Cads lose to Spuniks. Its all over now.

Cadavers (p3) vs Sitniks

Thursday April 16th

Canton 7:00pm

5-2 Loss.

The news out of Zombieville is no good this morning friends. The Dead in Red went down to the Red Army (wearing purple) and the book is officially closed on the Cadaver 08-09 campaign. The word is that Team Sputnik had three full lines to the Dead's two and really had a strong lineup on the ice. It also sounds like Brian "Long arm of the Law" Carey had another great playoff performance, only to be squandered by some lackluster play on the part of the rest of the Zombie roster.

There was the faint ringing of some complaints here and there but that's all that I'll say about it, our guest bloggers have a comment though down below here. It sounds like a frustrating one, but really, hasn't this just been a season of frustrating games? This whole thing had a stench on it from the start, so as far as the Blogger is concerend good riddance to Winter 08-09. Let's try to get some different mojo going for the summer season.

Lets get on to the first hand accounts and summary of the game. Here is the rundown from Defenseman Marc Valenti:

"Period 1
Sputniks Goal @ 10:05
Dead Penalty @ 12:07, Tripping #11
Close period, we kept the pressure and Brain played great.

Period 2
Sputniks Goal @ 6:21
Sputniks Goal @ 3:06
Dead Penalty @ 0:02, Roughing #16
With our two lines to their three lines of decent skaters we began to run out of steam. Brian played great.

Period 3
Sputniks Goal @ 16:33
Sputniks Goal @ 7:02
Dead Penalty @ 4:47, Roughing #11
Dead Goal @ 1:11, #2 Unassisted
Dead Goal @ 0:50, #44 Unassisted
We staged a comeback, just too late. Brian played great, score doesn’t show it.

Overall, the calls did seem one sided and they had #25 who was the ringer that we played with the last time we played them.
The roster says him name is Sasha Tkachev, NOT. Nelson told the refs to check his ID and they would not, therefore, it doesn’t matter. It’s all hot air. They brought in a ringer for a playoff game, really, it’s D league.
Final Score 5-2"

Nice wrap from Marc. Here are some comments from another D-man Chris Fosdick. He gives a nice recap on the two third period goals here.

"Brian turned in another amazing performance, he is really improving. However, we just couldn't get it done. ...

It's not that they were so good, but they did come out and hustle more than we did and that made the difference. They pass pretty well too, but if we had had even slightly different personnel we could have beat them. It was very frustrating. ...

Finally with less than 2 mins left Dan G. was battling in the corner with two guys on him, and I was wide open on the point, so I called for the puck, which he got to me and I released a cannon of a shot that beat the goalie high glove side. Then, 30 seconds or so later we get the puck in their zone and make another bid and Dan G stuffs in a losse puck in the scrum in front of the net. So in the end we had at least a little redemption, but also a condemnation ... [comment deleted]"

Thanks for the words and recap bro'. Good job with the goal at the end there, and thanks for taking the shifts on D when the team needed you.

Good luck to the Sputniks/Sitniks... try not to get blown out in the next game.

Thats all from here. See you for the begining of the Summer Season. I'll work up the end of season statistics and dreaded season wrap post while I'm on vacation in Florida next week.

As far as I'm concerned this party is over. Last one out... turn off the lights.