Aeros 4 Hamilton Bulldogs 3 in SO

WHAT A NIGHT!!!
I predicted an interesting game and it was! VERRA interesting!

Both teams scored in the first and third periods, went scoreless in the 2.
Aeros as of tonight are placed best in the AHL in Penalty kills.

Bulldogs came out aggressive and forceful. Aeros responded well.

"The Scrapper" Daoust, again seemingly on the ice all the time.
I see him skate to the bench, and by the next blink of the eye, he's back skating his heart out and 'scrapping' away, fearlessly and skating with a unusual feeling of the ice and the play, I have not seen in a long while.

1. Aeros goal by Smith with Daoust assist at 10:44 in the first period
2. Aeros goal by Earl, assists by Falk and Milroy at 11;41 in the third,
3. Aeros goal by DiSalvatore, assisted by Rau (WOW) and Gillies at 16:22 in the third.

Bulldogs goals: 1. by Weber with White at 12:30,
2. by Pyatt, Subban and Anderson at 10:54 in the third and
3. by White with Belle and Russell following closely.

Neither team could convert Power Plays into goals.
The game went into a 5 minute Overtime with no scores and ended in a shoot out.

Shoot Out:
Bulldogs start and Pyatt scores a first goal, Aeros DiSalvatore misses,
Trotter scores goal 2 for Bulldogs, Hilbert misses, Bulldog Darche misses, and then
comes "The Scrapper" DAOUST = Score, Bulldog Maxwell misses,
followed by RAU-WOW= Score , Bulldog Glumac misses and
GILLIES = gets the winning goal for the AEROS.
Aeros 4 vs Hamilton 3.

Both goalies were excellent.
Desjardins stopping 26 of 29 Shots on Goal during regulation and 2 of 5 in the shoot out.
Aeros goalie "Dubie" Dubielewicz stopped 28 of 31 SOG in regulation, and 3 of 5 in the Shoot out.

Aeros appeared confident most of the time, except in the second period (almost predictable)when they seem to slow down. Perhaps a bit too much aimless playing of the puck back and forth.

The Glass at section 112 had to be replaced twice, so much rough play took place at the boards near the Bulldogs (1 and 3 periods)/ Aeros goal (2) both teams playing very aggressively.

Goalies and players 'rendez vous'ed in pile ups' within their respective nets ;-).
Sticks broke incl. Desjardiens' he had to play with just a regular stick for a while. Aeros could not get puck into net despite the 'skinny' stick :-)Nets were knocked off their pins. Players sprawled and tripped (not lightly for sure) but no major incidents.

Some roughing, hooking, high sticking, tripping, interference....penalties for both teams.

Once Dubie was tripped up by Bulldog player and sent sprawling, but since refs have no eyes in the back of their heads this was not noticed, except by the fans in that end zone (2. period) who boo'ed loudly, alas, to no avail! Now, it seemed to me, that "Dubie" carried on several 'intimate' :-) conversations with officiating persons....was he grousing about something or someone? Was he schmusing them up, what did he say?

Scratches:
Aeros: Zingoni (well he was present at a radio commentator), Almond, Gunderson, Fraser and Kassian, who has not gotten much ice time thus far this season.

Bulldogs: Masse, Nielson, Desharnais, Kostitsyn

FOR MORE EXPERT OPINIONS GO TO THE T3I BLOG
OR THE AEROS OFFICIAL SITE.
Next game November 5 at the TC.