| Opponent: Ice Men Result: Won 3 - 2
Click
here to see some great pictures Brian took during the
game.
Click
here to see Dharte lose his cool and take a trip to the
sin bin - John's replacement is also on this page.
Click
here to see some pictures from our last post game team
meeting held at Koolsky's.
Click
here to see Scotty Bowman pass out the team awards.
Click
here to see the team pictures.
Click
here to see Post Game Locker Room Pictures.
Click
here to see the final season statistics.
Well - two seasons in a
row ended with the Knights handing the IceMen a defeat!
The game wasn't a do-or-die for the Knights - but the
IceMen were certainly looking for win#2 to make it to the
finals against JFC. The Knights were looking to be the
spoilers - for the second year in a row sending the
IceMen home without the cup....
The Knights succeeded
beating the IceMen 3-2 for the second time in as many
years in their final game! Here's how the Friday Knights
finished up their season on a "high note"! (And
believe it or not - assistant coach Pete McDonald
finished the game without getting a game misconduct! and
even more amazing - except for a small "Dharte-Iceman
skirmish" the game was fight-free!)
The game started out slow
as both teams were cautiously feeling each other out.
For the first half of the first period no real scoring
threats occurred on either end. Then - Pete McDonald -
trying once again to prove he's not the puck-hogging
glory hog that everyone accuses him of being unselfishly
gave up a one-on-one with the IceMen goalie and laid it
on Gerry Krause's stick for a neat goal and the Knights
were up 1-0 and would never give up a lead for the rest
of the game!
For the rest of the first
and second period the game was simply end-to-end - with
alot of shooting but no scoring. The only excitement was
the aforementioned Dharte-Icemen mini-battle that started
with a slash from the infamous Icemen Defenseman, #7.
John wasn't about to let the Icemen start intimidating
the Knights so he mixed it up enough to let #7 and the
rest of the IceMen know that they couldn't push the
Knights around. The ref caught the action and
decided to give the Icemen defenseman a 2-minute
slashing penalty and John Dharte a 2-minute slash
and a 2-minute roughing penalty. This put the Icemen
on a power play but the message it sent that the Knights
were not to be pushed around was one that stuck with the
Icemen the rest of the game. They finished the powerplay
without any real threats and the second period ended with
the Knights still up 1-0 and fully in control.
The third period would see
the Icemen pull out all of the stops - and the Knights
fend off the best the Icemen could dish out. At 11:23,
McDonald and Benninger teamed up to feed Gerry Krause for
his second goal and the Knights moved to a 2-0 lead.
Terry Toland made it 3-0 just a few minutes later at 8:26
and the Knights were on a roll and up 3-0. The last
few minutes the game saw alot of action, but the Icemen
never really got back into the game - they scored a goal
with a minute and a half left to end the shut-out, and
added a fluke goal from the corner that ricocheted off
several skates as it passed thru the goal crease and
somehow ended up in the net. Time ran out on the
Icemen about 5 seconds after this fluke goal, and the
Knights had done it two years in a row : Spoiled the
Icemen's bid for the cup! Unfortunately the Knights had
already been eliminated by JFC, and would not fulfill
third repeat dream, but it was a still a satisfying
way to end the season, taking the Icemen out of the
finals.
The summer of 2001 will
now provide the aging and injury-plagued the Knights some
well-deserved and desperately-need rest time.
Look for them to come back
leaner and meaner and again a top-contender to take back
their cup!
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