Stars do not go quietly..you don't have to look ;-) with pics

Cedar Park on Game 5!

"Entrance of the Gladiators" with set jaws and steely looks (for the OT)

Matt Climie, Mathieu Beaudoin

Jamie Benn andScott McCulloch

Aaron Gagnon and Dan Jancevski

Trevor Ludwig and Ray Sawada

Brent Krahn, the B.U.G. for game 5

NR. 26 on look out!

Sad looking Bear in " box" - battered at by gremlins ;-)!

Hershey Bears-celebrating- another win, in Overtime,

to head home at 3-2.
7084 screaming and hyped up Stars fans, and few Bears fans sprinkled amongst them. If screams had been goals, the Stars would have won by 1000's ;-)

The Texas Stars DID NOT make it easy for them.

They fought and did battle with energy and to the, IMO, loudest acclamations by any fans in the almost sold out arena.

Texas Stars got on the board in the 1. with a PP goal by Gagnon.

The Bears came back in the 2. with the goal by Bouchard,

and that's how it stayed through regulation.

Giroux of the Bears got the winning goal about halfway into OT. each team just had 2 penalties! This was one of the fairest refereeing we've seen...both teams got away with murder.. unseen ? or ignored by a seemingly overwhelmed referee?

Right in front of my eyes, a Bear player (names withheld by author ;-) kept a Star player from skating after the puck by hanging on for dear life to his jersey tails! Another time, the stick was between the legs of the opposing player .. but did the ref. see it? Apparently not, even though he hoovered just a few feet away!!! Blind justice? Or incompetence by a ref out of his league.

As I said as FAIR a piece of officiating.. blind to both sides' refractions....

Climie did stop 41 s.o.g.s out of 43, while Neuvirth saved 35 of 36. Both goalies had some huge saves. Both defense was up to it, although Hershey's may have had an edge. Both teams skated well and forcefully.

At the least the STARS 'did not go quietly into the night'. The fought bravely, fiercely and with gusto all night long!

There was no slacking in the 3. this time,

as there seemed to have been in Games 3 and 4.

Hershey's team of AHL veterans who have skated together for so long

(probably could read each others' minds blindfolded),

just were that soupcon better and 'hungrier' for a repeat'

And so they won 3 games in a row, and that away from their home crowd!

Now the Stars will have to do battle in the lair of the Bears.

Can they repeat the results of the first two games there?

And still bring home the CUP?

Do you believe in miracles?