Early game last week was a big one as Poland faced off against Canada.  The winner gets the #2 seed the loser #3 seed.

First Period

No scoring, no penalties

Second Period

1.  Canada, MacDougall (fill in) (Ianno). 10:09 PP

2.  Canada, Coffin 4 (Ianno, Chamberlain) 9:03

3.  Canada, Harty 5 (Ianno). 6:18

4.  Canada, Julius 1 (Guerra). 4:55

5.  Poland, Thomas 1 (Barrett, Ferrin). 4:38

Penalties – POL Atchison 14:18, POL Barrett 12:01

Third Period

6.  Poland, Kelly 6 (Falcone, Krajewski) 0:44 SH

7.  Poland, Dupal 7 (Rukavina, Barrett). 0:21 SH

Penalties – CAN Coffin 8:39, POL Rukavina 7:29, CAN Ianno 7:15, POL Falcone 0:59

Goalies    CAN Senkowski Win 9-9-2.  POL B. Ide Loss 8-9-3

Canada 4.  Poland 3

Players of the Game goes to Canada’s fill in player Steve MacDougall.  Wheres the hat?????

And for Poland the one and only Jeffery Barkin.

 

Special shout out to Gary ‘DAD’ Julius.  Playing in only his 3rd game this season buries his 1st goal of the campaign and it proves to be the game winner that puts Canada in as the #2 seed.  The ageless wonder!!!!

 

Late game between #1 Sweden and #5 USA a meaningless game that will prepare both squads before the playoffs.

First Period

1.  USA, McKean 6 (Kostick)  PP 10:21

2.  USA, Young 4 (Randa, Flumerfelt). 3:01

3.  USA, Flumerfelt 14 (Cummings, Randa)  1:59

4.  USA, Barbosa 5 (Cummings, McKean)  1:18

Penalties – SWE Ron Chantaj 11:19,  SWE Sparrow 6:25

Second Period

5.  Sweden, P. Freeman 7 (Mihalic, McLaughlin)  14:32

6.  USA, Flumerfelt 15 (Young). 13:58

7.  Sweden, McLaughlin 2 (Chantaj, P. Freeman)  9:26

8.  USA, Cummings 8 (Barbosa, McKean). 3:56

Penalties – none

Third Period

9.  USA, Flumerfelt 16 (unassisted). 11:21

10.  USA, Cormier 8 (Cummings, Randa). 8:47

11.  USA, Randa 14 (Young). 3:31

Penalties – none

Goalies   USA Win G. Ide 6-10-4.  SWE Loss Rispoli 12-4-4

USA 9.  Sweden 2

Players of the Game goes to Sweden’s #12 Rob McLaughlin and USA #5 Robin Flumerfelt.  A special shout out to Robin for going penalty free the entire season WOW what an accomplishment!!!!!  Well done Robin, just say NO to the BOX!!!!

So that wraps up our 20 game regular season.  Sweden finishes as our reg season champions with 28 points, congrats boys.  Canada 2nd with 20, Poland 3rd with 19, Finland 4th with 17 and USA 5th with 16 points.  Sweden had the most goals for with 101.  Canada had the least against with 83.  Poland led the league with 50 penalty minutes and Canada was the least Brenda friendly with just 18 minutes.  The record low in out history was 38 minutes, well done Canada!!!   Canada also had a perfect 100% penalty kill record.  Finland had the best power play at 31%.  No team swept any team with 5 victories this year, nice.

Individually Swedens Dwayne Tygessen wins his first scoring title and Rocket Richard most goals scored with 21 goals and 18 assists for a 39 point campaign, thank you Leo!!!!!  Best goals against looked like it was a lock for Swedens Frank Rispoli to win his 5th in the last 6 seasons until the last game of the year USA put 9 past him and he loses out to Canada’s Art Senkowski by one goal, oh my.  Poalnds Dan Barrett led the league in helpers with 27.  Finlands John Fasulo wins the Johnny Sparrow award for most penalty minutes with 12.  And rookie scoring race was a tie between Canada’s Frank Arruda and Finlands George ‘don’t drop the soap’ Letsos each with a 23 point campaign.  Congrats to all of you.

This week will be our opening night of our brand new season where everyone starts at 0 points.  Early game Friday, March 15 at 9:15 Canada and USA.  Late game at 10:30 Poland and Finland.  Sweden gets the 1st week off.

See you all on the ice Boys!!!