The Sun Valley Suns men's hockey team pelted the visiting Jackson Hole Moose with 110 shots from every conceivable angle last weekend. Only six went in the goal but, as Suns wing Mike Hanson summed up, "one shot changes a game."
Hanson took and made the game-changing rocket of a shot with four minutes left in Friday's cliffhanger between the arch rival Suns and Moose sextets. On a startling rush down the ice he beat the Moose ringer-of-a-goalie Gary Thron and lifted the Suns to a 5-4 win.
The second goal of the game by the rock-solid former minor league pro hockey player from Ontario, Canada saved the Suns from a big choke job.
It extended Sun Valley's two-season winning streak over the Moose to five games and stretched the current Suns winning streak to four—including two straight one-goal wins.
Hanson said, "Being up 4-1 and potentially losing the game was not acceptable. I wanted to score and get it over with. He was a good goalie, but he kept on going down. I was moving fast and it was a hard shot, up high, and I'm glad it went in."
Suns players and fans were glad, too, since the Moose scored seven of the final nine goals of the weekend and earned a split of the two-game series with a 4-1 victory Saturday night—behind an workmanlike 58 saves by Thron.
The Moose scored seven of their eight goals on the power play and that doesn't happen often when opponents visit.
It turned out to be the only meeting of the season between Sun Valley (12-4) and Jackson Hole (8-6), since the Suns have decided to forego their rescheduled games at Jackson Hole March 21-22 because of spring break and Easter, captain Chris Warrington said.
"With work schedules and the holiday it looks like we won't have enough guys. We don't want to go over there with 12 guys. If we can't put a representative team together, we won't go," said Warrington.
That means the March 14-15 two-game home series against Bobby Farrelly's East Coast Gutter Snipes will be the 2007-08 Suns season finale. There are no games this weekend.
All the more important that Hanson stepped up at a crucial time against Thron, who backstopped the Bucks Furniture team from Minnesota to the 2004 USA Hockey National Adult Elite championship. The Moose flew Thron in to Idaho so he could face the Suns. He hadn't played one second for Jackson Hole this winter.
The Suns didn't particularly care. They beat Thron twice when he played for the Bucks here six years ago. Sun Valley didn't have #1 goalie Ryan Thomson (vacation) for the weekend, so the home team relied on back-up Billy Cook and former #1 Tony Benson.
Both did well, Cook making 20 saves and improving to 4-1-0 on the season Friday and Benson (22 saves) standing tall Saturday. It was only the third Suns game for Benson in eight years. He was #1 for 11 seasons from 1990-00, notching 89 wins.
And things started well Friday with the Suns leading 3-0 after one period and it might have been 5-0. Guest coach Tim Jeneson said, "We came out fast and hitting and did well. If we can hit and keep it clean, nobody can play with us."
Top scorer Vilnis Nikolaisons (10 goals, 20 assists, 30 points) converted a puck that took a crazy bounce off the glass behind Thron for a 1-0 lead about three minutes into the game before a full house at Sun Valley Skating Center.
Lots of offensive pressure by the line of center Jamie Ellison and wings Nikolaisons and Ryan Enrico preceded the first goal. Enrico had two good shots on Thron before the puck caromed off the glass behind the Moose goalie and landed on the stick of Nikolaisons.
Pressure picked up a notch as Sun Valley players rumbled around the ice taking the body and keeping the Moose on their heels in their zone.
Colorado College skater Cody Lampl poke-checked the puck away in the Moose zone and head-faked Thron, looking at wing Paul Baranzelli and finally firing a no-look wrist shot for a 2-0 Suns lead at the six-minute mark of the first.
The third Suns goal, on the power play, started with a nice break-out pass from defenseman Jeremy Mylymok from behind the Suns net. Baranzelli gave the puck to Adam Swain, who passed to Hanson for a 3-0 Sun Valley cushion after one.
Hanson said, "We came out strong and did our game plan."
