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The Duluth Marshall game vs. Totino Grace was a game that this person says was the most exciting hockey game he has ever witnessed. The game had virtually everything.

Duluth Marshall started strong but the Eagles scored a fluke goal to take a 1-0 lead. Marshall showed how strong they were as they scored a minute later to take the lead. The Hilltoppers scored another goal before the period was over and had a 2-1 lead after one period.

The Eagles scored early in the second period but once again D Marshall scored within the next minute and followed it up with three more to knock out Olson the goalie and take a 6-2 lead after two periods of play.

The Eagles did not have a shot on goal in the third period for over seven minutes. They did score on their first shot in the period with seven and a half minutes remaining and then they went nuts!!! They scored another with five and half minutes remaining followed by another with four minutes remaining to close it to 6-5. Then with three minutes remaining they amazingly tied it up at six knocking out Marshall goalkeeper Paul. You thought that with all of the momentum the Eagles would score the next goal but instead with 1:56 remaining the Hilltoppers scored to take a 7-6 lead. With a minute remaining the Eagles were in the box and they called time-out. They were able to get their goalie pulled and Marshall could not get the puck out of their zone. Finally with five seconds Joe Novitski blasted one in to tie it up at seven all. With that goal Novitski had the hat-trick with all three goals in the third period. The Eagles ended up with an amazing 24 shots in the final eight minutes of the period.

The overtime started with the Toppers getting a breakaway but the Eagle goalie made a great save. The Eagles then went down and had a chance but Joe Kozlak said enough is enough and put a nice low shot in for Duluth Marshall giving him the hat-trick.

The three goals by Kozlak gave the Hilltoppers leads of 2-1, 7-6, and finally the 8-7 winning goal.

The score-sheet had 15 spots for goals and penalties and they were all used as Marshall had 8 penalties to the Eagles 7 and 8 goals to the Eagles 7. Also, with every player playing in the game and the game going to O.T. it was a game that had everything. Shots on goal were 44-42 in favor of the Eagles. This was the greatest high school hockey game I have ever witnessed in person. At least for a regular season game. Channel four was there taking some highlights but they left after the first period. That is when they should have came to the game, not left.

If you were there, what did you think of it?

i heard this game was horse poop, very sluggish.

this game was a great game, but TG played horrible the first two periods. If they had played the way they had played in the third the whole game, they would have won hands down. Just goes to show how vulnerable Marshall can be.

Well not every of the 15 goals was spectacular but for pure excitement you couldn't have asked for anything more. I think everyone in attendance had their hearts skip a few beats more than once during the third period and overtime.

i have to agree it was horse poop...mainly beacuse they lost! joe novitki was money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!to bad they lost beacuse of some stupid penalties and a doggish 2nd period.....t

this was a good game but i marshall was clearly the better team and totino was awful totino got lucky that marshall gave up in the third or if marshall would have kept playing how they were this game would have been easily 10 to 2 marshall

I don't know how you can score seven goals on a team who is in the top five in the class and be awful. But your entitled to your own opinion.

Now the Eagles take on Meadow Creek. If they can score seven on the Hilltoppers, how many will they score against the Saints???

It looked like Marshall just broke down in the 3rd. Pretty good game. A lot of ugly goals for totino. Can anyone confirm in the third period if marshall scored and it bounced off the padding in the back of the net?

It looked like Marshall just broke down in the 3rd. Pretty good game. A lot of ugly goals for totino. Can anyone confirm in the third period if marshall scored and it bounced off the padding in the back of the net?

I'm not so sure Duluth Marshall would say this was one of the greatest games they've played. They lost a lead several times, and Kozlak put them up three times, but it looks to be one of the worst defensive games they've played in the last few years. DM has not given up more than 5 goals in a game since November, 2004 when they lost 8-4 to Blake. Just over 4 seasons and and 124 games in that span.
Exciting game if you like scoring though I guess.

Looks like DM rebounded the next day with a good performance against Minnetonka in a losing effort.

if your saying greatest game so far this year... maybe, greatest game in my recent memory would have to be DM vs STA semi-final game two years ago, and i was too young to remember it but the East- Maple Grove was it? the one that lasted till like 3 am.

hockeyhair15 wrote:if your saying greatest game so far this year... maybe, greatest game in my recent memory would have to be DM vs STA semi-final game two years ago, and i was too young to remember it but the East- Maple Grove was it? the one that lasted till like 3 am.

East vs. Apple Valley. Still the best I've seen.
The Hounds was robbed!!!!

hockeyhair15 wrote:if your saying greatest game so far this year... maybe, greatest game in my recent memory would have to be DM vs STA semi-final game two years ago, and i was too young to remember it but the East- Maple Grove was it? the one that lasted till like 3 am.

that semi final game was the best hockey game ive seen in my life, not just highschool

power92 wrote:

hockeyhair15 wrote:if your saying greatest game so far this year... maybe, greatest game in my recent memory would have to be DM vs STA semi-final game two years ago, and i was too young to remember it but the East- Maple Grove was it? the one that lasted till like 3 am.

East vs. Apple Valley. Still the best I've seen.
The Hounds was robbed!!!!

yea it was AV my bad

How about lets go old school and go with the TRF vs ???? many years ago. Multiple overtimes. they had to play one peroid from the late night game inbetween the overtimes because teh game was running so late and the players were tired. I belive there as a book about this TRF team I can quite think of the name of it at the moment....maybe River of Champions??

The Best 4th Liner wrote:How about lets go old school and go with the TRF vs ???? many years ago. Multiple overtimes. they had to play one peroid from the late night game inbetween the overtimes because teh game was running so late and the players were tired. I belive there as a book about this TRF team I can quite think of the name of it at the moment....maybe River of Champions??

Possibly "remember the river"?? I'm not too sure myself. Didn't that TRF team only have like 8 skaters on their roster?