Fifteen years ago today (April 15th 2005) In Game 4 of the BCHL LeagueFinals best of seven series vs the Surrey Eagles, The hometown Vipers fell behind 2-0 in the 1st period and 3-1 in the 3rd before Cody McMullin & Andy Zulyniak tied the game forcing overtime for a second straight night. Tyler Eckford scored on the Eagles fourth shot of overtime at 2:00 giving the visiting Surrey Eagles a 4-3 overtime victory in front of 2,293 fans at the Civic Arena. Vernon outshot Surrey 55-29 Michael-Lee Teslak made 52 saves in the win, while Jon Olthuis made 25 saves in the loss as Surrey took a commanding 3-1 series lead. The Eagles would take Game 5 in Surrey 5-1 winning the series 4-1 and winning the Fred Page Cup, advancing to the Doyle Cup vs the Camrose Kodiaks.
Boxscore-Game Summary,
https://bchl.ca/stats/schedule/21/10/4/homeaway?league=1&gametype=-1
Tyler Eckford's Player Profile:
https://www.eliteprospects.com/player/11919/tyler-eckford
The one memory that stood out from this series was the amount of diving coming from the Surrey Eagles. The entire series it seemed like anytime a Vernon player hit or touched a Surrey player, he would fall, dive or embellished the hit. It was terrible and the refs fell for it almost every play. It was a joke! I'm not saying the Vipers didn't get away with penalties, all teams do every game but the amount of diving or acting on every play/hit was a joke!
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