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Life in the Beer league... indeed. The blog is not dead... well not yet.
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Schlitz (1-1) vs Wolverines (2-1)

Monday September 20th

UMass Boston 9:20pm

Blue Jackets Division Playoffs

Loss 4-1

The Suds second chance at Blue Jacket Division Playoff success came Monday night, curiously against the team we'd lost to just two days earlier on Friday. The Wolverines were back, fresh off a loss of their own on Sunday evening and the rematch was on at the Prison By the Bay.

The Wolver-marmots were well stocked for the second round and added a gigantic goaltender who by all accounts came in somewhere about six five. He played well. They also had some more players to add to their red helmet crew that played so well on Friday.
We aren't going to linger here.
This game just never got going well for the good guys.

Here's your roster courtesy of Dan Gregson:
The D was Hammett, Roman, Dan H. and Mark R.
Forward lines were Larry Ken D. and Nelson; Matt E. Steve and Mike D.

I floated through the lines.

It was a pretty good game, we had some good chances but couldn’t finish. Ken D. got a matching penalty, dwh got a penalty for being bad as well as Larry.

There were some room temperature beers left over from Friday night in my car that was better than no beer.
Thanks Dan.

Further analysis gave the breakdown like this:
2-0 after first

3-0 afte two

3-1 came back early 3rd
Goal Daley from Baker

4-1 final after they scored late in 3rd.

The house of horrors on Boston Harbor has never been really kind to us and this night was no exception as the Suds saw the last game of Summer 2010 slip away.

No finish, not much scoring and a decent opponent and it was oh-vah.

So that puts a cork in the summer season.

Thank you all for coming... last one out shut the lights out please.
See you in two weeks.

Suds go down to the Wolverine

Schlitz (3) vs Wolverines (2)
Friday September 17
Quincy 9:30pm Blue Jackets Division Playoffs


4-3 Loss



The skating Beercans continued to look for playoff glory as they met the Wolverines in Quincy for a rare Friday night Playoff Treat. Management scrounged together a roster but was shy of the full 13 we like to have, and unfortunately we didn't even have ten when the game began.
Team Suds went to war with the Michigan Wannabees with 9 and a good attitude. AK would show late in the first and would make us a nice even ten. For some reason Ken was in an email time warp and didn't get that the game was in Quincy... so after a short visit to the BU rink he made it to us in time to contribute.

Here is your Schlitz Roster
Lizzy in Net
D1: DWH and iJosh
D2: Daley and Jeff
O1: Baker, AK, Gregson
O2: Nelson, Jasse, and Roman
or something like that. The forwards shuffled quite a bit...

The game was a pretty even match. The Wolvies had their yellow shirts on (aren't they supposed to be Big Blue?) so team Beercan skated as the Dead in Red which threw off the scorekeeper but after some explanation... we got it together.

The Wolverines have some older dudes but in general are a pretty young club. The certainly had a pair of guys that needed minding, 20 and 19 both with red helmets and wheels. The Red Suds would have to keep an eye when and where they were on the ice all night.
Play got going and it looked decent for the Red early on. DWH was already in good form making chances and controlling the play in our end. Dan would wind up a beauty and would get the first goal of the game unassisted with that nice shot.
Unfortunately Yellow would come right back on the next shift about a minute later and tie the game. It was obvious from early on this one was going to be a good matchup and a back and forth battle.

Red would strike again 10 minutes into the period when Baker and Daley would put on a passing clinic in the Yellow end. A nice zip zap zip and Baker would bury the chance for a 2-1 lead. This held until the closing seconds of the first when 20 for Yellow would get loose in our end and would bury his own nice shot (unassisted) and it was tied 2-2 at the end of one.
If the blogger is reading the hashmarks at the bottom of the scoresheet correctly the Red Suds outshot the Yellow badgers 6 to 4. Its not often we get a scorekeeper that does shots...

The Second was more back and forth and the Red kind of found their groove now that AK had shown up and we had 2 full lines to rotate. Just 2 minutes into the frame Nelson would feed Roman right out front and the Red would go back up 3-2. The Red would continue to get good chances as the period went on. The Yellow keeper did a fair job turning away chances and Lizzy was holding tight on our end. The Red definitely had more chances but the inevitable came 10 minutes in when Yellow 20 (again) would break one off after a scramble in our end. The game was tied again and despite a Yellow penalty in the closing minutes the Red couldn't get anything else to fall and the Second ended 3-3. Again according to the hash marks the Red out chanced the Yellow 9 to just 5.

The third period didn't keep the same pace as the first two as both teams slowed a bit. Yellow seemed to take advantage of this a bit better than the Red and less than 2 minutes into the period they would strike (21 from 19 & 22) to take a 4-3 lead. Yellow was doing a strong job of counterpunching the Red and it was getting harder to keep things going.

