Rosters set for Saturdaveur!

Schlitz(19) vs Cadavers (18)

Saturday January 31st

Bavis Arena 10:10pm

Saturdaveur! A late night Saturday evening treat for all you daveurs this weekend. This week we are splitting the rosters according to how long you've been with the team so we have a great roster breakdown of GreyBeard Veterans and Wiley Newcomers set to do battle in the steel cage... well maybe the boarded pond... it should be fun.

Here are the Roster breakdowns courtesy of Schlidaveur International Management.

Tenured Faculty

Cadavers: Wearing a combination of old time jerseys

(that's right... just like an all-star team)
Roman
Matvey
Campbell
Ijosh
Regan
Jeff
Ken G
Chris
Scott
Larry
Jasse
Capraro
Pearlman

+Kevin Manning
Lizzie in Net

New Age Faculty

Schlitz: Wearing Gold and only Gold so you newbies aren't confused.
Gregson
Herbert
Elliot
Greg J
George
Kevin
Valenti
Chuck
Reynolds
Mike F
Daley
Carl
Ken D
Brian in Net

Look forward to seeing everyone there....

We have a tremendous breakdown of the senior roster from Dr. S. Pounds that I have included here from the email thread. Enjoy... and thanks Doc.

Cadavers (then known as the Emboldened Whippersnappers) pose before their first game in the old Hassanamisco Nipmuc Confederation, which later merged with the Grand Army of the Republic Recreational League and was renamed the New England Senor Hockey League.
Back row, left to right: Kurin, Nikhamik, Campbell, Greenstein, J. Fosdick.
Middle row, left to right: Goldenberg, C. Fosdick, Pounds, Bell, Jasse.
Front row, left to right: Capraro, Pearlman (apparently he had hair back then...)
Not present for the making of the daguerreotype: Regan.
(According to descendents of the original players, the EW’s legendary goalie DeFlurin had been called up to the Montreal Shamrocks the previous month.)

Spartans suppress Beercan uprising.

Cadavers (17) vs Spartans

Thursday January 22nd

Canton 10:20 

5-4 Loss

Tough night for the Dead in Red against division rival the Spartans in Canton. Twas a cold dark night, the kind of heart of the winter that makes you not want to go outside. The blogger, baffled by a Harry Angstrom-like haze, navigated his way to the game. Much thanks, I think, to Dr. Jasse for the pleasant company and stimulating literary conversation. I don't know if it helped or not, but i had other things on my mind, and the skating did me good. 

The blogger arrived to find another good room full of happy Zombies. We would eventually fill out a full roster 13 but not until about the middle of the first. Here's your lineup.

D1: DWH, Daley

D2: George, Jeff

O1: Nelson, Douville, Parker

O2: Roman, Matvey, Gregson

O3: iJosh, Mitch, and, ... and, ... oh crap I have no idea. Maybe we only had 12. 

So the Spartans had their usual group. The chap with the Red helmet, good hands, not so fast but dont let him shoot, #16 or 6 was it had good legs and speed and was also a deadly shot. This is a crew we've seen many a time. Given our numbers the mantra game plan of short shifts, hard work and smart play was in order for this one and the Dead in Red did their best to execute that plan. 

The game started not so well as the Mean Green would pot a bang-bang chance less than a minute into the game. Clearly we couldn't let their better players move too much with the puck. The Red would knuckle down and you could feel the momentum start to come the way of the Dead... but after 10 minutes of hard work the Green would land another one on a breakaway this time (number 16 for his second of the game) at 5 and half remaining. The first would end with Team Zombie killing off a tripping call to Nelson with 2 minutes left. Good kill, but we were still down 2-0 after one.

The second would be only marginally kinder to the Red as they would finally break through just 2 minutes into the period. While taking the play to the Green, Roman (from Nelson and Douville) wound his way through heavy traffic at the top of the zone, then executed the "Russian Lullabye" to perfection. Every player in the zone seemed to slow down and watch as Roman held, held, held the puck then sent a nice wrister through the screen and into the net. The Red had a bit of a bump but it was short lived as the Spartans would answer only 3 minutes later with another hard work goal of their own. During this stretch the Red have a bunch of chances including an epic 3 on 0 that we... uh... didn't score on. The Spartan keeper was on it for sure. To make things worse old friend 16 was back at teh 7 minute mark to put the Zombies in a 4-1 hole. Pile onto that Matvey going to the box after taking one in the chops during a little give and take in front of the Spartan net. The Red would kill it, again and would keep working despite being down 3 as we went into the 3rd.

