Yesterday, along with some friends, Joey and I attended the second game in the three-game series between our Utah Grizzlies VS. Ontario Reign. In addition to this exciting game the E-Center was also hosting its third-annual “Pink in the Rink” game for breast cancer awareness. One of my favorite people in the world lost his mom in a battle with breast cancer and we were really excited to see all the support for such a great cause.
As I was watching the game I was thinking how cool it was to see our toughest guys sporting pretty pink jerseys and playing on a bright pink sheet of ice. It wasn’t long before I was looking into the stands at all the pink shirts and realizing how many of our friends and nabors have been effected by breast cancer. I think that it was great to have that opportunity to participate in such a great cause. They ended the exciting game with a post-game jersey auction and was able to raise over 18,000 dollars for the Susan G. Koman Cancer Foundation. I was so proud to see everyone so actively participating in the fund raiser and those just attending the game while showing support to all the survivors of breast cancer. Between periods they showed a tear jerking film of all the breast cancer survivors and their families and even gave a little shout out to all the people that “had the heart strength to survive breast cancer”. Next year I would like to see them also give recognition to the families with loved ones that lost the battle to cancer. My dear friends mom did lose her fight with cancer and I don’t think that it had anything to do with the strength of her heart.
After witnessing the intense game on Wednesday we were really excited to see how the second game was going to go, needless to say it didn’t disappoint. While I think that the Utah Grizzlies are awesome, the Ontario team has an amazing goalie and we need to play almost perfectly to get anything passed him. The grizzlies struggled for the first part of the game, trailing 2-0 until the third period. Just when I thought that the game was going to end in a shut-out, we went into our seventh power-play of the night and Murray was able to put it in with only 2 minutes to go. Murray’s goal was able to set a fire under the butts of the rest of the team and during the next power-play we were able to sink yet another goal past the Ontario goalie with only 19 seconds left in the game, this forced us into a four on four overtime battle. It was a great overtime, with us having five shots on goal we just couldn’t get it passed the machine they call their goalie. You know what comes next….SHOoT OuT! Ontario went five times shooting one-on-one with our goalie, Mike Mole but nothing sunk. We ended the game victorious after Sixsmith scored! M…O….L…..E, Mike Mole the grizzlies number one GOALIE! Goooo Grizzlies!
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