3 Wins and 19 Goals Later... 1st Place
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written by:Dave O - Kamloops Storm Writter
2007-01-29
2007-01-16
Storm Blows Away Weekend Competion
Posse Slumps in the Saddle while Grizzlies go into Hibernation
Kamloops at Revelstoke - Jan 9, 2007
It was a great week for the Kamloops Storm. After being soundly shut out by the Spokane Braves (3-0) on their last home outing, Kamloops faced the task of a home and home with the Revelstoke Grizzlies who were tinkering with 1st place in the Okanagan-Shuswap division.
First up was a trip to Revelstoke on Jan 9 which saw Kamloops come from behind in the 3rd period on late goals by Austin Goode and Jassi Sangha to squeek out at 4-3 win. Revelstoke had defeated Kamloops twice before Xmas so revenge in the Revelstoke Forum was sweet. Sangha also had a goal in the 2nd period, as did Anthony Collins.
It appears that Kamloops dominated the game with a 60-44 shot differential which left both goaltenders busier than a one armed paper hanger. Kamloops ran into big penalty trouble in the 2nd period taking 6 penalties but held the Grizzlies to one power-play goal and scored a short handed marker (Sangha) to close the gap.
Chance Fenner was in the box late in the game when Collins tied the scored 3-3 and with 1:30 left in the period Sangha popped his second from Lundy Treneman and Joel Leonard to capture the win and earn 1st star status. (see boxscore here)
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Kamloops vs Princeton - Jan 12, 2007
On Friday night the much improved Princeton Posse were in town taking on the Storm. After a quiet 1st period for both teams Sean Carr of Princeton took advantage of a Sangha hooking call carried over from the 1st period and beat goaltender Anthony Manfredi for the opening goal of the game. Just over a minute later Austin Goode rapped in the tieing goal from Collins and David Osborne.
Later in the 2nd period Ryan Bullock scored his team leading 25th goal on the power play from Paul Riddell and Joel Leonard to put Kamloops ahead to stay. Paul Riddell finished off the scoring in the 3rd period with a tally from Jacob Young and Trevor Torbolm.
David Osborne had a particularly strong game showing both skill and leadership at both ends of the ice, good enough to earn 1st Star honours. Jacob Young also had a strong performance and ended up as 2nd star while Eric Galbraith was Princeton's best player and earned the 3rd star.
Kamloops outshot Princeton 39-30. Goaltenders Anthony Manfredi (Kam) and Tanner Sheridan (Princeton) had strong games with Sheridan coming up with some particularly difficult saves.
(see boxscore here)
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The Rematch - Kamloops vs Revelstoke - Jan 14, 2007
The Grizzlies wandered into the Mac Park Sports Centre looking for revenge but in the end it was their lack of discipline that sent them home into hibernation as the Storm slapped them with 6 power play markers and rolled to a 7-2 win.
Revelstoke opened up the scoring just past half way through the 1st period when Vincien Scott took a slick feed from Chance Fenner and wisked the puck past Anthony Manfredi. Then Revelstoke got into penalty trouble and the Storm were all over them.
First, on Cody Inkster's 2nd hooking call of the game, Jassi Sangha popped his first of two goals to tie the game at 1. Then, just 15 seconds later, Brendon Madlung took a holding call and the Storm were back on the PP. It took Austin Goode all of 19 seconds to pop Kamloops second pp tally of the period (from Lundy Treneman and Justin Giroux) to put Kamloops ahead to stay.
Jake Young got Kamloops it's only even strength goal early in the 2nd period on some hard work by Giroux and Todd Kennedy to take a 3-1 lead. Revelstoke battled back with an even strength goal of their own by Madlung. After that Kamloops took advantage of another two power-play opportunities and cashed in on goals by Jassi Sangha and Anthony Collins.
Revelstoke continued its wayward ways and the Storm capitalized on another 2 opportunities in the 3rd period (Austin Goode and Joel Leonard) to round out the scoring.
The game wasn't without it's animosity as there were 4 separate tussles during the game.
Darren Mann showed well against a larger Derek Yuskiw in the 2nd period. Justin Giroux had a great bout with Morgan Bell early in the 3rd. John Spence took on Scott Karwandy in a spirited match where Karwandy ended up on top. Jassi Sangha, who had just about enough after a hit from behind by Tyson Baulkham, lost his cool and pummeled Baulkham on the ice and then fought Brent Meissinger to end his night in the dressing room.
