WILKES-BARRE, Pa.
C.J. Fiedorowicz Texans Jersey . -- On a neutral-zone faceoff with about 30 seconds left and the score tied Saturday
night, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins coach John Hynes tried to make a late
personnel change. Referee Terry Koharski disallowed it, ruling that the change
took too long. A checking line, centred by Zach Sill, stayed on the ice and the
teams top scoring line remained on the bench. The Penguins owe Koharski a big
thank you. Sill scored the game-winning goal with 15.8 seconds left in the third
period to help the Penguins stave off elimination with a 4-2 victory over the
St. Johns Ice Caps in Game 5 of the American Hockey Leagues Eastern Conference
finals Saturday night. "Nobody in this room wanted to stop playing hockey yet,"
Sill said. The IceCaps lead the series 3-2. Game 6 will be played Tuesday in St.
Johns, N.L. Chuck Kobasew had a pair of goals for the Penguins while Spencer
Machacek also scored. Will ONeill, meanwhile, had a goal and an assist for the
second straight game for the IceCaps, who also got a single from Patrice
Cormier. Michael Hutchinson made 30 saves for the IceCaps. Peter Mannino stopped
19 shots for the Penguins. With the score tied 2-2 in the final minute, Tom
Kostopoulos threw a puck into the crease from the right-wing corner. Harry
Zolnierczyk kept it alive at the near post and Sill took a shot that banked off
the far post, off Hutchinson and in. "It went off the post and my heart sank for
a minute, then it went off his glove and into the net and that was exciting,"
Sill said. Kobasew added an empty netter with 6.1 seconds left. He also tied the
score 2-2 with 7:30 left in regulation, finishing off a cross-ice pass from
Andrew Ebbett at the right faceoff dot at the end of a long offensive-zone shift
for the Penguins. Kobasew, who missed the last two games, and Ebbett, who missed
the last 11, were making their return from injury for the Penguins. "Its good to
be back together. Weve played a lot together this season," Kobasew said. "Just a
good shift by all five guys out there. We were able to hem them in." ONeill
scored on a 5-on-3 power play to give St. Johns a 1-0 lead with 7:33 left in the
first period, hitting the top-left corner of the net from the high slot. The
Penguins outshot the IceCaps 8-3 in the first half of the second period and tied
the score when Machacek scored on a 3-on-1 break off a scramble in the neutral
zone at 3:49. St. Johns retook the lead on their second power-play goal of the
game with 5:55 left in the period. Cormier tipped in an ONeill shot from the
blue-line to make it 2-1. "Weve played with the lead before. Were pretty
comfortable," IceCaps winger Carl Klingberg said. "They came with a strong push.
They had their season on the line. They had to go for it and they succeeded.
Sometimes theyre going to do that."
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week, The Reporters put their thumbs out to the good and the bad in the world of
sports. This week they discuss the Winter Classic, the value of the BCS, a
possible rule change by FIFA and hockey tournament formats. Bruce Arthur,
National Post: My thumb is up to the most recent Winter Classic between Toronto
and Detroit at Michigan Stadium, despite everything. In the first period there
was so much snow that even completing a pass was an accomplishment. The horn
blew midway through the third - and midway through overtime, with Henrik
Zetterberg breaking in - to switch ends, because of the wind. It was goofy, but
with over 105,000 fans, a record, this game was an irresistible spectacle. And
really, it was just hockey. Teams simplify their games all the time. The
shootout is a gimmick, indoors or outdoors. And somehow, the Winter Classic
makes all its imperfections seem small. Eventually the NHL will exhaust this
gold mine. But on New Years Day, we got treated to something rare: beautiful
ugly hockey. Dave Naylor, TSN: My thumb is up to the Bowl Championship Series -
better known as the BCS - which plays out its existence tomorrow night in the
National Championship game between Auburn and Florida State. In its 16-year run,
the BCS brought up plenty of controversy and debate, but it also brought us a
game each year featuring No. 1 versus No. 2. While some may have said it made
other bowl games irrelevant, consider this weeks Orange Bowl between Ohio State
and Clemson or Sugar Bowl between Alabama and Oklahoma as evidence that the BCS
season was never just about one game. Next year the BCS will be replaced with
the four-team playoff.
Vince Wilfork Texans Jersey. But lets remember the BCS fondly as part of the evolution of college football. Michael
Farber, Sports Illustrated: My thumb is up to Sepp Blatter, normally the
occupationally challenged president of FIFA who, shockingly, has come up with a
good idea. Borrowing from hockey, Blatter has proposed a virtual penalty box for
those who feign injuries. For decades, a visit to the soccer touchline for an
apparently mortally injured player has been like a pilgrimage to Lourdes; the
healing powers there are miraculous. Now, rather than sprinting back onto the
field, that player would have to stay off for an unspecified spell, obliging his
team to play a man down. Given the scourge of soccer fakery, Blatter is right.
The time has come to institute a time penalty. Dave Hodge, TSN: My thumb would
be up to hockeys tournament format, such as we see at the World Juniors and as
were about to see again at the Olympics, if only it could be designed
differently. To make the quarter-final round at Malmo, Canada needed to win just
one game, against Germany. It was considered important to win the group, as
Canada did, but it wasnt essential. The games would have been much more
compelling if only four of 10 teams qualified for the so-called playoffs,
instead of eight. Its worse at the Olympics. Twelve teams take part in
round-robin play and all twelve move on to play outside their groups, some with
winless records. So next month, wake me when there are games that will eliminate
the losing teams, and when the names of those teams arent so obvious.
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