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If the Vipers were going to win this one it was going to have to be without JT Chamberlain as he would miss this one but the 98s stepped up as a team and got a solid effort from the goal out and cruised to a 6-2 win over the New England Junior Falcons in the finals. The Vipers would shake off a slow start and pick up the pace against the weary Flacons and after some great forechecking set up by Noah Maercklein (0-2-2), Braden Haley's (0-2-2) shot from the slot was kicked out and Brendan White (2-0-2) was johnny on the spot and knocked in the rebound for the 1-0 lead. The lead would be stretched to 2-0 with just 6 seconds left in the second period as Evan Daddario (2-0-2) would jump on a turnover high in the slot and snap the shorthanded goal by the keeper. Two minutes into the 3rd period the Vipers would jump out to a 3-0 lead on Whitey's second goal as he knocked in a goal mouth scramble, with help from Maercklein and Haley. The Flacons would would answer just 16 seconds later to trim the lead back down to 2. The Vipers would not be rattled as Kyle Hentosh would collect a Dante Maribito chip of the window at center ice win a foot race for a breakaway and deposit it over the goalies blocker to get the lead back to 3. Just two minutes later the Falcons would respond again  with a long hard slapper that evaded Nick Fiorentino and made the score 4-2 with 5 minutes left in the game. The Vipers would call timeout at this point to settle the troops and it worked as on the very next shift Evan Daddorio would sweep one in that was set up by some tenacious forechecking by Ross Wahl and Alex Delvento, who did a fine job filling in at right wing. The Vipers would add the empty netter by Kyle Lynch with a minute left that would put this one in the books. Nick Fiorentino was a rock in the nets keeping the strong talented Flacons off the board late. The Viper defense also stood tall and did a fine job of taking away time and space and holding their blue. A tremendous weekend by the 98s as they were underdogs all the way through and played near perfect hockey down the stretch of this tournament.