Its not often i get to write this, so savor it when you get there... ok? The Third Period belonged without a doubt to Team Zombie. The effort and desire, dare I say Zombie Pride, was racheted up a few notches and the boys went to work. Less than 3 minutes in the Green would take a whistle and the Red would go on the Power Play. Moments later George would unleash a slap shot (from Douville) that would go a long way through the screen and into the net for the second Zombie goal. The Green would go again just a minute later for a rough and the Red would keep up the pressure on the power play but not score. Roman would be the next to tally as he would get his second (from DWH) at the nine minute mark to put us down only 1 at 4-3. Roman did well all night and seemed to find the net at just the right time. This momentum was snapped when after a breakdown the Green would land another goal with 6:44 remaining. 

Again I have to say the effort continued and the Cadavers took the game right back to the Green despite the setback. George would strike with just under 5 minutes remaining, this time unassisted, but from the same spot at the right point. The Zombies were back within one and continued to press the game to the Spartans. Unfortunately the Green just had a bit more than we did in those closing minutes as we struggled to mount an attack as time ran out and the Spartans preserved the victory 5-4. A good skate for all and a good effort if not for the unsatisfying ending. Indeed the night was just that... unsatisfying. 

Game Stars

3rd Star: Ken "when do I get a number" Douville. A pair of helpers and some good hard work from this strong Rookie of the year candidate.

 

2nd Star: Captain George. Good hard work and no lack of verbal encouragement from the Captain on this night. 2 nice goals and a steadying hand all night at the blue line.

1st Star: Gotta be the Russian Lullabye Roman Kurin. Two tremendous goals and a little bit of spunk when going after the puck. Atta boy Roman. Keep up the good work. 

Honorable Mention 1 : D pair 1. Mike Daley and DWH just bring it all the time. DWH had two ridiculous rushes in the second period where it seemed like he would skate around everyone in the Spartan end, and Daley is just awesome. Mike held the puck and worked it in the offensive zone like nobody's business and not only squashed a bunch of green chances but created a bucket full of his own. Great work.

Honorable Mention 2: Lizzy did a good job holding it together. I mean, you wouldn't know that from the stream of profanity that she dealt out in the post-game locker-room (mostly in defense of Matvey).... but there wasn't too much she could have done about a bunch of their chances and she did a solid job on the outside shots all night. Good work... and take it easy Liz.  

Thursday Night Vs Sparta

Cadavers (17) vs Spartans
Thursday January 22nd
Canton 10:20pm




We haven't played team Sparta in a while, going back to the begining of December. Here is our recent history against them. Two wins the last two times out but over the 6 games in the recent past we are only 3-3.
Lets have a good showing and turn out a win for the Zombies... eh boys and girls?
here is your day before roster.

Roman
Matvey
Nelson
Ken
Jasse
Gregson
Elliot
George
Kevin
Daley
Larry
Marc V
Jeff
Lizzy in net.

Suds survive Suckas!

Schlitz (18) vs Windsuckers

Tuesday January 13th

Milton Academy 9:10pm

6-4 Win

Night two this week at the lovely Milton Academy rink. This time the Suds were in action against the Windsuckers for a 9pm tilt. Sounds like a good night all the way around. We here at the blog have an excellent game recap from Veteran GuestBlogger iJosh that we hope you will enjoy. Here's iJosh:

Firmly entrenched in the winter and the winter hockey season the Cold Cans headed down to Milton Academy to face the Windsuckers. The locker room would have 9 dressing early, but a just in time Stefan and a slightly late Blake Underhill would quickly join the fray.

The pairings for the game would shape up to be: iJosh centering Chris F and Kenny D; Mike "Scoring" Daley centering "Mad" Matt Kilroy and "Dan" Gregson. Blake would learn how to be the abacus but requested to just be called the floater. So Blake was the floater. The D would be Capt George, Hammitt, Campbell and Stefan.

The puck would drop with the "Scoring" Daley line. And though they would not put one in on this shift, they would leave a good one on the doorstep to help set the pace for the game. The next shift would work hard and have a few chances. But neither would break through. Stefan would challenge an incoming pass toward a Windsucker. He would get to the player just as he caught the pass the Sucka held on. However he would seemingly lose his balance and fall over Stefan's stick. Tough to tell if Stefan had anything to do with that or not. But that would not matter as the ref (Frankenref dubbed by Campbell) saw it as Stefan's fault. He would go to the box and feel shame. The Cans would complete the PK, but not too far after that the Sucka's would draw blood and put one past netminder Brian Carey for a 1-0 lead.

Newbie, Ken Douville would soon get into a little blue line tussle as someone tried to stand him up at the blue line. Both would get called to the box, but Ken would get the extra one and again the Cans would be down a man. Again the Golden Suds held their own in the PK. All the while, the Cans were still putting pucks on net and making every attempt to tied up the game. iJosh would miss one after the goalie tipped it with the end of his stick. Campbell would barely miss one. Then finally Mr. Daley would get his first point of the night as he would slide a beauty of a pass across the slot to Mad Matt who knocked it home 5-hole style. 1-1 game at the end of 1.

