It's 0-0 after two periods, but man, has there been plenty of action. Both goaltenders have been amazing.
Rockford's Jesse Bennefield received a slashing major and a game misconduct, and the Komets' Mario Larocque recieved an instigation penalty for retaliating. UHL President Richard Brosal is in attendance tonight and the league is going to review whether the instigation penalty was the proper call since Larocque could argue that he was simply defending himself from the slash. I'll let you know what I hear.
Another highlight was a beautiful hip check by Mike Dombkiewicz. Haven't seen one of those lately and it was perfectly executed.
Great game to watch so far.
Comments
I am an old time hockey fan. I am 36 and have been going to hockey since I was 11. Yes I like the fights but not the Goon stuff. Did enjoy the Morency and Big Snake fight.
Everyone has an opinion and I think Mario should have walked away once he realized the guy was not going to get up and fight him. He had no business ramming the guys head into the ice a few times. Once should have been enough!
I was wishing that the shot would have gone in. They had 5 guys on the ice head hunting our smaller players and that goal would have been hillarious. Who could have fought is my question. I would almost bet that benches might have cleared on that one.
I don't mean any harm in this comment it is just an observation, it looks like Artie is becoming Super Fans new Guinn. No one is allowed to have an opinion on him. I trust your statistics on if he was on the ice or not during goals. I have no way of going back and looking to contest those stats. If you think he is as talented a player as 6 of our other D-Men....so be it, I just don't see it at all. Difference of opinion, not you saying that I need beaten with a 2x4 though....and maybe you are right, there is no hope for me.
I missed Cloutier's hissy fit, I was too busy watching Johnson have his little meltdown right in front of us. What a buffoon...
Grossman looks horrible again too...
Anyone have a video of Morency & Big Snake?
How many of you saw the Erik Lizon vs. Matt Syrocynski fight? Did you notice that Matt not only got hammered in that fight, but Lizon skated in front of the Komet bench and pointed and yelled explitives at our team? I saw Pascal laid a pretty good check on Lizon last night and the new D-man wisely turned down a dance with him at the end of the game when Lizon was looking to kill someone...but how comfortable are you guys and gals knowing that we really don't have anyone who can counter this beast if he decides to railroad a star player of ours? Just wondering what the rest of you might think about this? I know that it is not a popular topic, but just wondered what would have happened if......that Lizon is a monster.
my random thoughts about the game and the blogs: 1. arthur is gaining valuable experience and has improved since the start of the year. 2. captain caveman looks like he is playing himself to the bench. i think i now know why he has played for so many teams..3. new guy looked fantastic but one game does not make a season. 4. when a player two hands you to the chest and then turtles up he is being the lowest of cowards and deserved what the rock gave him.you wanna use the stick then youd better be man enough to stand up. 5. only problem with the team i had was when bvig snake wanted to go with dupis and no one came to the aid of their captain who we all know aint much of a fighter. hhopefull the morency fight was a payback but it should have happened on the spot. and finally, 6. notice how when they play old time hockey the intensity level in the barn and on the ice goes thru the roof? just some random observations!!!
Great point Chuckitt....that was my point early on in this thread. The physical play always excites the crowd and wins games too. Fun Game last night. Great win guys.
Now for my thoughts on the game.
At first I thought it was going to turn into a copy of Saturday. Yes at times I saw plays but the Komets could not get it past Cloutier then Rudeno stepped up. Good for him. I'd like to ask those people again who said that Larocque wasn't a fighter. He's beat down both Bennefield and Radoslovich.
What kind of pathetic loser is Cloutier. Martinson must be teaching his team well in being whining little cry babies that throw tatrums.
Of course on that matter. Why is in necessary for Komets fans to throw garbage on the ice? What are you trying to prove? Cloutier was already acting like and looking like the biggest moron we've seen in a while. Now by throwing garbage at him and the rest of the icehogs, you've made Fort Wayne look bad. Someone really needs to explain that to me. That showed NO CLASS!!!
The Rock has yet to "fight". He's beaten a couple of cheapshot artists silly. All fine and dandy with me. They both got what they had coming to them.
Thank you Hit. Artie is obviously the new Rob Guinn. Anyone who tries to say he is better than Rock, Dupuis, Hansen, Honkanen, Domber, or Bozoian is just silly. The Tolzzino looked pretty good, time will tell.
Morency and Big Snake was a pretty decent fight. Weird, because nobody fights in this league anymore... lol.
But has Artie forgotten more about fighting than Rob Guinn has is the real question here......LOL
Enough about Rob Guinn already! Let's talk about Liam Garvey! Why in the heck could he not skate backwards!?!? Anytime he tried he turned a corkscrew into the ground. I don't care how many years go by or how many players come and go, I will always be consumed by the flaws of Liam Garvey! Even as the cup was hoisted a few years back, I was thinking..this team is better without Liam Garvey!
How bout them COWBOYS!!!!
Where I was sitting I couldnt see the Big Snake/ Morency fight. Sounded like a good one. I was hoping someone would post it on youtube but no luck. Maybe it will be on the Komets weekly highlights. Fingers crossed.
