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hiya! it's your host, the background ninja recapper, ready to zap ya, from coast to coast, you can hear this slappa. it's ashley the yappa!! welcome back to another thrilling ride, i.e., recap. today is a little special. we already have a recap posted on our page not long ago, but why not post another? this time it will be a double header!!! 
this was our first sim with nine simulations posted, and there were plenty of eye-popping moments, but if we are staying on trend, the most exciting games need to be highlighted more than others. the games we are going to be talking about are 12 and 19.

starting with a sweet jam of effort, it's the high-power canadians and an overhyped asia battling it out. before we could check the rest of the scoresheet, we knew the game was over after counting five huge goals in the first period, but it wasn't over there.
on the video, getting a little closer to the action, two more goals from the same team help climb their score to seven, easily preparing themselves for a third, scoring from all angles, and piling up 36 shots in the first 40 minutes thanks to an extra effort from alexandros mograine and the canadians, who would end up finishing the game with 8 and 48 team shots.
looking at the other side for asia, thankfully they stayed out of the box and didn't get in their heads this time, or the score would have been larger. 
all that would change in the final 20 with a fighting effort from both teams, mostly asia in the end, this time showing exactly why they were selected to play, scoring 2 goals to 1 after letting in 9 straight goals prior.
in conclusion, asia led the game in hits by double and had triple the blocked shots, so it's not the defenders fault, specialty units executed okay, and goaltenders were sharp too. it had to be the forwards. the biggest momentum change we think had to be face-offs, where we saw the canadiens win 19 more draws, ultimately passing and maintaining the puck more to eleviate any problems or chances they could have given to asia for a good majority of the game. 

 

canada wins 8-2

 

 

in the second recap, it's the canadians again, and the world with their third straight most exciting mention. 
starting the contest quiet with not many penalties and a lot of back-and-forth battles, the fans definitely witnessed excellent efforts from every line from both teams in the first 16 minutes, but after that and a plug-in from the dj, team worlds taylor swift came to life and scored for her team. with an arena full of joy, the chant continued throughout, and another goal was scored by moth, leading them into the sunset going into the intermission. 
world end the first round of the chess match and lead the game 2-0 after the first period, even after going to the box three separate times.
all the mighty cheer we heard from the world fans wouldn't last long in the second though, cancelling out any chances and squaring up the game for themselves this time was the canadians who go on to score four goals, all thanks to a complete collapse on defence from world. 
penalties didn't really come into play once again because of the strict coach's, and the period ends with a score of 4-3 for canada. 
the lone goal scorer for the world was jon dickins with his second tag on the scoresheet. swift piled up her second as well. 
for the canadians the 'zky's led the way with 3 points and had 13 total shots between them, which were fueled by a couple excellent nathan ecker long bombs. 

finally now in the third, after a long struggle from falling out of the lead and giving up a horrible penalty in the first minute, team world's olumide anderson strikes back and gets his second tally in the first quarter of the third. on the assist it was elusive piston maicupp who would go on to land a huge hit in the centre ice zone to set up the play for an easy second assist. 
penalties again play no part, and most of the period is filled with dump-ins and strategic moves by all-stars until the final minutes, of course, where we saw a pair of bad penalties given out to the canadians. luckily, they were able to stop the barrage and flex their defensive units too, ending the regulation minutes in a complete deadlock with four goals apiece.

now the fun part, overtime, it wasn't as fun as expected with clean play and a one-sided effort from canada after catching the boost from the penalty kill last period, but we did see the goaltender show up for team world on three separate occasions to get us out of our seats, stopping all of them with his pads to keep his team in it for a chance in the shootout, especially since it was their goalies 55th, 56th and 57th total save. during the commercial break, all you could hear was lovstrom! lovstrom! lovstrom! as the excited world audience prepared themselves for a dangleout, knowing they had the better netminder, stopping 18 more shots during the tiresome effort than the other side. 

they say get rid of the shootout, but we at this studio love it, and in this memory, both sides gave us something to reroll over and over on our feeds for weeks to come.
starting our lovstrom keeps our hearts beating with a nasty glove hand on canada's matthew highmore, following that world's eugene ryanheart tries a slick move but gets steered aside by toddler bobbly, back again, pointing to the crowd, canada's wayne shotzky races in and scores a floater through the legs, reminiscent of the last move to give his team the lead. bobbly stops another, world misses another, and with a final stop by toddly showing his worth to canada, they end the night with the dubyew in a well-fought battle that could have been won and ran away with by either side a few times. 
in conclusion, if the canadians made more opportunities from their draws, they wouldn't have needed extra time, and if the world played a little more cleanly, they would of had more time to score.

 

canada wins 5-4