Knights 2 - DiamondBacks 5

This Sunday's matchup brought the two top teams in B Div. Arenex League to a head. With both teams having their full rosters in the lineup this looked to be a dandy of a game. The DBacks scored first with a shot from the slot as they worked the ball around and got the shot off to go up 1-0. The Knights had to battle hard to score in this game as the Diamondbacks kept collapsing around their net time after time giving the Knights forwards no room in front of the goalie to score. Knights did tie a short while later as Ryan Bhala got a nice feed from Clayton Weston and then tallied his 7th goal of the year, tying his last years total in goals eight games into this season. Then before the half, Kevin Singh trying to take a pass along the boards got his stick caught in the boards turning over the ball to the Diamondbacks who broke in on a two on one and scored to make it 2 - 1 before the 1st half buzzer. The second half was not so kind to the Knights on this night as the DBacks took advantage of the Brighouse turnovers and scored 3 more times. Weston notched his 11th goal of the campaign but it was too little too late as the D-Backs took the first round victory 5 - 2. Our third line played an excellent game by going hard to net creating chances and battling hard in the offensive end. Tank Randhawa had a few chances in front of the net but could not put it by the D-Backs goalie as the top of Gurs stick hit the roof of Arenex everytime he wound up! The D-Backs played a patient and simple game as they did alot of dumping and chasing and waited for us to turn the ball over and then they made us pay by scoring on their chances. We couldn't score on our chances and didn't SHOOT the ball enough in this game....especially the D-men. Take that wrist shot... get the ball on net and anything can happen.. we have to keep it simple in games like this. In the end we got outworked by the Diamondback team as they wanted this game more than we did. Controversy started to swirl around the Knights team after the game as the line of Sanghera, Lalani, and Kaila was not clicking on all cylinders and will be broken up causing the other lines to separate. Overall we're at 5 wins, 2 losses, and 1 tie... not too bad lets not panic...next game next sunday versus the our nemesis the Generals at 6:45 p.m..

3 Stars
Gur "The Tank" Randhawa
Dan "Kamikazee" Ko
Mandip "The Maniac" Kaila

Stats
Clayton Weston - 1G 1A
Ryan Bhala - 1G
Kulvir Kaila - 1A
Dan Ko - 1A
Mandy Parmar - 1A - 2min roughing, 2nd half
Mandip Kaila - 2min highstick, 1st half

Knights 5 - Kings 2

The Knights came into this game with an impressive 4-1-1 record and surprisingly with their regular full roster minus Mark 'ooooh my nuts Melim. The Kings lineup supported by a young, feisty group was looking to upset the first place Knights on this Friday night but fell short as the Knights played one of their most complete games of the year. It was a penalty filled affair as the Kings scored both of their goals on the powerplay and the Knights scored 4 out of 5 goals on their powerplay. The top two lines for the Knights led the way offensively as Brian' Sid the frickin Kid' Mcshane started things off by jamming in a rebound past Kings goalie Rick Baker. Nathan 'Ill show up to every other game' Brown also got one in close as he pinched in from the point and buried it after a couple of wacks at the ball. Kulvir 'i'm finding my role' Kaila scored on a beauty set up by Asif 'Koivu' Lalani on the powerplay and then a couple of powerplays later Ryan Bhala netted his 6th goal of the year on a similiar play on a set up by Clayton 'the machine' Weston. Weston also scored one on a nice pass by Ryan 'i gotta hit the net' Bhala. The line of the Tank Randhawa, Dipper' Don't Fuck with Me' Kaila and Bindi 'All in' Auluk were an intimidating force to be reconed with as they played hard and had an excellent game shutting down the other teams top lines. Kal 'injury prone' Sanghera also had a decent game playing the shut down centerman and also had some good scoring chances as he and Lalani, known as the two magicians, were paired up for most of the game. Kevin 'mickey of crown' Singh played well on defence again as he has elevated his gameplay for the last few games as did Dave Federko who was solid and Mandy' don't call me a fat pig' Parmar, who missed the last game because he benched himself for having a terrible game the game before, had a better performance this game. Rob Kahle made big save after big save as he robbed the kings best forward as he was deked, Kahle stuck out his glove and made a Luongo like save to keep the Knights ahead and secure the 5 to 2 victory putting the Knights record at 5-1-1 for 1st place in the Arenex B Div. A lot of good things came out of this game as we improved on our power play by working the ball down low and using the other winger coming in high in the slot for the shot ... still could be better as we have to brush up on a couple of things still ... but if we keep getting out the same players and keep getting consistent good play out of EVERY player we should be a difficult team to beat. Everyone is finding their role on this team. We have a chance this year to potentially go all the way so lets not fuck it up!! Also the chatter on the bench has been positive on the most part and the yelling at each other has been kept to a minimum so thats another plus. We have to stay out of the penalty box GUR!!! But at the same time play aggressively and fore check the other teams defense hard. Next game should be the toughest one so far for us as the top two teams battle next Sunday night. The diamondbacks are a tough physical team that have good goal tending and could score goals if given the chance. Overall this was a scrappy game with Kings taking 36 minutes and Knights 32 minutes in penalties. Both teams had 2 players each involved in scraps resulting in game misconducts. Knights won both scraps :)

1st star Clayton "The Machine" Weston
2nd star Nathan "BabyFace" Brown
3rd star Ryan "Look ma i got the ball" Bhala

Stats
Clayton Weston - 1G 3A
Ryan Bhala - 1G 2A - 2min interference
Kulvir Kaila - 1G 1A
Nathan Brown - 1G 1A
Brian Mcshane - 1G - 2min unsportsmanlike, 10min misconduct
Asif Lalani - 1A
Kevin Singh - 1A
Mandip Kaila - 10min misconduct
Bindy Aulukh - 2min hooking
Mandy Parmar - 2min tripping
Dave Fedorko - 4min roughing

Panthers 4 - Knights 6

Knights started slow again in the first half going down 2 nothing early but managed to tie it 3-3 by the half with goals coming on the power play. Knights turned it around in the 2nd half after a good pep talk by Kulvir/Gur during half-time. Team to the Tanks surprise actually kept quiet on the bench and executed controlling the game by pinning Panthers in their own end till the end. Knights tired out the veteran Panther team who just couldn't keep up. Knights outscored Panthers 3-1 in the second half pulling out a big win.

Knights were missing Asif, Dipper, Kal, Mandy and Nathan for this game. Call ups were Brian "McFeisty" Mcshane and Harvir "Junior Knight" Sidhu.

3 Stars
1st Star - Kevin "Crown junkie" Singh
2nd Star - Ryan "i need to one time it" Bhala
3rd Star - Mark "slapnuts" Melim

Stats
Kevin Singh - 2G 2A
Clayton Weston - 1G 1A
Mark Melim - 1G 1A
Brian McShane - 1G 1A
Ryan Bhala - 1G, 2min tripping, 2min hooking
Kulvir Kaila - 1A
Dave Fedorko - 1A
Harvir Sidhu - 1A
Gur Randhawa - 2min tripping, 4min slash