Wake up..AEROS!

The 'moaning' (pun intended LOL) game vs San Antonio Rampage started out with 0 goals on both sides in the first. After a couple penalties Aeros Gillies/boarding, Rampages Perrault/hooking, Lessard got into Kalus to the point of drawing blood and was ejected.
Kalus managed to skate off with trainers help and did not come back for the rest of game. Long sat for Perrault the rest of the 1.period and into the 2.
WITHIN 2 MINUTES Rau'=WOW' started the stream of 3 goals with an unassisted goal, followed by 'The Scrapper's' Daoust with Hilbert (welcome back Andy) and Smith. And seconds after, DiSalvatore with 'Ironman' Noreau and Hilbert got number 3. And the arena exploded, 1000s of itty bitty and older 'screechies' filling it almost to the rafters, the noise was deafening..'dance cam' took the place of 'kiss cam' and the building shook...earthquake? Ah, no, just 1000s kids jumping up and down and sideways, if they'd been able to, they would have jumped back and forth! The TC rocked, baby! Alas, the Aeros did not. Again, individual players did well, others even outstanding, but.....
Anton looked like another shut out might be on his way, BUT... at 9:18 into the second period, the Rampage caught up and it was 3 vs. 3.
Rampage goals: 1. Hoggan, 2.MacLean, Zimmerman and Sullivan, 3. MacLean, Heshka (pp goal-I believe) with 9 shots on goal .
Aeros had 15 shots on goal and 3 goals at that time.
Several penalties later Aeros: Fraser/holding, Stoner/roughing; Rampage: Meyer/roughing and again later for delay of game, the numbers went: Aeros 21sog/3g, Rampage 11sog/3g
Anton was pulled and Dubie replaced him, after Porter with Sullivan and Zimmerman made it 4 for the Rampage with 12 SOG, while Aeros furious assault on goalie Pogge (Rampage) netted ;-) 22 SOG.
Robert Desimone flaunted a huge shiner (not Shiner Bock) reportedly a bicycle injury-but even that did not scare the Rampage away from skating as well as they did.
3. Period much of the same, Rampage added goals #5 (Kolarik and Porter). That goal I question, it seems to me that 'Dubie' sat on it just on the edge of the blue, so it (to my, admittedly watering eyes) never actually went in properly! But the goal judge said it did, and the referee, who only saw 'Dubie' 'brooding' ;-) on it, could say no other.
And unassisted, shorthanded (Heshka in the box) goal #6 by Hoggan, which seemed to be a rebound from the glass/screen flipping over and under the crossbar into the net..surprising 'Dubie' and all of us.. WHERE the heck did it go? THERE was the puck!!! Now, Dubie could hardly be faulted, after all he DOES not have eyes on the back of his head nor did gaze into a crystal ball to predict the trajectory of that flukey goal.
'Ironman" Noreau had a tussle with MacLean and both sat for roughing (Noreau) and holding (MacLean)who was holding onto Noreau 'for dear life' ;-).
Several excellent and desperate saves by Smith and, yes, Falk, kept the Rampage from piling on even more goals. Gillies is developing into quite a rambunctious ruffian, tall, but lean. Rau"WOW" and Smith have the best face-off winning touches, IMO. Unusual for 'The Scrapper' Daoust , he let a few pucks be stolen from him and/or passed them into 'thin' air..ahem NOT to a white jersey (maybe he is NOT an early bird...LOL)
Aeros managed a huge flurry of Shots ON (32), ALAS only 3 made it INTO the goal.
Rampage, IMO, outskated Aeros in speed and offense ending with only 20 shots ON but 6 shots INTO the goal. The Rampage, having a reputation of rough and ugly, did not engage Aeros as much in fights as one might expect..at least it seemed that cooler heads prevailed most of the time.
3 stars of the game are all Rampage: Porter, MacLean and Hoggan.
Justin Pogge, the newly signed, thin, tall goalminder stopped an incredible 29 shots by Aeros.

It does seem to me, that the 'CHANGE' in coaches. addition of some fresh blood/skates and the transfer out of some veterans, resulted in a newly invigorated Rampage team, which is edging closer to Stars and Aeros.
These two teams (Stars and Rampage) will face each other Sunday at the ATTcenter in San Antonio. Better Half and I will be there to 'supervise' and keep track of 'soft spot' LOL, what else?