Zombies beat Suds 'daveur #1

Schlitz (2) vs Cadavers (1)
Tuesday Sept. 30th
HinghamC 10:20pm

Cadavers 4
Schlitz 2

The winter season is officially underway with the first Schlidaveur coming in the early going here. A nice turn out for a late game on the South Shore. Nearly a perfect 26 but alas… Hammitt was a no show so the teams skated 13 and 12 a side.
The teams were selected by guest GMs Pete Capraro for the Cads and Dan Gregson for the Schlitz. The available roster was carved up via conference call here in the Executive Suite at Schlidaveur International. Pete won the coin toss and made Brian Carey his first pick. Lizzy went to the Suds and then they alternated players starting with Dan.
We really had a good group of guys including some returning old friends; Stephan Wennik and Kevin Manning, and new faces Ken Douville and Carl Schiller who saw their first team on team action. Stephan, along with Mike Daley are both back with the club after summer season hiatuses, and both new guys look to have something to contribute. Good to have you guys around.
The Teams broke out like this.

Cadavers
Brian in Net
D: George and Billy; Stephan and Kevin Manning
O1: Larry, Nelson, and Capraro
O2: iJosh, Matvey, and Matt Elliot
O3: Jeff, Scott, and Carl Schiller

Schlitz
Lizzy in Net

D: Campbell and Valenti; DWH and Greg
O: Daley; Parker, Gregson, Kilroy, Chuck,

Blake, Ken Douville, Roman

The game turned out to be quite spirited and nicely paced through the first period. The Schlitz were having their way on a regular basis and getting solid chances. The red had to scramble for several shifts in the first 10 minutes and Brian made a number of solid stops. The Gold couldn’t break through and the first ended in a standoff 0-0, with both teams doing a fair amount of panting.
The second period would change the game. The Dead in Red seemed to pull themselves together and started to get things going on offense. The hard working first line with Larry, Nelson and Pete got some excellent early pressure. The resulting chace around gave Nelson the chance to slide one out to Larry in front and Larry banged it home for the lead. The Red took the momentum and ran with it, turning it into another handfull of chances over the next few minutes. Matvey would strike next, after taking the outlet from Stephan through center ice, he made a nice move in the zone and carried toward the net firing a wrist shot that hit Lizzy’s shoulder then flopped over it into the net. 2-0 Red.
Still in the second the Red would get a power play when Campbell went to the box on a take down of Pete. Stephan would add to the point total when he would launch a picture perfect low slap shot from the point off a pass from iJosh. 3-0 Zombies.

But yes, the period wasn’t over, and neither were the Cads. Jeff Fosdick would take a turnover in the neutral zone from Greg James, then would race up the ice, with Greg in hot pursuit. Jeff was able to cut across the net and score with a wobbly wrist shot as he came across the crease with Greg at his ankles. This came with about 30 seconds left in the second. End of 2, four zero Zombies.

The third period would see a comeback for the guys in Gold as they began to turn the momentum back on the Red who tired a bit as the period wore on. With their solid D and relentless forecheck from the likes of Daley, Parker and Roman the Gold did a nice job of grinding out some chances. Parker himself would take advantage of a scramble in the Red end an fired home a loose puck to get the suds on the board.

Not long after, only a few shifts, Valenti would also capitalize on another Red scramble and launched the pattented Valenti slapper past Brian to pull the Suds within 2 and clearly the momentum of the game had swung hard in the Gold’s favor.The third would see another pair of penalties, Campbell for Gold and a makeup on Nelson in Red not long after, but there would be no more special teams scoring.

That was how this one would end the Gold pulled Lizzy but were unable to get anything going in the closing minutes. A hard fought game that with a few bounces either way could have looked dramatically different. Great work by everyone involved.

Game Stars

3rd Star: Brian Carey. Kept the Red in the game in the first. Solid...as always.

2nd Star: The Gold Roster. Ok maybe a cop out... but the Gold deserve cred for not giving up after a short flagging period in the second. The D was stout, the forwards relentless and there was clearly no lack of effort coming from the beercans all night.

1st Star: Stephan Wennik. The blue-line vet for the Red, fresh off his summer vacation, came in to solidify the Zombie D... oh and by the way scored a power play goal, which was the game winner, and threw in an assist for good measure. Nice to have you back Stephan.

Honorable Mention: Jeff for the nice breakaway goal. (I know... I know... self adoration society) He must have been doing something right... Campbell asked him how many RedBull's he'd had before the game after the second period. No need for that post goal celebration though....

Overheard in the Parking Lot 1: "That's what we like to hear... we've already touched on beastiality and Grannie incest... and we've only been out here for 10 minutes"

Overheard in the Parking Lot 2: "Blake, after the way Jeff dry humped you behind the net, you should get him to buy you a drink...."