Grand Finale with special guest.
Prior to the face off for game 6, Hockey-Life was paid a surprise visit...
Local radio station personality "Taz" was in the building along with a crew from FM96.
Taz challenged the two teams to a shootout. With the winning team getting 15 tickets to go see the movie premier of the newest Hockey based comedy "Goon". A video of the shootout should be posted on the FM96 website at some point this week. Most of the shooters attempted some sort of trick shot. We saw a between the legs Marek Malik style goal, a caped mini stick attempt and the classic sliding hand pass as well. One Vince Carducci didn't seem to get the memo, he walked in and fired a shot five hole ... guess he really wanted those tickets.
At the end of the day the HockeyLife team beat the London Hussars to secure the tickets. The atmosphere on the ice was tremendous, and it really felt like an Allstar competition of sorts.
It was a real pleasure to be a part of this. Shout out to FM96 for hooking the boys up. See everyone at the show on Wednesday!
After all the excitement we still had a game to play, with both teams looking for that series clinching victory.
With league leading scorer Chris Alpaugh out of the lineup, the question was would the top line for Team Jordie be able to continue their pace. Inserted into the lineup was Brad "Amberleydown" Amberley and the line once again produced most of the teams scoring. Amberley registered 4 goals and 5 assists, Robbie DeVries had 3 goals and 5 assists while Adam Klimowicz chipped in with 2 goals and 3 assists.
Vince MacDougall once again found the scoreboard, potting another timely highlight reel snipe top cheddar. This goal was the turning point, as Team Jorge had just scored 3 unanswered at that point and were really looking like they were ready to make a comeback.
Cris Cervoni once again pulled a great celebration out of his bag of tricks. After scoring his only goal of the game, Cervoni skated out to centre ice and did a Swan-like slide on his stomach. He looked like he may have been injured on the play as he hit his chin off the ice during the slide but he was fine.
Marc Corbeil had 2 goals and 2 assists for Team Jorge, while Junior had 1 goal and 2 assists. Ryan wigle added 1 goal and 1 assist.
Team Jordie held on to take the game and series by a score of 10-6. This was one of the longest series' we have ever played at Hockey-Life and actually the first one where the goalies picked teams. Those guys seem to know what they are doing. They picked two very even teams. Also, both Jordie and Jorge played some of their best hockey, you can really see that they are in mid-season form now. That means it's only going to get tougher to score on these guys! That's scary.
See everyone at the show!
If not see the rest of you next Saturday when we start our Throwback series.
