VHL This Week (March 15, 2015)

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VHL This Week

Season 42 Edition 3

 

Welcome to the third edition of Season 42's VHL This Week! The regular season is more than halfway in the books and there's still plenty of competition right now with only a few points separating playoff teams from the lottery teams. As is natural at this point in the season, the league has been relatively quiet but look for that to change with the trade deadline looming quickly ahead.

Announcements

 

Make sure to check out Edition 232 of the VHL Magazine!

 

The Season 41 player card set has been released - take a look at your player page to see yours!

Game Discussion
 

This week we'll take a look at a matchup between two North American Conference foes. This was an exciting one between the Americans and Bears that New York very well may have taken too lightly, at least initially. Only eighteen seconds into the game, A.C. Savage scored the first goal of the game after putting away his own rebound to give his Bears an early one goal lead. While the Americans seemed to wake up after the early deficit, Seattle didn't let up and after going on the powerplay, Phil Villeneuve picked up his second assist on Brady Stropko's 29th goal of the season to give the Bears a two goal lead with eight minutes to go in the period. Called the worst lead in hockey for a reason, though, it took just a minute and a half for a Christopher Klose shot find its way past Niklaus Mikaelson to cut the Americans' deficit in half. Gaining momentum from the goal, New York pushed hard and began to control the game, keeping the puck in the Seattle zone. Within four minutes of their first goal, star center Tom Slaughter tied the game up at two before heading into the first intermission. The second period was played far tighter than the first, with both teams doing everything in their power to limit their opponents' scoring changes. But it did not take long, however, for the Americans to take the 3-2 lead. Just over six minutes into the period, Conner Low pick up his 32nd goal of the season to put his team ahead, hopefully for good. The defensive battle continued as the two teams would be held off the scoreboard for the remainder of the period, entering the third with the Americans up by one. While New York did a solid job of keeping Seattle in check, Jakub Rhinehart picked up a shot blocked by the Americans and buried it home to tie the game about halfway through the final frame of regulation. Despite strong chances, neither team could finish the game off in regulation. As the game had been played since the second period, neither team was willing to give up anything in overtime, with a total of just three shots before the buzzer sounded for the shootout. After Brady Stropko was stopped by Brick Wahl with the first penalty shot of the game, four straight goals were scored before Niklaus Mikaelson shut down Tom Slaughter to force sudden death. The win was clinched by New York defenseman Matt Bentley, who scored in the first sudden death round.

 

TPE Earning

Head to the VHL Magazine, where all you have to do is select a series of numbers to win free player store cash or TPE! More details can be found in the magazine and make sure to check back each week to see if you've won!

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[eaglesfan036 4,603]

Bentley 2 gud

[Phil 5,119]

Yea, that was a good match. Nice recap 94G!