In the second the Cans tried to carry their momentum to build a lead. Early on it didn't look good as Brian called out to Hammitt to clear the Sucka out of the crease. In one person's opinion, maybe it isn't a good idea to give Hammitt that sort of directive as he literally threw the player onto his ass. Well Hammitt would go to the box and think about what he had done. Now with the momentum leaning toward the Windsuckers, the Cans tried to take it right back. And this time they would come through. Mr. Daley would drive one home from Mr. Kilroy to take and early 2nd period 2-1 lead.

Though the momentum would be short lived as the Suckas would come right back to tie the game. Not long after the Sucka's would throw the puck out in front of the crease were it bounced around a bit and found its way into the net (I think it went off a defensemen, off Brian's skate and in). So the Sucka's now had the mojo running with a 3-2 lead. But in this game of back and forth momentum, it was the Schlitz turn to go for the gusto. With Mike Daley leading the way he took a pass from Kilroy and raced around the net for a tit for tat wrap around goal. 3-3 Game. Though the scoreboard (and I think even the scoresheet) had the game at 4-2. No matter. With the period running down, Capt George took a pass from Campbell, crossed the blue line and caught an opening on the near side low part of the net.

Now the score was 5-2. No! 3-3. No! 4-3. Yes right, 4-3 Schlitz. It took a little explanation to help the scorekeeper get it right. And with that the Schlitz end the 2nd with a little gusto.

With a 4-3 lead, a little momentum (there is that word again) and the fear that it could change right back the Golden Beer Cans were desperate for that bit of insurance. Not for a lack of opportunity and effort there would be little scoring early on. A few rushes and excellent opportunities were thwarted by the Sucka goalie, who really deserved more credit than the scoreboard would lead one to believe. Mike Campbell would go for a trip as he landed a nice hip check on some poor Sucka. He would get up gingerly after that one. And once again the PK was up for the challenge. The Golden team D would play solidly and would bend but not break. Stopping pucks and sending them out of the zone before any complete breakdown could happen.

Then again, Mr Daley would put another home to finally get that needed insurance as he rushed in and put one past the keeper for a 5-3 lead. On the next shift, new Ken would get his first goal as a member of Schlidaveur Inc from who.....come on people first one to guess who got the assist get a free pass from the "Coon of Shame" for a month....Yes that is right Mike Daley. One little breakdown with about 45 seconds left in the game would make it a 6-4 Schlitz lead. And that is how it would end.

The 4th period had a few die hards sipping the BL courtesy of Malachi Crunch Campbell in the cold drizzly night.

Game notes:
Both lines just clicked though the 2nd line didn't have as many ticks on the scoresheet, they were not lacking in effort or chances.
The Team D, though did break down at times, played and overall smart game.
I think the scorekeeper was drunk, but I think that isn't a big revelation.

Stars:
3rd Star: Tie. George Moorachian for his goal and solid blueline work. Ken Douville for his one assist shy of the Gordie Howe Hat Trick and overall hustle.
2nd Star: "Mad" Matt Kilroy a goal, 2 assists. Not bad Matt but not as good as...
1st Star: Mike "Scoring" Daley for a FIVE, yes folks that is not a typo, five point night. 3 goals and 2 assists and we use him as a defenseman?

Great work as always iJosh. Thanks very much for another excellent game summary.

Everyone stay warm this week and check your email for roster info regarding next weeks game on Thursday night. That's all from here...

Nostalgia vs Reality vs the Tigers

Cadavers (16) vs Tigers
Monday January 12
Milton Academy 9:00pm

0-2 Loss

You know, it was cool at the end of last week Kevin Manning was nice enough to share with all of us on the team email list some of his memories of playing with the Cadavers/Knights/Schlitz/etc… This was inspired by Mitch’s project on tracing the family tree of the Schlidaveurs back through players and teams, in anticipation of the Saturdaveur coming up on the 31st where the teams are to be split based on tenure. Kevin’s awesome email sparked a cool thread with guys chipping in stories from the long long ago in a rink far far away and we all had a nice kumby-ya moment about just how much we love this demented hobby of ours.

Ah yes the glory of the game, the comaraderie in the locker room, on the bench, and in the parking lot… hell… in Parkers case sometimes the dog’s bed. Always a good night at the rink no matter the outcome. No one “feels” it the next morning because we feel good about skating the night before. The hangover and the aching muscles are our badge of honor, worn with pride through the workday. There isn’t one of us that hasn’t felt that way about it in some way over the years.

