The final . . . third period

THIRD PERIOD:
Some folks are going to shoot some pucks and try to win a whole bunch of pucks here in the second intermission. . . . The first guy shoots for 100 grand. He gets five pucks into the net from the far blue line and goes home to Nova Scotia with $5,000. . . . A guy from Ontario shoots for $250,000. . . . He should have had Taylor Hall come out and shoot for him. He was wife left a whole bunch of times. . . . And now a gal from Rocky Mountain House, Alta., will shoot for a cool $1 million. . . . Ah, no, she didn’t win. . . . Not sure what all those folks took home. . . . Old Dutch was involved so perhaps they got a bag of chips or two. . . . Well, here we go. The last 20 minutes of the 2010 MasterCard Memorial Cup. . . . By the way, it was good to see David Branch, the head guy with the CHL and the OHL, back in town. He was at centre ice before the game. He had to leave for home late in the week to tend to a family matter. Best wishes, Dave, and here’s hoping all is well. . . . Windsor G Philipp Grubauer, who is from Germany, gets a shoulder on a shot by F Brent Raedeke. . . . It’s too bad that this tournament won’t be remembered for the hockey. The scores were 9-3, 5-4, 4-0, 6-2, 4-3 (OT), 5-1, 5-4 (OT) and whatever this one ends up at. . . . Brandon’s semifinal victory over Calgary was a wonderful game, but the rest? Not so much. . . . Still, it has been a treat watching the Spitfires. This is a very good team. It does a lot of things really, really well, and was easily the best team here when it came to getting the puck out of its zone. . . . It also has a remarkable number of players who have very high panic points. Very rarely do you see a Windsor player just throwing away the puck. . . . And now it’s 7-1 with 14:18 left and Windsor with a 47-18 edge in shots. . . . It was Kassian all alone on the left side and he puts it, yes, under the cross-bar. . . . The attendance is 5,609. . . . Sounds like the gendarmes are escorting one unhappy fan from the premises. . . . I’m sure fans will start leaving once the 50/50 number is announced. . . . There isn’t any intensity out there now and that’s understandable with the score what it is. . . . Now would be a good time to go to straight time. . . . Windsor has outscored Brandon 16-4 in this tournament. . . . Hall over to Henrique and it’s 8-1. . . . The 50/50 winner went home with $26,830. No, it wasn’t me. . . . Hall has nine points, one more than Calgary F Jimmy Bubnick. . . . Raedeke and Young are off for roughing, so it’ll be 4-on-4. . . . No, Young got the extra minor so Brandon is on the PP. . . . There was no middle ground with Brandon in this tournament. The Wheaties played two really good games but, on the other side of the coin, they laid three giant eggs. . . . Grubauer with a save on Ciarelli and the shots are 50-23. . . . Some fans are starting to head for the exits. . . . Awfully windy here and if they’re heading east they won’t use much gasoline. . . . Both teams have their fourth lines out there now. . . . Windsor goes tic, tac, toe all the way up the ice and it’s 9-1. . . . Give the goal to F Dale Mitchell, he of the best moustache here. . . . Gotta wonder if he shaves it or keeps it when this is over? . . . In hindsight, that fourth goal, the one that needed video review, seemed to finish the Wheat Kings. They had made it 3-1 not too long before and that goal seemed to take the wind right out of their sails. I’m not saying they would have come all the way back but perhaps they could have stayed in it a while longer. . . . There’s Glennie and Hall exchanging whacks and some chatter, and Hall gets the only penalty. . . . And now there’s a scrum in front of the Windsor net. Where was that feistiness from Brandon earlier? . . . It’s over. Mitchell chases down the puck and grabs it. He’s got the souvenir. . . . It ends 9-1 and the shotgs are 52-28. . . . I might be inclined to give Grubauer the MVP because he has been awfully good and it all starts in goal. But it likely will go to Hall.