
Maffa with OT winner? 5-4 Zombies.
If you had Paul Maffa on your Bingo Card as scoring the game
winner in OT, then you're probably the only one.
This was a battle for first place, each team was tied with 6 points as we approached the halfway point. The red Devils ran out to a 3-0 lead after one period. Trevor Armand had one and Steve "Regular Season" Thompson had two. "Things aren't looking good," said red captain Andy Long. "We don't do well holding leads." He was right. In a penatly filled second period, goals by Frazier and O'Keefe made it 3-2 headed to the third where Frazier and George Anderson scored to put the yellow Zombies up 4-3. "Welp, my job is done here," said Devil John Gambale. "Four goals in a row by the other team. I'll sit the rest of this one out." But all was not lost, the Devils got a goal from JA to tie it at 4-4. We would head to OT where each team's superstars had breakaways but did not score. Then with just over a minute left, Paul Maffa got the puck at his own blue line and headed the other way. Steve Thompson saw who had the puck, and didn't even try to get back on defense. All that stood between Maffa and glory was Andy Long. Maffa used him as a screen and blasted one by Vieira for the OT game winner. Speechless, just speechless. Check out our great new box score here. |