San Jo-ly crap!

If you were told that the first period of a game featured seven penalties, including four for fighting, and the second period included another pair for fighting... you'd expect it was a game ugly on a Charlize Theron-in-"Monster" level, right?

In the case of the Providence-Sharklings game, you'd be correct.

With almost fifty minutes of penalties, the most amazing thing is there were NONE in the third period.

Ivan Huml opened the scoring ninety seconds into the game, showing Patrick Ehelechner how things are done East Coast style. Unfortunately, in doing so, he antagonized the Sharklings into displaying a West Coast Clinic.

Both Shaone Morrison and Mark McRae and Darren McLachlan and Mike Jefferson fought to draws in the period, to the chargin of the blood-thirsty crowd, but Michal Pinc satisfied them some with a sweeping goal past Brock Hooten at 08:44. Three and a half minutes later, Mike Bishai used almost the exact same move to give the Sharklings the lead they would never relinquish.

Following intermission and a Pierre-Luc Edmond roughing penalty, the Sharklings added a third goal on a Mike Jefferson power play effort at 04:39. Both sides settled down - scoring wise - after that until Brad Schell tipped in a skipping Dennis Wideman pass at 16:34 to make the score 4-2. The anger began to boil after that, as Andreas Valdix beat down Roman Vopat to the point of injury less than a minute later.

Amazingly, whatever was said in the second intermission stopped the craziness. Martin Samuellson and Ivan Huml bookended another Mike Bishai goal to close the gap, but wouldn't do any more than make losers of winners in Vegas.

Martin St. Pierre would add one last goal, now off Davis Parley, for the final tally of 6-3. Once again, 10,000 home town fans went home happy.