Cads win Reversedaveur!

Schlitz (9) vs Cads (8)
Tuesday July 8th
Quincy 10:10pm

Schlitz - 3
Cadavers - 4


A tight matchup fueled by guest GM Commrade Romin Kurin. He did a great job splitting up the squads and what ensued was a very entertaining close played game that saw lots of chances and good play from both sides.

The squads broke down like this after a few people bailed.
The Golden Schlitz had Brian in net, and Mike Jasse, Matt Elliot, and Jim Sullivan as a D rotation. That left Roman, Jeff, and Marc Valenti as the first line backed by Pete Capraro and the Twin Towers, Dan Gregson and Billy Pearlman. Matt Kilroy was a no-show due to lack of skates (see bottom of post), and Blake Underhill is still unheard from... but chances are his wife will call in with a sick note any time now...
The Dead in Red Cadavers had Spunky Lizzy between the pipes and a D rotation of iJosh and Scott, and Chuck with Matvey. The forwards lines boasted a double threat, first line Larry, Chris, and Parker, second line George, DWH, and Ken with Mark Reynolds switching in. Mike Hammitt was a no-show due to a stolen car...

The game got off to a good start and both teams got chances in the early going to warm up the keepers. This went a long way to stoking the fire as things heated up.

The Golden Schlitz would get on the board first at 8:47 in the first when Marc Valenti nailed a nice shot that beat Lizzy on the near side. The Dead would not take it for long and a shift later at 7:08 Chris Fosdick would bury a beauty by Brian after a tic tack toe combo from line mates Parker and Bell. This was going to be a close game, and that front line of the Dead would be heard from again.

Just before the end of the first Chris got his second from Parker with a nice shot that put the Dead ahead with less than a minute to go. The only penalty of the period came against Pearlman and the Gold with 3 mins to go but there was no scoring on the penalty. Thats how the period would end. Cads up 2-1.

The Gold would get right back to it early in the second when Dan Gregson would score (pass from Valenti) on a long shot that found its way through traffic and by Lizzy to tie up the game. But sure as stench from a 3 day old corpse the Red would rise up again, less than a minute later and Larry would bang one home (again from Parker) to regain the lead. Back and forth the teams would go, a break away here, a missed assignment there but no blood until Capraro landed a hard work goal from Mike Jasse with just over 2 minutes to go, again tieing the game for the Gold. George would go for a trip with a minute left that was kind of ticky tacky but its always fun to see George frustrated. End of 2 tie game 3-3.

It was looking like this one was going to go down to the wire as again the teams traded chances, Jeff Fosdick missed two solid chances, with Lizzy stoning him on both, Roman Kurin for all his quality GM moves couldn't poke home a gift wraparound that clanged loudly and disheartened the Schlitz.

Larry would take the game in his hands, as he so often does, and would score the go-ahead for the Dead at 11:44 remaining (again Parker on the assist) with another nice hard work goal. The Gold doulbled their efforts but it was clear... very clear they were tired and slowing down.

This is where things got interesting. with 6 minutes left Larry was whistled for a rough that turned into a double minor either because of the "hit" or because Larry was already running his mouth at the Butterball Zebra (with glasses) that we know so well. Things generally disintegrated from there. Pearlman took another one for the Schlitz not long after , then Chris went (or served) an interference call just over a minute later. Still no luck breaking through from the Schlitz.

Then Larry, has he so often does, let his emotions get the best of him and melted down. He and Capraro were called for matching roughs along the back boards behind Lizzy and after the call made a motion like he was going to pitchfork Capraro (who was laughing). Butterball's partner didn't realize it was in jest (only that Larry had already been a problem) and dove on Larry to keep him off of Capraro. Larry spun around shedding the Zebra as we all yelled (even Butterball) that it was ok and nothing was going to happen. Can't really fault Zebra number two for trying to keep things from escalating.

This of course devolved rapidly as a stream of obscenities was exchanged between Larry and the Zebras and he was asked to leave the game. More mouthing off resulted in Butterball hollering about 2 game suspensions and Lawrence ingloriously leaving the ice.
Back to game action ( we lost minutes due to figuring out the littany of penalties in the last 5 minutes) and the Dead in Red, despite losing Larry went on to snuff out the Gold's chances as time expired.

A big win for the Red, and our gal Lizzy. That first line of Larry Parker and Chris was just too much to deal with and they basically stuffed it down the Gold's throat every shift they were out there. I dont think I'm going to rank the game stars this time but I'm going to give a bunch out anyway...
Game Stars.
3 Stars for Larry (2 goals 1 assist), Chris (2 goals), and Kevin Parker (3 assists)
1 Star for Lizzy who made a bunch of great stops to power the Cadaver win. Nice to have you back!
1 Star for Pete Capraro who flew around the ice all night like is pants were on fire.
1 Star for Mike Jasse who played a great (if not desperate) game at D for the Gold. Dr....you won your battles when you needed to and played great. Good work.

1 Star each for the rest of the Greenhorn Defensive corps, iJosh, Matvey, Scott, Chuck, Sully, and Matt Elliot. Great work all of you.


4th Period Honors to iJosh for the Red White and Blue Jello Shots... tastey!

Overheard in the Parking lot: Larry: "Can you get Star of the Game and Coon of Shame for the same game?"
Hmm.. Yup.

Game Star Coon of Shame goes to Larry Bell for completely imploding after having a stellar night on the ice. Once again his mouth checked him out of the game in the third. But really... what a game line. 2 goals, 1 assist, 3 penalties, and a 2 game suspension. That's why he is king of the scoresheet folks! Enjoy our furry friend this week.

The Doh' Coon of Shame Honorable Mention goes to CEO Matt Kilroy for dropping his skates off at Arlington Skate shop, then spending the afternoon doing... well Kilroy stuff... and forgetting to pick up his skates before the Skate shop closed... uh... I guess you'd call this a drive by Cooning as our furry friend was on his way to Larry's bag for the week.