Slammers shut out Western Capitals in blasting 8-0 victory

Slammers defenseman Sam Caldwell seen here in action
against the Summerside Western Capitals on Friday, February
24th. The Slammers blasted the Western Capitals 8-0.

The Woodstock Slammers played their final home game of the 2011-2012 campaign against the Summerside Western Capitals.

The Slammers blasted their PEI rivals 8-0 in a shutout victory.

The contest was an exciting one. The Slammers played hard to keep their rivals off the board.

A crowd of 1,022 attendees helped to enrich the atmosphere which cannot be described in mere words.

With one goal and four assists (five total points), Tim Campbell led the Slammers in Friday night's game. Philip Fife pitched in with two goals and one assist.

Campbell opened the scoring nearly four and a half minutes into the game. Ben MacSwain increased the lead to 2-0 just over four minutes later. Brett MacLean scored the third Slammers' goal at 11:52, and Nick Huard made the score 4-0 at 15:51.

Summerside changed goaltenders after only twenty minutes. Landon Noel started in net for the Western Capitals, but was replaced by Jared Kelly, who played the remainder of the game. Noel stopped 11 of 15 shots faced, while Kelly refused 20 out of 24 shots in relief of Noel. Woodstock's Sam Renault only faced sixteen shots, stopping all of them in the shutout victory.

Philip Fife scored only fifty one seconds into period two, then scored a power play goal at 3:42. Woodstock scored only once, despite having four power play opportunities.

Robert Visca slipped a shot past Kelly at 13:08.

Period three was scoreless, but Connor Tresham scored a shorthanded goal at 16:32 in period two, sealing the Caps' fate.

Tim Rose and Ben Berisha worked to solve their problems on the ice at 8:37 in the third period. Both were issued fighting major penalties.

Slammers associate coach Kyle Adams assumed
the role of top dog on Friday night. Adams was acting
in the place of head coach Jason Tatarnic, who was unable
to be behind the bench in Friday night's game due to a game
misconduct received on Wednesday, February 22nd. Adams
is seen here speaking to Chris Rygus.

 Andrew Schriver

 Sam Renault stopped all 16 shots faced on Friday night

 Sam Caldwell

 Sam Renault leans over to pick up a water bottle which had
been tossed to him from the bench during period three.

 Andrew Schriver

 Tim Rose

 Mackenzie Brown

 Sam Caldwell

 Sam Renault

 It is important to have a trainer on the bench
to assist in times of need. Here, equipment
manager Mike Burrell is tending to Jake Logan.

 Bradley Greene

 Bradley Greene

 Sam Renault

 Slammers warm-up

 Philip Fife chuckles at Ben MacSwain

The Slammers had two special guests watching

the game from the nosebleed section. The two fools, 

Andrew Garnett and Scott Dunlop, were camping out

indoors in the civic centre rafters. The two fools 

organize Woodstock's Relay for Life and were 

kick-starting their fundraising efforts Friday night.

The Woodstock Slammers will face the Miramichi Timberwolves in their final game of the 2011-2012 regular season at 7:30 pm on Saturday, February 25th. The results of the game will be posted in an upcoming post on The Shiretown Blogger.

With files from www.themhl.ca