RAPID REACTION (at least by OHB's standards!)
HCB 2 - 3 OLL (OT)
- Was my prediction of a game 7 win too pessimistic? ED has instructed me not to jinx things, but we've already got the away win that I expected to be the main issue for us heading into this series.
- That's 2 OT wins in 2 vs Bolzano - both seem fair representations of where the respective clubs stand. It's close, but we edge them. Let's hope we keep doing that.
- Reid McNeill - wow! The author of both our goals in regulation. This looks like a genius move from Mr Ulฤar, if he really was targeting McNeill for next season, as the press release indicated. He seems slightly undersized in heftiness for a playoff D-man, but the man can play! For someone with the meagre point totals he has put up over his career, he chose a heck of a time to start scoring and setting up goals, for us at least!
- Dustin Tokarski - he had a shocker on that first goal, which inexplicably went in with a low-power shot that he saw cleanly. Yet, he redeemed himself later in the game. Getting the win should give him confidence; I hope that is the last shocker we'll see from him this playoff run.
Seeing Mahkovec stick handling his way through two defenders in OT to set up Petan at the back post:
- I thought about using a certain South Park meme, featuring Randy, to describe my reaction to Mahkovec and Petan's OT winner, but thought better of it, since I am not really anonymous ๐ WHAT A GOAL, THOUGH! Mahkovec putting on his finest display in the biggest moment of the season thus far is just so gratifying. Also, clearly the OHB effect was in play, since I got his jersey in the break ๐๐ P.S. Wasn't it great that it also came so early in OT, given that it's a full period of 5 on 5 now!! After 11 parents' evening meetings and an 11-hour work day, I appreciated it!
- We did well to survive the P1 onslaught (15-5 in shots to them) and come back to win this. Let's hold serve at home on Thursday and keep attacking when away.
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