I can only but echo the sentiments of my teammates on the email thread. I can assure you there will be some blog treatment of Kevin and Nelson’s excellent tales of the dark days before time, when the team, and the earth’s crust were still forming. The players, headcases and ringers through the years need to have some recorded history before the fog of age completley wipes them away. I mean do you really want of forget about Tom the “Oil Rig Guy” Goalie who could talk a dog off a meat wagon? What about the summer night the Knights wasted 3 30 packs in the alleyway behind Norheastern? Actually the blogger hasn’t remembered much of that one since the night it happened. Anyway… the point is there are some great stories, funny guys and funny things that have happened and keeping track of it all was what the blog was started for, so in advance I thank all the contributors for their tales.

The blogger wants you to know, before what follows, that he is proud to call every one of you teammate, and couldn’t think of another thing he’d rather do with his time than skate a game and have a cold one with the lot of you. Thanks for the fun.

So the feeling was pretty good last night as the blogger walked into the rink in Milton, thoughts of yesteryear, and how much I like this game and the whole ritual of the game night. Sure it isn’t easy with a family and getting older, but man, this is where its at.
The blogger passed Brian “Long arm of the Law” Carey dressing outside the room in a good mood an running late, but glad to dress in the hall given that we had a full room. Better yet a room full of a bunch of good players.
The blogger found a seat in a happy room full of Zombies ready to take on Team Tigre. A quick look around the room gave the blogger some serious optimism.

Campbell, Chuck, Capraro, Reynolds, Larry (am I seeing double coach?), Valenti, George, Pounds, Elliot, Matvey, Roman, and Parker for good measure.

That’s right, gentle reader of the blog, a full 13 of eager Zombies, looking to have a good night, fueled on the good vibes of Cadaver lore, ready to go get em.

It would be nice if I could tell you all about the great game we played against the Tigers. They had their usual crew. Their guy #8 was there, played great as always, figured in both of their goals. They have a roster of decent veterans and a few eager younger ones, just enough to get after you, and enough talent to keep an eye on, but uh… nothing special. With a full 13 and good lines, we ramped up for short shifts and tried to take it right to them. Should have been a formula for success.

Yes I’d like to tell you all about that. But I’ve got nothing. We drew a dud. The energy we had in the early going left after we gave one up. Then our chances became less potenet. Aside from a short stretch in the early 2nd period when Larry and Parker both had doorstep opportunities we did not deliver any consistent or effective pressure.

We had penalties, Capraro, Matvey, Campbell, and Larry (in a total sw move with :06 in the game) but they did not affect the outcome per se. No pp goals were scored. We just didn’t have it.

Last night was an exercise in frustration, nothing coming together the whole night. So there we were, a bunch of not so happy zombies ranting in the post game locker room about the breakout, beating guys to the puck, getting better shots, with not many smiles to go around.

There was some joy standing between the trucks in the cold moonlit parking lot having a quick one (cold soda) and discussion of happier things.

There is always that. And truth be told, I don’t feel too bad today. I am glad that I skated. I’d suit up next to any of you any night of the week, at any time. Even if we do suck.

No game stars.
Better luck tonight to the Suds.

Midseason (kinda) Stats

Ok team some of you were grousing about a statistics update... so after spending some quality time with my spreadsheet on the train this morning... here you have it.

So we have played probably more than half of the games for each team or close to it so well call this the mid season number. Check out the race going on between Roman and Nelson for the top spot. Check out Daley and Reynolds lurking just behind them. Should be a good one again this year to see who gets the top spot.

Also Marc Valenti for all of his "I'm taking the Campbell Award this year" bravado is only tied for the lead (with Larry) and clearly has some work to do yet to "take the title". That one should be good too.

So the Cadavers have played 15 and the Schlitz 17 games. The Cads are holding on at 7-6-2 while the Schlitz have fallen in it a bit at 5-11-2.

The Keepers are hanging in there despite a tough season so far and have the following numbers. Brian Carey 7-7-1 3.87GAA. and Lizzy 3-9-1 4-54GAA. Jim Sullivan is 1-0 1.00GA and Kilroy is 0-1 6.00GA.

Alright thats it for now... Remember the Cadavers have a game on Monday night vs the Tigers at Milton Academy 8:50pm

So far this is who we have playing. ?s are unresponded.

Roman?, Matvey, Campbell?, Jeff, Scott, Larry?, Elliott, James, Valenti, Slate?, Capraro, Reynolds

Zombies answer the Last Call

Cadavers (15) vs Last Call
Thursday January 8
Brockton 10:10pm

4-1 Win


A chilly chilly night in the City of Champions brought out the best in the Dead in Red against the Last Call. We know the Call… they waxed us the last few times we played them, but the games tended to be closer than the score most of the way. They have some talented guys, but not all are very fast. They are old like us, maybe older… but they have a good handful of guys that can shoot and pass very well. They are remnants of the Generals and wore their old Generals One Source jerseys, or just white.

