Dunedin Ice Hockey Association

Game three report

Game three of the Stanley Keg series took place on July 31st. The Jets were looking to finally gain a win and get back into the series after losing a heartbreaker in game two. However, standing in their way of that win was the replenished Sharks who were refreshed and had Jacques back after a one game suspension. Kemp got right back into it from where he left off in game one, no not fighting, scoring. He lit the lamp two minutes into the game with a rifle of a shot set up by Andre. Two minutes later, Jacques made it a 2-0 lead for the sharks with another sniper, this time unassisted. Paavo, fresh on from a line change, made it 3-0 with seven minutes to go in the 1st period.

Christos finally ended Toby’s chance of a shutout by putting the Jets on the board, just 30 seconds after Paavo’s goal to make the score 3-1. The Sharks regained their three goal cushion thanks to James and his blistering slap shot from the point to round off the 1st period scoring with the score sitting at 4-1 in favour of the Sharks.The 2nd period saw a rejuvenated Jets team. What ever Bode told them, it seemed to work as they came out guns blazing. First was Chris Sangster cutting the sharks lead to 4-2. A minute later, Watson cut the deficit to one goal and got the score to 4-3. However, that would be the closest the Jets would get in the game as James increased the lead to 5-3 with another tally with 13 minutes to go. Stefan put the score to 6-3 with eight minutes to go in the 2nd. Late I the period, O’Keefe took the puck off the face-off and had a wonderful end to end goal to make the score 6-4 and round off the second period scoring. The Jets did have a power play at 7:08 when Larry Wheeler took a holding penalty. The Sharks were able to shut them down and limit them to just one shot on the power play.

In the 3rd, the Sharks kicked it up a gear. A minute and fifteen seconds in, James gave the Sharks a commanding 7-4 lead with his hat trick goal. Watson cut the lead to 7-5 with his tally with ten minutes to go, but it wasn’t enough as the sharks went on to score two unanswered goals from Kemp, to get him the hat trick, and Stefan late in the game. Near the end, the game started to get rough, but Referee Nigel Dobson said both teams were equally bad and he was al for the flowing game. He did comment that the game was a lot better played and made his life easier with not having to hand out any penalties. Andre also took a deflected puck in the face that left a cut on his face. It’s all about the sacrifice in this series.

The Sharks will look to sweep the series next Tuesday night, August 7th at 8:30.

By Ryan Wick