It was Sun Valley's high water mark because the Moose (7-for-19 power play weekend) took advantage with Suns players in the penalty box and tied it 4-4 in the third. The Suns built their lead by staying out of the penalty box. They lost it by taking too many trips there.
Referee Geoff Sneed assessed 144 penalty minutes by the end of the game. Sticks got up high and player complaints about the officiating intensified.
After the Moose made it 3-1 on a blistering Chris Simpson slapshot from the point, Suns goalie Cook showed his stuff by stopping Moose veteran Grepp Gripentrog point blank in the crease two minutes into the second period. A Mylymok power play goal after a cross-ice pass from Chris Warrington made the score 4-1 at 8:41.
Suns penalty killers kept the score 4-1 as the second period ticked away. The home team killed off a five-on-three, Cook made two big saves on slapshots from the point and Suns defensemen Jeremy Schreiber and Ivars Muzis made big clears to stop Moose threats.
But Suns frustration mounted when Baranzelli was knocked out by a Moose check and taken to the hospital four minutes into the third period. Lampl retaliated and pummeled Jackson Hole's Luke Smith. Both got the gate.
Unfortunately the post-fight decision favored the Moose. Jackson Hole reeled off two power-play goals in 25 seconds making it 4-3, and added a third when veteran defenseman Aaron Ackley ripped his second straight power play goal from the point for a 4-4 game.
Talking about the check that knocked out Baranzelli, coach Jeneson said, "I thought I would fire us up. In fact it did just the opposite."
Hanson said, "We let our emotions get away from us. After Barnzy got hurt it got pretty ugly. You were always looking around to see if a stick was up. You walk a fine line.
"Finally we settled down and found out it was safe again. We played pretty well the last five minutes. We built on things shift-after-shift, knocked some bodies and got the puck in deep."
Little by little the Suns regrouped. Nikolaisons forechecked from side to side in the offensive zone and threw a couple of checks. Swain followed suit, playing the body.
A hard check by Mylymok in the Suns defensive zone freed the puck for Hanson with four minutes left. He skated down the ice with a vengeance. His eyes got bigger and bigger, the closer he came to goalie Thron.
Hanson said, "I've played with him (Mylymok) on the Steelheads and for McCall so I knew it was coming. His check got me all jacked up. I was coming across and picked up the puck and took it in."
Hanson beat Thron high and did a bellyflop in front of the Suns bench to celebrate.
Jeneson said about Hanson, "What a solid player!"
Hanson said, "I've only played with the Suns for two weekends but I know it's a pretty solid lineup. It just took us a while to get it together because by the third period people were playing with other guys. But everyone was playing well by the end of the game."
The win was especially satisfying because of the injury to Baranzelli, Suns players felt. Baranzelli spent the night in the hospital with a concussion and will be sidelined for the rest of the Suns season.
Hanson, whose minor league hockey career ended prematurely because of concussions, said about the Baranzelli situation, "Whether you play with a guy for 10 seconds or for a lifetime, he's still a teammate and you go all out for him.
"It was an emotional win."
Sun Valley couldn't dent goalie Thron's armor Saturday night and dropped the 4-1 decision, despite throwing 59 shots at Thron. Captain Warrington said, "Anytime a goalie makes 58 saves he's doing a good job. We had plenty of chances but just didn't capitalize."
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Suns Hockey Summary
SUNS 5, moose 4
Friday, February 29
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Jackson Hole Moose
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0
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1
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3
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4
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Sun Valley Suns
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3
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1
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1
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5
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FIRST PERIOD—(1) SV, Vilnis Nikolaisons 10 (Ryan Enrico, Jamie Ellison), 3:24. (2) SV, Cody Lampl 11 (Paul Baranzelli), 6:19. (3) SV, Mike Hanson 3 (Adam Swain, Baranzelli), 14:11, power play goal.
SECOND PERIOD—(4) Jackson Hole, Chris Simpson 1 (Bryan Hannafin, Spencer Morton), 0:52, power play goal. (5) SV, Jeremy Mylymok 5 (Chris Warrington), 8:41, power play goal.
