I feel like JP in Angels in the Outfield. He was all about the possibilities ‘It could happen’ and it did! Although I didn’t see anyone standing up and flapping their arms, we must have had some divine provenence on our side (the hockey goddess is very happy with us right now) cuz we stole 2 points from Dallas last night. 2 – 1 Coyotes.
Basically a very physical and weird game. Even being outshot 21 – 16, assed out on face offs 65% – 35% we managed to beat these guys. But then again looking at their 23 give away!? to our 9 and our 16 bloked shots to their 9 it looks like puck possession was the key factor in sneaking out of Big D with a win. 6 Yotes on the point board behind Mules and Donor’s huge efforts tells the tale of puck movement pretty well.
The first period was a duel. Both teams were fierce through the neutral, neither let any really good chances get fired on net. Then Z to Perrault to the big PM, who laid that twisted wrister of his ,on Turco halfway through the period and Dallas was unable to answer the goal. Mueller scorzes! 1 – 0 Yotes. Neither team was able to capitalize on their (2) PPs each and only 15 sogs were fired total.
We came out road crazy in the second behind the Donor, who nailed Truco in the first minute of the period. Doan with the slap shot surprised the hell out of me… Whoo hoo! the Captain’s hand must be mending. Doan scorzes! 2 – 0 Yotes. Well now it gets a lil hairy out there, kind of a sin bin rally if you will. *the ref completely makes a McGoo on Z.* (illegal stick- playin the puck while holding more than 1 stick… untrue… Z tried to hand Breezy his stick but quickly dropped it to play the errant puck, the ref had moved out of range and could not see that Z had dropped the goalie stick. The ref called it anyway… based on what he thought was going to happen. So totally McGoo-ish.)
Then Wellie whupped Winchester (two pretty good sized boys, Wellie has so much poise and can chuck the nucks with the best of them) they both head to the box and right after that is over we get a bit over aggressive and land Yorkie AND Boynk in the box. The PK was absolutely fantasmic and Dallas is unable to take advantage. Winchester comes back for a little redemption and scorezes in the last minutes of this period making it 2 – 1 Yotes and too close for comfort.
Now the third went from hairy to down right ugly. Dallas got their act together big time and starts to get through our neutral due to the usual ugly gaps that regularly appear when ever we are ahead in a game w/ Breezy covering our collective tails. But no matter how hard the Stars battled we kept having the answers…barely. Right up until the moment when all hell broke out. The lil Rat boy Ribby takes some liberties and gets pile driven into the corner boards by 2 Yotes. Otter takes a swat at the Captain and a melee erupts. Boynk looked like a man with dismemberment on his mind (Nickyboy was pullin Ott by the feet out of the scrum to whup him).
Donor, DMo and Morrow all end up w/ the Carcillo treatment (misconducts for everyone). And the Yotes survive mathematical crunch time with the win 2 – 1 Yotes final.
Good game w/ everyone doing their job 100%. I guess Perrault got the message as even he took a hit to make a play. (wish Yentle would get the hint) Breezy was stellar behind this hard fought effort. The team only allowed 21 sogs and Bryz stopped everything he could see. Too bad the team could only manage to pop Turco with 16 sogs. But for tonight, it was enough.
