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Originally Posted by Jesse834
What a crazy night in Brandon. Garrett Mitchell was jumped by Jordan Hale 5:49 into the game and had his nose broke and his night was done. Things got kooky in the late going. Jordan Eberle drew a late penalty for a stick infraction against Alexander Urbom and Regina overage came to his star's defense and beat up Urbom. Brandon got a 5-on-3 out of it and during that powerplay, Pats captain Colten Teubert grabbed Brandon's Mark Stone and made an unfortunate mess of him. The reason for the goonery? That Pats went 122:03 of playing time without a powerplay in this building, a streak which was finally broken by a Brodie Melnychuk tripping minor at 12:13 of the second period. The streak dates back two full games, to the Pats' last visit to Brandon January 13th two games ago. The powerplays Friday night were 10-1 Brandon. Frustrating? Indeed.
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I was at the game, let's get some facts straight...
A) Mitchell was hardly "jumped" by Hale.
http://www.hockeyfights.com/fights/92711
Mitchell is an established fighter who initiated contact in the first place and then didn't back down or turtle against a much bigger opponent, what the hell did he expect was going to happen?
B) If you wanna talk about jumping a guy, look no further then your second point about McColm defending Eberle. Eberle slashes Urbom behind the play (dirty but nothing major) and as soon as Urbom turns around and shoves him back, McColm has already jumped in with gloves dropped and begins blindsiding Urbom with punches. I understand the need to defend your star and would wanna see it from any of my teams if the tables were reversed but it's pathetic McColm has to basically sucker Urbom in order to get the fight started. Then again, it wasn't surprising given the way the Pats were running around embarrassing themselves for much of the night, what a horribly undisciplined team.
C) Teubert continued to prove himself to be a little bitch by chasing Stone around with a minute left and laying into him with stickwork before finally goading Stone to drop the gloves where Teubert then proceeded to knock him out cold. The fight itself isn't really the bad part to me despite the ugliness of watching Stone repeatedly crumple to the ice while trying to get up, as soon as Stone dropped the gloves and started swinging he had sealed his own fate. What bothered me was how Teubert cowardly went after Stone (he of 1 career fight) while Bestland and Raedeke were on the ice and would have definitely fought Teubert. The cherry on top is how he then he runs his mouth at Miller/Bestland as he's being kicked out like he's actually a tough guy. Hopefully Hamonic tunes him once again in the season finale.
There was no unfair reffing on Friday night. The Pats were so incredibly outclassed by Brandon they had no business even being on the same sheet of ice as the Wheat Kings. Look at the highlights and tell me differently. The Pats came out and played a horribly undisciplined game as shown in the sheer amount of high sticking and slashing penalties. When you are a vastly inferior team who cannot keep up to your opponent and are forced to take another handful of holding and hooking calls just to keep from getting beaten even worse it shows how massive the gap was. Brandon was so physically superior (during play, not after) that they don't need to take penalties against the Pats, they are good enough to simply go in and take the puck whenever they feel like it, at least that's how it went on Friday.
http://www.whl.ca/regina-2-brandon-1...140861/t-webTV