Schlidaveur Round 1 goes to the Schlitz!

Schlitz(4) vs. Cadavers(6)

UMass Boston

Monday 10/29

Schlitz - 3

Cadavers - 1

Another fun night at Umass, this time Schlidaveur style. No question there was a good deal of Red Sox-itis that made the rosters for this one particulary light. We were fortunate to end up with 8 skaters a side, and a pretty even match. Unfortunatly we were short a starting goalie, given that Jim Sullivan bailed the afternoon of the game and this forced Ultimate Team Player Nelson Sharfman into the goalie equipment and between the pipes for the skating dead. This was also facilitated by Madd Matt bringing the equipment to Nelson's house so he could use it. Thanks to both of you guys for coming up big. It would have been a real drag to not have a goalie at all for one of the teams.

A quick update on Lizzy while we are talking about goalies... According to Kevin Parker (another guy returning off the DL) when he saw her recently she had a huge leg brace/cast thingy on her leg and was looking none to happy about it. Sounds like our lass will be down for a while. Boy, between that and Matt's losing battle with the table saw, we are having a tough time keeping netminders in good working order these days.

At least OEJ keeps ticking along like the machine that he is, which brings me back to last night's game.

The Suds won the first Schlidaveur of the year behind OEJ's solid netminding and some timely offense. Nelson played very well for the Red keeping the game very competitve and scoreless for almost half the game.

The lineups looked like this.

For the Schlitz, Jeff Fosdick, Mike Daley, and newcomer Mark Valenti played D, while Chris Fosdick, Kevin Parker, Ken Goldenberg, Roman Kurin, and Matvey Nikhamik manned the offense.

For the Cadavers, Dan (DWH) Hebert, George Moorachian, and Dan Gregson worked the blue line in front of Nelson, and Larry Bell, Scott Pounds, Matt Elliot, Josh Greenstein, and Mike Hammitt played up for the Zombies.

Scoring got underway in the second period when Rookie Mark Valenti took a turnover and turned it into a nice slapshot finish for the first lead.

This was answered shortly after by Mike Hammitt who took a feed from Larry and shot a laserbeam wrister past OEJ to tie the game up. A really nice shot by the big man, who should definitley take them more often.

Before the end of the second period Roman put the Suds ahead on a rebound and pass from Ken Goldenberg. In the third period Kevin Parker added some insurance with help from Matvey and the Suds were able to put this one away.

All this while those dirty Zombies Larry and Hammitt Patorolled the ice looking for some Suds to squash. Despite his best efforts Ham was unable to get the Zebra's attention but Larry wasn't as lucky as he was pulled for a nice check on the backboards of Jeff.

The Zombies showed considerable pride and really forced the issue as the game wound down with good play from George (who had the only other penalty) and DWH . They even pulled Nelson but were unable to get anything going.
Good game for all who came. If you didn't come... shame on you, it was a fun night. Now you all have a chance to do it again when we rematch next Monday at the same time and place.

Fourth Period Kudos to Scott Pounds (a certified purveyor of the High Life) and Larry Bell for bringing beers. No spread or grill... but we made do with our meager surroundings.

Game Stars.

3rd Star: I'm going to go with Mike Hammitt. No penalties and a really terrific shot that beat OEJ. Good work dude, you are not easy to play against.

2nd Star: Just for being the guy he is and once again showing how a teammate and a leader gets it done. Nelson Sharfman for filling in quite abley in the Zombie net. On short notice even.

1st Star: We'll do a conglomeration on this one... mostly because I can't decide. How about the Goal Scorers for the Schlitz. Mark Valenti, Roman Kurin, and Kevin Parker. Another nice addition to our ragged band in Mark V, and a nice return to form for Kevin Parker who had been on the DL with a heart.... um, yeah... a heart.

Gratuitous Unattributed Quote: "Don't quote me in the blog or anything... but I think Nelson was the best goalie on the ice tonight." ....wow.