The Admirals host the Grand Rapids Griffins (Dead Things) in Game 1 of the Division Finals.
The Ads were 4-3-1 against GR, and 3-1 at home against the second place Griffins.
The Griffins have two players with 3 playoff goals, #27 center Austin Czarnik and #48 forward Jonatan Berggren (not misspelled).
The Admirals counter with Phil Tomasino with 3 goals and Zach L'Heureux with 5 G and 4 A for an awesome 9 points.
The starters are Troy in goal. Del Gaizo at LD and Ufko on RD. Ozzy at LW, Svechkov at C and Tomasino at RW.
Sebastian Costa in goal for the victims. I mean GR. All 6'6" of him. GR has a 6'8" LW.
Blatant penalty not called on GR in the slot. Parsnip was pulled down. GR goes down the ice and scores. The fans were booing ref #47, Mike Sullivan, before the goal. Kemell pulled down in the O-zone, no call by #47 again! Nice elbow by Johansson at the Blue line. Not called. With 8:44 remaining, the SOG are 4-1 GR. Note: The Ads had a shot that hit Cossa and dropped next to the right post. It was not counted.
92 jumped on Tomasino's back and no call. Lots of "Heys" from the fans on that non-call. Schaefer with a big hit in the NE corner. A shot hit Cossa in the chest. That did not count as a SOG either. After the whistle 3 Griffins go after Ads players, no call. It was Didier, the Captain against Gross in the SW corner, and 2 guys pushing Svechkov at the bottom of the right circle. Svech and Parsnip look angry!
Zach (6) scores straight down the slot at 16:35. Assist to Parssinen (6).
Edit: Ufko (3) was was given a secondary assist during intermission.
One of the linesman does not know how to drop a puck. Really? At this time of the year? SOG 6-4 GR, according to the scoreboard.
The Ads had the first SOG of period 2. It had a big rebound, but the Ads did not get to it. Schaefer just took a stick to the face by the Ads bench. NOTHING is a penalty on GR.
GR scores on a 2-on-1, to make it 2-1.
Egor gets a Holding penalty. Then he was Xchecked in the NE corner. My wife's comment, "Like they (GR) haven't been holding the whole game". After the whistle at 11:18, Didier goes behind the GR net to mug L'Heureux. No call on that! Again, that was all AFTER the whistle!
Ufko with a shot from the left point that Cossa did not catch. It trickled just wide! At 7:45 remaining, the SOG were 10 apiece. If the Ads can get more SOG, they will score a bunch on this guy. Mutter for Delay. A real penalty! Seconds before, an Admiral was pushed down from behind twice at the far Blue line and there was no call. That is Interference!
Tomasino (4) scores 5-hole to tie the game on a rebound. The refs are reviewing. Why? The goal is good. Assists to Ozzy (3) and Svechkov (3). SOG were 12-4 Admirals totals are 16-10.
Period 3 begins with the linesmen getting in the way of the Ads offense twice in 90 seconds. Mutter and then Weatherby just creamed two Griffins. At the other end, 2 or 3 Griffins were digging at Troy when he was laying on the puck. The Ads players pushed them around a lot after the slow whistle.
Foudy with a wicked shot. 12 jousting with Ufko after the whistle. Mutter grabs 12 and drags him toward the NW corner. 12 elbows Mutter in the stomach 3 or 4 times. No call.
GR called for Tripping Schaefer. I believe that is their first penalty called in this game. Then 43 throws Schaefer's stick down the ice. Just 2 minutes. Ads tripped on the PP, no call.
GR scores off the crossbar. 18 Xchecks the Ads RW before the puck drop and no call. Schaefer smashed somebody in the neutral zone. Several cheap shots by Griffins AFTER the whistle. Two of the Admirals hit them back. The Ads missed an open net. They could have 4 or 5 goals if they could get the puck on frame. GR players cheap shotting each other! Cossa took swipes at Foudy and Ufko! Weisblatt Xchecked down in front of ref #46 Stephen Hiff when the puck was in another zone. L'Heureux punched in the back of the head off of the last face off. L'Heureux complaining to the moron refs. Weatherby tripped behind the play. GR called for a hand pass.Just 2:36 left. Troy comes out. Penalty on Del Gaizo for a trip. Hooking? 1:01 left, TO Ads. ENG.
The Ads tried hard to score. The final was 4-2 GR. The SOG were 27-14 Ads.
Milwaukee had 3 minors and Grand Rapids was called for 1 minor of the 50 they committed in of 3266 bewildered fans.
Edit:
After the game, some fan on the sidewalk in front of the arena was yelling "the refs screwed the Admirals!".
It wasn't me, but I agree 100%
