Shout outs to everyone. I think I texted everyone who kept me informed all the days I could not go. I hope that I lived up to the expectations.
Today there was alot of switching back and forth between rinks. It made the time go much faster so that they didn't have to wait for the zamboni to finish.
Today's scrimmage was very high tempo and physical. There were several hits that left you holding your breath one orange team player went over the boards into the laps of his fellow orange teammates (sorry I didn't catch the #) and Mike Ratchuk was taken down pretty heavily by Claude Giroux. The later hit Giroux went and said something nice in the way of sorry dude to Ratchuk at the next stoppage.
David Laliberte fought and was ejected from today's game. This was a loss in a respect as his line with Freddie Cabana and Nate Raduns was just stellar and clearly the top line for the Orange team. David was replaced with pat Maroon who filled in and took over right were Laliberte left off.
Not to be left off this report was the black team top line of Matsumoto, JVR and Nodl. they scored right off the opening faceoff and then again about 2 min later. This line was hot and extremely dominant. Orange caught on and had some success in shutting them down.
Rushing D men Ryan Parent and Mike Ratchuk both were extremely involved in the offensive rush. Yet it was Chad Anderson that had the blister shot that became a goal.
I don't think I can convey in words the intensity that I saw in today's game.
I will let my pictures do what they can.
The black team won 6-5.
Here is the Roster to help you through
No. Pos. PLAYER
61 C Beaulieu, Josh
51 C Cabana, Frederik
46 C Kalinski, Jon
68 C Matsumoto, Jonathan
36 C Powe, Darroll
60 C Raduns, Nate
63 C Rinaldo, Zac
52 L Clackson, Matt
59 L Klotz, Garrett
62 L Maroon, Patrick
10 L vanRiemsdyk, James
53 R Bellamy, Rob
27 R Downie, Steve
56 R Giroux, Claude
47 R Kempe, Mario
57 R Laliberte, David
42 R Lukacevic, Ned
41 R Nodl, Andreas
65 R Roberts, Scott
69 D Anderson, Chad
49 D Anderson, RJ
58 D Bartulis, Oskars
66 D Bourdon, Marc-Andre
71 D DeSantis, Jason
72 D Marshall, Kevin
77 D Parent, Ryan
38 D Ramholt, Tim
55 D Ratchuk, Mike
26 D Sbisa, Luca
64 D Smith, Marcus
73 D Zarb, Chris
70 G DeSerres, Jacob
35 G Duchesne, Jeremy
30 G Eriksson, Joacim
67 G Phillips, Brad
33 G Teslak, Michael-Lee
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Also a shout out to the First Hockey buzzard tailgate at the Wachovia Center. This will be before the 11/8 game vs Tampa Bay. Please PM to Orangeandblack18 or Forever Flyer16 with your name and email address as well as the # of people attending with you.