Sunday, December 6, 2015

Vees Bottle Up Vipers:

This was in todays Morning Star Newspaper:

December 6th 2015

Goals have been hard to come by lately for the Vernon Vipers.

So have wins.

First star Zach Driscoll made 28 saves as the league-leading Penticton Vees blanked the Snakes 3-0 in B.C. Hockey League action in front of 2,109 fans Friday at the South Okanagan Events Centre.

The Vipers (13-17-0-2) hosted the Cowichan Valley Capitals (15-10-1-3) Saturday at Kal Tire Place. The Caps beat the Warriors 6-4 Froday in West Kelowna.

Vernon entered Saturday's game having lost five straight contests, scoring just eight goals in those contests.

The Vipers have scored nine goals in losing six of their last seven, and have scored more then four goals in a game only once in that stretch, a 5-0 win Nov. 22 at home against the Alberni Valley Bulldogs.

Against the Vees, the Vipers were down 1-0 heading into the third before running into a rash of penalty trouble.

"We gave ourselves a chance to win on the road but our discipline was not very good" said Vernon head coach Mark Ferner.

"You give a very good team eight powerplays (Vees went 1-8) and you're playing with fire."

Vernon went 0-3 with the man advantage.

After a scoreless first period, the Vees opened the scoring on the powerplay at 13:20 of the second period when Easton Brodzinski deflected a point shot from Dante Fabbro past Vipers goalie Anndrew Shortridge, who was brilliant in making 42 stops on the night for the second-star honours.

Scott Conway, with his 24th of the year, on a scramble in front of Shortridge, and Nicholas Jones scored in the third period for the Vees (28-2-0-0), who have won all three meetings with the Vipers this season, all in Penticton.

Vees forward Tyson Jost picked up two assists to take over the league scoring lead with sixty points, one point ahead of Conway and Sheldon Rempel of the Nanaimo Clippers.

Vernon who played without defenceman Griffin James and Mac Ferner, and forward Christian Cakebread due to injuries, called up defenceman Carter Stephenson from the Vancouver NW Giants of the Major Midget League.

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