March 25-27

Had a haircut appointment on Friday afternoon, later in the day we headed back to the Arena for the evening's hockey game. The Manchester Monarchs were the opponent for the last of their four regular-season visits. The Royals featured a celebration of the affiliation with the Flyers on this night, Hall-Of-Fame goaltender Bernie Parent and Flyers arena anthem performer Lauren Hart were part of the pregame festivities. The game began in very familiar fashion as the Monarchs took a 2-0 lead early in the second period, Kevin Goumas (second-year pro recently added from the Phantoms) got the Royals on the board but another Manchester score made it 3-1 midway through the game. The Royals swung the pendulum in their favor with two goals forty-five seconds apart, Yannick Tifu and Joe Rehkamp (back from an extended look with the Phantoms) went back-to-back to tie the score. Early in the third period the Royals were awarded a power play opportunity, Kevin Young cashed in on a pass from Tifu to give the home team the lead. From there Adam Morrison and the defense corps made it stand up as the Royals won 4-3, the victory is the 300th home win in the franchise's fifteen-year history. This win improves the club's mark to 33-24-9, 14-14-4 at home. The boys have off until Tuesday the 29th when the Elmira Jackals visit for a makeup game from back in January (the weekend Mother Nature took that gigantic #2 on the East Coast). We had our usual Saturday lunch in Quarryville, other than that the rest of the weekend was uneventful. Take care, thanks for reading.