The Todd Kennedy (Experiment) Show

"Todd Kennedy doesn't play 3 minutes a game, he lets everyone else play 57"*

"Todd Kennedy doesn't turn the puck over, he gives the other team sympathy"

"He's in his office" (a foot outside the crease)

"Toddy Kennedy's combined distance for his goals is 2.3 feet"

"Kid's a fucking champ is what he is"

"Todd Kennedy is clutch and in this world, clutch is everything"

TK humor brought to you by Scotty Wazz.

"It could have been 4-1 Chilliwack after the first," said Tri-City coach Jim Hiller. "I thought Ows was the difference. He was just on from the get-go. They outchanced us early, but he was solid from start to finish."

"We had a couple of breakaways, a couple of posts and we were outchancing them," Habscheid said. "Owsley was solid and kept them in there the first half. We were all over him and he made some unreal saves."

"It was a grind," Shinnimin said. "I don't think 8-1 was a good indicator of the game. They outworked us for a good part of the game and Owsley made some great saves to keep us in it early."

"Jim put a lot of faith in me on the power play," said Kennedy, who scored his first-ever playoff points. "It's good for our line (Mason Wilgosh and Adam Hughesman) to net a few. It kind of shows I can do more than grind it out and have a little personal success for once."

"It's nice for a guy like TK who works so hard to bang in a couple," Hiller said of Kennedy. "Shinnimin has been good for us all year. He's pretty tenacious."

"I got a couple of big saves early and that helps," Owsley said. "I'm playing with a lot of confidence right now -- I got into a bit of a comfort zone out there." (Herald)

I think the 8-1 score is misleading.  It was a tougher-fought game than it appears, it was after the 3rd goal that Chilliwack completely lost their shit.  And they didn't go down without a fight, the Bruins are big and physical and very pissed off.  It was great to be able to have a lead and then put out guys like Wilgosh and Kennedy to grind it out.

Brendan Shinnimin cheers in the middle of a second-period pileup Saturday after he scored his second goal during the second game of the Americans' Western Conference playoff series against the Chilliwack Bruins. The goal was confirmed after video review, and Johnny Lazo and Justin Feser were credited with assists. (Kai-Huei Yau/Herald) 

Drew getting pulled was for good reason, Bruins trying to run him and whatnot, but I was furious he lost his shutout.  But Ows was brilliant.  Absolutely brilliant.

Special teams were far better, going 6-for-9 on the power play, killing off the 3 Bruins power plays.  Tomorrow's post will include diagrams from the Wazz about what could be done differently, good stuff.  It's been really awesome to sit by someone who played hockey for 15 or so years (and still does sometimes) to get a whole different perspective on the game.  I thought he was going to shank someone with Friday night's performance.  Last night he predicted TK would snipe, it was awesome.

It was some good hockey.  It's amazing what this team can do when they get the bee in their bonnet to play hard.

There's rumor that the goal judge at the zamboni end got kicked out?  I don't know the validity of this.  But if it's true that he was blowing kisses at Neigum after that 3rd goal then in my opinion, he should be kicked out.  I know they're local guys, but the goal judges should be neutral.  Like I said, to the best of my knowledge it's just a rumor.

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*yes, I know he played a lot more than 3, it's called a joke.  Or exaggeration.  Either way.