The Dead in Red were faithfully manned by a hearty group of 10 to start the game, and Nelson would make it an Abacus Eleven when he arrived mid 1st period.
D1: Valenti, Jeff
D2: James, Capraro
O1: Reynolds, Parker, Jasse
O2: iJosh, Mitch, Fitzpatrick
Floater/Veteran-Presence/Dirtdog= Nelson
Brian, Long Arm of the Law, Carey in the Pipes

That’s a good group of Zombies friends, and they would turn in one of the best full effort games of the season against the Call, who ran with 9.
The deal is in this league that to beat a team that has vet talent, you absolutely have to outwork them, and never let them get anything going. Good in practice, not so much for us in execution from week to week. The first started off flying, and the Dead in Red went right after them, shots on the first shift, and then consecutive shifts. Second time through we played in their end exclusively. Both sets of forwards jumped to the play and … get this… cycled the zone, regularly beating the Call to the puck in their own end.
The Call kept after it, and really had their best energy in the early going. The Red were able to mount the chances, but the Call’s Keep was taking everything low away quite well… that would continue for the night.
Hard working, and blossoming this season with offensive prowess, Mark Reynolds (one half of the Duxbury Duo) was able to break the ice in this one, about six minutes in. The Blogger is hazy on the set up but Mark came free in a break and buried it for the lead.
The Call was not laying down and 3 minutes later would get an open chance from close by and one of their guys would bury a good shot to tie up the game.
The first would continue to go back and forth and both keepers made good stops. Was it just me, or did that period seem like it lasted forever? Twice I looked up at the scoreboard to verify the period at one point, not long after the Call had tied it up. The period would end, the Red looking good, but tied 1-1.

There was some good determination on the bench and the Red would start fast in the second. Parker would knock free the draw to start the period, it would come back to Marc Valenti who would rush to it and then smartly fed a streaking Michael you gonna use that hat Jasse who would complete the play with a nice wrist shot that found the nets. Red up 2-1 not 30 seconds in. The second would be much like the first. The Red did a nice consistent job generating chances, and the Call Keeper would stand strong and hold the game difference at one. At one point the Cads were using the points so well that Jeff had about five shots on net on the same trip into the zone….of course if he could hit the net he might have made the scoresheet… but I digress. The second ended 2-1.

There was considerable Zombie Pride on display as the boys would turn in their 3rd hard work period in a row (doesn’t happen too often) and would reap the benefit with a win going away. Cagey Veteran Nelson Sharfman would grab a loose puck on the right side, outside the circle and would rifle it at the net. The shot would go off the collapsing defenseman and right into the net for a 3-1 lead. There was a perceptible groan from the Call. They kept after it and Brian would stand right up and make no fewer than 3-4 very quality saves in the last 5 minutes. He caught one long shot with his shoulder, reached out while down for another and stonewalled their guy 15 (light blue socks) right on the doorstep. Great work by Brian there.
Nelson wasn’t done, after picking up the puck from Greg James, who did a tremendous job breaking the puck out of our end in the last seconds, he would land it into the empty net from high in the zone to close things out at 4-1.
Greg and his partner Pete Capraro (other half of the Duxbury Duo) did great work all night, and they closed out the game nicely. Great work by all the Cadavers last night, it was a really satisfying win on a cold cold night.

Speaking of the cold cold night, the 4th period saw a true band of hearties for a quick round in the parking lot. These are the nights kids, when men are men (no offense Lizzy) and the true grit comes out. Valenti hosted beers with Greg, Jasse, Jeff, Parker, iJosh and Mitch. It was short and sweet, but we were there… on January 8th…and it was like 2 degrees. Dedication…its all about Zombie Pride.

Game Stars:
3rd Star: Brian “Serve and Protect” Carey. A very nice game all the way around, kept us in it and fueled the hard work win.

2nd Star: The Duxbury Duo… Mark Reynolds making it happen up front… and Pete Capraro doing excellent work filling in on the blue line. Great work boys.

1st Star: Nelson Just Glad I Made the Game Sharfman. Ok… so he called them possibly the 2 ugliest goals of his career… I don’t agree… but 2 goals, in a 4-1 game, thereby coming within one of Roman for the overall scoring lead at close to mid-season gets you the star of the game my friend. Great work by the consummate, heady, gritty player.

Honorable Mention1: Valenti… nice work on the ice… but more importantly bringing beer.
Honorable Mention2: Jasse continues his big week with another goal… the Dr. stays hot.
Honorable Mention3: Scorekeeper Old Guy John. The man does the job, the whole job (ok he doesn’t count shots but you can’t ask for everything…) and nothing but the job. Time of goal scored is just excellent. Thank you sir.

Ok. Get your game availability in to management for next weeks games and don’t forget to make arrangements to make the Schlidaveur on Saturday night the 31st. We are talking about making this one a tenure based team split. Essentially founders vs split squad era players, depending on turnout. Should be interesting.