Blake do you know which game will be shown on Comcast channel 55 this week? I'd love to rewatch the Rockford game. I wish that the Komets would collect the games they record over the season and then sell like a top 5 or so games on a DVD. Due to military I won't be in Fort Wayne much longer and it's going to kill me to miss so much Komet hockey.
DNL, it's on the front page of this you can find with the link Komets coverage on the left.
For the record, I never said Arthur was better than anyone else. I just think he deserves more respect than he gets from some of you.
Anyone doubt this rivalry? Great game from start to finish. I am shocked (but not disappointed) McWhinney didn't get a look this weekend.
I'll touch on a few of the topics:
Nobody needed to rush to the aid of our captain in this instance. He drew a penalty in a 0-0 game so why try to make more out of it (at that time) and perhaps lose the powerplay opportunity? I think Guy and the team played this one out smart.
I liked the new kid on defence. I can think of two people that maybe should be looking over their shoulder and no....Kiyaga is not one of them.
Lizon. Who cares about Lizon besides Hit and his few loyal followers? I can sleep soundly at night knowing we do not have someone to match up against him. If he takes out Ruid or Goneau then I am sure we'll deal with it accordingly but matching fighters pound for pound is not what the game is about. Just watched the most physical game we had all year and Hit is worried about something that didn't even happen. Amazing.
Kiyaga. Playing more and more and getting better and better. I don't quite understand negativity. He may be small in stature but his speed and intelligence makes up for whatever size is lost out there. I think Blake backed up everything with hard facts.
Hit. Rockford was running around late in the game looking for something as they always do when they are down or about to lose. You are running around looking for something as well....as you always do. Keep it up......
Wow, I totally agree with Scoops. You are the man. Way to go! Don't you agree that this was the best game of the year Scoops? And why was it the best game? I doubt it was because it was physical. Couldn't be that. I am sure you weren't entertained at all were you? Thanks for continuing to throw your bean bags into my section and row as hard as you can. You the man!!!
SNIFF SNIFF..can you feel the love here tonight...I think...SNIFF SNIFF... I am gonna cry
i have to disagree about rushing to the aid of our captain. yeh he drew a 2 minute on cheap snake, but nobody was close to them and if big snake would have wanted to, he coulda taken guy out of the game with a cheap shot or a sucker punch. my thought is, he should have never been given the chance to hurt guy. someone needed to be there. no sense taking the chance and have guy hurt then look back on it and say , gee i wish someone would have helped him. you just dont give a goon a chance against one of our skilled guys who in that game must have loged about 40 min in ice time! wouldnt have been a big deal if it was just some idiot winger but the snake is a tuffy who could hurt a good fighter let alone a finess person!
Chuckitt, I hear you, but don't you know that you can't have differing opinions than Scoops. You have to just go along with him. It is his job to disagree with everything that is said on here.
This is purely my opinion but I think if the game wouldn't of been as it was I think Guy would of handled himself in that situation if it all went down. I am not saying he would of won anything but he would of handled it. And whose to say if anyone else would of stepped in that they too could of gotten some kind of cheap snot shot. Its all "woulda, coulda, shoulda".
sorry , have you ever seen guy fight? its not pretty and he would have been hurt. this is a team and i didnt see any team in that one s o im so sorry to point out something so obvious but since it isnt alowed to say something you dont agree with im going to watch some tv. just glad you never skated on my line.
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Maybe Chuckitt can come with me this week when I have lunch with coach.....LOL
had plenty of lunches with plenty of coaches!! you can handle the job quite well!! thanks for my back.
First off, Guy would have been so pi---- off if one of his teammates had stepped in there because it would have been a hugely stupid mistake to give up a power play in a 0-0 game. Guy made the right play there because he was SMARTER than the neanderthal. Essentially he suckered Big Snake by not allowing himself to get suckered.
This act from Hit is wearing a bit thin. How come we didn't hear what a great game we had Friday night after Larocque stood up for Frenchy? And now we have to put up with his bashing of Arthur by comparing him to Guinn. Get off Guinn. He is old news. And now he blasts Blake on Justin's blog because Blake has the audacity to state some simple and obvious facts about Arthur. (That's his name, by the way, not Artie.)
WOW
Rick, I guess the same can be said for others on this blog. Personally attacks and "know it all's" get a little old no matter what point of view they come from. Just like in "REAL LIFE," this blog (and the boards) have people that just like to make others mad or feel worse about themselves. Maybe thier Mom's weren't around to hug them when they were little or Santa didn't bring them a Red Ridder BB Gun they wanted, but who cares? Either read the crap they post and forget it, or stay off the blog. It's not that hard! I agree that Guinn has moved on and so should others, but if they don't I'm not going to tell them we will fight on the playground.
Just because everyone on the blog (YES! Even you Blake) is a fan of the Komets, doesn't mean we will all get along. Next time you want to call people out, just give your kid, wife, husband, mom, dad, dog, fish, or whatever a hug and let it go!
Like I said before, HOW BOUT THEM COWBOYS!!!
I have one thing to say to that, You suck Hoss. LOL. (Hope you take that in the spirit it was intended.)