Exhibition Game #1 - Second Period

A little more goal scoring in the second period with both teams finding the back of the net twice, one even strenght and one power play goal for each. One of the little stats that might be of interest is that both teams scored on their first shot on goal in the second period. It took the Mills 4:35 to get their first shot in the middle frame and that was after a power play opportunity came up empty as well for them. It was finally a shot from Lucas Ford that got through Tim Zwiers to give the Millionaires the 2-0 lead; only one assist on the goal going to Matt Herskovitz.

The Prince George Spruce Kings responded a few minutes later with an even strength goal that came seven seconds after a Quesnel penalty. Spruce Kings first goal scorer of the exhibition season was Nolan Grauer out of Nanaimo with assists going to Harjas Grewal and Josh Pineiro. At the mid way mark the teams would switch goaltenders bringing in Luke Simens for Quesnel and Cameron Large for Prince George.

Shortly after that they would then trade power play goals two minutes apart. With Pineiro in the sin bin for hooking, Thomas Kala found himself standing in front of wide open net and made no mistake firing in the Millionaires third of the game with assists going to Ira Gladue and Matt Herskovitz. Two minutes later with the Spruce Kings on the power play, Jeff Datoff let a big blast go from the high slot just inside the blue line that blew by everybody to get the Spruce Kings to within one again. One of the sixteen year olds, Tyson Witala picked up the lone assist on the goal.

Shots on goal in the second period against the two Quesnel goaltenders was seven while the Spruce Kings tandem faced nine. In his tour of duty, Zwiers faced a total of ten shots allowing two goals against. At the other end, Sean Donnelly faced nine shots total giving up one goal off the lone PG shot he faced in the second period.