Commentary by Mark "Gunner" Guarnieri

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CHAMPIONSHIP GAME

COBRAS 4 VS HONEY BADGERS 1

The Cobras, the Cinderella story of the playoffs going from last to first, came out buzzing the Honey Badgers. Todd Barc opened the scoring with an unassisted goal four minutes into the game. Less than two minutes later Jay Stanczak made good use of a Dave Badaszewski pass to put the Cobras up a pair of goals. This was followed shortly by a solo effort from Dave Badaszewski, the leading scorer in the playoffs, to lengthen the Cobra lead. The Cobras stunned the Honey Badgers with the three goal outburst in a span of two minutes. Try as they might the Honey Badgers could not penetrate the goaltending of Dave Stephanoff. As the second period was rapidly coming to a close the Cobras dealt the death blow scoring with just three seconds remaining. Jay Stanczak notched his second goal of the game with help from Todd Barc and Dave Badaszewski. The Honey Badgers ruined the shutout bid two minutes into the final frame when Bryan Murphy scored unassisted. The Cobras shut down the potent Honey Badger offense for the duration of the contest securing the Championship for themselves.

PENGUINS 4 VS RED WINGS 0

The Penguins used a pair of goals from Rick Sweet and Bob Kinney to win this tilt. Rick Sweet got the eventual game winner aided by Steve Lemieux and U. C. Kurta four minutes into the game. The second stanza saw the Penguins pour on the offense scoring three vtimes. Bob Kinney started the parade with help from U. C. Kurta and sub, Paul Boulanger. Rick Sweet used thew talents of Glenn Smith and Bob Kinney to run the margin to three goals. Bob Kinney finished the scoring in the final seconds of the middle frame this time assisted by Brian Quarters and Pat Parrott. Neil Henriques turned aside 14 shots on goal to register his first shutout of the playoffs. The defense of the Penguins consisting of Glenn Smith, Pat Parrott, U. C. Kurta, and Rick Colombo were instrumental in the white wash keeping the Red Wings offense at bay.

VIGNASTY 2 VS GRINDER HOCKEY 0

This game remained scoreless for the first 12 minutes of play. At that point Marc Lueckhoff gained control of the puck and spotted Dave Vigliotti, trying his hand at the power forward position, scored what turned out to be the winning salvo. Joe Dudek, subbing for the aforementioned Dave Vigliotti, in net for Vignasty was stellar in rebuffing all 16 shots directed at him by Grinder Hockey. Sub Steve Gottschalk got an empty net goal for Vignasty to close out the scoring with just 15 ticks of the clock left.

STARS 7 VS ACCIDENTS 4

The Stars built a 3 goal lead 7 minutes into the game. Jamie Nack got two of the goals assisted by Joe Holder on both and Randy Kazdan on the second. Randy Kazdan got the third marker helped by Joe Holder and Jamie Nack. The Accidents got a pair of goals before intermission to close to within a goal. Dominic Magnie scored unassisted to get vthe Accidents on the board. This was followed by a collaboration of John Skolas, Steve Yollick, and Paul Kerber. Randy Kazdan and Joe Holder combined to put the Stars back into a two goal lead. The Accidents worked their late period magic again. Dominic Magnie scored with help from Frank Taylor to cut the lead in half. Sub Don Roser accepted a pass from John Skolas to tie the game heading into the final frame. The Stars regained the lead on the strength of the hat trick completing goal from Jamie Nack. Randy Kazdan was awarded the lone assist. Randy Kazdan notched his second tally of the game aided by Joe Holder and Jamie Nack .Joe Holder, with his sixth assist of the game set up Paul Muller to give the Stars a three goal lead with just 2 minutes left to play. Their was no late period magic for the Accidents in the third period and the outcome was set in stone.