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Wednesday, March 4, 2009

2009 Section 7A Championship | #1-seed Virginia/MIB (22-5-0) vs. #2-seed Hibbing/Chisholm (16-9-1)


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2009 Section 7A Championship

Virginia/MIB Blue Devils (22-5-0) vs. Hibbing/Chisholm Bluejackets (24-3-0)

DECC Arena, Duluth, MN
Wednesday, March 4th
7:30 PM


Games head-to-head in 2008-2009:

01/27/09 Hibbing/Chisholm 4, Virginia/MIB 2 | at Hibbing
:: HC: Ryan Hanegmon 2 goals (gwg)
:: HC: Aaron Jamnick 1 goal, 2 assists
:: HC: Ryan Johnson 3 assists
:: HC: Drew Vechell 1 goal
:: HC: Spencer Peratelo 2 assists
:: HC: Nathan Tromp 24 Saves
:: VMIB: Chris Weston 1 goal, 1 assist
:: VMIB: Andrew Judnick 1 goal, 1 assist
:: VMIB: Will Lustig 25 Saves

02/17/09 Virginia/MIB 7, Hibbing/Chisholm 1 | at Virginia
:: VMIB: Travis Eddy 2 goals, 1 assist
:: VMIB: Derek Howard 1 goal, 1 assist
:: VMIB: Garrett Hendrickson 1 goal, 1 assist
:: VMIB: Troy Grivette 2 assists
:: VMIB: Jordan Krebsbach 2 assists
:: VMIB: Chris Westin 1 goal
:: VMIB: Wes Judnick 1 goal
:: VMIB: Tom Norlander 1 goal
:: VMIB: Will Lustig 24 Saves (1 assist)
:: HC: Aaron Jamnick 1 goal
:: HC: Nathan Tromp (40:38 Min) 23 saves on 28 shots
:: HC: Tyller Rajkovich (10:22 Min) 4 saves on 6 shots

Scoring Leaders

Virginia/MIB



















Hibbing/Chisholm






Chris Westin

30 g


41 a


71 pts












Aaron Jamnick
30 g


24 a

54 pts
Garrett Hendrickson

22 g


37 a


59 pts












Ryan Hanegmon
13 g


13 a

26 pts
Jordan Krebsbach

16 g


22 a


38 pts












Spencer Peratelo
9 g


16 a

25 pts
Andrew Judnick

13 g


23 a


36 pts












Ryan Johnson
9 g


11 a

20 pts
Travis Eddy

9 g


10 a


19 pts












Nick DeCenzo
7 g


11 a

18 pts


Goaltending Leaders


Regular Season
Virginia/MIB: Will Lustig 17-5-0 | 1.78 GAA | 428 Saves | .916 Save %
Hibbing/Chisholm: Nathan Tromp 14-9-0 | 2.85 GAA | 499 Saves | .883 Save %

Playoffs
Virginia/MIB: Will Lustig 2-0-0 | 1.50 GAA | 35 Saves | .921 Save %
Hibbing/Chisholm: Nathan Tromp 2-0-0 | 1.00 GAA | 24 Saves | .923 Save %


Game-winning Goals

Virginia/MIB


















Hibbing/Chisholm






Travis Eddy
4

















Aaron Jamnick
4





Jordan Krebsbach
3

















Ryan Hanegmon
4





Chris Westin
3

















Spencer Peratelo
2





Troy Nichols
3

















Ryan Johnson
2





Dan Chesser
2

















Eric LaLiberte
1





Tony Buccanero
1

















Jake Suihkonen
1





Josh Lundberg
1

















Jake Stampohar
1





Jake Nelson
1

















Marcus Bugliosi
1





Trey Carlson
1
























Christian Belobaba
1


























How they got here:

Virginia/MIB: defeated #9-seed Silver Bay/CC 5-0, #4-seed Duluth Marshall 4-3
Hibbing/Chisholm: defeated #7-seed Two Harbors 6-0, #3-seed Intl Falls 4-2

Records away from home ice:

Virginia/MIB: 13-2-0
Hibbing/Chisholm: 8-6-0

Offense: Virginia/MIB | Virginia/MIB is averaging 5.6 goals per game, Hibbing/Chisholm 3.7.
Virginia's bench is deeper with 19 different players scoring goals this season, Hibbing/Chisholm 13. Hibbing/Chisholm will need to find someone to score goals aside from Aaron Jamnick. I would think that the Blue Devils will focus on stopping Jamnick tonight. Jamnick is averaging 1.2 of the teams 3.7 goals per game.

Defense: Virginia/MIB | Virginia/MIB has shutout six opponents this season, Hibbing/Chisholm four. Virginia/MIB has allowed opponents 20.1 shots per game, Hibbing/Chisholm 23.2.

Goaltending: Virginia/MIB | Virginia/MIB's Will Lustig has a better than 1 goal per game average over Hibbing/Chisholm's Nathan Tromp during the regular season and three percentage points better at save percentage.

The X-factor is going to be whether or not Virginia/MIB can shutdown Aaron Jamnick. I think that is what most opponents focused on late in the season and it seemed to work well. Prior to Hibbing/Chisholm's win on Saturday in the semifinal game against International Falls in where Jamnick scored two goals and an assist, Jamnick has not had a multiple goal game since January 9th against Rochester Mayo. In the Bluejackets first nine games where they went 6-3-0, Jamnick had three 4-goal games, one 3-goal game, and two 2-goal games. Hibbing/Chisholm is 8-0-0 when Jamnick scores 2 or more goals in a game. The team is 8-9-1 when he doesn't. That says a lot about how much this year's team is about Aaron Jamnick.

Virginia/MIB's team is too well balanced in scoring and stronger in goal to not win this game. They will advance to the Xcel Energy Center next week.

Virginia/Mountain Iron-Buhl 5, Hibbing/Chisholm 2