The Pucks, a house team, quickly surprised the dormant Cobras' with heavy forechecking early in the game. The Cobras were caught flat-footed, and gave up the game's first goal midway through the first period. Jim Torchia (7) scored with less than a minute left in the opening period to tie the game at 1-1. Skating down the right wing, Jim T. faked a pass to Nick Freed (9), then fired a rising slap-shot on net and beat the Pucks' Goaltender cleanly for his 4th goal of the season.

The Cobras' entered the second period shorthanded, when Nick was called for dumping a Pucks defenseman in front of his net. Cobras' penalty killers Anders Visconti (44), Jim Mucciaccio (12), Mike Kirschner (3) and Abe Ziady (4) came within seconds of killing Nick's minor, but a hard wrist shot from the point by Pucks' defense deflected off a skate in front of the net and bounced up and over a sprawling Jamie Hernandez. The period would end with the Pucks ahead, 2-1. This would mark just the first time this season the Cobras have entered the third period behind on the scoreboard.

For the 3rd period, Team Captain Jon "Vroom" Vredevoogd (18) decided to cut the duration of the forwards' shifts from an average of 2-3 minutes to 30-40 seconds. "It can be difficult to maintain short shifts like that, but it keeps everyone fresh, and keeps the game at a high tempo, which is more enjoyable." said defenseman, Yves Maynard (15).

Vroom added "We needed to do something. The effort was there, but the Pucks were out-working us. Jamie had to come up big to keep us at 2-1 at the end of the second. I didn't need our offense pacing themselves for 2 minutes at a time. I needed them to go all-out for 30 seconds. They responded."

They did indeed, as Angelo "Demoe" Demartino (69) scored in the opening minute to even the score at 2-2. Taking the puck from the right boards, Demoe worked his way to the net by slaloming through the defense and roofing a backhander past the Pucks' Netminder for his 10th goal of the season. But the Pucks came right back, scoring off an odd-man rush to put them ahead again, 3-2.

Halfway through the period, with time running out, a frantic scramble in front of the Pucks net gave the Cobras numerous chances that were all thwarted by some outstanding saves, until Nick, from his knees, gained control of the puck, spun around and drove a backhander through the goalie's pads to tie the score once again. The goal was Nick's 9th of the season.

Less than a minute later, with the Pucks forechecking deep in the Cobras' zone, the puck found it's way to John Loburak (22), who fed the puck to Anders, who slammed it off the boards and out to the center of the rink, where Jim M. picked it up and skated in alone, beating one defender with a backhand fake, and then the goalie, high to the glove side. The score gave the Cobras' their first lead of the game with only 4 minutes left.

Nick added an insurance goal on the next shift, and Abe fired the puck into an empty net from deep in his own zone with seconds remaining, to wrap up one of the closest Cobras' victories to date.

Next week's game: Sabres.