| Show L t r. r G Grizzlies r 1 les les' y The AHLs AHL's best or are they a pretender MH V H HB BY BEN ANDERSON Sports Editor The Grizzlies a team that has struggled is finally back on track the Grizzlies s are the best team in the AHL What's causing this overturn Could J it ft be because someone is smuggling water to them from t Magna or is it the fruit punch some are drinking after the But the game being best also has its disadvantages Not only is there a lot expected of you but you also must stay r composed and determined The Grizzlies r returned home to play the tHouston Houston Aero's Acres after suffering two big loses against the Manitoba Moose 7 1 and 5 r i Greg Hawgood is isDa isDa Da Man Not only does he t. t lead the Grizzlies with eight t goals and 27 points he is looked up to as a lea leader ier and a F mentor to younger players and the AHL Greg Hawgood did all that he had to do in a 7 3 victory over the Houston i Aero's eros ero's scoring two goals One 1 7 74 4 seconds in the first fast period and the other 2 Vz V seconds leftin left leftin in the first to send the game into the first intermission 2 Then The the inevitable happens Five seconds in the second period Greg is ejected for attempting to injure Houstons Houston's center Brett McLean Basically you receive what you dish out Brett was all over Hawgood before a Utah teammate grabbed him from behind Then Greg just popped him inthe in inthe inthe the face did what he had to do and then he took the rest of the night off joked Utah teammate Jim Montgomery who matched Hawgood d with two goals of his own This is the second attempt to injure call in two straight games Jon Sim sat out because of the same call After H Hawgood's departure the Grizzlies wenton went wenton on a scoring rampage Jim Montgomery and Roman scored one goal each before Darryl Laplante scored for the Aero's to stop the shut out Jim Montgomery ry scored 22 seconds later to Continued page 11 Grizzlies continued from page 10 give the Grizzlies a 5 1 lead Laplante scored again to reduce the lead to three but Jeff Macmillan scored to extend Utah's lead back baek back to to o 4 Lawrence scored his first goal of the year for Houston but Utah had an answer and Steve Gainey scored to add to the blow blowout out One thing contributing contributing ing to the Grizzlies success is their penalty killing Houston had six power play opportunities ties but only converted on one of them The Grizzlies first two goals were on power plays N Not ot so much more does it lift us up but it flattened flattened flattened flat flat- them out and that's more important A L 1 0 0 |