Kamloops was great on the penalty kill and kept Revelstoke frustrated all evening. Anthony Manfredi made all the saves he needed to to post the win.
3 Stars - Joel Leonard (1G-2A), Anthony Collins (1G-2A) and Austin Goode (2G-1A).
Coach Bryant Perrier may be forced to sit out the upcoming game against the Princeton Posse after having his team involved in 4 fights during the game. Coach Brad Fox of Revelstoke will probably be subject to the same fate.
(see boxscores here)
next game: Wed Jan 17 at Princeton (oh no, another rematch!)
written by Dave Ouellette, Kamloops Storm Writer
Kamloops at Revelstoke - Jan 9, 2007
It was a great week for the Kamloops Storm. After being soundly shut out by the Spokane Braves (3-0) on their last home outing, Kamloops faced the task of a home and home with the Revelstoke Grizzlies who were tinkering with 1st place in the Okanagan-Shuswap division.
First up was a trip to Revelstoke on Jan 9 which saw Kamloops come from behind in the 3rd period on late goals by Austin Goode and Jassi Sangha to squeek out at 4-3 win. Revelstoke had defeated Kamloops twice before Xmas so revenge in the Revelstoke Forum was sweet. Sangha also had a goal in the 2nd period, as did Anthony Collins.
It appears that Kamloops dominated the game with a 60-44 shot differential which left both goaltenders busier than a one armed paper hanger. Kamloops ran into big penalty trouble in the 2nd period taking 6 penalties but held the Grizzlies to one power-play goal and scored a short handed marker (Sangha) to close the gap.
Chance Fenner was in the box late in the game when Collins tied the scored 3-3 and with 1:30 left in the period Sangha popped his second from Lundy Treneman and Joel Leonard to capture the win and earn 1st star status. (see boxscore here)
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Kamloops vs Princeton - Jan 12, 2007
On Friday night the much improved Princeton Posse were in town taking on the Storm. After a quiet 1st period for both teams Sean Carr of Princeton took advantage of a Sangha hooking call carried over from the 1st period and beat goaltender Anthony Manfredi for the opening goal of the game. Just over a minute later Austin Goode rapped in the tieing goal from Collins and David Osborne.
Later in the 2nd period Ryan Bullock scored his team leading 25th goal on the power play from Paul Riddell and Joel Leonard to put Kamloops ahead to stay. Paul Riddell finished off the scoring in the 3rd period with a tally from Jacob Young and Trevor Torbolm.
David Osborne had a particularly strong game showing both skill and leadership at both ends of the ice, good enough to earn 1st Star honours. Jacob Young also had a strong performance and ended up as 2nd star while Eric Galbraith was Princeton's best player and earned the 3rd star.
Kamloops outshot Princeton 39-30. Goaltenders Anthony Manfredi (Kam) and Tanner Sheridan (Princeton) had strong games with Sheridan coming up with some particularly difficult saves.
(see boxscore here)
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The Rematch - Kamloops vs Revelstoke - Jan 14, 2007
The Grizzlies wandered into the Mac Park Sports Centre looking for revenge but in the end it was their lack of discipline that sent them home into hibernation as the Storm slapped them with 6 power play markers and rolled to a 7-2 win.
Revelstoke opened up the scoring just past half way through the 1st period when Vincien Scott took a slick feed from Chance Fenner and wisked the puck past Anthony Manfredi. Then Revelstoke got into penalty trouble and the Storm were all over them.
First, on Cody Inkster's 2nd hooking call of the game, Jassi Sangha popped his first of two goals to tie the game at 1. Then, just 15 seconds later, Brendon Madlung took a holding call and the Storm were back on the PP. It took Austin Goode all of 19 seconds to pop Kamloops second pp tally of the period (from Lundy Treneman and Justin Giroux) to put Kamloops ahead to stay.
Jake Young got Kamloops it's only even strength goal early in the 2nd period on some hard work by Giroux and Todd Kennedy to take a 3-1 lead. Revelstoke battled back with an even strength goal of their own by Madlung. After that Kamloops took advantage of another two power-play opportunities and cashed in on goals by Jassi Sangha and Anthony Collins.
