Nitro's blank Golden Rockets in Season Opener

What does 0, 70 , 7 and 28 have in common with the Golden Rockets? They took 28 shots against Mousseau and scored zero goals (they laid the goose-egg, went out for a duck, and lost like a girls basketball team). They took 70 penalties in minutes, because the Rockets' coach didn't like a particular non-call and said "it's F#$%ing on."  Resulting in 7 Nitros players getting points and his bench looking like this late in the third:

Now just for some perspective, said coach got mad at this call at about the halfway point in the second period when the Nitro's were up 1-0. The next 4 goals all came on the powerplay for the Nitros, giving them 40% efficiency on the powerplay.

So I would personally like to thank the Rockets coach for letting us win. If he would have coached properly without the emotion of rage taking over, it could have been a closer game. Let it be a lesson that 'revenge' isn't always the best policy, and it may come to bite you. So Thanks Golden Rocket's Coach.

Here are just some more shots from the game:

This is probably how the Rocket's felt through out the night, out-numbered.

 

It's pretty lonely when your team is on the powerplay 10 times.

Remember, you can get in on the puck toss for cool prizes!

Well done boys! This was a fantastic start to the new season. And at this rate, Mousseau is going to have a lot of shutouts!

Nitro's Player of the game: Jeremy Mousseau for his 28 save shutout performance.
Runner-up: Eric Buckley, for his buzzer beater goal in the 2nd that got under the Rockets skin.

Visit the KIJHL website for the full scorecard. If you missed the game, you can always check out the Webcast of the game in the archives (when available).