Bobcats Bounce Bucks 13 - 6
                                                                                                                                                                                    story and photos by Ian Gibson        

Even this type of defence could not stem the tide of thirteen goals
 

Friday October 9, 2009 was not a good day for the Brock Bucks as they crumbled under the onslaught of the ever buzzing Bobcats who out shot the Bucls 54 to 27. The cats came out skating hard in the first period as did the Bucks.  The bucks managed to find a couple of quick goals at the end of the period to head to the dressing room with a three/three tie. Coach Leonard replaced goal tender Perry with Christie at the 3:08 mark immediately after the Bucks scored their 3rd goal.

The second period found the cats licking their wounds somewhat, however they managed to stand their ground. With 14 seconds to go and the score tied five all, the Captain #16 Matt Rogers found the back of the net with what is termed a very timely moral lifting goal to give the Cats the lead heading into the third.

The third period was all Cats as they 'lit up the Bucks goalie' no less than seven times with the Bucks responding once in what they must have felt was a long twenty minutes.  The Bucks seemed to run out of gas and our boys just kept on trucking including two short handed goals.

The outstanding players where hard to pick this game due to the fast flying forwards and excellent defensive play, however I found #15 Grant VanSlembrouck and #21 Edward Sedivy gave it their best for the Bobcats.  No one in particular stood out for the Bucks, surprizingly the replacement goalie # 31 Pavlo Stepanenko, who really had no defence keeping the doorstep clean for him, made a brilliant stop and was well positioned regardless of the fact that they scored 5 times on him, also #17 Stanislav Shcherbakov was instrumental in three of the Bucks six goals.

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