THIRD PERIOD—(6) Jackson Hole, Gregg Gripentrog 3 (Sean Hannafin, Brian Upesleja), 6:21, power play goal. (7) Jackson Hole, Aaron Ackley 2 (Justin Martin, Morton), 6:46, power play goal. (8) Jackson Hole, Ackley 3 (Martin, Bryan Hannafin), 10:14, power play goal. (9) SV, Hanson 4 (unassisted), 15:43, game-winning goal.
SHOTS ON GOAL—Jackson Hole 5-11-8 for 24; Sun Valley 17-22-12 for 51.
GOALIES—Jackson Hole, Gary Thron (46 saves); SV, Billy Cook (20 saves, 4-1-0 record).
OFFICIALS—Referee, Geoff Sneed; linesmen, John Heinrich and Pat Ballou.
NOTES—Moose goalie Gary Thron had been in the Sun Valley barn before, six years ago in a memorable Suns battle with one-time arch-rival Bucks Unfinished Furniture from Minneapolis. At the time the Bucks were the reigning National Senior champions, but first-year Suns skater Paul Baranzelli from Minnesota had himself a great breakout game with a 3-goal hat trick carrying the Suns into overtime, the score tied 5-5. Three minutes into OT, Baranzelli and Steve Wendorf of the Bucks got into a fight in the Suns offensive end. Bucks goalie Thron left the crease and joined the fight as the third-man-in. All the way from the other end of the ice, Suns goalie James Moskos skated with a vengeance to join the fray, going up against the much bigger Thron in a physical mismatch. Both goalies were thrown out of the game by referee Bobby Noyes. The thing was, the Bucks didn't have a back-up goalie, while the Suns sent out Mat Gershater to relieve Moskos. The Bucks wanted Noyes to end the game in a 5-5 tie. Noyes said it wasn't his fault that the Bucks didn't bring a back-up goalie and insisted that the game be played to its conclusion. So, the Bucks sent out a sixth skater and positioned him in the goal. The Suns won the ensuing faceoff at center ice and Vilnis Nikolaisons passed to center Jamie Ellison, who scored his first game-winning OT goal to end matters, just 9 seconds after the faceoff. The Suns (14-0) swept the Bucks 7-2 Saturday night to extend their two-season winning streak to 21 games. That streak ended at 22 games the following weekend when the Moose earned a split of their 2002 visit to Sun Valley with a 2-1 Saturday night victory. The Bucks returned to Sun Valley in 2004 with a very short squad of six players, and no Thron in goal, and dropped 12-8 and 5-2 games. That ws the last Bucks visit to Sun Valley. Meanwhile, Thron was the Bucks goalie two months later in 2004 at Fond du Lac, Wisc. when the Minnesota boys upset two-time defending USA Hockey Adult Elite champions St. Nicks from New York City by a 5-4 score in the national championship game. It was the third national title for the Bucks since 1997........The score was 3-0 after one period but it could have been 5-0 and a blowout in the making. That's because a John Stevens slapshot bounced off the crossbar with two minutes left in the opening 20 minutes and Paul Baranzelli's one-timer, on a beautiful set-up from Mike Hanson, just sailed wide with 38 seconds left....Suns guest coach Tim Jeneson said afterward, "We finally decided that we just needed to win the game instead of blowing them out. To Jackson Hole's credit, they came back.".... Actually, the Suns fortunes started to go downhill after Jeremy Mylymok's second-period goal giving the Suns a 4-1 lead caused a flurry of duck heads to be released from the Beer Garden........They would have liked to have Cody Lampl on the ice at the end of the game, but nobody on the Suns bench argued when Lampl pummeled Jackson Hole's Luke Smith after Smith flattened Paul Baranzelli with a check four