Ten years ago today (March 26th 2010) In Game 5 of the Interior divisionFinals in the best of seven series vs the Penticton Vees, The hometown Vipers were looking to advance to the BCHL League Finals with a win. Vernon took a 2-0 lead into the 3rd period on goals from Dylan Walchuk & Cole Ikkala. Beau Bennett & Joey Holka tied the game for Penticton in the 3rd period forcing overtime. Vees forward/captain Denver Manderson scored at 7:14 of the third overtime, keeping the visiting Penticton Vees season alive with a 3-2 triple overtime win in front of 2,815 fans at Wesbild Centre. Sean Bonar made 61 saves in the win, while Graeme Gordon made 60 saves in the loss. With the win the Vees force a Game 6 in Penticton with Vernon leading the series 3-2. The Vipers would win Game 6 in Penticton 4-1 winning the series 4-2 and advance to the BCHL League Finals vs the Powell River Kings.
Boxscore-Game Summary,
https://bchl.ca/stats/game-summary/5082
Denver Manderson's Player Profile:
https://www.eliteprospects.com/player/19266/denver-manderson
Denver Manderson's triple overtime winning goal,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bzVNkhnTIw
Good to still get our hockey fix, thank you. Any idea of what some of these former players are doing these days? Careers, family, coaching their own kids? They were all highly motivated kids so have all probably turned into great citizens. I have always been interested but assume you may need their permission to write. Keep up the great work VDHF.
ReplyDeleteThank you! I'm glad your enjoying the "On this day in Vernon Vipers history" I try my best to post any kind of news or articles I can find on former Vernon players. I post lots of "Vipers Alumni" news/stories on the blog through out the year.
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ReplyDeleteWhile your stories are widely-appreciated during " normal ( perhaps THIS is the new " normal ")" , times , they are manna to hockey-starved fans during sports-shutdown . Please keep 'em coming !