Post by bonavista on Apr 1, 2024 5:43:28 GMT -7
Game 1 Bonavista @ Houston
Games starts out a feeling out process by both teams with not much happening until Power gets the first chance of the game and converts from the point to put Houston up 1 at the 6 minute mark. Houston continues to control portions of the play and Nurse scores to put the team up 2 at 12:48. Fowler takes an ill advised tripping penalty 2 minutes later sending Houston off to their 2nd powerplay. Houston bumbles around the play without any real chances but then Montadour tries to do too much on his own and coughs the puck up at the blueline leaving Smith to skate in all alone on a breakaway and converts to bring the deficit to 1. Macelli evens the score at 2 just as time expires resulting in a video review to make sure the puck crossed the line in time.
Period 2 sees the visitors control the early portion of the game but Houston scores first at 6:24 from Zacha, however O'Reilly evens it back up 2 minutes later. at 10:48 Houston gets caught trying to be to cute on the blueline again and gives up another breakaway this time to Strome who scores to give Bonavista their first lead. However these seemed to wake up the home side as they started to take over with Jarnkrok making a statement shift scoring twice at 15:12 and 16:00 to take the home team into the break up 4-3
Period 3 is a more muted affair with only one chance for each team, both of which were converted. Sissons at 4:24 and Ferraro at 10:00. the only notable result is when Bonavista pulls their goalie in the end stages of the game, Foligno somehow slips out on to the ice and starts a fight with Zadorov and also gets an extra 10 for actions. Sadly Bonavista is unable to convert
Bonavista 5 (37 shots, 10 hard) @ Houston 6 (43 shots, 6 hard)
If Markstrom plays even close to his percentage i win this game
Game 2 Houston at Bonavista
Game starts badly for Houston with Meier taking a penalty just 1:36 into the game, Bonavista is unable to convert but his next shift after coming out of the box he again takes another penalty at 4:48 leading to Bonavista's second powerplay. Houston picks up the puck after a dump in, plays it up the board to the winger but when he tries to clear his stick snaps in half leaving Strome all the time in the world to pickup the puck walk in and roof it past a stunned Saros to give the home team a 1-0 lead. The rest of the period is a fairly even back and forth with the shot totals being fairly close to each other. What is not close is the quality of those chances. Houston puts 15 pucks towards the net but 8 of them are high quality chances but Markstrom plays the best period of his entire career and somehow manages to stop all of them while Bonavista only has 3 more chances but manages to convert one of those by Konecny at 16:24 to squeeze out a 2-0 lead at the break.
Period 2 starts out badly for the home team with Keller getting 5 for boarding, but somehow does not get the ejection and just barely manages to control himself to not get an extra 10 as he berates the ref for a bad call. Pettersson immediately converts just 24 seconds into the powerplay, but Bonavista battens down the hatches and prevent any more goals. The rest of the period sees much of the same story as the first. play is overall even except for the quality of the chances. Bonavista has 2 chances and scores on 1 of them (O'Reilly) which Houston as 5, also scoring on 1 of them (Eberles). to make things 3-2 for Bonavista going into the 3rd.
Period 3 is exactly the same except Markstrom has the wheels fall off and reverts back to form for the season. Bonavista has 4 quality chances but cant beat Saros, while Houston has 5 leading to 5 unanswered goals in the period for the visitors (Jarnkrok, Pettersson, Andersson, Nyquist, Power) to skate to the win
Houston 7 (46 shots, 18 hard) @ Bonavista 3 (19 shots, 10 hard)
With the way Chuck was rolling i had no right being in this game for as long as I was.
Games starts out a feeling out process by both teams with not much happening until Power gets the first chance of the game and converts from the point to put Houston up 1 at the 6 minute mark. Houston continues to control portions of the play and Nurse scores to put the team up 2 at 12:48. Fowler takes an ill advised tripping penalty 2 minutes later sending Houston off to their 2nd powerplay. Houston bumbles around the play without any real chances but then Montadour tries to do too much on his own and coughs the puck up at the blueline leaving Smith to skate in all alone on a breakaway and converts to bring the deficit to 1. Macelli evens the score at 2 just as time expires resulting in a video review to make sure the puck crossed the line in time.
Period 2 sees the visitors control the early portion of the game but Houston scores first at 6:24 from Zacha, however O'Reilly evens it back up 2 minutes later. at 10:48 Houston gets caught trying to be to cute on the blueline again and gives up another breakaway this time to Strome who scores to give Bonavista their first lead. However these seemed to wake up the home side as they started to take over with Jarnkrok making a statement shift scoring twice at 15:12 and 16:00 to take the home team into the break up 4-3
Period 3 is a more muted affair with only one chance for each team, both of which were converted. Sissons at 4:24 and Ferraro at 10:00. the only notable result is when Bonavista pulls their goalie in the end stages of the game, Foligno somehow slips out on to the ice and starts a fight with Zadorov and also gets an extra 10 for actions. Sadly Bonavista is unable to convert
Bonavista 5 (37 shots, 10 hard) @ Houston 6 (43 shots, 6 hard)
If Markstrom plays even close to his percentage i win this game
Game 2 Houston at Bonavista
Game starts badly for Houston with Meier taking a penalty just 1:36 into the game, Bonavista is unable to convert but his next shift after coming out of the box he again takes another penalty at 4:48 leading to Bonavista's second powerplay. Houston picks up the puck after a dump in, plays it up the board to the winger but when he tries to clear his stick snaps in half leaving Strome all the time in the world to pickup the puck walk in and roof it past a stunned Saros to give the home team a 1-0 lead. The rest of the period is a fairly even back and forth with the shot totals being fairly close to each other. What is not close is the quality of those chances. Houston puts 15 pucks towards the net but 8 of them are high quality chances but Markstrom plays the best period of his entire career and somehow manages to stop all of them while Bonavista only has 3 more chances but manages to convert one of those by Konecny at 16:24 to squeeze out a 2-0 lead at the break.
Period 2 starts out badly for the home team with Keller getting 5 for boarding, but somehow does not get the ejection and just barely manages to control himself to not get an extra 10 as he berates the ref for a bad call. Pettersson immediately converts just 24 seconds into the powerplay, but Bonavista battens down the hatches and prevent any more goals. The rest of the period sees much of the same story as the first. play is overall even except for the quality of the chances. Bonavista has 2 chances and scores on 1 of them (O'Reilly) which Houston as 5, also scoring on 1 of them (Eberles). to make things 3-2 for Bonavista going into the 3rd.
Period 3 is exactly the same except Markstrom has the wheels fall off and reverts back to form for the season. Bonavista has 4 quality chances but cant beat Saros, while Houston has 5 leading to 5 unanswered goals in the period for the visitors (Jarnkrok, Pettersson, Andersson, Nyquist, Power) to skate to the win
Houston 7 (46 shots, 18 hard) @ Bonavista 3 (19 shots, 10 hard)
With the way Chuck was rolling i had no right being in this game for as long as I was.
