It is the Texas Stars again tonight. Milwaukee is 6 points ahead of them. Cody Hodgson is wearing #11 in the warm up session for the Ads. The UW Badger band is here. On a sad note, so is ref Jordan Deckard (#14). I hope that he calls penalties on BOTH teams and not just the Admirals, like he did last night. My daughter hopes that he swallows his whistle and does not call any penalties. I will settle for Deckard just swallowing his whistle and choking.
Askarov is in net again. Kemell is not playing. Angello with a crushing hit on #2, Artem Grushnikov. He got up surprisingly fast. Svechkov shot the puck over the crossbar when Poirier was down and mostly out of the crease. That should have been a goal. Gicewicz called for Interference by Deckard and the Ads seem angry about the call 6 minutes into the game. Askarov wanted an offside call and did not get it. Twelve seconds left in the penalty. Texas gets 2 for Hooking from Ref Brendan Schreider (#20). (Did I call this or what!) Nobody scored and 9 minutes remain.
L'Heureux (10) scored with an assist to Jankowski (27). Weatherby (7) knocked the puck loose in the SW corner, recovered it, and shot it over Poirier's left leg pad to make it 2-0. Schaefer (6) got an assist. Team Captain Curtis McKenzie played like a goon for the last 10 seconds of the period. He wanted to fight Stastney in the NW corner after the period ended. Pretty brave for somebody 6'2" to go after a 5'11" guy. Curtis is a piece of trash and a dirty player! My wife just asked why no penalties were called. The SOG were 13 each.
Karl Taylor has 180 wins as Admirals coach, 3rd on the all time list. I will guess that Phil Witliff is #1 with about 500 wins.
In period 2, Texas had too many men, not called, just like 3 times last night. Stastney (4) scored on a snipe, like last night. Assists to McKeown and Svechkov. Good for Spencer, the Stars have been picking on him. Texas with a PPG after an iffy Holding call on Svechkov by Deckard. If that was Holding, then Texas did that 10 times last night and Mr Loser NEVER called one.
Milwaukee 3, Texas and Deckard 1, about 7 minutes into period 2. Texas scored a goal without Deckard help to make it 3-2Ads. Now 4-2 after a Frosty Four goal by Schaefer (2) with an assist to somebody. Texas scored over Askarov's glove to make it 4-3 Ads. Penalty on Del Gaizo for crosschecking.The Texas player took a dive! Schreider called that one. Look for Marc to be looking for that guy, Berard. L'Heureux went to the box for breathing. Embellishment, Unsportsmanlike, Misconduct and a Gamer. That was ref #20. The other guy got 2 minutes for Cross Checking. There was along round of "Refs you Suck" chants. Maybe a minute long.
The Refs have it in for L'Heureux! He got mugged a few times last night and nothing was called. His neck was bent the wrong way one time and even that was not called.
These refs better call period 3 straight or everybody but the Girl Scouts will be after them!
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