Knights Win 2007/2008 B-Division!!

Brighouse Knights finished the season atop of the B Division with best record ever of an impressive 14-6-1. It wasn't an easy road especially falling into a 1-3 slump late in the season. However the persevering Knights won the last 2 critical games of the season against high ranking tough opponents to capture the title. This year B Division was the most competitive as its ever been in last five years.

Knights now have 2 weeks off before first playoff game most likely Sun Mar 9th. We do have a gym rented next 2 Tuesdays in Richmond, guys should come out and get a practice in. Keep in shape boys, go for a few runs during the week, semi-final match up will a tough one.

Knights 7 - Pirates 5

Post coming soon...

3 Stars
Nathan "Baby face" Brown
Gur "The Gorilla" Randhawa
Ryan "Bollywood" Bhala

Stats
Nathan Brown - 2G 1A
Ryan Bhala - 2G 1A
Mark Melim - 1G 2A
Gur Randhawa - 1G 1A
Kal Sanghera - 1G 1A
Bindy Aulukh - 1A
Kevin Singh - 1A
Dan Ko - 2min tripping first half

Knights 7 - 4 DiamondBacks

Big win...post coming soon from Ryan "Bollywood" Bhala...

3 Stars
Kevin Singh
Brian Mcshane
Bindy Aulukh

Knights 3 - Kings 5

Coming soon...simply put, got outworked on this night by a King's team of 8 players. Next game is big to get a bye first round!!!

3 Stars
Nathan Brown
Mandip Kaila
Bindy Aulukh

Stats
Nathan Brown 1G-2A
Mandip Kaila 2A
Sandip Dulay 1G
Kulvir Kaila 1G
Bindy Aulukh 1A
Kevin Singh 1A, 2min roughing, 2min bodychecking
Dan Ko 2 min high sticking

Panthers 0 - Knights 5

Knights and Panthers faced off for the third and final time of the year Sunday with the Panthers needing a win to stay alive in the playoff race and the Knights needing a win to break out of a two game losing streak and keeping pace with the first place D-Backs. With their so called back up goalie Jimmy 'I'm only 67.845%" Mattu in between the pipes the Knights got off to a slow start by only scoring once and mostly penalty killing for the first half. With a pep talk at the half from half a dozen guys "we got to score on the power play and take over this game boys...lets bury these guys.. .second half is ours," and to the cheer "WIN" on three the middle aged Knights came out into the second half on fire and scored on the ensuing power play and then added 3 more goals to make it a 5-0 final. Jimmy "aka i have many names" Mattu displayed a Luongo like performance in this game stopping everything that the Panthers put in his way. Kevin "Mickey" Singh also played a part to preserve the shutout for Jimmy by making two spectacular saves right at the end of the game, one of them hitting him in the face, one of which he caused himself. The Knights second line showed promise as Asif Lalani back in the lineup hooked up with Brian Mcshane and Kulvir Kaila and combined for 6 points. McShane was a maniac in this game by outworking, out hustling, and winning the battles in the trenches a performance not to be forgotten. Thats the way we all should be playing if we want to win a championship! Also Asif, Mark, and Nathan were all thankfully in our lineup on Sunday as they had a scary gangland type of encounter on Friday night at the IHL arena...hopefully they can show up to the rest of our games and the playoffs and play in the safe, peaceful confines of Arenex!..haha... all we do after the games is have beers!!! Cheers boys!! Next game goes Sunday at 5:30 versus the Kings ..HUGE game!

3 Stars
Jimmy "I'm only 68,.745% today" Mattu
Ryan "Bollywood" Bhala
Asif "I got hauled into a paddy wagon on Friday night" Lalani

Stats
Ryan Bhala - 3G
Asif Lalani - 1G 1A
Kulvir Kaila -1G 1A
Brian Mcshane - 2A - 2min interference 2nd half
Kevin Singh - 1A - 2min body checking 1st half
Mark Melim -1A - 2min interference 1st half
Bindy Aulukh - 1A
Gur Randhawa - 4 min high sticking 1st half
Nathan Brown - 2min roughing 2nd half

Pirates 7 - Knights 5

Knights started this game again with a depleted lineup missing some key players (Asif, Mark, Nathan, Dipper). We started the game with 2 penalties with Pirates scoring twice. With Knights shorthanded again late in the 1st half Kulvir Kaila intercepted a pass in the neutral zone and blasted a shot past Pirates netminder. Knights dominated most of the 1st half with shot after shot but could not score. Second half Knights tied it with a Ryan "Bollywood" Bhala making a beautiful pass to The Machine who blasted it past Jas "The Apna Pirate" Basra. Towards middle of the second half Pirates scored 3 times in 3 minute span to take the lead, Knights fought back to make it a one goal game however Pirates iced it with a minute to go. Gur "The Tank" Randhawa had about 20 shots on net but could not beat Pirates stellar goalie.

Knights battled hard this game and showed a gutsy effort fighting to come back down 3 goals. Unfortunate time to get into a mini slump late in the season, hopefully our missing team-mates can make remaining 4 games so we can finish strong heading into the playoffs. Knights destiny still lies in their own hands in finishing first with some key games with Panthers, Pirates, DBacks and Kings.

3 Stars
Clayton "The Machine" Weston
Gur "The Tank" Randhawa
Brian "Sid the Kid" Mcshane

Stats
Ryan Bhala - 3A
Clayton - 2G
Kulvir - 1G
Brian - 1G 1A, 2min interference
Kal - 1G
Gur Randhawa - 1A, 2min holding
Dave Fedorko - 2 min interference

Knights 3 - Ballhogs 6

Coming soon, Knights played poorly defensively in the 1st half and took costly penalties which ultimately led to their defeat...

