Postgame: Nitehawks - 4 Chiefs - 0

It was a much better outing for Beaver Valley on all accounts. They did start the 1st very rough, but managed to pick things up and kept it throughout the rest of the game. Defensively, turn-overs were still an issue but they kept things on the outside and what did manage to sneak in front of Perehudoff was quickly dealt with.

D-man, Arie Postmus, got things rolling on a high slapper that managed to see its way through a crowd and past a surprised O'Donnell to make it 1-0 BV under 5 mins in. Craig Martin scored his 38th of the year on the PP to put BV up 2-0 at 7:55. Nitehawks third goal was announced as scored by Tyler Collins, but as he was sitting on the bench, and I SAW Mason Spear put the puck high glove side, Im going to go with that theory. BV took a 3-0 lead into the first intermission, but trailed in shots 11-10.

Kelowna received the only 3 penalties of the first, as so BV started the second with 3 of their own. Chris Derochie got the 4th and final goal for the Nitehawks just before mid-period and thats when the school bus started loosing its wheels for the Chiefs. Once again, and for the second straight night, BV opponents lost their verbal composure. In the final minute of the second, Brendan Jost took a hooking call. It was a legit call by all standards, but Jordan Salahort did not think so and upon voicing his opinion, received a 10min misconduct. Kyle Clerke then takes a X-Checking sin with 31 secs left and things are not boding well for the Chiefs. Luckily, nothing else happens and BV takes a 4-0 lead into the 2nd int.

The 15-min break between period period allowed time for tempers to cool as we we made it an entire 10:25 into the 3rd before all hell broke loose. A hit behind the BV goal resulted in a retaliation by 2 Chiefs which in turn brought in all the players on the ice. The hit was hard, but legal. Kelowna was thoroughly frustrated at that point and so needed very little to boil over and thats pretty much what happened. Now usually, I am berating the officiating at this point for NOT keeping control of the game, but I felt he did a very good job of that in this one, more on that later. In this case, he tossed the whole lot. All 10 players involved, were sent to their rooms. Calvin, Boyczuk, Stang, McKinnon, Hikari(KC), McDougall(KC) received 10min misconducts. Andrusiak(KC) got 10 and 2 for roughing, Collins got 10 and a game, Renner(KC) got 5 for fighting and a game, Salahor(KC) got 10 and a game. Oddly, Salahor had JUST been back barely 28 seconds from his previous misconduct. Net result, after over 121 minutes in penalties called in that single play, was a 2 min pp for BV on the original retaliation. This just fueled the fire as Kelowna took 3 more penalties within a 5 min span causing more verbal abuse to the officials by players. Bamber and Hill were also escorted off with game misconducts. It was good the game was close to over at that point as the Chiefs bench was very empty.

There was no scoring in the third, but that was due to a brilliant show of skill by Tyler O'Donnell. He is truly the reason it wasnt 8-0 and, in my eyes, deserved a spot in the 3 stars. Zack Perehudoff mad the save of the night in the final minute off Kelowna's scoring leader Dane Rupert on a clean break-away from the blueline to keep his shut-out bid intact as BV cruises to a 4-0 win.

Game Stars:

BV - Chris Derochie 1G 2A
BV - Zach Perehudoff 27 save SO(5th career)
BV - Craig Martin 1G 1A

As mentioned before, the officiating in this game was a far cry from the night previous. He allowed the boys to play and called those that warranted calling. In many an instance, he either called both teams or neither at all for simultaneous infractions, which got the goat of many a fan. I myself even caught myself a few times before realizing what he was doing and changed how I responded to his calls. For the majority of the game, the calls were fair. The only reason things became UNFAIR, was because of the verbal abuse received by the Kelowna players. At that point, I didnt blame him one bit for not standing for it and doing what was in his legal right as a referee and to remove the abusive parties from the game. My mother, whom I had taken to last nights debacle in Summerland, was much more impressed with the officiating but stated she was "...embarrassed to say I am from Kelowna after listening to how those players treated the ref.." Now, this boils down to respect. If she heard what they were saying 8 rows up ( and she asks me to repeat alot when we speak), then how many more people in that arena heard it?