I won't be giving the gold/silver results until tomorrow. The bronze medal game ran late, and the finals only started at 10:00. There were already so many drunks, idiots throwing things onto the ice, and an old lady swinging her purse at me, there's no way that I was going to stay there until midnight.
Salluit had built up a 5-2 lead by the end of the second period. Then in the third, Kangirsuk started chipping away. They made it 5-3 with a powerplay goal very early. Salluit restored the three goal lead shortly after that, making it 6-3. Kangirsuk scored about half way through the period, made it a one goal game with just over two minutes left, and then tied it up with about a minute and a half left in the game. With regulation time settling nothing, it was off to overtime. I didn't actually see the overtime goal, since the purse swinging lady insisted on standing up and holding out her arms to block as many fan's view as possible when the puck was in the other end, but I could tell from the cheering that Salluit had scored 5:15 into OT to make it a 7-6 final, giving the home team the bronze.
While it was nice to have a little extra excitement in town, I'll be looking forward to everything returning to something more close to normal (whatever normal is). Tomorrow should be a normal type blog again, although if I find out at work who actually won between Kangisuujjuaq and Kuujjuaq, it might be worth at least a paragraph. With this blog's previous record being 18 hits on a day, and the last three days seeing about 50/day, I felt it mandatory to quench the thirst of those along the Ungava Coast that were tuning in to me as the unofficial "official" website for the local version of the Stanley Cup.
Stay tuned.
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