Beau blogged about a box score from the Spurs/Warriors game on Friday, and I think this should be a regular feature: writing about sporting events you never watched, but wished you had.This is a box score you need to see.
I have yet to speak with any of the 889 people in attendance at this SPHL game last month. (Southern Professional Hockey League. Yes, it's a real league.) And I doubt that many readers of J.B. Sports Chat are familiar with the Knoxville Ice Bears or the Louisiana IceGators, but the important thing here is that you can interpret a hockey box score. Actually... I take that back. The important thing is that you understand math and can identify disparity in numbers for the two teams. Here are a few highlights:
Power Plays: Knoxville was 4 for 13, Louisiana was 0 for 2.
Penalty Totals: Knoxville had 4 minutes on 2 infractions, Louisiana had 158 minutes on 25 infractions.
Yes, 158 penalty minutes were collected by one team in a 60-minute game. The third period penalties were all on Louisiana. Fighting Majors, Game Misconducts for Abuse of an Official, Gamers for Inciting an Opponent, and all sorts of fun stuff. But my very, very favorite is the last two penalties listed: Dave MacIsaac and Frank Jury, 10 minute game misconducts each for Verbal Abuse of Officials. Scroll through the active roster and you will not find those names. MacIsaac is the Head Coach and Jury is the Equipment Manager.
What the hell happened?!? Most of the penalty minutes were from the third period, but they didn't even occur all at once. The first major penalty in the third was at 10:21 and the last was the equipment guy with just over a minute left in the game. At 17:18 in the third, three players got misconducts for slashing, charging, and fighting (third man in.) Who were they fighting?!? Each other? Officials? Fans? No one from Knoxville had any fighting penalties.
That is one of the most perplexing box scores I have ever seen. I wish I had been at Blackham Coliseum that night to see what happened. I would have been happy to boost their attendance to a solid 890.
That is great. I didn't even know that they published SPHL box scores.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading your post, I had to do a little research. Below is an update on the fate of Mr. Jury and the rest of the "offenders" from the SPHL website. (Also included a link to a random SPHL goalie fight!)
CHARLOTTE, NC - Following its review, the SPHL today announced disciplinary action resulting from incidents occurring in Game #152, Knoxville at Louisiana, played on February 25.
Louisiana defenseman Jason Hamilton has been suspended eight games for his actions whereby he was assessed a major for fighting and a game misconduct under Rule 47.2, Aggressor and a game misconduct under Rule 40.5, Verbal Abuse of an Official. In addition, Mr. Hamilton sucker-punched a Knoxville player, causing injury. Mr. Hamilton has served two games of his suspension, missing games against Pensacola on Saturday, February 27 and at Mississippi on Sunday, February 28. Mr. Hamilton will also miss games against Columbus on Saturday, March 6, against Mississippi on Sunday, March 7, against Huntsville on Saturday, March 13, at Pensacola on Tuesday, March 16, at Huntsville on Thursday, March 18 and at Columbus on Friday, March 19. In addition, Mr. Hamilton has been fined an undisclosed amount for his actions.
Louisiana forward Paul McBrien has been suspended two games as a result of accumulating his fifth game misconduct of the season. In this game, he was assessed a major and a game misconduct under Rule 61.5, Slashing. Mr. McBrien has completed both games of his suspension, missing games against Pensacola on Saturday, February 27 and at Mississippi on Sunday, February 28.
Louisiana coach Dave MacIsaac has been suspended one game for his actions whereby he was assessed two game misconducts. Mr. MacIsaac has completed his suspension, missing the game against Pensacola on Saturday, February 27.
Louisiana equipment manager Frank Jury has been fined for his actions whereby he was assessed a game misconduct.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PEPy9V-Vwo
link to above update on the SPHL website: http://www.thesphl.com/view/thesphl/news/news_11023
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