Well, last night, something beautiful and amazing happened. The Manchester Phoenix rolled into the Giants lair over at the "Big O" and rolled out again. However, the Phoenix where not beaten and bloodied, the rolled out the proud owners of 2, brand new, shiny points!
Of course, I was not there, but oh, do I wish I were! Sounds like an intense and amazing affair. Even in the first period, the scond period being also even but the Giants took the score 2-1. However, the shocker for me, the third period saw 4 unanswered goals for the PHoenix. Including 3 from Beauregard, all ably assisted by the greatest living British hockey player, Tony Hand!
Now, the SOG do seem a little odd.
Lyle (Giants) 29
Murphy (Phoenix) 45
This either points to the Phoenix defence being down-right awful, or Murphy being unutterably amazing. I do know that the Phoenix defense is not that bad, and unfortunately, Murphy is not that good (He is, however, bloody good!). So, I cannot help but wonder if the two goal judges where using different interpretations of what counted as a shot on goal. For me, I did have a few stints as a goaljudge, and I was allways told if the shot was clearly going to go through the crease, then it counts. Even if a player actively deflects it away. However, if the puck is bounced off accidently, then it does not count. Now, my fellow goaljudge was given the same definition, and lo, we ended up with broadly similar counts, unless the game really was that one-sided.
Still.
These numbers DO help Smurf numbers! As it stands;
Lyle - 82.75% save rate
Murphy - 97.78% save rate.
Which, by any judgement, is a pretty amazing save percentage! NHL netties would be ecstatic to get that sort of figure!
Any road.
The Phoenix, as one of the leagues "Little teams" (Though that is something for another debate, at another time!) walked in to the "O" and turned over arguably the best team in the league. I say arguably, since the Steelers have the points in the bag and occupy the top seat at the table at the moment.
Still. A good day to be a Phoenix fan.
Now I am off to stare at the upcoming score for the Devils/Phoenix game.
Heres hoping for a little bit of turnabout from last week!
1 comment:
We went to see Steelers v Giants last night and the Giants are heading for their annual implosion... there is so little depth and balance in that team it's untrue. They were awful. The Steelers barely had to try to get those 5 goals. It all goes through 2 players and they just can't figure out how to do it without them.
Steelers are still my pick for the top spot this year by some way. I can't think of a team that has a hope of beating them to the league because they just have too many alternatives for others to answer to.
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