Around The Trans-World In 80 Seconds, with Demi Moore !!!
Hello to TWHL everywhere! Every now and again, I'm
going to take a trip around The TWHL on a Games Day, and highlight the
highlights and lowlights.
We entered GD7 with 3 winless teams, but unless there'd be a tie between The Rome Gladiators
(0-6-1) and The London Legacy (0-6-0), something would have to give!
But in fact, two things gave, as The Santiago Peppers
(0-7-0), who've been anything but hot, managed their first Win as well!
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In fact, Santiago looked like Trans-world beaters against Rio de Janeiro Rockers, going up 4-0 just 1:19 into the
game!!! Talk about taking The El Placo de Itzamna crowd out of the game early! Santiago scored on
their 1st 4 shots, and if there was ever a case of pulling your goalie, this
was it, as The Rockers Rick DiPietro looked like he was wearing a firing squad
mask on, not a goalie mask! But Rio Coach Brent Sutter left Dipietro in to face the music...
GOALS
1 2 3 4 T
SHOTS 1 2 3 4
T
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RIO
2 1 3 0
6 RIO
12 12 9 0 33
SANTIAGO
5 1 1 0
7 SANTIAGO
9 11 7 0 27
Team
Per Time
Scorer Assists
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SANTIAGO
1 00:28
Stewart Yonkman, Peca
SANTIAGO
1 00:54
TALBOT Amonte
SANTIAGO
1 01:10
TALBOT Hulse
SANTIAGO
1 01:19
Amonte Peca, Poti
SANTIAGO
1 08:43
Holmstrom Koivu
RIO
1 12:33
Milley Conroy, Cleghorn
RIO
1 16:24
Conroy Vyborny, Milley
SANTIAGO
2 17:33
Holmstrom Koivu
RIO
2 19:46
Lundmark Chistov
SANTIAGO
3 05:47
Morris Vasicek, Stewart
RIO
3 06:36
Mair Liles, Lombardi
RIO
3 11:46
Milley Cleghorn
RIO
3 16:20
Conroy Lombardi, Liles
Up 5-0 before the 1/2 way point of the 1st, Peppers players must have been
projecting 'How are we going to lose this one?!?' in their minds after
their 0-7-0 start to the season, and they almost convinced themselves to lose
again! Rio came rocking back, outshooting Santiago 9-1 in the final 10 minutes
of Period 1, and scored 2 G's to get into the game.
The teams exchanged G's in the 2nd, The Rockers would then score 3 straight
during the 3rd to almost pull off an amazing comeback! But Derek Morris' tally
earlier in the 3rd turned out to be the game-winner for Santiago, and The
Peppers are ON THE BOARD and IN THE WIN COLUMN!
Peppers ROOKIE Centre Maxime TALBOT potted a pair for Santiago, and has been
a bright spot so far, managing 6-1-7 Pts in 8
games now. But even more impressive is his +/-, sitting +6 on a team that
doesn't have another player in the positives! How ugly does it get? How about
HS Nels Stewart, at -14 in only 8 games!!! Ugh... I'd say Talbot is pulling his
weight! Norm Milley, Rio's leading scorer, tried his best to get The Rockers
back in the game, scoring 2-1-3 Pts, but it wasn't enough.
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In London, England, where The Legacy would be hard pressed to win a game in The
TWMHL, by all accounts, The Gladiators had their chance to break their
goose-egg in the Wins column. And had it not been for the heroics of Legacy
netminder Sean Burke, stopping 14 of 15 SOG in the 1st, and even better in the
2nd, stopping 23 of 24, London would have been down by double-digits by the mid-way point.
GOALS
1 2 3 4
T SHOTS
1 2 3 4 T
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LONDON
0 1 1 0
2 LONDON
15 10 11 0 36
ROME
1 1 4 0
6 ROME
14 24 14 0 52
Team
Per Time
Scorer Assists
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ROME
1 01:06
Grier O'Neill
ROME
2 13:23
O'Neill Thorburn, Grier
LONDON
2 15:17 Harvey
ROME
3 02:54
O'Neill Grier
ROME
3 04:23
PARISE Grier
ROME
3 08:03
Straka Taylor, Harrison
LONDON
3 08:10
Hajt Darby, Brown
ROME
3 10:37
PARISE Elias, Lilja
Instead, Rome held only a 2-1 lead heading into the final frame. But four 3rd
period G's, including another ROOKIE Centre getting a pair, this time Zach
PARISE, vaulted The Gladiators to a 6-2 victory, their 1st of the season!
Mike Grier, who'd scored a single Assist in the previous 7 games, managed 1-3-4 numbers against London.
Though Parise, scored 2 G's as did Santiago's Talbot,
there the similarities seem to end between the two ROOKIES. Where The Peppers
player is far and above anyone else on his team +/- wise, Parise can't be
making Coach Turk Broda very happy with his -10 stat, while only Vernon Fiddler has a
worse +/- on The Gladiators.
As for London... what can we say. They are a farce,
pure and simple, and unless they've managed to schedule an intra-squad game
into The TWHL official schedule, they may go the season 0-80-0
!!! Records for ineptitude are going to fall everywhere, and there's
even been talk of having the League Offices step in and take over the team
before they go bankrupt from needing to pay The Heritage Centre 10 times their
lease contract just to be allowed to play their games in the building!
The fact is, The Detroit Motorcity
Mustangs, what's supposed to be London's farm
team, could kick The Legacy's butts all over the ice!
Expect the following Records to be targets for London to shoot at:
Least Goals For In A Season
Most Goals Against In A Season
Least Wins In A Season
Most Losses In A Season
Largest Margin of Loss
Least Likely Team Any Player Will Ask To Be Traded To
Most Likely Team An Opponent Wants To Face When They're
Struggling
Lowest Attendance
Highest Fan Suicide Rate
Most Likely Team A Player Entering Free Agency Wants To Face In
Order To Pad Their Stats
Venue Least Likely To Run Out Of Consession Stand Items
... to name a few.
That leaves The London Legacy (and boy oh boy, what a legacy they're leaving!) as the only WINLESS team in The
TWHL, while we'd like to note:
The Berlin Black Bears are
the only UNDEFEATED TEAM in The TWHL! Congrats on
the nice start!
For TWHL fans everywhere, this
is Demi Moore reporting; and Moore is NEVER less!