Storm turns it on with three goals in the third.
Tyler Bertuzzi has his best game of the year, and not just because of the two goals. His line (Watling, Horvat) did a great job of cycling the puck and keeping the play alive and deep in the Erie end.
Another couple of dandy Storm goals: Jason Dickinson late in the third and Scott Kosmachuk in the second.
Thought it was funny that Bert was scoring the goals and Tanner Richard came in to drop the gloves with Adam Pelech after Pelech rocked Bertuzzi with a stiff check. Seemed the world was upside down for a minute.
Connor McDavid looked really, really, really good, but did take a bad centre-ice penalty when the game was still close in the third period.
What the heck was with the unsportsmanlike 10 minute misconducts given to Bertuzzi and Pierog? They didn't even get a chance to touch each other before the linesmen dove in. Is this part of the new fighting rules? It would have been better to have let them go and each get 5 - they would have had 5 less minutes to chirp each other in the box for the entire time at least! From what I saw of their 10 minute long chat in the bin, that probably contributed more to unsportsmanlike conduct than a fight would have, considering the in-box officials had to speak (looked like lecturing) with each one of them and delay release them individually after the whistle once the time was up. One of the more bizarre calls I've seen in a while....
Posted by: LV | October 16, 2012 at 11:05 AM
Sorry - this comment was intended for the Petes game post - I just re-posted in there. My apologies....
Posted by: LV | October 16, 2012 at 04:17 PM