Despite that the comeback climb was on. The Red Cans would rally and press the play and with about 9 minutes left in the game Nelson would slide the puck under the keepers pads and it would creep across the line for the tie. Doctor Jasse on the assist who had been camped out front after getting a handful of good chances himself.
Down the stretch they came, now tied 4-4 and both teams pressing. In this period the shot differential was much closer and for the first time all night Yellow out shot Red 10-9.
You could kind of see it coming friends, as you may have had the feeling while reading this that the inevitable collapse was on the way and with less than 2 minutes on the clock it came.
20 (what a surprise) would set up 11 and they would bang bang close the door on this game with a go ahead goal. Despite stacking a line and pulling Lizzy the Red Cans couldn't get anything going like they had on Monday night and there was no golden last second goal.
Too bad. 5-4 loss and a trip to the "losers" bracket for the rest of the way for the Suds.

4th period Kudos to Dr. Jasse and Gregson who both brought tastey beverages.

Props to our two young fans the Greenstein boys Elliot and Lewis who cheered and shivered all night for the cause. Thanks for coming guys!

TONIGHT QUINCY SUDS VS WOLVS

Schlitz (3) vs Wolverines (2)
Friday September 17th
Quincy 9:30pm
Blue Jackets Division Playoffs

Courtesy of the BIG OVERTIME WIN on Monday the Suds will face off tonight against the number 2 seed Wolverines in Quincy for a chance to advance in the D level playoffs. The Wolverines come in 1-0 thanks to a 5-2 drubbing they gave the Scapegoats last week. We've seen this team not that long ago and things didn't go great.

The Beercans will need a big effort to keep the run going tonight.

Here is your roster so far.

Lizzy in Net
Roman
iJosh
Nelson
Jeff
Jasse
Hammitt
Gregson
Herbert
Daley
Douville
Baker
*Reynolds – 30/70 odds of making it… (flying in this afternoon)
*Parker – asked
*Matvey – asked

Lets get a strong turn out here and get something going against those rodents!

Suds Beat Cats in OT!

Schlitz (3) vs Tigers (6)

Blue Jackets Division Playoffs

Monday September 13th

HinghamC 1030pm

4-3 OT WIN!

The Schlitz took to the ice for their first Playoff game of the Summer season on Monday night against old friends El Tigre and turned in a strong effort, and exciting performance for a big win. This was Larry's Suds squad from waaaay back at the end of the season and the team took the ice with a fair amount of optimism, despite the dreadful clang that the Cads made as they lost their one and out playoff game a week ago.

Here's what the crew looked like at game time.

Lizzy in Net.

D1: DWH and Bauer

D2: Campbell and Jeff

O1: Baker, Mitch and AK

O2: Nelson, Jasse and Larry

O3: Gregson, Daley, and Roman.

A good looking line up to face old rival the Tigers who looked to have 9 or 10 on this night, some decent talent but no ringers and definitely down a few of their better stars. One noticeable absence was their captain, the guy that wears number 8 and has a set of stylish cooperalls. He's a great player and thankfully was nowhere to be seen on Monday night.

The game got going and it was clear from early on that the Gold could have their way with things if they played hard and kept after the feisty Red shirts.

Unfortunately Team Kitty would strike first. This after Mike and Jeff discussed the "man to watch" (number 3) and Jeff professed that he "had 'im" only to lose track of him, right in front of the net where he took a pass and buried a shot from 5 feet. Tigers 1-0 after just 2 minutes.

The Gold was bringing it though and the crew played very well all the way around. Despite some Zebra trouble early for Dr. Campbell (2 penalties in the first) we were able to generate some decent offense. Eric Bauer actually went first for checking not long after the Tiger goal. No bloods on the penalty and in fact the Gold did a good job keeping the play in the Red end despite being a man down. Campbell then went 6 minutes later for his first and this time the penalty kill would be so good it came out +1. And by that I mean Dan "with hands" Herbert would collapse a nice play and take a pass from Mike Daley and put it home to tie the game with about 7 minutes to go in the first.
Campbell would take his second on practically his next shift and he would clearly have to be careful for the rest of the night if he wanted to stick around. Again the PK came up strong and got several good chances on Team Tigre. The first would end tied 1-1.

The second would see lots of good things from the Gold. The forwards were cycling, gathering handfulls of scoring chances. The Tiger keeper deserves some props for standing tall. He wasn't spectacular but he was solid and kept the game tied.
Unfortunately about five minutes into the second Red would get a nice breakaway chance when the Gold D had pinched and scored to take back the lead 2-1. The rest of the period would play out with the only exception of Red taking a penalty about 8 minutes in. No blood on the power play and again the PK held the advantage 1-0 over the PP. ... if you take my meaning...
But despite the good things happening all over the ice the Gold had not much to show on the scoreboard. Daley and Roman showed some nice moves while working together. DWH was a force all night controlling the play and getting chances offensively. All the forwards were changing quick and getting good pressure. Despite all this the second would end with the Suds down 2-1.

