Vipers and Falcons set to do it again Posted Sep 5, 2010 by AJ Sports Media. For the 3rd straight year the Kensington Moase Plumbing and Heating Vipers and the Sherwood A&S Scrap Metal Falcons will do battle for the Mark's Work Wearhouse IJHL title. The Falcons won last year while the Vipers won two years ago. The series opens up in Charlottetown at Simmons Sport Centre for a 1:00 p.m. start. The reason that the series will start in Charlottetown for game one and then returning to Kensington for games two and three next Monday and Wednesday night is that there was no available ice time in Kensington from Thursday to Sunday due to a major rec tournament and the Island Senior League finals that started before the IJHL semi-final series were over. It has been a tale of two different teams this year as the Vipers had a strong regular season, finishing with 64 points - good for a 17-point gap on third-place Sherwood. "Sherwood got off to a slow start which really cost them," stated Vipers GM Pat McIver. "Their record isn't indicative of their team and this will be a very tight series." The majority of the Sherwood team participated in last year's Don Johnson Cup, and they have added Dan Whelan and Luke Gallant, who both have a lot of Junior-A experience. This has potential to be a very long series that could go either way. The Vipers won the regular-season series with a 6-3-1 (wins-losses-overtime/shootout losses) record that included three wins in the first three meetings between the teams. Fans can expect fast-paced games in this series between two strong rivals. Goaltending will be key for both teams. Tyler Simpson and Cameron Webster are both leading their teams in playoff scoring which really doesn't come as a surprise. "Simpson absolutely killed us in last years finals," acknowledged McIver, who added that his team will have to watch Simpson carefully during this series. Webster was key two years ago when the underdog Vipers defeated the first-place Falcons in six games. With playoff hockey winding down on most fronts, both teams are hoping for some great crowds to come out and watch this great series.