LEM Game 30: "Smashing the Mirror"

The Lake Erie Monsters; still stinging from a deflating 7-4 loss to the Toronto Marlies; almost repeated a disheartening loss. However, they saw yesterday's game's reflection in the mirror, and shattered it. Coming out of the 2nd period scoring 3, they never looked back and won 5-2.

It didn't start off wonderful. I myself was almost slinking back into my chair when I witnessed the two opening goals of the game. After the first, the Monsters went onto the power play with a chip on their shoulder. Much to my chagrin, the Aeros did exactly what I've seen happen way too many times to the Monsters. A short tip off of a bad pass, and the Houston Aeros had a 2-0 lead early in the game. Thankfully, it didn't last long as Luke Walker buried one on the 5-on-3 powerplay and kept the Monsters heads in the game.

After that poor first period, the remainder of the game was all Lake Erie, with some highlight reel worthy goals witnessed by the 4,210 in attendance. My personal favorite was a gnarly deflection that ricocheted off of 2 Lake Erie sticks before rocketing into the net behind a clueless Houston goalie.

Not to mention Jason Bacashihua played out his sub-par netminding from Toronto, saving 25 out of 27, an impressive .926 SV%.

With the win, the Monsters hold their 4th place in the Northern Division and with 32 points, are only beat by Toronto(33), Abbotsford(33), and Hamilton(36). These 3 teams are ironically the Monsters most heated rivals.

I hope we get to see a lot more of them. Next up on the Monsters schedule is Milwaukee. Last time we saw them they effectively shut down the Monsters' offense, beating them 4-0 and 3-2.

Time for some payback.
~Brett