Nessun Dorma at the ATT Center - 4-0 Rampage



Aeros Defense still in place!

 The Rampage certainly did not, sleep, that is.

 Tenor Chapman  with Nessun Dorma

Nessun Dorma-no one sleeps! sung by Franco Corelli


Regretfully, the 'old' Aeros seemed to have made a 'comeback' last night!
By that I mean, pretty passing, wasting PP opportunities, instead of shooting at net.
Some defense, but..
Where, oh where, was an Aeros when his team went on the offense?
Not in front of Climie to - just maybe - sneak the puck in, on one of those pretty passes!

I fully expected to see Tordjman (in sweater Nr. 41) as the starter, saving Hackett for another 'Wunder' win at home, perhaps?
But, alas, Hackett got the nod, and managed to let in 4 goals in a period and a half, three in 2., almost back to back.

Now, while the Rampage got 4 goals, the Aeros managed to start (or play along) with 4 fights!  And the crowd was on its feet for those....
Bagnall bagged HIS man, sans jersey, even!
Kassian lost to Neilson (did he slip and fall or?).

Prosser/Kearns

Prosser (yes you read right-Prosser) and Kearns, who initiated that one with elbowing (got an extra 2 minutes).
The final one was McMillan and Weston (again) which sent them both out of the arena, since it was already less than 5 minutes to the end of the third.

Jotted down some impressions:
Hackett often seems to go down prematurely.
And when going down did not put pads together flush with ice and tightly -
at least one puck sailed right through that triangle into the net! OOPS!

Another sailed over his shoulder.. you might see that one in a snap taken.
So he gets pulled! 
Josh Tordjman, in red hot pads.. stopped every single sog by the rampaging Rampage.. a perfect 12 out of 12.

 Tordjman in motion!

Climie, got his shut out by stopping 24 of 24! 
The teams went almost even on SOG 25 for the Rampage, 24 for the Aeros.

To the Aeros account, they handled a 3 on 5 and a 4 on 5 penalty kill with aplomb, but could not utilize their 5 PP opportunities at all (too much pretty passing, too little 'firing'). 

Only the 2. goal (1. in 2nd period) by Watkins was a PP goal. 
On the 4th goal by Boedker, Climie claimed an assist...
see picture when he tells the official.

Mezzo soprano Tynan Davis (her brother participated in the Olympics) managed the anthem with suaveness.
Even to having those high notes under control-
huge applause by the large crowd of almost 7,000.

Amazingly, too, both presentations by tenor William Chapman, of the already mentioned Nessun Dorma (Turandot by Puccini) and later La Donna e Mobile (Woman is fickle) from Verdi's Rigoletto,
here sung by Franco Corelli Juan Diego Florez

garnered bravos and loud applause. The audience also seemed to enjoy the video clips of certain opera excerpts from Carmen among others (and the handsome face of Placido Domingo) to orchestral sounds only, however.. most of which seemed to be fight scenes from operas!
Amusingly presagely appropos... given the 4 fights!

Tordjman was ON, alas, but so was Climie on the other side.
It might have been a battle of giants IF Tordjman had faced Climie from the start. Would it have made it an Aeros win?
I don't feel it would.

 Checking watch? Texting? Keeping his cool under pressure?

Rampage played too disciplined defensively, with just the right amount of aggression. A fast game, and a good game to watch IF you were a Rampage fan, a grit-teeth-and-bear it game for Aeros watchers.

Hackett lets that one in



The Stork Moment.. looking for the puck



McLean still has the puck behind the net

Hey man, that 4th goal was due to MY assist

A titanic save by Climie

  Excited Crowd

Is this a 'Pontius Pilate' moment- washing our hands of you guys?

Goal: puck over Hackett's left shoulder



  Another goal? No, that one was stopped




  Hey, it's behind you! Grope for it.



 Goalie interference

Red Hot Pads

Kassian sits and a Rampage fan comments :-)!