minutes into the third period. Baranzelli stayed down, knocked out on his back, and Lampl and Smith were ejected with game misconducts for the fight. Coach Jeneson said, "It was a fairly clean check with Paul. And Cody did what he had to do.".......Moose head coach Adam Patterson was also thrown out of the game, unhappy with many developments including a hard Adam Swain check on Moose defender Nate Dolentz that resulted in a boarding call on Swain, and two minor penalties on the Moose, with 1:08 remaining in the 1-goal game....In the house to watch tonight's exciting Suns victory was the all-time Sun Valley leader in goaltending, 53-year-old Dan Nee, "Mr. Clean," himself from Kansas City and the University of Missouri. Nee backstopped 213 Suns games in 9 seasons from 1979-88 with a 150-57-6 record and 3.82 goals against. His best seasons were the first three, from 1979-82 when Nee logged three straight 20-win seasons and was 67-13-1 in that stretch. In his final Suns season, 1987-88, he was 14-6 and guided the Suns cage all the way to the National Senior Open championship game, in Sun Valley, which the Suns dropped to the Alaska Gold Kings by a 7-2 score. Nee then left Sun Valley for Nevada, where he has been a welder east of Reno for the last 20 years. Since, he has been back to Sun Valley twice, once for a Suns reunion and this past weekend to bring his wife Shelley (knee surgery) for expert medical care. Suns guest coach Tim Jeneson played with Nee. Surprised to see Nee tonight, Jeneson went up and hugged his former teammate. Ironically, the year after Nee left, goalie John McCally backstopped the Suns to their only unbeaten season, 23-0-1. Jeneson and tonight's Jackson Hole assistant coach Bryan Korpi were the #3 and #4 leading Suns scorers on that unbeaten squad 20 winters ago.....Suns forward lines were Ryan Enrico-Jamie Ellison-Vilnis Nikolaisons, Cody Lampl-Adam Swain-Paul Baranzelli, Mike Hanson-Jon Duval-John Miller, Trevor Thomas-John Stevens-Charles Friedman. The six defensemen were Jeremy Mylymok, Ivars Muzis, Eric Demment, Chris Warrington, Jeremy Schreiber and Kris Webster. Tony Benson was the back-up goalie. Suns #1 goalie Ryan Thomson was out-of-town on a vacation planned some time ago.
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MOOSE 4, SUNS 1
Saturday, March 1
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Jackson Hole Moose
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1
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1
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2
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4
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Sun Valley Suns
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0
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1
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0
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1
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FIRST PERIOD—(1) Jackson Hole, Gregg Gripentrog 4 (Spencer Morton, Aaron Ackley), 2:04, power play goal.
SECOND PERIOD—(2) Jackson Hole, Bryan Hannafin 14 (unassisted), 5:08, power play goal. (3) SV, Jeremy Mylymok 6 (Ryan Enrico, Jamie Ellison), 15:45.
THIRD PERIOD—(4) Jackson Hole, Brian Upesleja 4 (Morton, Bryan Hannafin), 4:56, power play goal. (5) Jackson Hole, Morton 13 (Bryan Hannafin, Ackley), 6:04.
SHOTS ON GOAL—Jackson Hole 10-9-7 for 26; Sun Valley 19-19-21 for 59.
GOALIES—Jackson Hole, Gary Thron (58 saves); SV, Tony Benson (22 saves, 0-1-0 record).
OFFICIALS—Referee, Geoff Sneed; linesmen, Bobby Noyes and Eric Wingard.
