12/08/2022
LIGHTS OUT STUN BUZZKILLS 12-5
In our first ever CCBHL playoff matchup we had the favoured Buzzkills taking on Lights Out. These teams, captained by veterans Nevill Carney and Dan Ballem were sure to come out blazing. And they did as there was some serious faces on both sides of the floor and these teams wanted it! Who would be the first to score? BEAST MODE Andrew Stephens opens the scoring to put his team up 1-0 only 8 minutes into the game. Tim Squires responds off a nice pass from Kiyomi Takahara, who have been a strong combination all season long. With two minutes left in the half Dan Ballem snipes one, unassisted, to put LO up 2-1. Shots finished 23-14 in favour of LO at the half.
The second period was a different story as Lights Out came out absolutely haywire and scored 5 goals in the first 4:05 of the second period to go up 7-1 and the Buzzkills were shocked. Goals were from Nicky Soucy, Devin McManus, Andrew Stephens and Zach Thomas with some absolute beauties. Buzzkills would do their best to settle things down and they did come back stgrong with two straight goals from Tim for his second of three on the night, and Brad who had a couple snipes as well. With that the score was 7-3 and Buzz was toying with the idea of coming back. BEAST MODE would not comply as he sniped another unassisted marker followed by Zach Thomas, Amanda Stephens with a nice goal off a feed from Zach who also potted another goal. With 6 minutes to go Tim would fire home his hat trick goal, followed by Bradley's second of the game. It would prove to be too little too late as Andrew Stephens would add one more but this one is over with the final score 12-5.
Lights Out advance to the finals versus the winner of Saviors vs Capital City Lions.
