A perfect night for the Giants
March 18th, 2007Phoenix 1, Giants 4
Not only did the Giants win tonight by Coventry lost to Sheffield to give the Giants even more hope of retaining their league crown but make no mistakes it’s still going to be an uphill battle. George Awada wasn’t doing damage on the scoring front tonight like last night, no, he was dropping the gloves for only the second time in his Giants career with none other than the leagues toughest, Brett Cloutier. Hutchins, Gavalier, Coutenay and Ruff got the goals for the Giants with Gavaliers being his first of the season. DeRouville turned aside 24 shots and the Giants powerplay finially clicked as Manchester seen player after player head to the penalty box throughout the first and second period.
Coventry losing to Sheffield now puts the Giants only two points behind Coventry with the Blaze having one game in hand. All being well the title race will still be alive when Coventry visits the Odyssey next weekend. Theres even an outside chance the Giants could win the title at home in that game but thats not to likely.
Giants-History.com 3 stars:
1st Star: Phillippe DeRouville - 24 saves
2nd Star: Roman Gavalier - 1st of the year
3rd Star: George Awada - Droppin’ ‘em with Clouts
Below are some stats from ‘The Hockey Forum’
Phoenix 1 Giants 4
Ref: Carson
Lines: Ashton and Kavanagh
Period Goals: 0-1/1-2/0-1 = 1-4
PIM: 8-16/8-0/9-13 = 25-29
SOG: 12-14/6-10/7-10 = 25-34
Phoenix: Clouthier 1+0, Mangos 0+1, Timmons 0+1
Net: Wolfe 34/4 (88.2%)
Giants: Courtenay 1+1, Hutchins 1+1, Ruff 1+1, Gavalier 1+0, Kelman 0+2, Dutiaume 0+1
Net: DeRouville 25/1 (96%)
PIM
Phoenix: Hecl 2, Basiuk 4, Vychodil 6, Molin 2, Clouthier 9, Timmons 2
Giants: Morin 2, Jamieson 2, Dutiaume 2, Ruff 4, Awada 17, Hutchins 2
Major Pens
04.38: Awada (BG) 10 Misconduct
56.21: Clouthier (MP) 2 Charging + 5 Fighting / Awada (BG) 5 Fighting
Goals
10.18 BEL 0-1 Hutchins 32 (Courtenay 11, Kelman 23) (PP)
26.32 BEL 0-2 Gavalier 1 (Ruff 34, Hutchins 32)
30.00 MAN 1-2 Clouthier 5 (Mangos 19, Timmons 15)
33.11 BEL 1-3 Courtenay 4 (Dutiaume 38, Kelman 24) (PP)
48.53 BEL 1-4 Ruff 28
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