Saturday, March 27, 2010

Best of 3 now.

Norwich Defenceman Brett Green scored arguably the biggest goal of his career last night as Norwich won 4-3 in overtime to tie the Niagara Final at 2 games a piece, Game 5 goes Sunday night in Norwich at 7:30pm.
Grimsby opened the scoring at 6:39 of the second taking advantage of a Norwich turnover at the Grimsby blueline as Joe Young skated in on Norwich goalie Matt Coutts and beat him clean. Grimsby would make it 2-0 4 minutes later on a powerplay when Kyle Fraser fired a slapshot past Coutts. Ben Pearson would get Norwich back into the game at 12:07 of the second on the powerplay as his shot from point would beat Grimsby goalie Brad Pope.
Norwich would tie the game at 3:06 of the third when Mike Brilhante tipped a shot that squeaked it's way across the goaline, it was a shot that Pope should have stopped. Grimsby would retake the lead at the midway point of the third when Ryan Roberts turned what looked like a harmless Norwich pass in Norwich's end got just enough of the puck with his stick to put it past Coutts. Less than two minutes later Stuart Preston tied the game up for Norwich. Both teams had chances late in the third with powerplays but neither team could capitalize.
Early in the overtime Norwich almost won it when Brad Pope's clearing attempt deflected off the back of his own defenceman's leg and careemed back twoards the open net and forcing Pope to dive back across the net just getting it with his stick to keep the game tied. Both teams had a powerplay in the overtime and both goalies were up to the task coming up with the big stops. Finally at 15:07 of OT, Chad Barclay and Brett Green were able to get a 2 on 1 at the last second Barclay throws the puck across the front of the net where the puck deflected off of Green's past Pope sending Norwich players and fans into a frenzied celebration.
Norwich now has to focus on winning on home ice Sunday night and putting the pressure back onto Grimsby. Norwich will have to win one game at home if they plan on winning this series.
Like I said at the start of this writeup it's now down to a best of 3 and Norwich gets 2 of the games in thier rink, I like Norwich's chances to take this series.

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