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Kingers TROUNCE the Leafs, 7-1.
After an embarrassing start to the 2007-2008 season, the Kingers were out to prove that the first two weeks were a fluke. Sparked by the return of Ricky Hughes & the addition of Ian "The New Guy" Gill. The Kingers jumped out to a QUICK lead just 30 seconds in on a turnover at the blue line by Leafs blueliner, Kirt "The Giant Waiting Turnover Machine" Johnson. Hughes then made a great pass to Mike "The Quiet Riot Assassin" Fitzgerald in the slot. The Leafs might have been off of their game from some sort of embarrassing pre-game speech by their co-captain Sean "The midget smurf with a ginormous head" Casavant, and the Kingers controlled the play pretty handily for the next 8 minutes until the ageless wonder, Marty "Older than Dirt" White zeroed in on a loose puck off of a short rebound and jammed it FIVE-HOLE on Lallier. The "New Guy" put the Kingers up 3-0 as he walked into the zone unattested and fired a mean wrister five-hole on Kenny "I could fit a mack truck between my legs" Lallier from the high slot.
Down by three, the Maple Leafs came out to start the second LIMPING....lackluster.....no pop in their bats. They managed a good amount of perimeter shots that Turner easilly turned aside without any traffic in front. Just 2:26 into the second period, Hughes added to his point total with a goal (1g, 3a on 4 Kingers Goals). Hughes walked down the near boards, cut into the middle with a nice move and fired yet another shot 5-HOLIO on Lallier. Seeing as I will be playing Le Lallier this upcoming Tuesday, I have think I'm seeing a pattern that I may try to take advantage of.
At the 8:12 mark, Fitzy potted his 2nd of the night on a SHAWEEEET breakaway, as he picked up the puck on the far boards, cut to the front of the net on his back hand and threw the puck over a stretched out Lallier's pad. Ronnie "Short Stuff" Dupuis took an amazing backhand saucer pass off of his skate, from Hughes, and put it past Kenny. That gave Ricky 5 points out of 6 possible goals. Being the astute "reporter" that I am, I ran to interview Hughes who only had one thing to say..."It doesn't matter unless we win....we've given up 6 in the 3rd (period) before." DAMN that's a good captain, my captain (Nords: Tao Smith) just wants to "get a good sweat with the boys"....sounds kind of fishy to me!
The Kings were only able to connect once in the 3rd period on an UGLY Leafs play, as one defenseman pinched at the absolute wrong time, the other guy FELL down and leaving Deano "The Slashenator" Cashman & Dupuis on a 2-0. Dupuis dished to Cash who beat Kenny FIVE-HOLIO......again! The Leafs did manage to get on the board with 8:31 remaining in the game as Eric "The Gat" Gattie fired a TWISTED-WRISTER high glove from the top of the circles that ruined Turner's shutout bid, sent the Leaf's bench into a FRENZY, and impressed Turner!
The Kingers outshot the Leafs 36-32.