www.oakvillebeaver.com The Oakville Beaver, Wednesday October 24, 2007 - 41 Win in Hamilton notable for Blades By Jon Kuiperij The early speculation on Monardo's injury was a possible fracture in his neck, a fear that was confirmed early yesterday morning at Hamilton HAMILTON -- The Dave Andreychuk General Hospital. The Blades, up 2-0 at the time Mountain Arena has been a house of horrors late- of the incident, managed to maintain control of ly for the Oakville Blades, but the Blades exor- their emotions and hold off the Red Wings' comeback attempt in the third. cised a demon or two Monday night. "We came back in the dressing room (in the Playing in the rink where their playoff run ended last year on a last-second goal by the second intermission) and said Dom didn't deserve Hamilton Red Wings, the Blades thoroughly out- that and we have to play for him," said Oakville forward Luke Moodie, who has been played their Provincial Junior A friends with Monardo since the age of Hockey League rivals to earn a 3-1 "This rink has four. "We've had a few instances latetriumph. Oakville had lost three of its been some bad ly where we blew some leads and we previous four games at the venerable luck for us." needed this game. It was a huge arena, including an 8-2 defeat Oct. 1, boost for our team to hold on and and had been outscored 20-9 during Oakville Blades win." that stretch. head coach Carlo The Red Wings' Steve Spade was Still, the Blades did not emerge Coccimiglio, referring assessed a major penalty and a game from Hamilton completely to Hamilton's misconduct for the hit on Monardo, unscathed. Mountain Arena which gave Oakville a lengthy 5-on-3 Oakville's leading scorer, Domenic Monardo, was hit into the boards from behind in advantage. The Blades, however, were unable to the second period and laid nearly motionless for capitalize on the powerplay, and Hamilton scored half an hour as both teams' trainers, and eventu- midway through the third period to pull within ally paramedics, attended to him (see story, page one. The Red Wings had two powerplays of their 1). The incident brought back memories of last year's playoffs, when Oakville forward Brent own in the final nine minutes, but Oakville goalClarke was also hit from behind and was carted off tender Scott Greenham and his teammates denied Hamilton the equalizer. Jeremy Welsh on a stretcher after a lengthy delay. "This rink has been some bad luck for us," said clinched the win with an empty-netter from cenBlades head coach Carlo Coccimiglio. "Last year, tre ice with 1:05 to go. Monardo and Trevor Eckenswiller had the the same thing happened to us -- a vicious hit from behind -- and we were concerned about other goals for the Blades, who outshot Hamilton See Blades page 42 him too." BEAVER SPORTS EDITOR with the largest selection of German Specialties Visit us this month for the taste of Germany. 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