Levittown/Hicksville Case Study

In a back and forth close contest between RVC/Malverne Varsity Hockey team vs Levittown/Hicksville. The RVC Cyclones pull out a stunning victory with a short-handed goal with only 8 seconds left in the game. The scoring started at 8:30 of the first period on a goal by Ryan Chelius assisted by Andrew Cardi. Approximately 3:00 minutes later Levittown/Hicksville scored to tie the game at 1, both were even strength goals. With 2:37 left in the first period RVC scores it’s second goal on a power play by James Surless assisted by Brett Dougan to take a 2-1 lead ending the first period. Starting the second period RVC’s James Surless is called for tripping at 12:45. Special teams have been superb thus far for the Cyclones going into this game. But unfortunately for the Cyclones, Levittown/Hicksville broke thru at 11:17 to score and tie the game at 2. Going into the third period Jason Posner made several great saves to keep the score close. But at 8:20 of the third Levittown/Hicksville manages to score their 3rd goal of the game and take a 3-2 lead. By this time the Cyclones defense started to tier but …show more content…
As time wined down the team dug deep to muster up some extra effort and with 3:33 left in the third period the magic began. Ryan Chelius who ignored (or didn’t hear, which I find hard to believe) Coach Gerry’s command to get off the ice because of an over extended shift, continued his pursuit of the puck only to score the tying goal. With the game tied at 3 everything seemed to start to unravel, when AJ Sandorfi was called for slashing at 1:44 left in the game. The Levittown/Hicksville team took a time out at this point; the RVC Cyclones used their time out earlier in the period. The timeout came as a relief for the Cyclones players, especially when they had to kill a penalty to walk away with a tie. With a minute 1:44 left in the period, play began and the RVC Cyclones started to control most of the play while dumping the puck. That’s