David Vent just destroyed Steven Moyer! He's dead, absolutely dead! Limbs thrown through the air, head blown clean off!
Ok, maybe that's overkill. But it was a great hit, and after a couple of tense moments, Moyer is helped back to his feet by San Francisco training staff.
The Pride bench looks vengeful but the coaching staff remind them what's on the line, and the talk seems to calm some nerves.
Former SMJHL star Bo Kane streaks into the Manhattan zone with his head on a swivel, determined not to be made a meal of by one of many Rage heavy hitters. He hits an awkward off-balance shot that looks menacing but doesn't get past a sliding Derek Bohne Jr.
The loose puck is picked up by Filip Zadina, who looks to add to his earlier tally and put his team ahead late...
03-06-2020, 12:56 PM(This post was last modified: 03-06-2020, 12:57 PM by charlieconway.)
And it's in!
What a back breaker.
With less than six minutes left in game 2, the Pride have gone ahead on Filip Zadina's second goal of the night.
The shot was a clever one; the follow through suggested a high target, but it never really gained height off the ice, and the Manhattan goalie wasn't set with his pads to keep the bottom part of the net covered.
Peter Larson hangs his head and swears, knowing full well he should've had that one. You have to feel for him, folks.
Manhattan 1 - 2 San Francisco
3. San Francisco Pride , Filip Zadina 2 (Bo Kane 1, Ray Bork 10) at 14:10
The San Francisco bench is full of delighted faces and fist bumps.
The Manhattan bench looks dejected.
But the coaches bark orders and remind their players that there's still time on the clock. Still time for another goal to change the game, one way or another.
The Rage return to the ice in a fury. They immediately press into the San Francisco zone and refuse to let up.
Two separate failed clearing attempts lead to Alex Winters having a wide-open slot to shoot from, and before he can get the shot off, he's hooked by Jonas Larsen.
The play is blown dead, and Manhattan is presented with the perfect opportunity to tie the game.
Austin Roenick seems like a man on a mission. He receives the puck from Jax Aittokallio off the face-off, and dances around a San Francisco defender to open ice. A wrister misses the net, but Aittokallio retrieves the puck and sends it back to Roenick for a do-over.
The puck does not reach the net; Ray Bork kneels in front of it to keep it away from his goalkeeper.
Craig Finley picks up the loose puck... but can't get it past Chris Partridge, who swallows it up without a rebound.
A helpless Peter Larson can do nothing but watch from the bench as his teammates try and tie the game in the last two minutes.
Dominic Montgomery is hit by Austin Roenick and loses the puck to Rainbow Dash, who sweeps into the San Francisco end and waits for teammates to arrive.
Dash's shot misses the net, but there's no time to show frustration, as an opportunistic Bo Kane retrieves the puck and gets ready to take a long-distance shot on Manhattan's unguarded net.
There's a crunch! Kane was so focused on clearing the puck that he didn't see Anastasia O'Koivu coming. The Pride forward is knocked down, and O'Koivu makes room for herself before flipping the puck to a wide open Reginald MacIntyre at the point.
He shoots!
But the shot is wide. It takes a strange bounce off the boards, directly to David Vent, who can barely believe his luck. He shoots!
Jax Aittokallio, well aware of the importance of the draw, wins his 14th and final face-off of the night.
The Rage pass the puck around with two purposes in mind: one, to unwind the tight, desperate defense that San Francisco lays out in their own zone; two, to ensure that any shot they take will not lead to a Pride possession and then clear.
With forty seconds remaining, Aittokallio is knocked off the puck by Ray Bork, but Rainbow Dash sneaks in and steals the puck back from the Pride defenseman.
Dash shoots!
Chris Partridge gets a stick on it, but the rebound flies off into the corner. There's a scrum that lasts ten seconds in real time but must feel like twenty minutes to the players on the ice and the crowd in the stands.
Richard Metcalf Jr. receives a quick pass, and with twenty seconds left sends the puck on net.
Barret McCarthy gets in front of it. The puck is loose, but still in the zone. Austin Roenick races to the puck.
He gathers it, and with seven seconds left in the period, sends perhaps the fastest shot of the evening on net.
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