Just arrived and picked up the season ticket holder notes. CODY BEACH is one of the refs. He better call it straight and narrow today or it will be a fiery letter to the AHL president!!! Justin Kea (#44) is the other ref.
There are about 40 Griffins fans here. Cossa is in net, as always. The crowd of 6000 or so is really LOUD!!! Gravel and McKeown on D. Ozzy, Svechkov and Tomasino. Troy gets an extended standing O.
GR wins the face off, Ozzy with a big hit on 40! Egor hits 40, then Allison flattened 40 at the Blue line. No fake penalties as yet. Tomasino hit 40, Newpower. Now an Ads penalty for Holding by Kea.
L'Heureux scores on a shorthanded breakaway at 5 minutes. The assists to Cal and ? because the crowd was too loud.
High hit on Gross by 21, no call. Statsney called for Tripping. The GR player was falling down before Statsney got there, so FAKE penalty! GR took a minute to get to the O-zone. Ads killed it and iced it. Troy to the bench, his helmet is loose with 8:16 remaining. Ads cycling the puck, then it hit ref Kea in the skate. Ozzy tripped ar the Blue line and no call. GR intentional offside. The puck was dropped at Center Ice? 65 hit an Ads player in the NE corner well after the whistle and no call. Schaefer knocked 40 on his butt. 48 just elbowed Kemell in the head. It was called Xchecking. Svech over the bar. Didier hits O'Reilly after the whistle, Schaefer hits Didier, no calls. L'Heureux was mugged behind the goal, then he was speared and Beach just looked at it with no call. Beach is a SOB. 1-0 Ads, SOG 14-7 GR.
Period starts with Egor hitting the left post. Then he gets the rebound and shots again. Cossa looked behind for the puck, but it missed to the right of the net. 40 just tried to hit Ozzy in the back with his stick well after the whistle. Ozzy got his number. 26 just checked Beach in the SE corner. 4 hit Ozzy after the whistle and 43 came in behind to hit Ozzy. Ozzy socked him a good one after that! They get Roughing minors. Cossa tripped Statsney and it was called! Now it is 4-on-3 ar 3:56. Ozzy tried to jam and was denied 5-on-4. The SOG are 15-13 GR at 13:41, so the Ads shooting a lot.
Beach calls phony Interference penalty on L'Heureux to the displeasure of the multitude! Ads killed it, then had a player knocked down at the Blue line while the puck was 50 feet away! 65 punches Wilsby in the face, then jumps into his bench. Troy made the Save of the Year and has a few words for Beach! Where are the calls on Grand Rapids? They are back to playing DIRTY again. High hit in the NE corner, no call on GR. Troy saves one with his mask! Ads called for Slashing Luff's stick. Luff took out his mouthguard and said something, but no Unsportsmanlike call like he gave L'Heureux after the goal in Game 2!
GR interfering with the Ads line change for the second time this period! No call on that BS. Shine (65) had Del Gaizo in a headlock next to the Ads goal and Kea calls nothing! Kea is also a SOB!!! GR whining about icing!
The Ads had 2 players in front of Cossa and they were both tripped, no call on that BS! Egor giving Shine the business after the puck hits the safety net. About time that the Ads return the favor with 2 minutes left in period 2. Ozzy was just elbowed near the GR bench and no call. Troy with the save and Berggren tries to trip McKeown with 9.9 left. SOG 13-9 Ads. GR players whining AGAIN. Must be about the rain? Talk, talk, talk.
Period 3. The fans boo GR extra loud. Standing O for the Ads. Ozzy blatantly tripped in front of Beach and no call. That is a penalty 100% of the time when Beach and Kea are not the refs!!! 4 hitting Parsnip, no call. Kemell slashed in the hip and no call. Kemell yelling at Beach. Ufko from the slot, 2-0 Ads! Assists to Del Gaizo and Egor. Goal mouth scramble and GR is panicked. The Ads are checking them everywhere in front of me! Fifteen minutes to go. Kemell smashes Rafferty, then gets the puck and shoots on goal.
Cossa pulled at 2:44. Clock winds down to 2:01. The Ads had the puck in the Ozone but did not get a shot on net. Three misses by the Ads. One hit a skate and nearly went in.
Shut out for Troy!!! The first Ads PO SO in 13 years. The last was by Hellberg in the Bradley Center. Troy was the #1 Star with 30 saves. Cal was the #2 Star. He "assisted" on both goals, he screened Cossa "the Tripper" on Ufko's (1) wrister over the right shoulder.
Games on June 4, 6 and 8 here at 7, 7, and 6 PM respectively.
HC for GR was just ejected by Beach before the handshake line started!
The attendance was 7846 very loud fans during the entire game. On to Coachella Valley for the WC championship, just like last season. Kevin Gravel says that the team looks forward to playing them again!
The PIMs were 14 for GR and 12 for the Ads. The HC doesn't show up, but Beach gave him the thumb and told him to "get off the ice". Cossa should have a second penalty for Tripping
