Second period underway, Waterloo on powerplay.

Cedar Rapids ties it on 2-on-1 break — Stephen Collins gets nice pass from Michael Parks.

RoughRiders take 3-2 lead as Stu Wilson beats Belfour just inside pipe. That’s one Belfour would like back.

CR has netted two more goals in  span of 12 seconds and have scored four in the first six minutes to take 5-2 lead. Several defensive breakdowns on Waterloo’s part.

End of two — Hawks down 5-2. Not a good period of defensive hockey for Hawks.

Start of third — a pair of scraps already two minutes into third. Hawks must have got talkin too at the intermission.

Waterloo gets one back as 15-year old Brady Vail hammers one home on a nice pass from Austrian Patrick Divjak.

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Minutes away from the first face-off of the 2009-10 preseason. Scratches tonight are forwards Jamie Hill, Taylor Ward, Bryce Ravndalen and defensemen Wally Cossette and Tyler Amburgey.

The game will be played in three 17-minute periods.

Starters for Waterloo — Dan Sova and Nick Ebert on defense, JT Brown, Tyler Barnes and Soren Jonzzon at forward and Dayn Belfour in net.

Waterloo goes up 1-0 on Brock Montpetit goal. Montpetit won faceoff in own zone, Arnold chipped it past CR defender creating an odd-man rush. Arnold dumped it back to Montpetit who beat RoughRider goalie Troy Grosenick top shelf in upper right-hand corner. 4:09 into first.

Decent crowd for a Wednesday night, 70 plus degrees outside and an exhibition game, I guess Party Town was hungry for hockey.

Waterloo goes up 2-0 as rookie Scott Wamsganz makes a nice play in the neutral zone, carries puck in, allows several skaters to pass than shoots through crowd – 2-0 4:08 left in first.

Sam Waring scores pp goal for CR late makes it 2-1. Waterloo will have 1 minute and 14 seconds of power play to start second period.

I’ll create new blog for second and third periods.

CR on 5-on-3 right now.

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Looking forward to watching the P.K. O’Handley built 2009-10 Waterloo Black Hawks team tonight in an exhibition at Young Arena against the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders.

Follow the action live here on Half Nelson, Half Fiction.

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