Schlitz vs ScapegoatsThursday April 9th
Hingham C 10:20pm
6-2 Loss
The Blogger has been waiting for stories from this one to come in, but the early news was not good. Sort of like news coming back from the front when things aren’t going so well.
The messenger shows up limping, with a bandaged head, and can barely salute when he tells the generals that he’s the only one left from the 5th Cavalry division.
I’ve got a feeling iJosh has got something for us somewhere out there so well keep an eye to the email.
...wait... here's iJosh now...
With a 3rd straight Schlitz Championship in the balance the pressure was on from the start. George would lead the blueliners along with Dan with Hands, Mike Daley and always versatile and level headed Mark Reynolds.
The forwards would be centered by Roman and Gritty and Grizzly Old Nelson, who's playoff beard full of large patches of gray just add to the character. The wing pairs would be Matt Elliott and Matvey, Dr. Pounds and Dan Gregson, Capraro and iJosh.
No doubt the team felt the pressure as there was almost no flow, no control, no offense and certainly no defense to start the game. This would lead to a very quick set of goals by the Scapegoats. The first just a scrum of players near the crease, the 2nd a perfect pick set by our
own defense allowed the opposing forward to deke "unseen" before moving around everyone and slide the puck into the open net. The 3rd goal would soon be netted before the end of the 1st came to a merciful end. Both Mark Reynolds and Dan with Hands would be sent to the sin bin in this period courtesy of a hold and a slash.
So the Golden Beer Cans had to get back into this game. And the only way to get back in was to score the next goal. But that is not how this story goes. Not before long, the Suds would find themselves down early in the 2nd by the overwhelming score of 4-0. Nothing was going the Suds way. Absolutely, positively nothing. At one point the Cans had a 5 on 3 penalty and got a grand total of 0 shots for and quite possibly a few against. You could tell exactly how the game was going by closing your eyes and determining the level of excitement in George's voice. And after doing exactly that, following the 2 man advantage, one would have thought we were down 4-0 with no appearance of hockey skills what-so-ever. So after getting the verbal assault we deserved, some people would actually get to work.
The forwards would be centered by Roman and Gritty and Grizzly Old Nelson, who's playoff beard full of large patches of gray just add to the character. The wing pairs would be Matt Elliott and Matvey, Dr. Pounds and Dan Gregson, Capraro and iJosh.
No doubt the team felt the pressure as there was almost no flow, no control, no offense and certainly no defense to start the game. This would lead to a very quick set of goals by the Scapegoats. The first just a scrum of players near the crease, the 2nd a perfect pick set by our
own defense allowed the opposing forward to deke "unseen" before moving around everyone and slide the puck into the open net. The 3rd goal would soon be netted before the end of the 1st came to a merciful end. Both Mark Reynolds and Dan with Hands would be sent to the sin bin in this period courtesy of a hold and a slash.So the Golden Beer Cans had to get back into this game. And the only way to get back in was to score the next goal. But that is not how this story goes. Not before long, the Suds would find themselves down early in the 2nd by the overwhelming score of 4-0. Nothing was going the Suds way. Absolutely, positively nothing. At one point the Cans had a 5 on 3 penalty and got a grand total of 0 shots for and quite possibly a few against. You could tell exactly how the game was going by closing your eyes and determining the level of excitement in George's voice. And after doing exactly that, following the 2 man advantage, one would have thought we were down 4-0 with no appearance of hockey skills what-so-ever. So after getting the verbal assault we deserved, some people would actually get to work.
First Gritty and Grizzly Old Nelson would do what Nelson does, find a way to get the hard working goal. Then Matvey would find paydirt, cutting the deficit to 4-2. Then the Team of Beer was just flat once again giving way to another goal ending the period at 5-2. Somewhere in this period Dan Gregson would get called for a hook.
Plodding into the 3rd would see more of the same. The best news out of this period wasn't that Dan Gregson was called for an interference or that instead of the game ending 7-2 it ended 6-2 after a goal was waved off due to a goaltender interference penalty on the Goats.
So our night over and our playoff hopes damaged we will head toward Wednesday knowing that one more loss and we are done. Hopefully it will be better next time.
... great work iJosh as always. Too bad about the outcome.
The suds are on deck for Wednesday 4/15 against... The Blues
Bavis Arena 10:10pm
Lets have a good game against the rival Blues... whom we haven't played in a while.
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