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S49 Four Star Cup Finals Game 1: MTL @ KEL - charlieconway - 09-12-2019
Ladies and gentlemen...
Welcome to Game 1 of the S49 SMJHL finals!
![[Image: Ny61rYs.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/Ny61rYs.jpg)
Welcome one and all to Prospera Place, home to the Kelowna Knights. In town this evening are the Montreal Militia, who look to come away with a huge road win to start the series.
Kelowna's Road to the Finals
The Kelowna Knights faced off against the St. Louis Scarecrows to start their playoff adventure, and found themselves down 2-1 in the series after the first three. But a stalwart 1st-star Game 4 performance from Tah Puhcheese helped turn the ship around, and two wins after that shredded the Scarecrows to stuffing.
The upstart Lions came to battle in the second round, but this time the Knights were ready from the start. The 2nd seed team took it to the Lions early with three quick wins, and it looked like Lethbridge was dead in the water. A two game rally may have left the Knights wondering if they'd underestimated their opponents, but a tidy Sherbak-led win in game 6 closed the series out and sent the Western Canadian team to the finals.
Montreal's Road to the Finals
You can't say it's been an easy road for the Militia: their first round opponents, the Raiders, were the favourites going into the series, finishing 7 points ahead of Montreal at 3rd place. The two teams took turns winning games, and it didn't seem to matter who had home-ice in the end, as a game 7 Gaspard Boone tally sent them into the second round.
There, they faced the most dominant team in the regular season, the Detroit Falcons. Though the Militia lost 3-2 in overtime in their first game, they stormed back with four straight wins of their own, two in extra time, to stun the odds-on favourite Falcons.
Starting Goalies:
For the Knights, Alexander Thorstrom gets the nod in goal. The Swedish sophomore has a 0.911 save percentage in the playoffs, and looks to improve on those numbers tonight.
Opposite Thorstrom is Montreal's Mike Hunt, who leads all goalies in save percentage this post-season with a rating of 0.916. We'll see if he can maintain that edge against the Knights.
RE: S49 Four Star Cup Finals Game 1: MTL @ KEL - Rich - 09-12-2019
RE: S49 Four Star Cup Finals Game 1: MTL @ KEL - slothfacekilla - 09-12-2019
Let's do this Milita
RE: S49 Four Star Cup Finals Game 1: MTL @ KEL - ACapitalChicago - 09-12-2019
LET'S GOOOOOOO
RE: S49 Four Star Cup Finals Game 1: MTL @ KEL - RaginCajun - 09-12-2019
LET'S GO BOYS !
RE: S49 Four Star Cup Finals Game 1: MTL @ KEL - FuzzSHL - 09-12-2019
The moment we've all been waiting for but never expected. LETS GO
RE: S49 Four Star Cup Finals Game 1: MTL @ KEL - trella - 09-12-2019
Lets do this.
RE: S49 Four Star Cup Finals Game 1: MTL @ KEL - charlieconway - 09-12-2019
The starting lineups tonight:
F: Gaspard Boone, Bobby Lane, Herry Morris IV
D: Kaspars Claude, Olin O'Dowd
F: Josef Novotny, Tah Puhcheese, Raquel Castillo Gutierrez
D: Piotr Horvat, Simon LeBlanc
![[Image: yj8OdUP.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/yj8OdUP.jpg)
And we're off!
Montreal's Gaspard Boone beats Kelowna's Novotny on the draw at center-ice, and the game has officially begun.
RE: S49 Four Star Cup Finals Game 1: MTL @ KEL - slothfacekilla - 09-12-2019
Love the graphics so far charlie
RE: S49 Four Star Cup Finals Game 1: MTL @ KEL - trella - 09-12-2019
09-12-2019, 11:56 PMcharlieconway Wrote: The starting lineups tonight:That’s St. Louis
F: Mika Kandinsky, Nicolaj Muller, Barrett Blackwood
D: Lyle Odelein III, Noah Brusky
F: Josef Novotny, Tah Puhcheese, Raquel Castillo Gutierrez
D: Piotr Horvat, Simon LeBlanc
And we're off!
Montreal's Gaspard Boone beats Kelowna's Novotny on the draw at center-ice, and the game has officially begun.
RE: S49 Four Star Cup Finals Game 1: MTL @ KEL - Naosu - 09-12-2019
RE: S49 Four Star Cup Finals Game 1: MTL @ KEL - slothfacekilla - 09-12-2019
09-12-2019, 11:58 PMcpetrella Wrote:09-12-2019, 11:56 PMcharlieconway Wrote: The starting lineups tonight:That’s St. Louis
F: Mika Kandinsky, Nicolaj Muller, Barrett Blackwood
D: Lyle Odelein III, Noah Brusky
F: Josef Novotny, Tah Puhcheese, Raquel Castillo Gutierrez
D: Piotr Horvat, Simon LeBlanc
And we're off!
Montreal's Gaspard Boone beats Kelowna's Novotny on the draw at center-ice, and the game has officially begun.
The Knights never saw it comin
RE: S49 Four Star Cup Finals Game 1: MTL @ KEL - charlieconway - 09-13-2019
The play is a bit stifled to start as both teams seem to be figuring each other out.
After a couple of minutes, a streaking Joseph Weston makes his way through the neutral zone and past the back-checking Knights forwards. He pulls back and hammers a shot that looks labeled for the gap between Thorstrom's blocker and pad, but...
![[Image: k7jjs3N.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/k7jjs3N.jpg)
The Jason Segel lookalike, Big Fudge, gets in front of it for the Knights. Huge! If he hadn't sacrificed his body for his team, I have no doubt that the puck would have gone in.
A few moments after the play is stopped, you see the Kelowna defender slowly make his way to the bench. But after some congratulatory pats on the back from his teammates, he seems no worse for wear.
RE: S49 Four Star Cup Finals Game 1: MTL @ KEL - ACapitalChicago - 09-13-2019
Quote:a streaking Joseph Weston
My birthday suit is my best jersey tbh
RE: S49 Four Star Cup Finals Game 1: MTL @ KEL - RaginCajun - 09-13-2019
09-13-2019, 12:06 AMACapitalChicago Wrote:Quote:a streaking Joseph Weston
My birthday suit is my best jersey tbh
