In their most one sided loss in quite some time, the Bullies fell to Victorious Secret 11-2. Due to injuries and unfortunate scheduling, the Bullies only started the game with 8 players, versus Victorious' absurdly long 18 man bench. Also, with both of their regular goalies out of commission, the Bullies were forced to throw Darcy Skish to the wolves, playing his first game in over 3 years, a position he hasn't regularly played since 2005. Skish did what he could, but with a tired squad in front of him the game was quickly out of reach. The only good news is the Bullies will get a fourth game versus them at the end of the season and a chance to even up the season series once more.

Rolling out their shortest bench of the year versus a 17 deep Victorious Secret lineup, the Broadstreet Bullies gutted out a 1-1 draw, largely on the back of some exceptional play by recently returned netminder Andy Dejonghe. With only 10 players dressed, a number that fell to 9 when defenceman Todd Loewen was knocked out of the game on an unpenalized hit, the Bullies never seemed to be able to get their offensive game going. Much like their first game at the start of the year, the final result was a draw, and it was a point the Bullies were very happy to take away from the game. With the retiering round complete, the Bullies sit with an 8-2-2 record - a franchise best.

For whatever reason, Victorious Secret seems to match up very well to the Bullies, doing a better job than most at slowing the play through the middle and taking away time and space. That limited the Bullies opportunities throughout most of the first as they struggled to generate much in the way of shots. Fortunately for them, Andy Dejonghe was more than up to the task in net as he held his team in what was a scoreless game throughout the entire first half. Despite a pair of powerplays in the first, the Bullies just weren't clicking.

In the second, on their second penalty kill of the night, Dejonghe finally got beaten for a 1-0 Bullies deficit two minutes into the second half. Things got worse with Todd Loewen leaving the game with the bulk of the period remaining. The normally potent Bullies offence was snakebitten even with respect to shots, let alone goals, until Dejonghe made a huge clearing pass to spring the offence on a rush. Wayne Mount deked through the entire opposing team and buried a backhand to tie the game 1-1 with 7:30 left in the period, with Dejonghe drawing the rare goalie assist on the play. The Bullies were able to hold on, and pick up the point for the tie with the game going into OT. There were a few chances each way in the extra frame, but a definitive victor in the season series will need to wait until next week.

Some oddly random scheduling has the Bullies playing Victorious Secret on back to back weeks (and for their third out of a total of four times this season) next Monday, which should see some much needed bodies returning to the lineup.

Contrary to what had been expected, the Broadstreet Bullies did not end up moving to Division 10 after all. Due to the way the retiering was done, with the record after 9 games considered most strongly, when one of the Div 10 teams rejected a move down only two teams moved up. Based on record at the time, that was Pandamonium and the Bush Pirates. Thus, the Bullies will remain in Division 10 atop the standings after the retier.

Joining the division will be the 4-7-0 C.C.C.P and 1-10-0 Beautiful Butterflies from Division 10, along with the 7-1-2 Wolves and 8-1-0 Mighty Ducks from Division 12. A scheduling quirk in the retier will have the Bullies playing Victorious secret on back to back weeks, and an unheard of total of 4 times throughout the season.

Your GM, Jay 'Bobby Clarke' Gilbert will be providing the game summary for this match.

With many key players out for the Bullies the line up got shook up but worked out for the most part. The first 10 minutes was very sloppy and slow play until the Bush Pirates took a penalty and Rick made they pay on a sweet feed from Wayne. Only 5 minutes later after just missing on the second powerplay of the period Rick notched his 2nd goal of the game on another gem pass from Wayne. At half the Bullies had most of the pressure but only a 2-0 lead but needed to play better and did so.

Just about 10 minutes in to the second half the Pirate's got on the board with a slap shot down the win that seemed to have cuffed Andy, who return to net after his 7 games absence. But from there on in he wasn't challenged much but when he was he was a rock in net. Wayne restored the 2 goal lead just a few minutes later on a well placed shot. It became obvious to many that the Pirates were getting tired and now were going to start playing chippy and dirty however it was the Bullies who got lured into the penalties. With 4 Bullies in the box and the Pirates running a 5 on 3 nothing came of it because of the great penalty killing work of Wayne & Jay who keep it in their zone almost the entire time.

It wasn't the best effort from the forwards but a hat's off to the 3 man D core (Don,Skish and Colten)that never seemed to get tired and finished every shift with everything they had in the tank. The Bullies play again Monday vs the Victorious Secret who they tied in there first match up to begin the season.

The Broadstreet Bullies schedule turned out to be very much bottom heavy, as they have played the toughest teams in the division in the final third of the retiering round. Their tenth game was a big one versus the Eagles, with the two teams tied in the standings for third place. Despite a last minute scratch to centreman Ryan Loney, the Bullies delivered another strong effort versus a quality team. With two games before their move to division 10, the Bullies are still on pace for a franchise record with a 7-2-1 start. Individually, Cody Carruthers reached the 50 point plateau in his 55th career game.

Getting ahead early has been a big part of the Bullies success this year and Wayne Mount's hat trick night started things off on the right foot with a goal just over two minutes in. Cody Carruthers (who also had a three point night) potted his tenth of the year a minute later. The Eagles banged home their first of the night at 14:10 to get back into the game, before Mount restored the insurance marker with under 5 minutes to play in the period. The score remained 3-1 at half.

In the second, the Bullies had a bit of a lull where they were outworked and let the Eagles get back into the game as they made it 3-2 with over 10 minutes remaining. At 7:53 in the second, almost identically to his first goal, Cody Carruthers took a pace from behind the net from Shane Day (the freshly dubbed 'Shody' pair) to put the game out of reach. A surprisingly fortuitious too many men penalty with 39 seconds left in the game, and an Eagles empty net, gave the Bullies an easy excuse to ice the ball, but they didn't need to as another faceoff win by Carruthers sprung Wayne Mount for the short handed empty net goal, completing his hat trick.

Despite surrendering three goals, Darcy Holden was excellent between the pipes, every bit earning himself the win. The defensive squad also were a bright spot, especially in the second half, with some key support by the centres in shutting down the stretch pass the Eagles were looking for. Offensively, everyone shone, with the Eagle's netminder coming up big for his squad in not letting the Bullies run away with the score.

The Bush Pirates, after dropping back to back games, are now only one point ahead of the Bullies, giving them the chance to move up into second place with a win on Friday night.