Zombies fall to Windsuckers at Alcatraz!

Cadavers(15) vs Windsuckers
Wednesday Jan 2
Alcatraz State (UMass)
10:30pm

3-2 Loss.

A cold and lonely night for the Zombies as they took the schedule shaft against the Windsuckers at the chilly Prison on the Bay. A good turnout showed plenty of Zombie Pride, especially CEO, BMoFo, Mad Matt Kilroy in net, but just fell short in the end. To expedite things here we are going to join Guest Blogger Mike Campbell, already in progress with his summary report....

"We played the Windsuckers… There actually was a LOT of wind – flags all straight out along the drive into the prison, making the 11 degrees feel like minus 11 – but NOT much sucking. Both teams played damn good.

O. Lines: Larry, Nelson, Kenny the Goon (he got the only PIMs – tripping)
Matt E., and the Russians
D. Lines: Dans & Mikes

We lost 3 – 2, but the game was tied at 0 well into the second period. Kilroy made some rock solid saves against a pretty comparable team through the first period and almost all of the second. Their keeper was out of his mind. We out shot them at least 2 to 1 (I think Nelson had at least 15 shots alone), and he was gobbling up everything.

With about 5 mins left in the first, the face-off was in the their zone, on our right side. As we lined up Larry told me it was coming my way (I was on left D, Daley on the right). When he saw who he was facing, in Brady-esque fashion, Larry audibled back to Daley that it was coming to him instead. I let Daley know I had a lot of space open as well. Puck dropped. Larry wins the face off to Daley. Nelson crashes toward the net. Daley dishes across the ice to me. I shoot hard (but wide left – imagine), but hard enough that it bounces off the boards, behind the net to the other side to Nelson who slams it home. 13 from 77 and 31. Good guys one zip.

Kilroy continues to stonewall them well into the second. But then... With the puck in THEIR zone, one of their guys clears it. It’s right on net, but moving slowly down the ice. As Kilroy’s beginning to handle the puck, and looking up to see who he can pass it to, well, let’s just say he forgot the handling the puck bit. Oops. Under the stick. Slowly. Toward. The. Goal. Line. So. Slow. That. He. Has. Time. To. Lunge. For. It.

But to no avail.

Puck crosses the goal line. Barely. End of the second period. Ones.

Third period, pretty early. Kenny the Goon goes off for tripping. Fifteen seconds into the penalty kill, they get a two on one break-away. We keep one of their better skaters to the outside on the left side, but he shoots from way out there and beats Matty five hole. Uh-oh. Bad guys, two to one.

Middle of the third. Puck in the neutral zone. Going back and forth there, but we eventually get it going our way, and Matvey carries it into their zone along the left boards. With no other forwards in front of me, I go with him and he dishes it onto my stick. I head straight for the cage, and in the left slot beat the keeper glove side with a wrister. Wooo HOO.
77 from 25. Tied at two.

To no avail, though. They brought the friggin’ army with them, and while we had the perfect ten skaters, they had at least fifteen. Fresh legs wore away at us, and they score a few minutes later, on a pretty scrappy play in front.

Again, except for the first two goals (the dribbler, and five hole shot from way downtown), Kilroy was on fire.

Overall, great effort by skating dead at the Prison, late night. It sucks going out there on a freezing cold night, to play in the shithole at 10:30, and then lose, but we gave it our all.

Amazing how much I can rememebr when I'm not cocked.

Good luck tonight."


Lets get some "Mad Props" for Mr. Mike Campbell for the excellent game summary. Great job dude, with the goal and with the blog. The blogger is in your debt.
So other than major Kudos to both Mssrs. Campbell and Kilroy... We'll leave it at that.
The Schlitz play tonight at the House of Horrors...err... Prison by the Bay... whatever you want to call it... at the primo 10:30pm slot again. Bring your mittens.
See you tonight.