Dead in Yellow down the Preds

Cadavers(8) vs Predators
Monday July 6th
Quincy 7:00 pm


8-3 Win!


Game one of a dava double headah was an early start in the City of Presidents. An early affair against a club that according to the crew we’ve played before… but the blogger will be darned if he can remember it. Regardless the Cadavers showed up and wore yellow so we played as the dead in yellow for no particular reason, hopefully we wont throw off the league office when the scoresheets come in.
The Cads in Yellow were well represented with a nice round 10 players. It broke down like this.
D1: Roman (yes that Roman) and Steve Baker
D2: Dave Diloretto and Jeff Fosdick
O1: Larry, Nelson, and iJosh
O2: Angry Ken, Mitch, and Dr.Pounds
Brian “Long Arm of the Law” Carey in the Pipes.

The game would really be decided in the first period and Larry would set the tone right off the oppening draw. Larry beat his man, turned the d and shot, Nelson and Josh kept it in and in less than a minute Nelson fed Larry who would bang it home for the 1-0 lead. Things were looking good. The Preds had a couple of good skaters but they were on one of the forward lines and it looked like they had at least three lines of players over there. The D was, well, not their best players and it looked good for the Red/Gold early. Of course the Yellow jerseys come with the usual attention from the zebras and we took a couple of penalties a few minutes after the first goal.
Baker would go for a trip (on their best player)
Jeff would go a minute later for a trip also. That left a breif 5-3 that the Gold killed off well. Of course the Green was gaining a bit of momentum, and when the penalties had expired they were able to break through with a goal that Brian didn’t have any help on.
Not to be outdone, Larry would take the faceoff and again turn the pylon defenders and plunk it home unassisted to put the good guys back on top. This would be followed within 2 minutes by a nice goal by iJosh, again from Nelson, and in the closing minute of the period Jeff would step up into the play in the neutral zone and went in on a breakaway that he finished by going 5 hole on the shakey keeper for a very nice 4-1 lead at the end of one period.

The second would see Nelson grabbing a goal from iJosh who was returning the favor, then Larry would complete his Hat Trick, again fed from Nelson, and Dave Di. Sporting a comfortable 6-1 lead the Dead in Gold got just a tiny bit complacent and the Green would land another one and held off the blow out to make it 6-2.

The third period would start off with Larry scoring his fourth goal of the game, this one from Jeff. There was more than a little banter about Larry being motivated by Jasse’s 4 goal night last week, and knowing Larry, it may not be too far from the truth. Whatever it was Larry was all over the ice last night. He had no fewer than 3 tremendous backchecks on their best player, to go along with all the scoring.
The Green would score another one, amazingly not on the power play as both Steve and Dave Di would go during the third for tripping. Steve would make up for it with a really nifty break away and wicked shot that capped the night off at 8-3.

Great effort all the way around. It didn’t show on the score sheet but it needs to be mentioned that the line of AK, Mitch and the Doc was very productive and came very close on more than a handful of opportunities. Also notable was the very solid Defensive play by Mr. Roman Kurin. Our Radical Russian deserves big kudos for not only volunteering for the position, but for good effort and solid play all night.

Game Stars
3rd Star: Hrm…hard to pick. I’m going with the Defensive corps. Roman for chipping in. Steve for a goal. Dave for a helper and really playing shut down all night, and Jeff for a goal and an assist.
2nd Star: Nelson “just doing my job” Sharfman. A quiet 4 point night for the cagey vet, with 3 assists and a goal. Its just something to watch the man work, shift after shift, season after season.

1st Star: Larry “anything you can do I can do better” Bell. a very nice game all the way around and 4 goals to really pad the stats. Larry was a force all night. Great work.

Check out the next post for the second game of the double header.

Just a quick note on last week's business. Everyone on both squads has been asking about Chris and he is doing much better. Everyone sends their best wishes and thoughts bro, we are all thinking about you.

Chris himself just checked in with an account of how his injury took place and I've added it to the game story from last week. Check it out, with gruesome visuals here.

Also here is a pic that iJosh grabbed of half the team in the penalty box. Shame it isn't clearer... it would make a nice banner for the blog from now on. Its pretty hard to win when 40% of the roster is in the box and busy yelling at the zeebs. Some of those calls were crap, to be sure, we just can't let our mouths blow the game for us...

wait that didn't sound right...

aw shut up Parker and stop looking at me like that...

....aahh just forget it.