Post Game Recap - 28 & 29 June

This weekend’s double header against the Central Coast Rhinos opened on Saturday with a disciplined effort from the Blue Tongues. Though Gold Coast had the least number of penalties in a game than ever before, their inability to get the puck past Rhinos’ goaltender, Marcus Cleeson, caused the team to be shutout 2-0. The Blue Tongues, while disciplined, seemed a little flat in their performance, with fewer hard checks and intensity than fans are used to seeing.

On Sunday, however, the Blue Tongues hit back from their shutout loss, and hit back hard. Gaetan Royer scored the team’s first goal on a penalty shot, and followed it up with a natural hatrick, to end the first period 4-0. Gaetan continued to lead the Blue Tongues in scoring, opening their goal tally again in the second period. The Rhinos started to hit back, both on the ice and the scoreboard, but left their goal run a little too late in the game. Gold Coast goaltender Simo Mustonen, only letting in 1 goal from 12 shots, pulled himself after the Blue Tongues scored their 7th goal of the game to give backup goalie CJ Anderson some ice time.

The game was riddled with missed calls for both sides, and at one point the referees awarded a goal after the siren had rung signaling the end of the second period – causing uproar among the crowd and on the benches of both teams. The goal was disallowed, but that didn’t stop the Rhinos from opening the scoring in the third period. The game finished in a Blue Tongues victory 9-4.

By Wendy Hansen June 30, 2008

Upcoming Games

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Season Schedule

Previous Games

Home teams on top row

Date	Teams	P1	P2	P3	F
24 August	Blue Tongues A's	0 3	0 3	0 1	0 7
23 August	Blue Tongues A's	2 0	0 3	0 0	2 3
17 August	Bears Blue Tongues	3 2	3 2	2 0	8 4
16 August	Knights Blue Tongues	3 1	2 2	4 3	9 6

Game Results

AIHL Standings

Final Season Standings
	GP	Pts
The Bears (Sydney)	28	61
Melbourne Ice	28	54
Western Sydney Ice Dogs	28	54
Newcastle North Stars	28	53
Canberra Knights	28	34
Adelaide A's	28	32
Gold Coast Blue Tongues	28	27
Central Coast Rhinos	28	21

Full League Standings

Individual Leaders

Final Season Statistics
Goals:	Gaetan Royer	22
Assists:	Bryan Lachance	22
Points:	Gaetan Royer	36
PIMS:	Bryan Lachance	188

GAA	Simo Mustonen	4.75
SV%	Simo Mustonen	85.16

Player Statistics