Suds scrap with Tigers and get scratched

Schlitz (9) vs Tigers
Monday July 6th
Canton 9:00pm


2-1 Loss



The second game of the Monday night Davah Double was over in our other Home rink Canton. Management knew that it might be tough to get two full squads for a game on Monday right after a big holiday weekend, and the suspicion proved to be legit. There were quite a few drop outs and no shows, that are all understandable given all the beer, burgers and fun that was surely had by everyone over the weekend. With that in mind, the CEO asked a few guys to double up if they felt up to it. So the trio of Roman, Dave Di, and Jeff Fosdick would change in Quincy and boogie over to Canton to lace em up for the Suds in the nightcap. Good thing. with those 3 we made another even 10.
CEO BMF Kilroy in the Pipes.
D1: George and Jeff
D2: Dave Di and Mark Reynolds
O1: Dr.Jasse, Capraro, and Chuck
O2: Roman, Howard, and Kevin Parker

This game would not be the high scoring affair that the first one was. Not even close. This game would be a very nip and tuck, close to the vest kind of thing with our old “friends” El Tigre. They are about the same as they always are. Their talent skates the right D and wears number 8 and the Gold did a lot of chasing of that dude all night. Also noteable are regulars #18 and #55 both with Panthers jerseys like #8, and those two seemed like they were infront of Kirloy or crashing into him all night.

The Gold would play a up and down first period that was not without its chances and mistakes. Kilroy in general turned in another very solid performance and made some very nice stops in the opening frame that kept things under control. The Red would have one penalty in the first, but the Gold couldn't do a thing with the PP and the period would end 0-0 with a feeling that the game would be very tight the rest of the way.

The Red would open the second with another penalty but again no blood from the Beercans. That is until Kevin Parker would wrist one home from Roman and Chuck that would put the 'Cans up on top 1-0 with 8 minutes to go in the 2nd. The Gold would then pick up thier first penalty of the game about a minute later when Dave Diloretto would go for a hold. Sketchy. Interestingly enough the Red wouldn't score on the power play but did break through at the 4:30 mark beating Matty to even things up. The second would end 1-1.

So... observant reader of the blog. You know whats coming next right? You know what our rep is right? You know that as the game stayed tight and things got chippy, the whistles started coming, and the mouths started running. Diloretto would go again at the begining of the period. Then all hell broke loose when George would have a battle with Old 55 behind our net in which they exchanged some pleasantries and stickwork. On the way to the box George had a few things for the Zebra to consider... and 55 would go as a match.

But that was it. The dam was broken and leaking. Reynolds would go next 30 seconds later. Then Diloretto less than a minute after that. A bogus call that meant Dave was done for the night and he let the Zeebs know how he felt. Howard would serve that one.

So there we were, in a very tight game, now down 5 on 3 with one D man ejected and 2 in the box. Jeff would hack at #8 and got mostly puck but was called for a trip like 10 seconds later. So now we were still 5 on 3 but all three remaining D in the box. The Gold played admirabley on the kill. Namely Parker, Roman, Capraro and Kilroy doing strong work to keep the game tied. By the time we were all even again there was less than 4 minutes to play.

The attrition was too much. Too many plays where we got caught running around, Roman and Jeff were out of gas given that they had played two full games at this point, and the worst possible thing happened. (well maybe not the worst ... but you know what I mean). The Tigers would score on a screen shot after a long scramble in our end at the :50 second mark.

Blech.

A good effort, but not really very consistant play on the Beercans part and a tough loss in the waning seconds to a club we could have stolen one from.

No Game Stars, but honorable mentions to Matt for another solid game in net, and Dave, Romand and Jeff who played both games of the double header and are surely feeling it today. Well... I'm feeling it today.

Stay tuned for schedule updates later in the week.