Revelstoke continued its wayward ways and the Storm capitalized on another 2 opportunities in the 3rd period (Austin Goode and Joel Leonard) to round out the scoring.
The game wasn't without it's animosity as there were 4 separate tussles during the game.
Darren Mann showed well against a larger Derek Yuskiw in the 2nd period. Justin Giroux had a great bout with Morgan Bell early in the 3rd. John Spence took on Scott Karwandy in a spirited match where Karwandy ended up on top. Jassi Sangha, who had just about enough after a hit from behind by Tyson Baulkham, lost his cool and pummeled Baulkham on the ice and then fought Brent Meissinger to end his night in the dressing room.
Kamloops was great on the penalty kill and kept Revelstoke frustrated all evening. Anthony Manfredi made all the saves he needed to to post the win.
3 Stars - Joel Leonard (1G-2A), Anthony Collins (1G-2A) and Austin Goode (2G-1A).
Coach Bryant Perrier may be forced to sit out the upcoming game against the Princeton Posse after having his team involved in 4 fights during the game. Coach Brad Fox of Revelstoke will probably be subject to the same fate.
(see boxscores here)
next game: Wed Jan 17 at Princeton (oh no, another rematch!)
written by Dave Ouellette, Kamloops Storm Writer
2007-01-07
Braves Weather the Storm
Greenwell is full marks for Shutout
The Kamloops Storm, feisty after their come from behind win on Friday night, came on strong early but fizzled in the end to drop a 3-0 lightly entertaining game on Saturday night at the Mac Island SportPlex. The Storm outshot the Spokane Braves 34 - 21 but just couldn't solve goaltender Jason Greenwell.
Greenwell was called upon to be brilliant in every period and was equal to the task. The Kamloops shooter played right into his strengths, testing him in the bottom corners where the butterfly pad save flashed to save against certain goals. When he wasn't called on to make the pad save, Greenwell covered his angles well and forced the Storm shooter to hit him in the belly.
Spokane looked particularly listless in the first period. They played methodical but without a whole lot of jump. Kamloops seemed to have some carryover zip from the night before and it looked like it could be a long night for Spokane.
Kamloops had 10 powerplay opportunities to Spokane's 5 and were not able to score. The Spokane defense played well in keeping the Kamloops shooters to the outside and sacrificed themselves by blocking shot after shot. The actual shots on net were not indicitive of the play. Kamloops dominated much more than the stats revealed.
In the 3rd period, after killing off a 4 min. minor to Alex Lelwica for spearing, tough guy David Manzo picked up a rebound in front of Manfredi and rifled in Spokane's first and winning goal on the power play. Just over a minute later, Johnny Clark showed flashes of brilliance on the rush, drawing a couple of Kamloops players to himself and finding a wide open Evan Witt who scored with a quick wrister up high over Manfredi's blocker.
Alex Lelwica closed out the scoring with 5:10 remaining when he picked up a rebound on a shot from Brandon Lassiter.
Kamloops sits in the middle of the pack (3rd place) in the Okanagan Shuswap Division and returns to action this Tuesday when the travel to Revelstoke to face the first place Grizzlies.
Next home game and broadcast will be on Friday Jan 12th against division rivals Princeton at 7:30.
DaveO - KamloopsStormWriter
2007-01-06
Thunder feels the Storm
Treneman turns in Season Best Performance
After 2 full weeks off the Kamloops Storm hit the ice Friday night against the Creston Thundercats and for the first 2 periods it wasn't pretty.
After a lacklustre 1st period where both teams showed signs of turkey rust, Brandon Astle of the Thundercats stole a sloppy pass at his own blueline and raced down the ice untouched to deke out a waiting Brennan Jones to score short-handed and take a 1-0 lead.
Shortly after, Kamloops was on another power-play and Justin Giroux let a slapper go from the blueline that beat a solid Wade Waters (Creston goaltender) to tie the score 1-1.
Less than 1 minute later Creston took advantage of their powerplay and Matt Miller was johnny-on-the-spot to rap in a shot close in on Brennan Jones. Sloppy play continued on Kamloops part and with 2:14 left in the 2nd, Graham Telford took advantage of another weak effort at the Creston blueline as he waltzed in untouched on Jones and slipped the puck through his legs to take a solid 3-1 lead going into the 3rd period.