The third would certainly start in the right way for Team Beercan and the hard work of the Larry, Nelson Jasse line would start to pay off. Three minutes into the third Campbell would send a shot in and Jasse would feed the rebound to Nelson who would bury it to tie the game 2-2. The Gold felt like they were in business. Unfortunately the good feeling, and time in the Red end didn't translate into goals. The game was getting late. Under 10, under 5 minutes left and still tied 2-2. Then a breakdown hurt the gold. Again giving up a rush the Tigers would break fast and score a nice goal on a hard shot with just over 2 minutes left in the game.
The Gold was down but there was no head hanging. Just hard skating and effort.
With 33 seconds Gold took "time" and Lizzy went to the bench. The cans would put this group on the ice. Daley, AK, Roman and Baker with Campbell and Jeff.
The following faceoff resulted in the puck in the neutral zone but the gold took it into the zone with less than 15 seconds left. Here's where things get crazy.
Baker would send the puck low from the left side. AK would send a shot that ended up with Mike Daley behind the net. Less than 5 seconds now. Magic Mike Daley would walk out to the crease get one shot off that hit the side and came back, another shot off the pads and back, the third time he deposited the puck in the twine. When the D looked up the clock said 1.3 seconds. Tie game and now that meant OVERTIME.
Hard to remember the last time we had and OT game for the playoffs... but maybe the blogger is just fuzzy. Anyway... after Jeff explained to the Zeebs that it was a playoff game... off we went.
Now. We couldn't just have Overtime. Our old sour pussed friend, Zeebra number 2 would make sure to give us a little twist. He would call Mike Daley (of all people) for a hold just 50 seconds into the overtime period. Luckily this was just the boost that the Gold was looking for. The PK had played great earlier and now late was no different. They would get good chances all the way along and the penalty had just ended when this was the setup on the ice.
DWH and Bauer at the points. Jasse, Nelson and Larry up front. The play kept in the Red end DWH was pressing the play into the zone, so much so, in fact that the bench was yelling for someone to cover the point. Larry would get a nice shot off and the rebound would come right to Dr. Jasse. The good Doc would line up the slapper and would connect. Only trouble was it would be slow wobbler that would end up out front. Not his intention but it all ended well when DWH would scoop it up and wrist it home for the W. I. N..
The Schlitz poured off the bench to congratulate the guys on the ice. Lots of smiles and pats on the back and a good feeling to end the night with.

Game Stars
3rd Star: 2 helpers for the Good Doctor Jasse. Dr. Jasse with only 3 games played this summer is sporting a sick 5 assists on his scoring total. Nice work in short time Doc. Attaboy.

2nd Star: Magic Mike Daley. The man with the knack for scoring timely goals. That's a couple at least the Blogger can recall this season, the first being a game winner in the closing seconds against the Leafs. Great work all night by the rangey center... and once again... terrific goal with 1.3 seconds to send the game to OT. Incredible it only gets him the 2nd star... because...

1st Star: Dan with bleepin Hands Herbert baby. Long tall and dangerous was on the prowl all night making plays and scoring MASSIVE goals. Nice work.

Honorable Mention1: Lizzy played great making big stops when needed in the third.

Honorable Mention2: AK for playing great all night making things happen and also not losing the show when hauled down with no call right in front of the Gold bench in the third. Good work.

Talk about a good feeling. Nice cold adult beverages were served in the post game parking lot courtesy of Campbell and the Dans, and a very pleasant postgame ensued. Nothing major for a Monday night but it was a big win and there was lots to discuss.

Pictured here would be the Campbell Declared Last Limey of Summah. Sad to see it go...

Zombies Rung Up by Preds

Cadavers vs Predators
Wildcard Playoff Game
Canadiens Division Playoffs
Thursday Sept 2nd
10:30pm Hingham C

8-4 loss


The Cadavers, Mark's Gold squad from the final 'Daveur, took the Hingham ice last night for a Wild Card Playoff Game against the Predators. There was a bunch of scrambling Wednesday as to how to determine who was playing, as what team and when.

It was ironed out in an 11th hour management boardroom crunch session that Larry's Red squad would be awarded a phony "win" in the Schlidaveur as they had scored twice and it had not been seen or called by the game officials. This gave Larry the choice of which club to play as. He chose the Schlitz, playing as a 3 seed in the Blue Jackets Division.

