Storm take 3 of 4 points

Having earned points in just two of their first five games, the Storm were hoping their two home games this weekend would act as a springboard towards turning around their slow start.  With a win and a shoot out loss, time will tell how the Storm react to a fairly successful weekend.


Friday night saw the Storm deserve a better fate than they got.  After a mediocre start to the game, the Storm dominated the final two periods and most of overtime, only to lose 3-2 in a shoot out.  Chad Berglund and Dylan Hubbs gave the Grizzlys two seperate one goal leads, only to see Storm forward John Girman tie the game both times.  Berglund's goal came on a power play a minute and a half into the game, with Girman tying it 7 minutes later.  Hubbs scored almost five minutes into the second, with Girman tying the game again with just over seven minutes remaining in regulation.
The Storm out-shot the Grizzlys 17-10 in the third period and overtime, with at least half of those shots being excellent scoring opportunities.  But outside of Girman's goal-mouth scramble goal in the third, they were unable to get anything else behind Grizzlys goalie Brandon Thiessen, who made 36 saves on the night. 
In the shoot-out, the Grizzlys were able to prevail, even without the services of arguably their two best forwards in Berglund and Nicholas Bourgeois, who both picked up minors and 10-minute misconducts at the end of overtime, making them inelligible for the shoot-out.

On Saturday, the struggling storm offence finally came to life, scoring three times in a 1:41 span in the second period, and firing five overall en route to the win.  After Luke Challier opened the scoring for Camrose, Jeff Clark (who celebrated his 18th birthday on Saturday), Mitch Neumeier and Jordan Forfar rattled off the quick fire attack for the Storm.  The Kodiaks would not get closer than a goal the rest of the night, as the teams traded goals the remainder of the way, with Cole Wilson, Luc Vandale and Ben Gallacher scoring for the Kodiaks, sandwiching Storm goals off the sticks of Darren Kramer (on a powerplay) and Cam McWilliam. 

Ryan Hamberg made quite the debut in Storm silks, laying out Clayton Jardine with a huge hit at the Camrose blueline about seven and a half minutes into the game, and then immediately being challenged by Luke Challier (surprisingly, there was no instigator call against Challier). 

SCORING SUMMARIES

FRIDAY :  GRIZZLYS - 3  at STORM - 2  (SO)
1st Period
1. Olds  Berglund (Bourgeois, Gans)  1:34 (PP)
2. GP  Girman (2)  (Fritz, Correale)  8:30
Penalties: Cumming GP (Cross Check) 1:14, Fritz GP (Interference) 10:56
SHOTS:  GP - 15  Olds - 12
2nd Period
3. Olds  Hubbs (Dorowitz) 4:57
Penalties: Dunkls Olds  Crone GP (roughing) 3:56, Howe Olds (Instigating, Fighting, Misconduct) Kramer GP (Fighting) Beairsto GP Grundy Olds Dorowicz Olds Hubbs Olds (Misconducts) 5:36, Kanscal Olds (High Sticking) 14:54, Karl Olds (Interference) 15:37, Bench Minor GP (Too Many Men) 17:46
SHOTS: GP - 6/21  Olds - 6/18
3rd Period
4. GP Girman (2)(3) (Correale, Phillips) 12:55
Penalties: Sloan Olds (Tripping) 0:29, Sloan Olds (High Sticking) 2:33, Morrow Olds Beairsto GO (Roughing After Whistle and Unsportsmanlike Conduct) 10:29.
SHOTS: GP - 12/33  Olds - 6/24
Overtime
NO SCORING
Penalties: Walls GP Neumeier GP Berglund Olds Bourgeois Olds (Roughing After Whistle and Misconducts) 5:00
SHOTS: GP - 5/38  Olds - 4/28
Shoot Out
GP - Mault SCORES, Fritz MISS, Correale MISS
Olds - Jones SCORES Kanscal SCORES
Power Play: GP - 0/5  Olds - 1/3
Goalies:  Edwards GP (L, 0-1-1, 26/28)  Thiessen Olds (W, 3-1, 36/38)


SATURDAY:  KODIAKS - 4  at STORM - 5
1st period
No scoring
Penalties: Hamberg GP (Interference, Fighting) Challier Cam (Fighting) 7:27, Dion Cam (Interference) 8:49, N.Marshall Cam Kramer GP (Roughing) 10:48, Walls GP (Interference) 14:35, Sevalrud Cam (Elbowing) 16:04
SHOTS: GP - 11  Cam - 8
2nd period
1. Cam Challier (Hale, C. Jardine) 6:52
2. GP Clark (1) (Lewis, Woodley) 8:40 PP
3. GP Neumeier (1) (Cote) 8:55
4. GP Forfar (1) (kramer, Phillips) 10:21
5. Cam Wilson (Kaiser, Dion) 13:10
Penalties: Bradley Cam Cote GP (Roughing After Whistle) 1:51, Lewis GP (Holding) 3:45, Bradley Cam (High Sticking) 7:21, C.Jardine Cam (Elbowing) 14:48, Walls GP (Roughing) 18:37
SHOTS: GP - 12/23  Cam - 14/22
3rd period
6. GP Kramer (2) (Forfar, Cumming) 13:08 PP
7. Cam Vandale (Sevalrud, Bokenfohr) 16:04
8. GP McWilliam (1) (Cote) 17:08
9. Cam Gallacher (lashyn) 18:37
Penalties: Woodley GP (Roughing) Skauge Cam (Slashing) 6:01, Sevalrud Cam (Inelligible Player) 12:15, Myers Cam (Hooking) 19:18
SHOTS: GP - 12/35  Cam - 14/36
Powerplays: GP - 2/6   Cam - 0/4
Goalies:  GP - Dzijacky (W, 2-1-1, 32/36)  Cam - Flette (L, 1-3-1, 30/35)