Like many teams that visit the olympic ice at McArthur Island the first time, the 3rd period creeps up on them and they hit the wall. The Storm was clearly the better skating club in the 3rd period and caused Creston to take a series of penalties that proved fatal in the end.
Cody Kightley slapped in his first goal of the season from the blueline on the power play to close the gap to 3-2. Then Lundy Treneman turned on the afterburners.
In a span of 4 minutes and 52 second Treneman scored 3 even strengths goals to pull Kamloops ahead to stay. His first was a rebound from a brilliant effort by Anthony Collins. His second goal, only 2:10 after his first was a nice shot from between the circles on a screened Wade Waters. His 3rd and Kamloops 5th, was again a slick passing play that included Jake Young and Austin Goode. Young probably could have buried it himself but as an unselfish leader he passed it to Treneman for his easiest goal of the night.
Joel Leonard completed the scoring on the power play at 15:49 of the period and Kamloops waltzed away with its 18 win of the season.
3 Stars - Treneman, Leonard and Creston goaltender Wade Waters. Waters was my pick for 1st star going into the 3rd but his team's collapse clouded his brilliant effort between the pipes.
David Osborne and Mike Hanes both had particularly strong games on defence as they laid out a number of crushing hits and were both involved in the offensive part of the game. Osborne ended up with one assist for his efforts.
Tonight the Storm take on Spokane at 7:30 at the Mac Park Sports Centre. See you there.
You can check out the Box Scores here.
Note: again the broadcast was interupted by poor line communication. It's something that we can't do anything about at our end and hopefully the bugs can get ironed out. Thanks to anyone that phoned in to let us know that the broadcast went off air.
After 2 full weeks off the Kamloops Storm hit the ice Friday night against the Creston Thundercats and for the first 2 periods it wasn't pretty.
After a lacklustre 1st period where both teams showed signs of turkey rust, Brandon Astle of the Thundercats stole a sloppy pass at his own blueline and raced down the ice untouched to deke out a waiting Brennan Jones to score short-handed and take a 1-0 lead.
Shortly after, Kamloops was on another power-play and Justin Giroux let a slapper go from the blueline that beat a solid Wade Waters (Creston goaltender) to tie the score 1-1.
Less than 1 minute later Creston took advantage of their powerplay and Matt Miller was johnny-on-the-spot to rap in a shot close in on Brennan Jones. Sloppy play continued on Kamloops part and with 2:14 left in the 2nd, Graham Telford took advantage of another weak effort at the Creston blueline as he waltzed in untouched on Jones and slipped the puck through his legs to take a solid 3-1 lead going into the 3rd period.
Like many teams that visit the olympic ice at McArthur Island the first time, the 3rd period creeps up on them and they hit the wall. The Storm was clearly the better skating club in the 3rd period and caused Creston to take a series of penalties that proved fatal in the end.
Cody Kightley slapped in his first goal of the season from the blueline on the power play to close the gap to 3-2. Then Lundy Treneman turned on the afterburners.
In a span of 4 minutes and 52 second Treneman scored 3 even strengths goals to pull Kamloops ahead to stay. His first was a rebound from a brilliant effort by Anthony Collins. His second goal, only 2:10 after his first was a nice shot from between the circles on a screened Wade Waters. His 3rd and Kamloops 5th, was again a slick passing play that included Jake Young and Austin Goode. Young probably could have buried it himself but as an unselfish leader he passed it to Treneman for his easiest goal of the night.
Joel Leonard completed the scoring on the power play at 15:49 of the period and Kamloops waltzed away with its 18 win of the season.
3 Stars - Treneman, Leonard and Creston goaltender Wade Waters. Waters was my pick for 1st star going into the 3rd but his team's collapse clouded his brilliant effort between the pipes.
David Osborne and Mike Hanes both had particularly strong games on defence as they laid out a number of crushing hits and were both involved in the offensive part of the game. Osborne ended up with one assist for his efforts.
Tonight the Storm take on Spokane at 7:30 at the Mac Park Sports Centre. See you there.
You can check out the Box Scores here.
Note: again the broadcast was interupted by poor line communication. It's something that we can't do anything about at our end and hopefully the bugs can get ironed out. Thanks to anyone that phoned in to let us know that the broadcast went off air.
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