Zombies Eat the Clinic

Cadavers (3) vs Clinic

Tuesday October 21st

UMass 10:30pm

11-0 win

Woah. So that sounds like it went well.

Here is Guest Blogger Extraordinaire iJosh with the breakdown.

Well it was a whirlwind of scoring last night with a total of 11 goals by both teams. Of course most, actually all of them were scored by the Dead in Red.
Due to the fact that we played the Clinic Team, this one wasn't even close. The Zombies controlled the game almost from the outset and until the final whistle blew. And speaking of blowing, we were at UMass once again. That certainly blew.
To start the game the Cads would dress: On Defense - Valenti and Matt Elliott, Capt George and Mike Daley. The wing pairs would be: Mark Reynolds and Rookie Mike Fitzpatrick, Roman and Matvey, Gregson and Dr. Pounds with the two man center rotation of Larry and iJosh.
Play started with the rookie ref (as explained to us by the other ref) dropping the puck, who apparently got into a fight with a puck earlier this week and had a nice shiner to show for it. He claims the puck took the worst of it though. The first shift would see probably the one and only major rush by the Clinic team as the puck would squirt out to center ice and Clinic would take a shot, have it stop dead on the ice (nice cooling system there UMass) where Brian would have easily scooped it up. Instead the clinic was able to make a another swipe on the puck and Brian would have to scurry to stop the shot. Right after that the Red would put on a clinic for the Clinic. There are far too many goals to remember exactly how they were score so here is the short version.
Mark Reynolds would tuck one in from Matvey at 3:00. Larry would finish off George's rush for his first of the night at 13:00. Reynolds would tip one over the goalie from iJosh at 13:30. And Larry would take the puck away from the Clinic and beat the goalie for his second (unassisted) of the night at 15:30. At the end of period 1 it would be 4-0 Cads.
The second period would see more of the same. George would finally get to finish off his own work by putting one home unassisted at 1:30. At 5:59 Deb Johnson* who did not come out of retirement and play, scored from Dr. Pounds. There would be a bit of a lull as the Cads would not score for a grand total of 10 minutes and 31 seconds. So at 16:30, Matt Ciciari* who came out of thin air, scored from the Original Stat Whore** himself, Larry Bell. The period would end with the Cads holding a commanding 7-0 lead.
At about the time the Cads went up 6-0 Marc Valenti suggested that maybe it would be a good idea, in the name of fairness, to have the defensemen play up and have some of the forwards play back. The newly arranged D corps would be: iJosh & Reynolds, Gregson & Matvey. Roman volunteered to play center as soon as iJosh vacated his spot on the O, causing some people to question who is indeed the team's Stat Whore.
Summarizing the 3rd period best I can: Larry would score again at 2:29.
Larry would again strike just 30 seconds later. The D line of iJosh and Mark Reynolds played a very conservative band of defense, sending the puck in deep to the corners and simply playing keep away. Essentially still play the game but with less offensive aggression. But it still could not slow the scoring. This time OEJ* jumped on the ice and took a pass from Dr. Pounds at 4:29. Finally closing out the scoring would be rookie Fitzy as he would put one home, helped by Capt George. So in the end the Cads would prevail with an 11-0 rout of the Clinic team.

That being said a few notes and acknowledgments need to be mentioned:
1st:: Kudos to Mr. Valenti for the suggestion that we mix things up.
Even though it did not slow up the scoring much, it was the right and fair thing to do.
2nd: Um, there is no need for stat whoring against this team. Play hard, give them a challenge. We are going to put up a lot of goals, but don't cross the line of good taste.

3rd: A golf clap to their goalie. He got pestered with shots all night. The Cads were hitting the point and Valenti, George and Mike Daley were driving shots at the net all night. Plus the offense put tremendous pressure on him at times. He is a decent goalie, but the Clinic team just doesn't know how to protect him yet. So good job by him.
4th: I hate UMass. Have I said that in previous postings?
5th: Thanks to Dr. Pounds and Larry for the beer.

* - None of those people actually played for us last night.
** - Larry's reign of holding the official title of stat whore might be coming to an end. So I will now dub him the Original Stat Whore so that he may at least hold some form of acknowledgment of that title forever.

Great job as always iJosh. Good work to the crew that played....

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Thursday October 23rd
10:30 West Roxbury

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See you then.