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Week 2 Results
Calgary Roughnecks @ Toronto Rock
Attendance: 11,120
Toronto jumped all over Calgary early and often as they scored 7 times in the opening quarter and led 7-3 after 15 minutes of play. Six different players scored for Toronto in the quarter as they spread the ball around. Early on it is looking like a 20+ goal night for Toronto.
Calgary would score first in the 2nd quarter to get back to within 3 but Toronto would score the final two goals of the quarter to take a 9-4 lead into the half.
After Toronto would score first to make the score 10-4 Jeff Shattler would score two goals in a little over a minute to bring Calgary back to 10-6 with just under 10 minutes left in the 3rd. Toronto would get those goals back by the end of the 3rd and would lead 12-6 after the third.
Calgary would try to fight back in the 4th as they would score 5 of the first 7 goals in the quarter to get back to 14-11 with just over 3 minutes remaining. That is as close as they could make it as Toronto would score twice in the final two minutes for the 16-11 final.
For Calgary Jeff Shattler would lead the team with 4 goals and add 2 assists. Shawn Evans would score one time but led the team with 7 assists for a team high 8 points. Daryl Veltman would add a goal and 3 assists.
For Toronto Stephen LeBlanc would score a game high of 5 goals and also assisted on 2 other goals. Barrett Billings scored just 1 goal but had a game high 9 assists for a game high 10 points. Rob Hellyer would have a hat trick with 3 goals.
Vancouver Stealth @ Colorado Mammoth
Attendance: 15,101
Drew Westervelt would open the scoring with 2 goals 47 seconds apart to give Colorado a 2-0 lead. Vancouver would score just 13 seconds after his second goal to make it 2-1 but Colorado would add another goal midway through the quarter and they lead 3-1 after the first quarter.
Vancouver would dominate the 2nd quarter, on the scoreboard, as they would score 5 of the 6 goals in that quarter and take a lead going into the half 6-4.
The teams would split the next 6 goals scored and Vancouver would lead 9-7 with under 2 minutes left in the 3rd. Colorado would respond with 3 goals in the last 2 minutes of the quarter which were scored in a 30 second window. In a blink Colorado takes a 10-9 lead after three quarters of play and the crowd, which was already into the game, is now in a fever pitch.
Vancouver would tie the game a little over 6 minutes into the final quarter but 2 minutes later Drew Westervelt would score to give Colorado an 11-10 lead. Just over one minute later Vancouver would tie the game at 11 with 5:53 left in the game. Just over a minute later Adam Jones would strike as he scored twice in just over a 30 second time period to give Colorado a 13-11 lead with 4:13 left in the game. Vancouver tighten the game with 1:57 left at 13-12 and the last two minutes were nail biting time for the home crowd but Colorado would hold off Vancouver for the 13-12 victory.
Rhys Duch would lead Vancouver with 4 goals and added 2 assists. Tyler Digby also had a hat trick with 3 games and also added 3 assists. Alex Gajic led the team with 7 assists and added a goal for a game high 8 points.
For Colorado Adam Jones, Sean Pollock and Drew Westervelt would each score three goals for hat tricks; they had 1, 0 and 2 assists respectively. John Grant Jr. had just 1 goal but added 4 assists.
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