Down 4-0 12 minutes in it would have been easy to fold up the tent. But the Norwich Merchants had something to prove against the Simcoe Storm, they battled back to score 3 goals before the end of the first. I'm sure that during the first intermission Norwich coach Dave Smith gave his team a tongue lashing, it seemed to work. They spent the next two periods playing Merchant hockey and getting timely goaltending from Cody Vinnai. The Powerplay also kicked in tonight scoring 4 of thier 5 goals on the powerplay.
Simcoe has to be thinking that they blew it tonight, up 4 they quit playing hard and started to take stupid penalties Chris Marco was in the box for roughing after the whistle when Norwich's Kris Krouluski scored the winner with 2:33 to go sealing the deal on a 5-4 win and the nail in Simcoe's coffin, yes the Storm still have a game 4 Friday night to try to salvage a game but honestly deep down I'm sure they are thinking that right now they are lacking heart while Norwich is playing with all kinds of heart.
This series will be over Friday night, Simcoe can spend to thier hearts content, but it wont win them a championship, teamwork and heart does and right now Norwich has that on thier side.
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