05/31/2012 ****View this online at: http://www.lopatka.net/Wags41/ **** Volume 3, Issue 6

The rematch turned out to be a thriller that was not decided until the last minute of the game.  Gary "The Inhibiter" Hibbler and Chris "Mad Man" Murzyn  teamed up to set up Kyle "Killer" Sandowski who scored a power play goal that gave us an early lead just 2 and a half minutes into the game. Killer made it 2-0 half way through the first period with an assist from Vic or Nic (I can't read Ed's handwriting) Kakruwski.  That 2 goal lead only lasted less than a minute when Eaton scored to make it 2-1.  Handsome Rancic turned Killer's only pass of the game into a 3-1 lead in the closing minutes of the first period.  Nineteen seconds into the second period, Eaton cut our comfortable lead to 3-2. Killer got his hat trick a minute later when he was set up by Matt Swastek and Rancic. That 4-2 lead felt good until Ed suffered a bad 8 seconds that started with 3:23 left to play in the second period when Turner scored on a deflection. On the ensuing face off, Ed came out to play a lose puck that ended up in the net at the 3:31 mark. Ed was not rattled because he had to come up with 2 great saves in the next 2 minutes. The game stayed 4 to 4 as Ed kicked out every shot for the rest of the game.  He was credited with 33 saves.  We had to kill a 5 on 3 penalty for almost a minute when Rancic got called for a hook and Ian Brady followed him into the box for holding. Once we killed those penalties off, It looked like we were headed for a 4-4 tie until Kevin "Smooth as" Glass set up Sandowski the Seal Killer for his 4th goal! There was only 44 seconds left to play when Kyle scored that game winner.  Rancic scored an empty net goal from center ice with .04/100 of a second left to play.  That goal pushed the Seals over their tolerance level, so they got uglier. 

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