Mobil gets shutout by Rene, 2-0 Shell. |
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After the teams tied last week in game one, game two was a winner take all. Who would have thunk that when Bob Desrosiers banged home a shot with 29 seconds left in the first period, that's all that Shell would need to get the win. The game had about as much flow as a Hockeytown toilet after a Krowiak morning visit. Neither team had any real glorious chances, if you don't count the seven that Andy Long whiffed on that is.
Long actually played very well in his own zone, and was one of the first guys to pick up both a Hot List star and a Cold List star in the same week. Up 1-0 going into period two, Mobil had no answers on how to score on Rene. "We got a better line up this week than we had last week, but we are playing worse," noted Tripp Talbot. "I think having Albano back in the lineup really takes Mike Saia out of his game." Tony Onello was also back in uniform for the navy team, but he is still getting his sea legs back and let the puck slide off his stick on a clean breakaway. "I was being chased by John O'Connor, so I knew I only had two to three minutes to make up my mind at what I was going to do," said Onello of the whiff. Speaking of O'Connor, he also had a clean breakaway from center, but he was caught by nearly the entire Mobil team, after they had made a line change at the far bench. "I'm pretty sure only four of them caught up to me," said O'Connor in his defense. The only other goal of the game came when Mike Uretsky banked one in off of Jim Wilkinson in front of the Mobil net. Wilkinson tried to convince us he tipped it in, but we all know it just hit him. "You mean Uretsky took his hands off of Lloyd long enough to take a shot?" asked Rick Bobrycki.
Mobil advances to the Haliburton Consolation
Game to play Hess, while Shell goes on to the
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"This
guy probably has trouble getting his stream in the toilet at night too,"
noted Trevor Hanson of Long.