Zombies Face the Call Thursday

Cadavers (14) vs Last Call
Thursday January 8th
Brockton 10:10pm

The Zombies are back to work against Last Call on Thursday in the City of Champions. As the Blogger recalls this group has gotten over on us the last few times we've played them. Our overall record against them is 2-2 , so there is no reason we can't run with this group. Let's have a good turn out and bring home a W...

Here is your roster...

Ijosh
Nelson
Jeff
?Ken G
Jasse
?Larry
Parker
Greg J
Marc V
?Mark R
Mike F
?Douville

Lizzy in Net

If there is a ? next to your name you haven't confirmed with Management as of this morning. Please do so for numbers purposes. Thanks.
Understandably Larry we know you are a perpetual ? ... so no worries.

Spawn of Larry! DoubleBells!

Everyone here at Schlidaveur International wants to extend our heartfelt congratulations to Larry and Sarah Bell on the arrival of their 2 beautiful twin daughters. Larry and Sarah clearly dont do anything halfway and so they jumped into being new parents times two! Of course we all know how Larry thinks about stats... so here are the new stats on the babies.

Emily Laura Bell, weighing in at 5 lb, 12 oz, born December 24, 2008 at 8:38 am, and

Lucy Violet Bell, weighing in at 5 lb, 8 oz, born December 24, 2008 at 8:39 am

Once again congrats from Management and the whole team!

Here is Larry in his newly finished basement bar with the last Schlitz trophy... of course this room is now being rennovated into a pink and purple themed playroom....

Sunday Payback Daveur Suds Return the Favor

Schlitz (17) vs Cadavers (14)
Sunday January 4th
Milton Academy 6pm


Schlitz 6
Cadavers 5

A festive back to school feeling for the Sunday Davuer this time as the Holiday break ends and everyone goes back to school and work on Monday the 5th. Another early evening affair at the nice digs at Milton Academy for a rematch daveur from the Tuesday before. Essentially the same teams with a few drops and additions to round the night out. Again we had a rousing contest that was close the whole night with good strong battles going on all over the ice... even had some tempers flare, and some crowd participation(heckling), and even an after party... lets face it... wait for it... this one had it all.
Here is your rematch roster breakdown...
Cads
Cambell, DWH; Daley, Elliott
Roman, Chuck, Parker
Hammitt, Mike Fitz, Ken

Suds
Jeff, Matvey; Valenti, Pearlman
Larry, Jasse and Reynolds
Ken Douville, Scott, and Carl

Billy Pearlman was nice enough to bring 3 of his kids to fill in as hecklers, and bless their hearts were off to an early start during warmups, already all over Mike Hammitt. I believe as I took the ice I heard them taunting Hammitt with "Hey, no figure skaters!" Now dont think this rattled Mike, he goes way back with Billy and his loudmouth... ahem boisterous kids, one of them is his godchild. No kidding. They rode him all night like only kids can. Way to go kids.

The game started off very well, with good brisk play from both squads. Clearly the Zebras were along for the ride and weren't calling it too close as the teams settled in and started to grind away at each other. Again the gold tried to scale the stout Red D, but had little success in the early going.
This thing was tough going for a long time. Both keepers made good stops at both ends and the game was spirited. During the course of the night there would be plenty of good battles for the puck. The Gold would strike first but not after a truckload of hard work trying to break through.
Mike Jasse would finish a beauty of a tick tack toe from Larry and Reynolds. This line was just getting started. Larry was a big lift to the Goldshirts as he was an unexpected arrival, now the Double Dad of two lovely little girls (see forthcoming post) and was able to sneak away for a quick skate. Great to have him and his work with Jass and Mark would decide the game.
The Red wasn't backing down a bit and would break through with a killer goal from Kevin Parker with under a minute remaining. The Gold was back on their heels and let up a tough one.
The period would end 1-1. Somewhere in there Dr. Pounds went off for a trip... no blood.
The second would go Red first and Chuck Slate would pot the next goal and put the Zombies ahead. Another bad breakdown for the gold.
They would answer however, and tie it up again when Marc Valenti would land a nice shot from the point through traffic. Feed from Larry. At this point we are about halfway through the second and the Zombies would hold onto the lead when DWH would make a strong rush and follow it up with a close and deadly wrister that kept them up 3-2.

The Gold would turn up the energy and momentum then, and they would finally break through with some offense. We need to mention here first, that Lizzy held them off for some time. There was a 3-4 minutes streach where she put down Larry alone on a break away, Jasse on the doorstep, and Valenti from the point to hold the lead. She was definitly playing well and was all over it keeping her team in it. The Gold would make it happen though and Mike Jasse would complete the natural trick with 2 quick goals, one from Larry and one from Reynolds, both great follow ups that would give the Gold a nice 4-3 advantage at the end of time in the second.
Another by the way mention has to be Ken Douville playing for the Schlitz, he was a spark all night doing some excellent forchecking on the Red D and forcing the play all over the place. Great work all night, even though it didn't show on the scoresheet.

