ShareLANGLEY GOES BACK TO BACK IN OT 3-2
2023-02-21
PLAYER OF THE YEAR KHAZAI ENDS IT IN OTBefore a capacity crowd at the Ashburn Ice House, Coach Patrick Keough's Langley Saxons repeated as the NVSHL Champions. NVSHL Player of the Year Kam Khazai scored his second goal of the game at 15:15 of the first OT to end a game that kept the standing room only crowd on its feet the entire game. In a game that was evenly played, Khazai got Langley on the board first with two minutes left in the first period on feeds from Noah Scheinerman and Cole Samburg. Briar Woods answered back when Captain Derek Yamatani scored from the point early in the second Period. Three minutes later Aidan Jacques put Langley back on top 2-1. Briar Woods Grant Leeds answered back thirty seconds later to tie the score 2-2. After that both goalies, Langley's Harrison Smith and Briar Woods's Brady Knode were tremendous keeping both offenses off the board. Then Khazai taking a pass from Scheinerman rifled a perfect shot pass Knode ending one of the best games ever played in the NVSHL.
The two top seeded teams move on to a rematch of last year's final in very different ways. Briar Woods was down 4-0 when they called timeout with 3:58 left in the second period. After the timeout, Coach Powell's Falcons scored seven unanswered goals in beating Independence 7-4.
The line of Zach Posusney, Zach Greenland and Joey Greenland took over the game scoring five of those goals. In the nightcap, Coach Patrick Keough's, undefeated and number one seeded Langey Saxons defeated Yorktown 5-1. Langley controlled the play from start to finish outshooting Yorktown 2-1. Yorktown's goalie, Alex Andreev kept Yorktown in the game until the very end, when Langley scored two late goals. Kam Khazai led the Langley attack with the Hat Trick.
This sets up the matchup for all the marbles on Friday night starting at approximately 7:30pm at the Ashburn Ice House. The Provisional State Championship game between John Champe/Lightridge and Kettle Run/Rappahannock will start at 5:30pm.
It was a great Monday for the NVSHL playoffs. At Reston, Yorktown behind a great goaltending effort by Alex Andreev and a third period goal by James Gan defeated Battlefield 2-1 in a game that could have gone either way. In the nightcap, number one seed Langley was too much for Riverside winning 5-1. Langley's top line of Kam Khazai, Noah Scheinerman and Cole Samburg accounted for four goals and goalie Harrision Smith spearheaded the league top defensive team. At Ashburn, Independence led by four goals from Captain Kyle Tinschert defeated Paul VI 11-2. The nightcap turn out to be the game of the night. Briar Woods Zach Greenland scored in OT for a 4-3 win over Stonebridge.
Wednesday semifinals are now set with the following:
5:00pm Independence vs Briar Woods @ Ashburn Ice House
6:40pm Yorktown vs Langley @ Ashburn Ice House
The quarterfinals are set for Monday as all top seeds held serve Friday night. At Reston, Yorktown (6) jumped on Broad Run early and won 6-4. In the nightcap, Riverside defeated McLean 5-3. At Ashburn, Independence dominated form start to finish in defeating Madison 8-2. In the final Stonebridge defeated Oakton 5-2 in a game that was close throughout. Stonebride scored two late empty net goals to seal the victory.
This sets up the quarterfinal schedule on Monday night:
Independence (5) vs Paul VI (4) @ Ashburn Ice House 5:30pm
Stonebridge (7) vs Briar Woods (2) @ Ashburn Ice House 7:10pm
Yorktown (6) vs Battlefield (3) @ Reston Skatequest 6:00pm
Riverside (8) vs Langley (1) @ Reston Skatequest 7:40pm
The NVSHL 2022-23 varsity season is complete, seeding has been determined and the following 12 teams will compete for the NVSHL Championship.
1 Langley 10-0-0
2 Briar Woods 8-1-1
3 Battlefield 7-2-1 (wins tiebreaker against Yorktown based on Head to Head win)
4 Paul VI 2-8-0 (won division)
5 Independence 8-2-0
6 Yorktown 7-2-1
7 Stonebridge 6-3-1
8 Riverside 5-4-1
9 McLean 4-4-2
10 Oakton 4-5-1 (wins tiebreaker with 35 PM)
11 Broad Run 4-5-1 (loses tiebreaker with 46 PM)
12 Madison 4-6-0
This sets up the following matchup this Friday:
Broad Run (11) vs Yorktown (6) 6:10pm @ Reston Skatequest
McLean (9) vs Riverside (8) 7:50pm @ Reston Skatequest
Madison (12) vs Independence (5) 9:00pm @ Ashburn Ice House
Oakton (10) vs Stonebridge (7) 9:20pm @ Ashburn Ice House
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