Zombie pride...to the finish.

Cadavers (5) vs. Double Runners
Wednesday June 13th 10:00pm
Brockton
4-2 loss.

A rematch with the team that really stuffed it to the Schlitz a week ago. The week before the Runners definitely had some added talent that was not with them this week. This week they resembled the team that the Cads beat 4-0 back in game 2. These guys are very similar to us....older some talent but not much in the way of mobility or scoring touch. They did however get plenty of chances against us and despite a very strong comeback peformance by our gal Lizzy, hung 4 goals on us in the first two periods. Most of those goals were not even close to being her fault given that on 2 occasions the guy scoring was parked right out front (my guy both times) and on another they got about 15 chances to put it away as most of the Zombies on the ice watched.
This leads me to the second intermission. I looked around at the pained faces of our crew and while trying to catch my breath muttered something about putting something on the board to save our dignity. Well.... we did just that.
Mike Hammitt scores on a nice "seeing eye" slapper from the point to break the ice and the Zombies responded. No question we spent the majority of the third period in their end making them adjust to our game. Matt Elliott follows that with a nice goal right in front on a feed/rebound from Dan Gregson and Kevin Manning. We were the living dead again! Despite the fact that everyone was tired and strugging to make it to the end we did the Zombie colors proud. In the Blogger's opinion its hard to ask for anything more than the effort I saw from all of you in the third. You all delivered, and saved us (a little) face. Its hard to feel good about losing 4-2 but looking back, I do feel pretty good about that fact that we didn't just fold up our tents and go home (which we certainly could have done).
Sitting next to my D partner Kevin on the bench I kept hearing "snakebit...not going our way... no good bounces for us..." that kind of thing. Looking back I have to agree. There were several times when things could have bounced slightly differently and we would have had a number of goals and therefore a totally different game. Not our night, but again I was proud of the effort.
Other notable occurances:
Late in the third Matvey Nikhamik got tangled up with one of their guys (a blowhard) and ended up in a scuffle. They end up in a heap and we have a little pushing and shoving around until the zebras calmed it down. Mr.Hammitt managed to get an ill-advised "third man in" shot from behind but got away with it. He skates on that one given his improved behavior of late and the nice goal. The end result of all of this was a wash in penalties but Matvey had to hit the road. He earned an ejection for fighting and we have some new competition for the Mike Campbell award. Even though he was ejected Matvey's incident was decidedly un-coon worthy.
Game stars...ahhh screw it.
Kudos:
Lizzy for a nice bounce back game against these guys.
Hammitt for the ice breaker and knowing when to skate away.
Matt Elliott for the goal in front....and bringing beer.
Scott Pounds...for bringing beer as well ...Miller High Life even...nice touch.

Lets keep up the good work Zombies...
See you all at the Schlidaveur next Friday!