By Rob Speers

As Sting packed out the indoor stadium, the Lions unpacked the Coq and the Bull with a resounding 11-3 Victory to kick off 2005 and the second half of the SNIHL season. With a depleted and fearful Coq n Bull squad taking to the ice, the LT Lions came out of the den determined and hungry to reverse first half blunders. The Lions opened the scoring with a blast from 3rd round draft pick Davey "the Tower" Griffiths off a set up by the Kraminator and Phil "Marguera" Day. The Tower was relentless, breaking through in this, his 6th regular season game to record 4 Goals and 2 Assists for 6 points and bolstering his point total to 14.

...Bruce "Bus Stop" Argue opened the 3rd period early on, recording his only goal of the night and one of his 5 points...

The Lions pressed and pushed the Bulls back into their zone time and again during the first allowing only 1 goal and putting another 2 into the twine by the buzzer off of a brilliant walk in and shot from the Kraminator and a fantastic one-timer in front of the net by Day from Griffiths and Argue. The defensive pairings of the Tower and Big Mac, Speers and Poulter kept league scoring leader Jarko Salo, Scotty Clements and the Rocket, Ricky D off their game and the incredible play of Russ "the Razor" Ramon kept them off the scoreboard. Mini Mullet and the Kraminator played a solid defensive game, pressing Bull defencemen and causing cough-ups and turnovers throughout

“Pat "Lil-Bow-wow-ers" opened the second period early at 19:25 dumping one in behind Larry "#%$^@" Francis off a Big Mac happy pass. Bowers continued his dominance of the second period recording 2 more assists and finished the game with a season high 2 Goals and 4 Assists. The Bulls were allowed only 1 more goal in the second while the Lions tore open a 7-2 lead off of goals from the Mini Mullet walking in on Francis alone, beating him with a swift move to the backhand and the Tower's hat trick marker from the point.

Bruce "Bus Stop" Argue opened the 3rd period early on, recording his only goal of the night and one of his 5 points. With no penalty minutes called on the Lions, Argue retains the league PIM record and vaulted himself to the top of LT's scoring race with 21 points over 13 games.

Despite a solid checking game both offensively and defensively, the Lions gave up 37 shots, handled flawlessly by the genius play of Ramos. The Lions thirst for Rooster blood was not complete until the final buzzer sounded vaulting the Lions 2 points up in the standings and individual efforts by Griffiths (4G,2A), Bowers (2G,4A), Argue (1G,4A), Day (1G,2A), Kram (1G,2A) push LT players further up the individual league stats

The next Lions game is Thursday at 9pm against the Brewerkz Bruins, coming off of an derailing 21-4 victory over L'Estiminet Beers-"aren't enough for this pain".