Golden Gods Down Blue Dogs!

Schlitz (14) vs Blues

Wednesday December 17th

Canton 10:20pm

2-1 Win

This one sounded like it had all of the things that make it fun. I'm sure that I wansn't the only one disappointed that they couldn't play against our perennial (pain in the ass) rivals. The blogger is pleased to report that we have an excellent guest blogger this week from #12 Dr. Micheal Jasse. So without further ado... here is Mike with the recap from last night in Canton.

"12 Golden Gods showed last night so we incorporated the veteran greybeard's Abacus line change scheme (only a MIT grad could concoct this offensive strategic deployment).

Sully manning the pipes

Valenti-Reynolds

Pearlman-Daley were the D pairs

Roman and Nelson alternated at the center position

Jasse-Ken, Mitch-Chuck, Gregson-Fitz were the wingers.

Here's the Good, The Bad & The Ugly

The good:

A hard fought, scrappy, 2-1 win over those always chippy and evenly matched Blues.Goals by Nelson and Roman (a beautiful half-ice tape to tape pass from Reynolds sent our Mad Russian in all alone from the red line) where he deked the goalie OUT OF HIS JOCK and tucked it home. With about 4 minutes to go in the game to break a 1-1 tie.

The bad:

8 penalties

2 by Reynolds

2 by Pearlman

1 by Valenti

1 by Jasse (who needed a map to the penalty box)

I forget the other 2

We also killed off 2 5-3's.

It should be mentioned that there was no squalkin' at the refs in this game. The golden gods were quite mute as they marched (seemingly endlessly) towards the sin bin.

The Ugly:

Nary a beer to be had in the 4th period

The Ugly Ugly:
Can each player please request a water bottle from Santa the X-Mas and bring it to the games? We were so desperate we were shoving ice shavings in our mouths for liquid refreshment.

3rd star: Nelson. On the cusp of entering his 40th orbit around the sun, the cagey vet played his typical solid game with a nice goal to boot.

2nd star: Jim Sully Sullivan. Solid game in the crease. Played very well positionally and was quick when he had to be. Wasn't tested a ton but was there for us when he was. His only goal was a 2-0 and the guy roofed an impressive shot.

1st star: Roman. Not easy to play center let alone when there are 2 of you and Roman's legs were constantly churning. His break-a-way goal was a thing of beauty. A good game and nice to come out on top.

Best,#12 in your program

Great work Mike. Thanks very much for a terrific recap and a good night on the ice. Always nice to take one from the whinebag Blues... any time of year. Too bad that collectively we only salvaged 2 points out of a possible 6 this week but hey... its better than nothing.

Stay tuned for next week's game/s and be sure to get all of your generic holiday celebration gifts purchased this weekend!