We are very lucky in O4 that generally the games are pretty close and come down to a few plays at the end of the game to decide the outcome, our opening game of Week 3 WAS NOT one of those games.... The season debut of Car Trouble's Bernie Car was no trouble at all for his squad as the renowned shooter powered his team to a dominant mercy victory in a game that lasted the minimum 20 minutes, Bernie's linemate rookie Shawn Morgan continued his strong debut season, while the "2nd line" of Brock Murray and Valerie Gies pitched in a few of their own. As usual, CT keeper Justin Labrecque did his part and said No Way José to Austin and the rest of NWJ en route to an 18 save shutout and a 7-0 whitewashing.

Our second game would see the high scoring ways continue but at least this time both teams were able to get in on the action... McCafe and Hawkins Hooligans would play an entertaining first period with 9 total goals scored including one from each team in the final 25 seconds as MCC led 5-4 at the break. With the score now 6-5 midway through the 2nd period MCC captain Jonathan Malloy and sniper Richard Tattrie would combine for 3 straight goals to lock up MCC's first W of the season. HHH drop their 2nd of the young season despite a hatty from returning star Ryan Hawkins and a strong outing by Zach Verge .

Our 3rd game was expected to be a dandy as we had a couple of undefeated teams facing off in Heron My Balls and Nesbitt's Risky Biscuits... unfortunately only one of these teams would show up for the 2nd half. The game would start tight with HMB taking a 2-1 lead halfway through the first period, but in the final seconds HMB would take over the game and never let go, they would score twice in the final 14 seconds of the period, first freshman Elsie Jahn would snipe her first O4 marker with 14 seconds to play then captain Jason Muscant would strike with just 2 ticks left on the clock to make it a 4-1 HMB lead at the break. HMB would hold that momentum into the 2nd period and it was the Brad McCarter and Peter Heron show the rest of the way as HMB walk off 8-2 victors.

Into game 4 and the ugly results would continue as we ran into our second mercy of the day... Early on the game appeared that it would be a good one with Jean-Luc Garneau scoring halfway through the opening frame to make it 3-1 for Because Children, however that was the lone highlight for Darth Veda the rest of the way. Jeff Murphy and Luc Facette would each notch hat tricks while rookie Jenna Lackey exploded for a hat trick plus one of assists as BC dominate on the score clock and the shot counter to end this one at 8-1 with 7 minutes to play.

Onto game 5 and finally we managed to see a close on as Fuzzy Privates and Who's Your Doddy? faced off, the first period would be back and forth with WYD's rookie Austin Dodd all over the scoresheet with all 3 of his points plus his 4PIM coming in the first period. Austin would set up linemate Dale Cahoon with 12 seconds remaining in the first for Dale's first goal of the season to send the game to the break tied at 3's. Desperate for their first points of the season FP would come out firing in the 2nd but couldn't beat Aly Richer in goal for WYD, Aly would be perfect in the period while teammate Don Prior , making his season debut for WYD, would take over Austin's scoresheet dominance accounting for 3 points in the half as WYD pull away to a 6-3 win. Of note Aly would post maybe her best stat line in her O4 career stopping 36 of 39 shots, while FP were led in points by Robin Pittman's pair of helpers.

Into the 2nd last matchup of the day and taking a cue from the previous game, thankfully the close games would continue into this one between Brent's Blasters and the Vanier Assassins. In a major departure from most games in this gym the goalies would dominate the opening frame, but with the score tied at 1-1 late Gisele Seguin managed to sneak one in with 12 seconds remaining to give VA a 2-1 edge at the half. Midway through the 2nd Ty St-Jean would blast one home on the Blaster's net to extend the lead to 3-1 and that was all the support that Patrick Gaudreau would need, Pat was steady and spectacular at times in goal for VA in this one turning aside 42 of 44 shots on goal to lead his team to the 5-2 win. Frank Zic would end the game on a high for BB with his 2nd but it was too little too late as VA take home win number 2 on the season.

The final game of an up and down week 3 continued the late trend of close matchups likely being the "Game of the Day" between Auger Simpson and Zero Pucks Given. With score 2-1 for ZPG 5 minutes in AS's captain Andrew Stephens would take over as the humble sniper hit the scoresheet for all 4 of his points including a hatty in 10 minutes of game time to lead AS to a 6-3 lead at the buzzer. ZPG would absolutely dominate the shot count in period 2 but Jeff Squires was a wall in the AS goal, ZPG did manage to make it close with 2 goals on 28 second half shots but that's as close as they would come, despite 3 points from Sam Parsonson ZPG fall 6-5 to AS in a great game to finish the week.