NOTES—The Suns couldn't believe that referee Geoff Sneed simply awarded the Moose the second goal of the game, after the net was jarred loose. At the very least, the Suns argued, a penalty shot should have been called. What happened was Suns goalie Tony Benson roamed far from the net and got caught up along the sideboards, leaving the Moose to bear down on the open net. Suns captain Chris Warrington tried to stand in front of the goal and hold off the Moose assault and he dislodged the net when the Moose got close to scoring. Sneed saw everything and signaled a goal. The Suns went crazy and were still talking about the play after the game.....The Moose could have gone ahead 3-0 later in the second period, but winger Mike Hanson made a great defensive play, diving and pushing the puck out of the net after it caromed behind Benson on a power-play save......Defenseman Jeremy Schreiber came up with his own great defensive play to prevent the Moose from going ahead 3-1. He stopped a two-on-one Moose rush with his stick with 2:31 left in the second period.....Another key moment arrived early in the third period when goalie Benson ventured far from the net once again and took out Jackson Hole's Dustin Stolp with a check near the Beer Garden. Benson was whistled for interference, and the Moose responded with their seventh and final power play goal of the weekend. With Benson screened, Moose defenseman Brian Upesleja whipped a wrist shot past Benson putting the Moose ahead 3-1......Holding the Suns together this weekend was the solid performance of 35-year-old Jeremy Mylymok, from London, Ontario. Mylymok, a 6-1, 200-pound right shot with the softest hands imaginable, played juniors in Saskatchewan and earned a college scholarship. He played 133 games for the University of Alaska-Anchorage from 1992-96 and went on to skate 11 professional seasons including a 6-year stint with the WCHL Idaho Steelheads based in Boise. Mylymok captained the Steelheads to a Kelly Cup championship before retiring in December 2006. He enjoys snowboarding and coaching hockey to his children......Paul Baranzelli spent the night in the hospital after being knocked out and suffering a concussion in Friday night's game. He said he'll probably take the rest of the season off. Seventh-year Suns skater Baranzelli (94 goals, 75 assists for 169 points) and 16th-year right wing John Miller (63-106 for 169) are tied for 23rd on the all-time Suns scoring list........Playing sparingly on a fourth line tonight was Josh Jacobson, 31, the Minnesotan who said he is retiring due to a combination of injuries after five Suns seasons. Jacobson, a southpaw slugger during the summer in Wood River Valley softball and baseball circles, spent most of his time on defense and had 14 points over five Suns winters.....Suns guest coach Tim Jeneson went almost exclusively with three forward lines. They were Ryan Enrico-Jamie Ellison-Vilnis Nikolaisons, Mike Hanson-Jon Duval-Adam Swain, Charles Friedman-John Stevens-Cody Proctor. A fourth line featured Trevor Thomas-Josh Jacobson-Gunnar Gladics. It was apparent the Suns missed the goal scoring instincts of Cody Lampl (10 goals in 6 games) and Paul Baranzelli (12 goals in 13 games). Lampl had to sit out after drawing a game misconduct for fighting Friday night in reaction to the Jackson Hole check that caused Baranzelli's injury....The six defensemen were Jeremy Schreiber, Ivars Muzis, Jeremy Mylymok, Chris Warrington, Kris Webster and Eric Demment. Back-up goalie was Billy Cook....... The Suns were 0-for-7 on the power play tonight and 2-for-16 for the weekend. Jackson Hole was 3-for-9 tonight and 7-for-19 on the power play for the weekend...Weekend penalty minutes were Sun Valley 101 and Jackson Hole 85...Although the Suns outshot Jackson Hole by a 110-50 margin on the weekend, the Moose out-pointed the Suns on the scoresheet 22-14 led by Bryan Hannafin (1 goal, 4 assists) and Spencer Morton (1 goal and 4 assists).......Few if any Suns opponents over the years have scored 7 power play goals in two games on Sun Valley ice but that's what the Moose accomplished in splitting the series. This year, through 16 games, the Suns have 23 power play goals and opponents have 22. Last year in 24 games, the Suns (23-1-0) enjoyed a huge 56-26 advantage over opponents in power-play goals.....The Moose (8-6) have outscored opponents 89-67 and the Suns (12-4) are outscoring their opponents 110-68. Top Moose scorers are Spencer Morton (13-13 for 26 points in 14 games), Bryan Hannafin (14-10 for 24 in 14 games) and Justin Martin (12-13 for 25 in 14 games)......Back from a knee injury, Moose veteran Gregg Gripentrog scored a power play goal in each game and now has 4 goals in 5 games this winter......Among the Moose skaters not making the trip were veterans T.J. Thomas, Joe Casey and Chris DeMarco......Back-up Moose goalie for both games was Nick Aulich, this year's Jackson Hole #1 netminder had played in all 12 previous Moose games with a 7-5-0 record......Suns captain Chris Warrington said there were no hard feelings on the part of the home team regarding the fact that the Moose lured a ringer goalie to Sun Valley for the weekend and didn't play their #1 goalie. Warrington said, "You play who you play. Any goalie who makes 58 saves is doing a pretty good job, and they (the Moose defensemen and checkers) also did a good job in front of him.".....Nikolaisons (149 goals and 255 assists for 404 points) is drawing closer to all-time Suns scoring leader Bobby Noyes (195 goals and 213 assists for 408 points).....Last winter's scoring leader Jamie Ellison (145 goals, 244 assists for 389 points) has an outside chance to eclipse 400 points in the final Suns games........After 16 games this season, the Suns all-time record in 782 games over 33 seasons is 546-207-29..... For the record, the Moose still lead the 10-year series with the Suns 26-17-1 including a 15-6-1 home record at Snow King Center and a 11-11 dead-even mark in Sun Valley. Two years ago Jackson Hole swept the Suns in Idaho 4-3 and 5-3.....Since it appears the Suns won't be able to make their rescheduled trip to Jackson Hole March 21-22 because of work obligations and Spring Break absences, the Moose still lead the 11-year series 27-18-1 including a 12-12 record on Idaho ice. It will be the only time the teams have played only two games in a season since the series began in 1997.
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2007-08 Sun Valley Suns Season statistics
(12-4-0 overall: 12-4-0 home, 0-0-0 away)
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PLAYER
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GAMES
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GOALS
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AST.
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PTS.
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PMIN
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Vilnis Nikolaisons
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16
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10
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20
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30
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10
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Adam Swain
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15
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12
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14
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26
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10
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Chris Warrington
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13
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7
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17
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24
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30
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Ryan Enrico
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15
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10
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12
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22
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16
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Paul Baranzelli
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14
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12
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9
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21
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29
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Jeremy Mylymok
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8