The Gold would continue the momentum and Larry himself would put one home from Mark and then Mark would follow up with one of his own from Valenti to start off the third and the Gold suddenly had a 6-3 lead. But the game was not over yet.
The Cadavers had a bunch of chances of thier own and certainly didn't dissapear. Roman had a bunch of almosts, and Parker was just tough to contain at any time. But the Zombie resurgence would suffer from manpower as the penalties started to happen in the third. Matvey went first for the gold for a check, but the gold would kill. Hammitt would be right behind him for the Red for an interference... something to do with Pearlman... and then Campbell would go shortly after giving the gold the dreaded 5-3 advantage with a 3 goal lead. This of course led to a shorthanded goal by... Kevin Parker who buried a beautiful pass from Mike Daley.

Moments later Zombie pride would show again when Ken/Mitch, not afraid to lock horns with the best of em, took on Pearlman in his own end and dropped him with a hip check on the far boards. I kid you not. I saw it with my own eyes. Kenny later would say he got the worst of it later on... something about "your mass is greater than mine" ... but man he took him out. Not even a look from the Zeebs.

Anyway the funny thing here is that now down only 2 the Red had trouble leaving the box on time as Hammitt was being distracted by Pearlman's kids outside the glass. Brilliant. Again, great work kids. Hammitt would go late but the gaffe was covered by the zebras who arbitrarily ended Campbell's penalty and evened up the sides after the shorthanded goal. Weird, but funny.
Hammitt wouldn't be done making noise, and it wasn't more than a shift or two tops later that he ended up in anohter tangle with Pearlman and gets the gate again. This time his mouth wrote him a ticket off the ice as the Zebra tired of his explanations and gave him his walking papers. The thunderous heckling from Pearlman's kids was epic. He stood there steaming watching the game...
Which would get tighter as it wound down. The Cads built off the momentum from the shorthander and wouldn't you know it, DWH would land another one with just under a minute to play in the game. The Red swarmed and pulled Lizzy but the Gold would hold and the night would go to the Suds in a 6-5 bahn-burnah.
Great work by all involved. We may even have some pics from the Pearlmans to add to the blog later on...

Game Stars

3rd Star: Kevin Parker for a goal and an assist, and good solid work for the Zombies all night. Could easily have made this one DWH (2 goals) or Mike Daley (2 assists) all three are deserving.

2nd Star: Larry Double Duty Bell. An unexpected surprise and a wicked 4 point night that propelled the Gold to victory. Nice to see Larry, and to hear that all the girls at home are doing great. Congrats again Larry, and great job on the ice!

1st Star: Michael (Somebody Call Me a) Doctor Jasse. A fantastic night with 3 great goals, and just great work with his line all night. Way to go Doc... we are awfully glad you decided to come.

Honorable mentions (as seen above) to Lizzy, Ken Douville,and the Pearlman kids. Also I'd like to add the always tough to play against DWH, Daley, and Chuck who all had good contributions for the Zombie squad.

Lizzy had something to add the next day and sent in this pic as evidence of... well I quote "what a p*ssy Valenti is". She took this one from one of Marc's patented slappers and looks like it... ah... stings a bit. Hope you feel better soon babe.

After the game Chuck and Danielle Slate were nice enough to offer thier place nearby for a little apres skate. There was low attendance on account of Monday being the big back to school back to work day but it was a nice hang nonetheless. Thanks again to them for the offer. Here are some pics from the sort 4th period.

The usual suspects... and blogger's glowing boots!

Kevin and Gloucester the dog were... ahem... friendly.

Superstar Jackie Slate and her sparkly Santa hat with a handfull of chips before bed!

Holidaveur! Zombies beat Suds!

Schlitz (16) vs Cadavers (13)
Tuesday December 30th
BU 7pm

Cadavers 3
Schlitz 2

All hands on deck for a Holidaydaveur on a the night before New Year's Eve at BU. This one had a extra special feel with most folks being home around the holidays and even had some special guest appearances.

Mike Jasse's good buddy Raj Malhotra and his wife Christina and their two little girls extended their visit so he could play with us and it was cool to have him skate along with the 'daveurs. Thanks to you guys first off for sticking around for the event. Raj needed some help in the locker room but after that he was fine.

We had a good "hockey gods" roster breakdown and the two teams proved to be pretty well matched. There was good action all night and the game was nip and tuck. Here are your bodies.

Cads
Campbell, James; Daley, Elliott
Slate, Capraro, Fitzpatrick, Roman, Parker, Gregson, iJosh, and Ken
Lizzy in Net

Suds
Fosdick, Valenti; Pearlman, George
Jasse, Raj Malhotra, Kilroy, Carl, Ken Douville, Nelson, and Mark Reynolds.

