UPPER VALLEY HOCKEY LEAGUE

ODDS:	Tuck by 2 goals
OVER/UNDER:	8.5 goals

Nordiques vs. Tuck....The Rematch!!!! Well, if you look at the first game where Tuck embarrassed, annihilated, dismantled, controlled, dominated, pissed on, and quite a few other things all over the Nordiques, then this wouldn't seem like much of a re-match.

Tuck comes into the night second in the UVHL with a 4-1 record including the season opening, 6-1 domination of the Nordiques. Anchored by Scotty "Slippery Stick" Turco's big game experience & Michelle "La Babe" Labbe's distracting good looks, Tuck can skate and general out-skate any team in the "U". In addition to the core players, Tuck has had surprising success from rookies Adam Mantin (5-4-9 in 5 gasmes), Takashi Mikoshiba(1-2-3 in 3 games) & Ryan Fitzgerald(4-1 2.8gaa).

The Nordiques are out to prove that week one was just an excuse to shake out the cobwebs. But if the Nords want to compete with the speedy & talented Tuck team, they will have to play as a team. Blue Collar hockey all the way. Get the puck out of the zone and not turn the puck over or else a Hanbury or Turco will make you pay.

My prediction.....5-3 Tuck.

COMMISH OUT

Tuck continues dominance of the UVHL with 5-2 win over Nords.

The second game of the night had the 3-2 Nordiques hosting the 4-1 Tuckians. After the first game of the season where Tuck absolutely manhandled the Nordiques 6-1, the Nords had a game plan.....don't play like a bunch of limbless monkeys. The plan started out very well only allowing Scotty "Don't hook me or I'm telling the refs" Turco the only goal of the first, as he took a nice pass from Ryan "Yellow Helmet" McGovern in the neutral zone, looked the Nords defenseman off as he cut across the high slot all alone and beat John "Rage Gordita" Turner low glove with 9:57 remaining in the first.

It was a pretty even battle for most of the second when Petey "Hamburgers" Hanbury tried clearing the puck high out the zone up the middle. Kelly "Captain Hook" Park leaped like Kevin Garnet at the blue line pulling the puck down onsides, much to the screaming and hollering of the Tuck team, beat Hanbury in the low slot, then fed a back hand pass back to an open Ian "Snaggletooth" Coates in the slot. Coatesy then beat Ryan Fitzgerald with a nice wrist shot high glove slot through a screen. The two teams battled vigorously for the remainder of the period until Brian "Speedy Gonzales" Fleming tipped in a pass from Pace Ralli with only 5 seconds remaining in the period to bread the 1-1 tie. Nothing is worse for a teams morale than letting up a goal in the first or last minute of a period, especially one that breaks a 1-1 tie.

Tuck started turning the tide early in the 3rd period, showing their conditioning and patience. Only 2:11 seconds in, Kelly "Captain Turnover" Park made a beautiful pass right up the middle and onto the stick of Michelle "La Babe" Labbe, who quickly made a nice dish to Turco. Due to the fact that Park was the last man back and made such a horrendous turnover, Turco broke into the zone all by himself. Park managed to get close enough to Turco to put a major league hook on him at the top of the crease, but Turco put the brakes on and roofed it overs glove, which would eventually end up being the game winner. The ice started tilting at that point and all the shit ran down hill towards the Nords end as Tuck started piling up shots and time in the offensive zone.

Exactly two minutes after Turco's 2nd goal, he got the hat trick on a short handed goal. With McGovern in the box for a hook and the faceoff in their zone, Fleming won the faceoff back to Kennedy, and as the entire Nordiques squad just sat there and watched without pressuring, Kennedy was able to turn around and flip the puck over everyone's head to a streaking Turco in the neutral zone. At this point there is some varying opinions as to what happened, besides the fact that Turco is nasty and lit Turner up high glove side again. Some believe that Turner was actually taking a nap while standing up on his skates, in the net.......while wearing his hockey equipment. Others think that Park is retarded. Tuck 4 Nords 1

Tuck capitalized on a bad hooking penalty by Park with 6:46 remaining in the game when Labbe burried a Turco rebound to put the Tuckerooskies up by 4, 5-1. The Nordiques cut the defecit to 3 with 4:33 remaining on a great individual effort by Adrien "Hammer Time" Melrose. Melrose picked the puck up in his own end, beat two guys in the neutral zone, split the defense and beat Fitzgerald 5-HOLIO.

 

Team:	Time:	Type:	Player:	Details:
TCK	00:00	Goal	Turco, Scott(1)	Assist(s): McGovern, Ryan(1) Burkart, Ryan(1)
NDQ	00:00	Goal	Coates, Ian(1)	Assist(s): Park, Kelly(1)
TCK	00:00	Goal	Fitzgerald, Ryan(1)	Assist(s): Ralli, Pace(1) Hanbury, Peter(1)
TCK	00:00	Goal	Turco, Scott(1)	Assist(s): Labbe, Michelle(1)
TCK	00:00	Goal	Turco, Scott(1)	Assist(s): Kennedy, Ben(1) Fleming, Brian(1)
TCK	00:00	Goal	Labbe, Michelle(1)	Assist(s): Turco, Scott(1) McGovern, Ryan(1)
NDQ	00:00	Goal	Melrose, Adrien(1)	Assist(s): none
NDQ	00:00	Penalty	McDermott, Shawn(1)	2 minutes for Interference
TCK	00:00	Penalty	Lindemann, A(1)	2 minutes for Hooking
TCK	00:00	Penalty	McGovern, Ryan(1)	2 minutes for Hooking
NDQ	00:00	Penalty	Park, Kelly(1)	2 minutes for Hooking
TCK	00:00	Penalty	Fleming, Brian(1)	2 minutes for Holding
TCK	00:00	Penalty	Fleming, Brian(1)	2 minutes for Roughing
NDQ	00:00	Penalty	Dakai, Tom(1)	2 minutes for Holding
NDQ	00:00	Penalty	Park, Kelly(1)	2 minutes for Hooking

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kpark Quechee, VT Registered: Dec 2003 Posts: 723	Turco Whooped on us. Nov 20th, 2007 03:12 PM Turco was nasty, scoring 3 of their goals....2 of the shorties. It doesn't help that I sucked and was out there for both of his shorties though. Nice game Tuck!