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A look at the Blades and Raiders series
March 3 2008 at 12:32 PM
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Ron (Login fillibuster)
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REGULAR SEASON-
Raiders at home- won 6-5 in a shootout, lost 3-2 in a shootout and won 4-3
Blades at home- won 4-1, won 3-2 in a shootuout, won 5-2.
Blades' Nick McParland scored a goal in five of the six games.
Jeremy Wick scored for the Raiders in the last three meetings.
PLAYOFF PERFORMANCES SO FAR-
Raiders beat the Capitals 4-1, outscored them 18-11 and shut them out 3-0 in game five. Blades beat the Icehawks 4-1, outscored them 16-7 and also shut out Milton 3-0 in game five.
PLAYOFF POINT LEADERS-
Raiders- Marcus Pryde and Andrew Bathgate 6, Michael Paolo and Evan Zych 4. Jeremy Wick leads in goals with three. For the Blades Nick McParland 8, Luke Moodie 5, Geoff Guimond, Chris Haltigin, Chris Corbeil and Jeremy Walsh all have four points. Five players are tied with two goals each including McParland and both of his were game winners.
PENALTY MINUTES-
Raiders John Seymour has 29. For the Blades Luke Turcotte has a dozen.
IN THE NET-
Raiders- Marc Stuart 2.20 GAA and save percentage of .929
Blades- Scott Greenham 1.40 GAA and save percentage of .952.
In the regular season Stuart played 20 games had 12 wins 2.89 GAA and a save percentage of .910- he had a shutout. Greenham played in 35 games won 27 had a GAA of 2.32 and a save percentage of .923- he had three shutouts.
NEED TO STEP IT UP-
Raiders- Mark McGowan, regular season scoring leader but coming off an injury.
Oakville- Julian Cimadamore, tied for regular season goalscoring with McParland.
MISSING-
Trevor Eckenswiller defenceman for the Blades, 29 points in regular season.
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Tony Hayward
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No score for this post March 4 2008, 7:08 AM
This should be a fairly tight, low scoring series with steady defense and rock solid goaltending at both ends of the rink! There will be several (3 or 4) games decided in this 6 or 7 game series by one goal, and invariably it will come down to who makes the fewest defensive zone errors!
Ron
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No score for this post March 4 2008, 8:29 AM
One effect I did not include was the home crowd advantage..and if it really does make a difference. The Raiders fans are usually out in good numbers and vociferous,and the rink has great sightlines and a good-sized stand at one end while two hundred or so in Joshua Creek is considered the norm, I'm sure it will increase in Oakville for this series but with just four rows of seats how many humans can you get in?
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