3 Stars
1st star - Nathan Brown
2nd star - Rob Kahle
3rd star - Bindy Aulukh

Stats
Nathan Brown - 1G
Bal Mattu - 1G
Brian Mcshane - 1G - 2min Bodycheck
Gur Randhawa - 1A
Kulvir Kaila - 1A
Kevin Singh - 2min Bodycheck, 2min Inteference

B Div - Playoff Format

Darsh has released the playoff format for this year as follows:

Top 6 teams make playoffs
Top 2 teams get a bye
Teams 3 - 6 play best of 3 series. All rounds will be best of 3 series.

The games are all: 2 X 25min,
: 10 min O/T last 3min stop time
: Shootout

The finals may have a longer o/t depending on floor time availability.

Knights 6 - 3 Sabres

The Knights and Sabres met for the third and final time last Sunday evening in a game that was just as important as any other as the Knights are going down the stretch here looking for a first place finish and that all important first week bye in the playoffs. It took a while for the offense to get started in this one but when it did it came in waves. Clayton Weston and Mark Melim struck within seconds of each other to make it a 2-0 game and then Melim added another minutes after to make it a 3 to 0 lead in the first half. The Knights thinking they were going to blow out the Sabres took this game a little too lightly and it showed on the scoreboard as the Sabres stormed back to make it a 3 to 2 game. The Knights then took over again in the second half and scored three more times to make it a 6 to 3 final. An ugly win but we'll take it. Melim ended with 4 goals as he had the finishing touch in this one with Bhala adding 3 helpers to go along. The top line combined for 10 points as they have carried the Knights this season game after game. The second line is showing promise as Sid the frickin Kid Mcshane has become a regular in the last few games and adds that much needed grit and grind that is needed on that line. He opens up a lot of room out there for the others to do their thing. Ballhogs are next on the schedule which i think will be the game of the year for the Knights. Already have beaten the Hogs twice this year this time around they will ice a more dangerous lineup with league leading goal scorer Harp Kalkut. Both teams have been hot as of late and it should be a dandy of a game.

3 Stars
1st star - Mark "Slapnuts" Melim
2nd star - Rob "FingerBanger" Kahle
3rd star - Ryan "Bollywood" Bhala

Stats
Mark Melim - 4G 1A
Ryan Bhala - 3A
Clayton Weston - 1G 1A
Brian Mcshane - 1G
Dan Ko - 1A
Kulvir Kaila - 1A
Kal Sanghera - 1A
Bal Mattu - 2min Interference

Generals 4 - Knights 7

The Brighouse Knights and the Burnaby Generals faced off for the third and final time this year against each other with the series tied at one win a piece. The Knights had a small turnout for this important game with only nine guys making the trip out to New West going with 5 forwards and 4 defenseman..(pathetic!!). The Knights got off to a slow start by getting into penalty trouble early on with the Generals countering and taking advantage and going up 2 to 0. Knights however didn't panic they then stayed out of the box and started to frustrate the Generals who then started to take penalty after penalty leading to a couple of power play goals for the Knights. Mark Melim, Ryan Bhala, Sid the Kid Mcshane, and Nathan Brown had one tally each while Mandy "the sniper" Parmar had two in this game as he was moved up to the right wing from Defense, because of forward personnel shortage, and did a great job finishing on the plays. This win was an excellent team effort by the players that showed up and they played like a first place team by not panicking when down 2 to 0 to the defending champs and then grinding them down and then letting their skill take over for the win. Kahle was also stellar in between the pipes. Coming down the stretch here we HAVE to start getting a consistant turnout by our team members... 10 guys can't win every game! This game was also a ruff affair as their were a couple of cheapshot hits by the classless Generals as they targeted Clayton Weston for the most part of the game. Gur "The tank" Randhawa played like a Tank set a precedent by going after the generals best defenseman Zorin Babic and forward Tyler by giving them a shot in the head and then running him over letting the Generals know that we won't be pushed around. He also drew 3 penalties out of the Generals and screened General's goalie on PP which led to 3 crucial goals. One other note... with 18 seconds left in the game we were up by two goals and Mark Melim blocks a shot with his face pretty much!!.... thats what we call a team player!!!!!! Great effort keep it up this could be the year boys!

Score was actually 7-4 with Ryan "I have a twitch" Bhala scoring in the empty net but scorekeeper was too busy attending to bloodied casualties of war that he forgot to write it down.

Knights were missing Asif, Kal, Bindy, Kulvir, Dipper, Sandip in this game.

3 stars
1st - Mark "Diving to stop balls with his face with 30 seconds left and team up by 2 goals...wow" Melim
2nd - Mandy "Twinkle Toe" Parmar (played forward)
3rd - Nathan "baby face" Brown

Stats
Mandy Parmar 2G
Dave Fedorko 2A
Nathan Brown 1G 1A, 2min Roughing, 4min Slash
Gur Randhawa 1A, 2min Roughing
Brian Mcshane 1G 1A - 2min Roughing, 2min Interference
Clayton Weston 1A - 2min Too Many Men
Ryan Bhala 2G 1A
Mark Melim 1G 1A - 2min Roughing
Kevin Singh 1A - 2min Tripping

Make up game against pirates will be Feb 24th Sunday, last game of the season heading into playoffs the following week.