Happy Hogs..

Rockford 3 vs Aeros 1.

The day started as it ended, with a leaky mess.At home it was a leaky faucet which woke us at 3:30 AM!

So I am tired and will download and post the few photos tomorrow.

At the TC a leaky Aeros defense, most of the time. For now a very brief..what CAN one really say, that has not been said ad nauseam....

Rockford's line of Cullen =1.Star (ExAeros), Keith and MacArthur put Hogs up early in the first and made it a 'clone' 3 in the third period. The second goal also in 1. was a shorthanded one by Skille, Kearn and Petio. Both teams were 0/3 in power play. Aeros out shot Hogs 23 to 17.

Crawford 3.Star

In Darcy "Vaders" defense it must be admitted that there was less defense tonight in front of him, then during the last two (WON) games. One time he'd to actually skate way out in order to slap the puck away since not a single white jersey was near by.

Daoust 2. Star ("The Scrapper") got the lonely only (again-we've been there before, haven't we) goal (his 21st) with "King" Duncan Milroy, who BTW had a couple good opportunities to score, but..was dumped to the ice (no penalty called) or robbed of the puck by the vigilant Hogs defense.

In other incidents referee Rehman, usually a fair referee, missed at least 2 calls, the first a whistle when Hilbert ("Handy Andy") was literally at the point of shooting and perhaps making it 2 for the Aeros, so he stopped, and skated off, obviously very angry.

The second when a rushing Irmen ("Irms") was tripped (yes, he was) and hurled into the Hogs' net toward the end. That could have been the "even out" goal for the Aeros ( OT?).

Darcy"Vader" made some excellent saves with glove and pads. He seemed a bit off in his timing to 'fall' onto the puck to secure it! But considering all, he showed good control most of the time!For a youngster, up from the Juniors, quite remarkable.

Kalus got into a fight, it looked like he got hit on the head during the fisticuffs. Scandella was not on ice much, neither was Gunderson. Kassian, at times, seemed slow on the uptake and lost pucks that way.

Although the Aeros did put on a reasonably good 2.period..no goals allowed. Rockford in the 3. was surely in hog heaven..playing cat and mouse with the 'old, new' Aeros ;-)!