
Blades 7 10 14 31
Hawks 8 16 10 34

Game Summary

Game Notes:

Here are some of the highlights.

Period 1

Hawks and Blades came out of the box slow with only 7-8 shots respectively. Blades two PP opportunities, Hawks one.

10:17 – Blistering slap shot from the right point by defenseman Niemi (6) on the Power Play (PP) assists Elliott and Hulak.

18:57 – Rebound PP goal for Swystun (6) assists Sjodin and Sceviour.

Period 2

Hawks come back from an early short hand goal by the Blades to take the lead.

9:42 – Good PP movement by the Hawks, but Francis lost puck at point that set McCrae (4) down the wing and with 2 on 1 help beat Guggenberger to the blocker side. Given up a short handed goal after a strong PP could have buried the young Hawks confidence… but not tonight.

16:27 – Walker’s shot was blocked but managed to poke it towards McLaren (2) assists Walker and Hotson.

Period 3

6:28 – King spent most of the period with 10 min misconduct for losing his mouth guard. Never seen that call before. King’s play has been much improved over the last two nights, but remember your dentist and the WHL officials want to see that mouth guard in the mouth.

7:03 – Aaron McGill local boy gets assaulted by two Saskatoon Blades (John Flatters and Ryan Funk). Both started wailing on a down McGill after he was pushed into the goaltender. Betker and the official Andy Thiessen had to jump on both the players to stop the assault. After the alteration McGill looked like he was OK. In my opinion the Blades got off easy with only and extra 2min of PP time.

Andy’s Three Stars

Swystun (POR), McLaren (POR), Guggenberger (POR)

I would add Tristan King to the list.

— S. Blanchard

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