Selanne Answers for the Spurs!

- The Nest - Portland, OR, USA

The improbable happened as the Spurs won game 6 in Portland 7-4. In doing so, they won all 3 games on Portland's home ice while only being able to take 1 of 3 at the Coliseum in Denver. In game 6 they found a chink in the armor of the Owls' Nik Backstrom in being able to put 6 past the stellar rookie netminder. The Spurs struck for 3 in the 2nd and 4 in the 3rd while the Owls put 2 in the 1st and one in both the 2nd and 3rd past Spurs' goalie Marty Brodeur. The Spurs were 1 for 4 on the PP, while the Owls were stifled by the PK units of the Spurs going
0-6 with the man advantage. Coach Q was very pleased with the PK efforts in this contest considering the woeful performances earlier in the series.
The Owls had a 3-0 lead by 00:58 of the 2nd period on goals by Satan (1), A. Ward (1) and S.Kozlov (3) before the Spurs got on the board. At that point it was looking like a game 7 back in Denver but then the Spurs kicked the pony into high gear.
Scoring six consecutive goals for the Spurs from the 2nd into the 3rd period were Malik (1), Selanne with a HAT TRICK (3,4,5), Tkachuk (6), Hossa (2) and John-Michael Liles (1), an empty netter.
Vanek (3), scored Portland's 4th goal at 18:21 of the 3rd with Liles empty netter coming 5 seconds later.
Dasher Notes
One opening round series still needs to be decided in the Blues Conference, that being the matchup between Karlstad and Quebec. Advancing in the Jazz Conference are the Spurs, Sandblasters, Musicmen and Express. In the Blues Conference so far it's the Donuts, Chinook, Ibex. The Spurs will face the defending CCHL Champs Musicmen in the Jazz semi-finals while the Sandblasters will face the Express.