The story of the game was the goaltending by Dartmouth as the Hurricane failed to capitalize on their shots and deflections. Time after time the puck lay in the crease and you thought, yes, finally that’s in but yet it wasn’t. The Hurricane did managed to get one for their efforts with just over three minutes left in the first on the power play as Bronsen Benight (Mulrooney, Jollimore) scored on a wrap around taking the puck to the net to beat the keeper.

Backdoor passes just wide, open net misses, deflections that took just a bit too much off the shot and yes more goalie robbery than Houdini, making pucks disappear before they could find the back of the net. Yet specialty teams can sometimes be an advantage and if you let up on your power play thinking there is no pressure Ty Duffus (Harnish) will blow by you and find the five hole with five minutes left in the second.

Shot after shot, saves, miss fires, broken sticks and yet more chances. In what could have easily been a blow out the Hurricane only managed one more on the power play from Jollimore (Nickerson) on a pass/shot that managed to squeeze in early in the third.

A good defensive effort as Wile posted his league leading seventh shutout and a relatively easy night between the pipes. Make the final Hurricane 3 – Dawgs 0 from the Sportsplex in Dartmouth