The Gold would clearly try to take the game to Lizzy and the Red in the early going. They had their best pressure of the night in the first half of the first period and really never came back to that intensity for the rest of the game. The Red D was tough but the Gold would take an early lead from Nelson, with George assisting. The Red D was smothering and pretty much sucked everything up in the zone, much to the Gold frustration. After 1 it was still 1-0 Gold but the Red was on the rise.
Red was lifted by a late arriving Greg James and got a noticeable jump for a good number of shifts. They would break through when Mike Daley would score from iJosh to tie in early second. Here is iJosh with the play by play on the goal:

"iJosh collected the puck and headed down the left side of the boards and over the blue line. As the Schlitz D approached, he fired the puck ahead to a streaking Mike Daley who lunged and caught the pass. He then raced in and fired one past Brian to tie the score at 1-1."

Nice. The Cads would go on to score 3 total in second, Campbell from Fitz and then Roman. This despite taking two penalties in the period. Chuck and Campbell. Here is iJosh again on the goal play by play for goals 2 and 3:

2: Mike Campbell received the draw from Mike Fitz. Campbell then fired the puck through the crowd and at the net where it found its way in for a 2-1 lead.

3: iJosh grabbed the puck near the corner to the right of the net. Found Roman in the high slot who rifled the puck past Brian for a 3-1 advantage.
Thanks Josh!

Valenti and George would each go in the second also evening things off. but Red would take 2 more, Campbell again, and Parker (dirty bastard) and Gold would send only one Pearlman and the Gold would creep back on a goal from Valenti with Reynolds on assist.
Despite late pressure the gold couldn't get over but it wasn't for lack of trying. There was late pressure but no way to get through the Zombie D and the Red would take this one 3-2.

Game Stars:

3rd Star: Capt. George. Just one assist but the man covers a LOT of ground. Great work trying to rally the troops all night.

2nd Star: Lizzy. Great work to earn a hard fought 1 goal win. She had several very solid stops down the stretch.

1st Star: Mike Daley. Just kickin' butt all night with terrific and energetic play at both ends. Not easy to play against. Mike had the first Zombie goal but made plays all night.

The real story of the night was the parking lot... as usual... where everyone descended on the goodies that once again were laid out in the back of Kilroy's truck. This night saw not only the 6 foot sandwich (the true sign of a big deal event) but also the exquisite tastes of Miran Jame's sushi. As always Miran walks away with an honorable game star for her continued excellence and kindness. Thanks! Somehow I dont have a pic of her tray of sushi... but it didn't last long.

Also... CEO Kilroy let me in on a disturbing statistic. It seems that we have never... I repeat NEVER kicked a 6 foot sandwich. Not at any of the daveurs, not Hockey at the Beach, not Jasse's the other night... never done it. Never had someone walk up and say "Darn there is no more sub left?" Never happened. This is astounding. I mean really. How many times have we had a sandwich was the next logical question.... this number is uncertain... but a reasonable estimate is somewhere between 7-10 times. That's right friends... this means we could really be talking about an 0-10 record against the sandwich!
And I thought the Schlitz's record looked bad against the league this season... sheesh. The league has nothing on The Sandwich. ... or should we start calling it Mr. Sandwich... or Daddy...

Undefeated Sandwich

Rosters for Tonight! SunDaveur!

Ok Team here's the scoop.
We had a terrific Schlidaveur event on Tuesday night Dec 30th at BU.
A great night with a good turn out and even a 6 foot sandwich and Miran's sushi after the game. What more could you ask for... what's that you say? A blog post telling you all about it?
Ahem. Oh yes well... I'll get right on that.
The blogger has been pinned down in his family foxhole all week fighting off the holiday season and the vicious stomach flu that has ripped through the family like German's crossing the Rhine... but you don't care about that. I'll have the post for the last daveur up soon. Really.

More importantly there is another 'daveur tonight!
SUNDAY JANUARY 4th MILTON ACADEMY 6PM
Everyone Needed!
UPDATE ROSTERS FOR TONIGHT!!!!!!!!!
Cadavers
Matt E 88
Mike F 24
Chuck S 27
Kevin Parker 9
Pete C 52
Ken G 51
Roman 13
DWH 38
Daley 6
Hammitt 55
Campbell 77
Lizzie in Net

_Schlitz_
Ken D 0
Carl Schiller 33
Jasse 12
Mark R 18
Matvey 25
Carey Jr. 00
Scott Pounds 83
Marc V 11
Bill Pearlman 8
Jeff Fosdick 10
Blake U 66
Brian in Net



Also Chuck Slate has been nice enough to offer Chez Slate for Apres Skate festivities.
His address... XXXXXXXXXX

So... hope to see you there this evening for another fun round of Schlidaveur hockey action!