Akwesasne ONT- A very entertaining game despite a sloppy start for a Danville team that cannot afford to make mistakes and the final score shows just how important a good start is. A big night for newly signed Jean-Rene Forget.
The first period begins with the Warriors Jean-Rene Forget making a big return to the lineup as he nets two goals in the first three minutes of play to make it 2-0. His first from Dan Tessier and Pierre Dagenais. His second from Dagenais and Sylvain Deschatelets. Danville manages to tighten up and kill off a penalty then go onto the powerplay. They press the attack and have the Warriors backchecking hard but fail to capitalise on the opportunity though they look to have shaken off the rust from a 15 hour drive and have began to push back.
Warriors narrowly miss on a shot by Deschatelets. He wristed it from the point and grabbed his own rebound. Sylvain is all over the ice he follows that with a deke but loses posession then wins a board battle gets the puck to Corbeil who gets hauled down and it's a penalty shot. Corbeil skates wide closes in and has the goalie beat but fails to lift the puck over the pad on the back hand. Danville follows that up with a breakdown in their own end and Dagenais bangs in the puck through the Danville netminder with assists to Tessier and Forget. Colin Rice of Danville and Mike Stacey of the Warriors skate out on the next play and drop the gloves. Stacey overpowers the smaller Rice to the ice as the linesman step in. Clock runs down and the players skate off for the intermission.
The second period starts out a little slower than the first as Dashers are out pressing but failing to get out of their own zone and when they do it's point shots that are not troubling goaltender Adam Thompson. Warriors score again to make it 4-0. Pierre Dagenais from Simone Desormeaux and Dan Tessier as a big scrumb in front leads to another Warriors goal. The referee points to the net to signal a goal and a fight in front of the net ensues. Players are shoving as Simone Desormeaux has the gloves off and is throwing punches. Penalties to both teams but the Warriors pick up two minors at the end of the scrum and the Dashers capitalise on the powerplay. Billy Hunt from Ray Tremblay and Ryan Huggett to pull within three. 4-1 Akwesasne. Raby a few plays later grabs ahold of Hironori Kobayashi by the back of the jersey and pulls him around throwing him to the ice. Raby picks up a two minute minor and a 10 minute misconduct. Warriors kill that penalty but go straight back to the box on a kneeing call. Ahmed Mahfouz has the Warriors on their sixth straight penalty kill. Make it seven as the Warriors Nicolas Corbiel makes it a 5 on 3 for 1:06. Some close chances but they kill the first and Mahfouz is back out on the kill. A delay in the action as Adam Thompson gets taken down and his defence stands up for him. Some punches and challenges are issued but Danville is the only one penalised.
A powerplay for Akwesasne but Danville is pushing them back and Akwesasne is having trouble breaking out. A shot by Danville point blank but Thompson makes a beautiful save. Danville kills the penalty by continuing to press allowing only one shot on the power play. Dashers score on a point shot that was tipped in front. Tremblay with the tip from Phillippe Ste Laurent and Dean Yakura. 4-2 Akwesasne as the Warriors are leaving the door open as they skate off for the intermission.
The third starts out with some back and forth play a few shots but neither goaltender is being challenged. Akwesasne is just making turnover after turnover as the Dashers clog the neutral zone. A turnover and a slip by Trevisani leads to a two on one but the Dashers fail to score missing wide. Dashers hard work pays off as Moje scores to make it 4-3 and pulls the Dashers within one. A Dasher penalty and Trevisani rings one off the post but the Warriors are now 0 for 4 on the power play. Nicolas Corbeil scores for Akwesasne with some beautiful stick work. Lindoff was taken down and there was a scrum in the crease which allowed Corbeil to take his time and pick his shot and he goes top shelf. Assisted by Ahmed Mahfouz and Sylvain Deschatelets. 5-3 Akwesasne. Dashers goal by Ray Tremblay from Ryan Stern. 5-4 Akwesasne with a little more than three minutes to go. Warriors penalty as Carter Trevisani is going off for slashing with 1:01 to go in the third. Warriors manage to slavage a 5-4 win against a gritty Danville Dashers team.
Danville really put on a show in Akwesane tonight. They worked harder than the Warriors and if it wasn't for the poor start in the first likely did enough to win this game. The Warriors continued to try and bully but the Dashers worked through it and nearly stole another game from the defending champions. The Warriors lack of discipline caused ruts in the ice leading to the sin bin but despite that goaltender Adam Thompson improves to 5-0-1 while Breton Lindoff of Danville drops to 1-9-1 as the Warriors pick up their 10th regulation win of the season. Warriors return on tomorrow Friday the 13th to take on the Cape Cod Bluefins while the Dashers head to 1000 Islands to take on the Privateers Wednesday night.
Article by Joseph Francis
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