Phil Gadoury had a spectacular game in the Men’s Hockey Tigers’ 5-1 win over the St. Thomas Tommies on Halloween night at the Halifax Forum.
Gadoury scored his first AUS hat trick and added an assist to cap off a four-point performance for the first year forward.
“Gads (Gadoury) has been great for us,” says Tigers assistant captain Matt English.
“He’s gotten better every game that we have played, he is really starting to feel some chemistry with his two line mates Page and Willy (Williams). It’s nice to see them get going and I think he is going to be a great player in this league.”
The Tigers opened the scoring halfway through the first period when Gadoury went behind the Tommies net and passed the puck to Playfair in front.
Playfair flicked the puck over Tommies goalie Tyson Teichman’s glove and into the net.
With a minute left in the first period the Tommies answered back with a powerplay goal. Colin Martin tipped Zach Hall’s blast from the point to tie the game at one.
Halfway through the second, Gadoury scored his first of the night. Tanner Williams drove wide and fired a shot on net. The rebound came out to Gadoury and he shot it but Teichman made the first save. Gadoury got his own rebound and slid it past Teichman to make it 2-1. Felix Page and Tanner Williams got the assists.
With two minutes left in the second period, on the powerplay Fabian Walsh passed the puck back to defenseman Matt English. English fired a slap shot that Teichman got a piece of but not enough and the puck went in the net to make the score 3-1. Fabian Walsh and Jackson Playfair got the assists.
A minute later, Gadoury scored his second goal of the night. Tanner Williams threw the puck down the ice and Gadoury outraced the Tommies defenseman for the puck and shot it into the net.
Gadoury completed his hat trick late in the third period when the Tommies pulled their goalie. He stripped the puck off a Tommies defenseman got on a breakaway and put the puck into the open net.
The goalies for both teams were busy in the hockey game. St. Thomas goaltender Tyson Teichman made thirty-three saves on the thirty-six shots he faced. The Tigers did take thirty-eight shots in total including Gadoury’s empty net goal, and a save that was awarded to the Tommies team and not their goaltender.
It was a strange situation on the Tigers’ end. Goaltender Corbin Boes played the first two periods of the game and made twenty-six saves on twenty-seven shots.
However, in the third period backup Wendel Vye came in and he stopped all thirteen shots he faced. According to English, Boes got hit earlier in the game and the team took him out due to precautionary reasons.
“A player came into the net and slid into him. It’s just precautionary, nothing too serious hopefully, but it was nice to have Wendel step up for us”.
With the 5-1 win, English was obviously happy with how his team played.
“I thought we played really well, consistent for three periods which is been something we have had a little difficulty with lately, so it was nice to see us come out and play hard for sixty minutes.”
The win improves the Tigers record to 2-4-1.
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