Former Tiger Shark Kirk DeWaele is now with the Charlotte Checkers, so in part, going and playing a round of "Where's Wally?" was a large part of attending. He did not react at all to my Tiger Sharks jersey. How soon they all forget. ::sigh::

This game, played on January 9, 2007, feature a fight between Florida's Bill Kinkel and Charlotte's Hugh Jessiman, right off the opening face off, and a really palty preformance by the Blades for the first part of the game.

Florida managed only six shots on goal during the first period and only had 2 shots on goal during a full 5-minute power play with Ryan Constant off for boarding - an action that took Brent McDonald off the ice for a while. I was pretty sure we'd lost him for the game, but he did return in the third period.

That finally put us into the double digits in shots, with the Blades managing only 11 to Charlotte's 27 through two.

Thank God for David Shantz or the Blades never would have been in this game. As it was, the scored twice in the third to tie the game up and take it into overtime.

Shantz is nearly unbeatable in the shootout, and he denied five Charlotte tries. Chris Lee tallied on Chris Holt to give the Blades the shoot-out win.



All the action, including fight shots can be found in my Yahoo Photo Album.

Enjoy!