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Nashville Predators v Atlanta Thrashers, September 27, 2003Richmond Coliseum, Sec L4 Row 12
A pre season game at a neutral site. The NHL fishes in markets in order to spread their product. I can't recall if this event was a sellout. I doubt it being the NHL has not been back to Richmond since.
Dany Heatley scored on the power play 58 seconds into overtime as the Atlanta Thrashers beat the Nashville Predators 3-2 in an exhibition game Saturday night.
Nashville's Scott Hartnell was called for hooking with 53 seconds remaining in the third. In overtime, Heatley took a pass from Vyacheslav Kozlov and beat Keri Lehtonen, the second overall pick in the NHL entry draft in 2002, high.
Nashville's Vladimir Orszagh put back Adam Hall's rebound at 16:07 of the third period to tie it 2-all.
Kozlov opened the scoring just 1:10 into the second period. Heatley used his speed to break in on Nashville starter Tomas Vokoun, but Vokoun made the save and the rebound went right to Kozlov, who deposited it into an open net.
Nashville's Scott Hartnell evened it at 1-1 midway through the final period.
Marc Savard, acquired last season from the Calgary Flames, scored just 1:22 after Hartnell's goal.
Lehtonen finished with 30 saves. Vokoun, who was replaced by Jan Lasak midway through the game, finished with seven saves on eight shots. Lasak stopped seven of nine shots.
One cool thing about this game. My sons had some hockey cards and Sharpies. Tomas Vokoun, Nashville's goaltender started the game but was replaced. He was seated in an area off the bench where fans have semi-access to. He wore the same jersey number as my son, a goalie. My son asked if he can go down and get his autograph. I told him players are not allowed to interact with fans during the game. He was excited so I let him go down and get disappointed first hand.
Volkoun signed a few things for my son and talked with him for a bit about goaltending while the game was going on. Since, my son has followed Volkoun from Nashville to Florida.
On September 29, 2003, two days after the game, Atlanta's Daniel Snyder was critically injured after the Ferrari 360 Modena being driven by his friend and teammateDany Heatley struck a wall along Atlanta's Lenox Road. Both players were ejected from the car, which was split in half by the force of the impact. Snyder suffered a fractured skull and internal brain injuries due to the rapid acceleration/deceleration incident. He dies a few days later.
Clemson v Virginia, September 23, 2000 Dantzler ran for 220 yards and two long touchdowns and the Tigers' top-rated defense held Virginia to one gift touchdown in a 31-10 victory.
Dantzler, the nation's second-leading passer and 38th-ranked rusher coming into the game, did plenty of both. He scored on runs of 75 and 45 yards, and completed 15 of 24 passes for 154 yards and another score.
"We just found some holes in the defense that we exploited through the running game," Dantzler said. "I just happened to be the guy running."
Dantzler carried just 18 times, but ended with 374 of the Tigers' 481 yards of offense, and gave the Clemson defense plenty to watch and enjoy.
"Woody's just amazing," linebacker Keith Adams said. "He can throw the ball. He can run. He's a leader out there on the field. And just a combination like that, he's just unstoppable."
The Tigers defense did its part, too. It shut down Virginia's passing game, forced Dan Ellis to hurry several throws and held 6-foot-4 receiver Billy McMullen to three catches for 40 yards until the fourth quarter.
McMullen, who added two catches late in the game when the outcome had been decided, earlier had catches for 1 and 2 yards, plus a 37-yarder.
"This was really a test for us," Adams said. "It was a test for us to go out there and try to prove to the nation and within ourselves that we can be for real. ... We definitely feel that we're for real."
Ellis, who averaged 316 yards passing in his last two games, was 17-for-39 for 170 yards. He was intercepted once and twice fumbled snaps.
"It was just one of those days," he said.
The Tigers led 17-10 at the half before Dantzler put the game away.
On Clemson's first possession of the second half, he kept the ball on second-and-8 from his own 25, turning the corner wide on the right and down the sideline, finally slashing back to the middle for the points.
"The thing we said from the beginning was, `Don't let them run the ball, especially with the quarterback,"' Virginia coach George Welsh said.