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6
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13
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19
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22
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Cody Lampl
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7
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11
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6
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17
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54
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Jamie Ellison
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12
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6
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11
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17
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44
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Eric Demment
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11
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6
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8
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14
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26
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Jeremy Schreiber
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13
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4
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8
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12
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28
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Jon Duval
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14
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2
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8
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10
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22
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Charles Friedman
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14
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3
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4
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7
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10
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John Miller
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10
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2
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5
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7
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28
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Ivars Muzis
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12
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2
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4
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6
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24
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Cody Proctor
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13
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3
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2
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5
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16
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Kris Webster
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16
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2
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3
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5
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12
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John Stevens
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9
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1
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4
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5
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4
|
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Blake Jenson
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6
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0
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5
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5
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4
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|
Mike Hanson
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4
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4
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0
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4
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12
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Ryan McDonald
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3
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2
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1
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3
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0
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Sinjin Thomas
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6
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1
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2
|
3
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8
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Chris Benson
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1
|
1
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2
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3
|
2
|
|
Bryan Winkler
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3
|
2
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0
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2
|
2
|
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Gunnar Gladics
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8
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1
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1
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2
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0
|
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Rian Timmons
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8
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0
|
2
|
2
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6
|
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Billy Cook
|
5
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0
|
2
|
2
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0
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Josh Jacobson
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13
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0
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1
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1
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27
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Trevor Thomas
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10
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0
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1
|
1
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30
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Ryan Thomson
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9
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0
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1
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1
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2
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Michael Connor
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2
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0
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0
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0
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2
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Colin Zulianello
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2
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0
|
0
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0
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2
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Tony Benson
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1
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0
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0
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0
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2
|
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GOALTENDER
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GAMES
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GOALS
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W-L
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AVG.
