The Family Day Weekend started and ended the same way for the Belleville Bulls, with everyone involved scratching their heads asking "Whats going on with this team?"
Belleville Bulls @ Oshawa Generals Friday February 17 2012
Friday night the Bulls travelled to OSH to face the Generals. Coming in to this game the Bulls were leading the season series 4-2. With a victory Belleville would jump from 9th to 6th in the Eastern Conference playoff race.
The Bulls would start Malcolm Subban, and the Generals would counter with Belleville Minor Hockey product Kevin Bailie, making his 15th straight start.
The 1st period started with Bulls Austen Brassard and Generals Andy Andreoff being eject from the game at 0:08 for par taking in what the on ice officials deemed as a staged fight. Meaning that both players would not only miss this game but their teams next game as well, because the on ice call also carries a one game suspension. The game had a really chippy feel all night and the result was 5 different bouts.
The games 1st goal of the night was scored by OSH Christian Thomas(28th) on the PP at 12:03 from Scott Laughton and Matt Petgrave. a few minutes later at 14:22 Laughton(15th) scored a goal of his own from Nicklas Jensen and Daniel Maggio. The 1st period would end with the Generals leading the Bulls 2-0. Oshawa would out shot Belleville 12-8.
The 2nd frame started the same way the 1st ended with the Generals scoring goals. the 1st being scored unassisted at 7:20 by Emerson Clark(10th). Then at 12:20 import Sebastian Uvira got on the score sheet with his 13th from from Jensen and Petgrave. The Generals were not do there they scored one last time in the 2nd when Laughton buried his 2nd of the night from Jensen and Nick Quinn on the PP. Belleville manged to make it on the score sheet in the 2nd when at 19:00 on the PP Daniil Zharkov lite the lamp with his 18th from Jake Worrad and Jordan Subban. In the 2nd the Bulls out shot the Generals 14-13. Belleville was down by the 4 goals and trailing 5-1 after 40 minutes.
The Bulls needed a big third. The Coaching staff tried shaking things up by inserting Charlie Graham in the net. It didn't help. Graham was beat on the first shot he faced when Lucas Lessio put his 27th over Charlies glove at 1:31 from J.P Labardo and Maggio. Oshawa wanted this game more then the Bulls from Belleville and they kept scoring. Generals PIMs leader Scott Sabourin scored his 6th at 6:33 from Lessio and Quinn. To round out the scoring and as a nice bonus for 5793 in Attendance Scott Laughton put one past Graham for his 18th of the season and 3rd of the night, at 14:26 from Thomas and Petgrave. The Game ended with Generals beating the Bulls by a score of 8-1 . The Generals out shot Belleville 37-32. Belleville was 1/8 on the PP and 3/5 on the PK.
When this game was over Belleville Bulls fans started asking "Why were we not ready ?". The Generals came out of the gate wanting to win, and respond with an effort that showed that they know at this point in the season every game counts. Belleville did not. Leaving us to wonder, if the Bulls can't get up for this must win game how would they get up for Saturdays must win game Vs the Mississauga St. Michaels Majors.
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