the dressing room. i was trying to get shots because it was dead puck and finally they skate vassel off and i told her camera one to follow him off the bench. before leaving the ice, matt and the totems player exchange words. eric english comes over to say something. those two have to be separated. that s when i m trying to point up to the scoreboard letting him know that they re done and you know, good luck next year and you know, you guys go home and you guys suck and that type of stuff. he s still talking. oh, what happened there? one of the fans came in! then out of nowhere, matt is bum-rushed. i had enough time to maybe kind of turn my head while he was jumping up in the air. he came at me with two fists right to the chest, and we both went down to the ground. that s just really disgusting to see. it was basically like a cartoon, where you see two characters fighting and it just basically is a giant cloud of dust. that s all we could see.
right where we re standing. luckily, no one s injured in the attack. the eugene generals wind up winning the game 8-5. matt vassel chooses not to press charges against his attacker, but the totems scratched player receives a 14-game suspension. i don t think he thought about any consequences that might come up from what he did. it was just kind of like a dire type of thing to do, to just do whatever he could to hurt us, because they knew we were going on in the playoffs. vassel s still talking to english. oh, what happened there? one of the fans came in! john strong looks back in amazement when he thinks about the night the action moved off the ice. that was completely unique. that was completely outlandish. it was completely beyond anything that i had seen then and anything we have seen since. if you think a spectator attack from the stands is an unusual occurrence, watch what happens to spectators when the stands themselves come crashing
john strong announces the game. there had been some nasty games between the teams. there had been some fights. this is game four of a best of five series, and the generals are looking to eliminate the totems tonight. you always had an extra element in these elimination games where you had one team that was very desperate, like a caged animal, and it was going to be an absolute battle. you know what tonight could mean if they lose, their season s done. the two teams face off and the seattle totems strike first, taking an early lead. in for a goal! once again, seattle s on the board first. minutes later, the generals left winger matt vassel scores big. he gets it in and the generals have tied the game! the two teams match each other goal for goal. he scores! scores! shot, scores, tie game! during the battle on the ice, there are several penalties for foul play. you see the pushing and shoving.
daniel vell directs the broadcast. there is a lot of hitting going on in the game, hard hits. hard collision with brower. there was lots of physical contact in that game. lots of talking, lots of chattering, them saying stuff to us, us saying stuff to them. with time running out and his team winning 7-5, matt vassel collides with the totems lead scorer. he was the one that got tripped up by matt vassel. i got what they called a kneeing penalty. that s where i supposedly stuck my knee out to stop a guy that was going by. the totems erupt in anger. the totems coaching staff is irate right now. rather than go into the penalty box, matt is told to hit the showers. there was only a minute, minute and a half left in the game, so there was no reason for me to stay in the box if i wasn t even going to be playing the rest of the game. matt vassel s skating off to
whole lives but they re not necessarily going to make it big. it s kind of the last frontier of organized hockey for kids. we re under way. tonight s matchup is between the hometown eugene generals in white and the visiting seattle totems in green. john strong announces the game. there had been some nasty games between the teams. there had been some fights. this is game four of a best of five series, and the generals are looking to eliminate the totems tonight. you always had an extra element in these elimination games where you had one team that was very desperate, like a caged animal, and it was going to be an absolute battle. you know what tonight could mean if they lose, their season s done. the two teams face off and the seattle totems strike first, taking an early lead. in for a goal! once again, seattle s on the board first. minutes later, the generals left winger matt vassel scores big. he gets it in and the generals have tied the game! the two teams matc