Shuffleboard on Ice..

Aeros loose to Milwaukee Admirals 2 - 3. Having several injured players, others away with the WILD, and Zingoni out for 17 minutes due to several penalties, the coaches had to do some hefty reshuffling tonight. Noreau played Center, for instance.
Despite the fact, that the Aeros came out smoking, the fire was doused early in the first period.
With just 2 shots on goal, Admirals scored against Khudobin by Dietrich, Jessiman and Guite.While Zingoni sat for holding, the Admirals scored on the power play with goal Nr. 2 by Santorelli, Spaling and Jones. Then Gillies received 2 minutes for roughing and 5 minutes for fighting, with Admirals Yonkman the same, and Spaling 2 minutes for high sticking at 11:44. No PP goals for Aeros.
At the end of the first Kassian #42 and Yonkman #43 had a go at each other.
Ending counts for 1. period were: SOG Aeros 6 - 0 goals, SOG Admirals 9 - 2 goals. Khudobin pulled and Dubie sent in for rest of game.

Second period nothing doing for both teams, except 17 minutes penalties for Zingoni for instigating, fighting and misconduct with Jones #28 (an ex Aeros) getting 2 for roughing, 5 for fighting, and #18 Mueller also sat for a minor of 2. Several pile ups of players with Daoust on the bottom of the heap, but 'The Scrapper' came out, seemingly unscathed, and continued to, well, scrap!
Gillies had some good forechecking during this period. Fraser showed his quick reflexes in getting to the puck while enemy players 'corralled' Kalus in a pile up.
Second period ended with Aeros 0 (13 SOG) Admirals 2 (15 SOG).

Third period: at 1 minute and 5 seconds into it, Admirals' Jones, Yonkman and Santorelli scored goal Nr. 3 for Admirals. While on a power play (#36 Scatchard for croschecking) Aeros, however did show they could do some real good passing the puck, just NOT INTO the foe's net..;-).
Finally, Kalus (unassisted) scored the first Aeros goal at 7:32 into the Third.
At 8:32 Noreau went to the box for slashing.
With over 6 minutes to go "Dubie" was pulled and an extra attacker sent on the ice by Coach KC.
At 15:17 Chad Rau #20, wih assist of DiSalvatore #14(again) and Daoust #38 (again) pulled the rabbit out of the hat - ahem - SCORED Nr.2 for the Aeros on a Power Play while Scatchard #36 sat for boarding (the only time the ref actually whistled on a boarding incident!) Third period ended with Aeros SOG 24 and 2 goals, Admirals 21 SOG and 3 goals. Admiral goalie was young (19yrs) rookie Chet Pickard, fresh from Echl level!!!

Scratches: Aeros #7 Stoner, a last minute scratch, Testwuide, Almond and Hilbert, the usual suspects on the injury list.
Admirals: Maki #7, Cashman #10, Eaves #22, McKenzie #23 and Mark van Gilder #29.

Three Stars: #1 Kalus, #2 former Aeros Ryan Jones #28 and # 3 Santorelli #11.
Another former Aeros/Wild Olvecki did not feature prominently in this game.

During the game I felt that several players appeared injured. The Admirals' Teemu Lakso limped to the bench dragging a foot and did not skate for the rest of the time.

On the Aeros team, it appeared that Gunderson and Noreau had hard hits, but later both skated on.
Gillies, too, seemed a bit out of commission, if so that would be another incident for the gangly kid.

Brandon Buck in jersey # 16, recalled from Everblades, skated well, aggressively albeit unproductively during this game. But I am sure after more practice with the team under the 'shuffle strategy' needed right now, with injuries, call ups...etc. he may turn out a good addition, his junior record seems to predict that.

I wonder if the Aeros might recall 'Feisty Fergie' (Simon Ferguson) and/or 'smoldering' Dylan Hunter who both were sent onwards after the early games, to help out the club now?

Just wondering!
Or maybe some other talent from wherever? Like they did Mathieu Beaudoin at the end of December 2008?

Next game is Sunday afternoon, against Admirals again!
Bring man's best friend to the game, adopt a puppy or orphan dog, but arrive for a 4:05 PM Puck Drop.
See you at the game.