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Ryan Thomson
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8.67
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39
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6/2/2000
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4.5
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Billy Cook
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5
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23
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4/1/2000
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4.6
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Colin Zulianello
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1.33
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2
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2-0-0
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1.5
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Tony Benson
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1
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4
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0-1-0
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4
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Shots—Thomson 276, Cook 130, Zulianello 46, Tony Benson 26. Saves—Thomson 235, Cook 107, Zulianello 44, Tony Benson 22. Shootout saves—Thomson 2. Shootout goals allowed—Thomson 3. Shutouts—0. Empty net goals—0.
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SCORE BY PERIODS
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1ST
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2ND
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3RD
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OT
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TOT
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Opposition
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19
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23
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23
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3
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68, 4.3
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Sun Valley
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32
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41
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34
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3
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110, 6.9
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INDIVIDUAL MARKS
Two-goal games (13)—Ryan Enrico 3, Paul Baranzelli 3, Eric Demment 2, Cody Lampl 1, Vilnis Nikolaisons 1, Mike Hanson 1, Chris Warrington 1, Jeremy Mylymok 1.
Three-goal hat tricks (or more)—Adam Swain 2, Cody Lampl 2, Vilnis Nikolaisons (4 goals) 1, Paul Baranzelli 1.
Game-winning goals—Adam Swain 1, Mike Hanson 1.
Power play goals (23-91, 25%)—Cody Lampl 4, Adam Swain 4, Paul Baranzelli 3, Jeremy Mylymok 3, Chris Warrington 1, Mike Hanson 1, Cody Proctor 1, Chris Benson 1, Eric Demment 1, Ivars Muzis 1, Ryan Enrico 1, Jeremy Schreiber 1, John Stevens 1.
Power play goals (opposition): 22-112, (20%).
Suns shorthanded goals (8)—Adam Swain 2, Mike Hanson 1, Vilnis Nikolaisons 1, Paul Baranzelli 1, Ryan Enrico 1, Chris Warrington 1, Cody Lampl 1.
Shorthanded goals (opposition): 2.
Season penalty minutes: SV 486, opponents 409.
GAME RESULTS
Total record: 12-4-0
Record in 1-goal games: 3-2-0
Record in overtime: 1-1-0
Games scoring 9 or more goals: 5
Games scoring 7 or more goals: 7
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December 14 (H) Sun Valley 9, Park City Silver Kings 8 (OT)
December 15 (H) Sun Valley 5, Park City Silver Kings 2
December 28 (H) Sun Valley 6, McCall Mountaineers 3
December 29 (H) McCall Mountaineers 7, Sun Valley 4
January 4 (H) Sun Valley 10, Utah All-Stars 3
January 5 (H) Sun Valley 8, Utah All-Stars 5
January 11 (H) Innisfail Eagles 7, Sun Valley 6 (OT shootout)
January 12 (H) Sun Valley 5, Innisfail Eagles 3
January 25 (H) Sun Valley 9, Rossland Warriors 1
January 26 (H) Sun Valley 13, Rossland Warriors 4
February 15 (H) Team Utah 6, Sun Valley 5
February 16 (H) Sun Valley 12, Team Utah 5
February 22 (H) Sun Valley 8, Missoula Cutthroats 3
February 23 (H) Sun Valley 4, Missoula Cutthroats 3
February 29 (H) Sun Valley 5, Jackson Hole Moose 4
March 1 (H) Jackson Hole Moose 4, Sun Valley 1
Ontario native Mike Hanson was a big factor for the Sun Valley Suns men?s hockey team in Friday?s 5-4 win over the visiting Jackson Hole Moose. Hanson, a member of a Kelly Cup championship Idaho Steelheads team who played college hockey in New Brunswick, scored a first-period power play goal giving the Suns a 3-0 lead and also tallied the game winner with four minutes left in a tight game between two ski resort rivals. Photo by Willy Cook
