The
Vikings took 19 minor penalties
to Villanova's 14
in a chippy affair. "I thought
we let our emotions get the best
of us," Edgar said.
"I think we were prepared to
play with them. I think we were
even better 5-on-5. But we
didn't play 5-on-five that
much."
Three of Villanova's four
goals (the fourth into an empty
net) were scored on the powerplay.
Both teams came out flying in
the first period.
VIllanova (who were
cheered on by 75 fans who took a
school bus from Windsor for the
game) seemed to throw the
Vikings off their game early.
The score remained 0-0 through
the first period thanks to the
play of Northern Tender Chris
Clark.
"He is the type of player you
never want to graduate," Edgar
said. "He has always been
something I never had to worry
about."
Nova opened the scoring on a controversial goal.
The puck bounced off the boards
right onto Nova's Tyler Pope's
stick.
He fired it into the open net.
Problem was the net was off at
the time of the goal.
According to Edgar he didn't see
the net off and the referee told
him that none of the officials
saw it off before the goal went
in. Nova's second goal was
a seeing-eye shot that made its way through
a screen beating Clark.
Northern responded early
in the third went Brent Sauve pounded
in a pass from Colin Epps and
Tyler Annett.
But then Northern's penalty
problems kicked in. The Vikings
played a majority of the third
in the penalty box. In fact,
Northern took eight penalties in
the final frame.
Nova scored four minutes into
the third and never looked back.
They sealed their trip to
OFSAA with an empty net goal.
One thing that Edgar said after
the game was the way that the
Northern fans supported their
team in a positive manner.
"We knew we had problems last
week (referring to
altercations in the stands
during the SWOSSAA semi-final
game again Chatham-Kent),"
Edgar said. "I think our fans
handle themselves in a
respectfully manner."
He then hinted
that the Nova fans didn't.
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