"They spread you out and they nickel and dime you to death with the passes when you're not covering them up, and they keep working and keep working trying to get him free," Welsh said of Dantzler.
Dantzler did it again late in the quarter, following Alex Ardley's end zone interception with a five-play drive. Dantzler ran for 7 to start the march, and for the last 45 to make it 31-10 with 18 minutes left.
Trailing 10-3 before 60,695 fans, the largest football crowd in state history, Clemson scored twice in a span of 2:42 to take the lead.
"To get where we want to go, that is going to have to happen," Tigers coach Tommy Bowden said of the early adversity. "You have to not panic and remain calm when you turn the ball over and show composure on the road."
First, Joe Don Reames fielded a punt at his 31, stepped between two Cavaliers and weaved untouched for a 69-yard return that tied it at 10.
Then, after Virginia went three-and-out and Mike Abrams shanked a punt 10 yards to the Tigers' 39, Dantzler needed just five plays. The last one was a 30-yard pass to a wide open Jackie Robinson down the middle.
It was the Tigers' shortest touchdown play of the game.
The Tigers' 17-10 halftime lead might have been much bigger if not for Travis Zachery's inability to hold onto the ball. Zachery botched a punt at his 3 after Virginia's first possession, and later fumbled on a third-and-2 dive from the Cavaliers' 3 late in the second quarter.
Virginia recovered both times, and turned the first miscue into its only touchdown of the half - a 3-yard option run by Antwoine Womack.
Ahmad Hawkins intercepted a pass with 12:32 remaining, marking the first time in 80 throws this season that Dantzler has been intercepted.
But the Tigers' defense held and Virginia turned it over on downs.
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University of Virginia v Pittsburgh, September 2, 2006 Palko, in his third season at quarterback but teamed with an almost-new cast of receivers, played a near-perfect game except for an interception that was returned 47 yards by Nate Lyles to set up Virginia's only touchdown. Palko finished 17 of 22 for 283 yards with three touchdowns, including a 72-yarder to Oderick Turner and a 78-yarder to Derek Kinder.
Palko showed off a deep passing game that Pitt lacked last season while going 5-6. The Panthers started the season in the Top 25, only to be routed at home by Notre Dame 42-21 in their opener en route to an 0-3 start.
This debut game was nearly the opposite, except that Pitt also began it with an opening-drive touchdown, just as it did the Notre Dame loss. Palko found Turner for 20 yards on Pitt's initial third-down play of the season. That led to Palko's 1-yard scoring flip to Darrell Strong on a misdirection play that found Palko and Strong wide open by themselves on the left side of the field. Palko, who followed up an excellent sophomore season with a good but not great junior year, hit on the first deep throw he attempted, finding Turner open down the middle on a 72-yard scoring pass midway through the second quarter.
There was a Fighting Irish connection in this game, too, as Christian Olsen debuted as Virginia's quarterback four years after transferring from Notre Dame. Olsen, a senior, had a rough debut as he could never get into a rhythm with his receivers in a Cavaliers offense that produced only two field goals and the interception-created touchdown.
Olsen was intercepted himself for a score, by Darrelle Revis for 19 yards midway through the third quarter to make it 24-10, and so was his replacement. Kevin McCabe came in late in the fourth quarter and immediately was intercepted by Clint Session for a 78-yard scoring return during Pitt's ninth opening-game victory in its last 10.
Virginia coach Al Groh has called it a rebuilding season for his team, which is coming off a 7-5 season that was considered disappointing, but no doubt even he didn't know that competing with Pitt would be so difficult. The Panthers have questionable depth at running back, wide receiver and kicker but displayed none of those weaknesses during a solid start-to-finish opener.
Pitt's receiving group was a major unknown after losing top receiver Greg Lee, who left after his junior season but was not drafted. None of Pitt's returning receivers had as many as 40 catches last season, but Turner made two catches for 92 yards and Kinder had four.
Pitt had a ceremony honoring the 30th anniversary of its unbeaten 1976 national championship team led by Heisman Trophy winner Tony Dorsett, who attended the game.
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The Diamond,
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