Vipers were up for the rematch against Kingston, after losing 3-1 to them earlier this season. This time Kingston were without a few of their star premier players. However, Kingston managed to score first on a rather speculative long-range effort. Vipers have shown that they have the ability to turn around a scoreboard more than once this season, and once again found themselves needing to prove that they were capable of the job. Vipers seemed to have much greater posession of the puck in the first period. Yet, with only 10 seconds left on the clock the back of the net remained empty. It took a lovely wrist shot by Laura Smith to tie the game, assisted by Anna who put her over-sized arse in front of the goalie, who then had no chance at ever seeing the puck.
Kingston came out on the attack at the start of the second. Coach Chic went a little bit mad as Vipers were actually out-shot in the second period by 8 to 7. They found their feet eventually and managed to convert their only power-play opportunity of the game (100% power-play conversion ?!) as Jade Cito found her self pinning one in from the blue-line. One-goal up going into the third, but this time Vipers were prepared for Kingston to come out fighting. Vipers pressurized the Kingston net and this nice period of pressure meant that Kingston just couldn't cope and conceded 3 goals in 4 minutes to put the game out of range.
At the post-match press conferece JS told this reporter:
"There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.” (I think he was in one of his philosophical moods)!