That meant we had to throw together a roster for Mark's team, now the Cadavers to play in a "one and out" wild card play-in game. The urgency to make it to the double elimination round was palpable, especially since a bunch of guys on this roster couldn't skate.
This is what we ended up with on the ice Thursday night.
Brian "long arm of the law" Carey in Net
D1:Teddy Locke, and George
D2:Reynolds and Valenti
O1: Baker, iJosh and Seaver
O2: Nelson, Parker and Elliot
O3: Capraro, John Carey and Dr.Pounds
Our gal Lizzy was scorekeeper for the night.

Now. We had a slight case of "over manegment" here. Jeff in his haste to put together a solid 13 actually ended up as number 14 when Kevin Parker (the forgotten forward) came through the door as the 'boni was circling the rink. Jeff quickly undressed fetched himself a beer and a waterbottle and headed to the bench. Too bad for the rest of the guys who had to listen to him the rest of the night. Usually he's too busy wheezing to say much.
Anyhow... the game.
It was clear from very early on that the Preds had some added talent for the evening. A generic green shirt with a weak white tape 11 on the back and no face shield was clearly a stand out. The Dead in Red would spend most of the night chasing him around and just trying to contain him.
He could move any way he wanted at whatever speed and pretty much scored at will when he needed to. #2 on D was not far off from his level. Clearly, from the start it was going to be a long night.

I'm here to tell you friends that there was a little Zombie Pride going on out there and the guys in Red did the best they could with the situation at hand. Brian played great. He was tested constantly and early.

Number 6 from Green would get things going at exactly the one minute mark into the first with a sick double move then a wrister that was like a lazer to go up 1-0. The Red would try to take the play right back but had limited success. Frustration was already setting in as Parker would go for a slashing call at 14 minutes. The Red would survive the penalty and play tough. The Green would take a penalty for a high stick at about 1230 but no scoring on the penalty.

Marc "back from hiatus" Valenti would unleash a slapper at the 11 minute mark that their keeper had to make a big save on. Nice to see that slapper... Brian Carey would make a pair of excellent saves at the 10 minute mark that showed he was bringing it and hanging in there.


Then John Carey would score on a very nice lifted backhand shot from Scott Pounds at 7:40 and the game was tied 1-1. The Green would then ramp it up and came with the big guns again and they would take back the lead 4 minutes later when 2 would score after doing this ridiculous drag move at the blue line and fired a sniper shot from 30 feet. This was followed by the 8 and 11 show a minute later for a more comfortable 3-1 lead.
Red would take another penalty, Scott for a trip at the 1 minute mark and 11 would cap the period off with another goal in the closing seconds that would make it 4-1 at the end of the first.
Really things went off the rails about then. The Red roster was frustrated and starting to get mouthy. All agreed that the only way to handle it was to work hard and play the best we could. If douchebag 11 superfuckingstar wanted to score 17 he probably could. All we could do was play as best we could to combat the talent disparity. For the most part everyone did that. All the guys gutted it out and the second passed for a long time with no scoring. Red would send Parker to the box, then Teddy would go but still Red held on. Green would take the next 2 penalties but one was a matching with Valenti and still no scoring.
Green would of course score next at 630 but the Red would answer not 35 seconds later when Matty Elliot would drill a nice shot from the high slot to put up the second tally for the Zombies. All this meant was the big guns were back out and 11 made short work of getting the goal right back in less than a minute.
Baker would take a trip to the box, not without yapping his face off and Green would send one more and the period would end 6-2 Green. Just as a point in recap, we had 4 penalties in that period, and really the refs did us a favor by giving green 3.
Green would, predictably open the period with another goal. This time from 8.
Then Pete Capraro would land a beauty of a shot, again the helper from the Good Dr. Pounds for the 3rd Red goal. Not long after that Jay Seaver would weave his way over the line and pull up and score unassisted on a brilliant shot for the 4th Red goal.
Green would take 3 total penalties in the third, the Zeebs still working with us but we couldn't help ourselves. Baker continued the verbal onslaught.

Three quick examples.

First. iJosh comes out of the zone hollering about being slashed and swearing away and the taller Ref turns and yells "are you talking to me?!?" at which point the ENTIRE bench says "No hes not talking to you." Classic.

Secondly. George goes into the corner with a forward. They lock arms and tumble down. The tall ref is close by. The two get up and head back up ice and George can't help himself and he starts screaming at the ref for not calling something. The Ref pulls the whistle out and calls George, who goes to the box with steam pouring out of his ears like Yosemite Sam with a hockey helmet.

Third. At one point Jeff was holding on to Valenti who was about to go down the bench to stuff something in Baker's mouth which apparently just wouldn't stop working... There were thoughts of Dave Wheeler and Jamie Campbell running in his head. Marc wasn't the only one trying to impress on Steve that his mouth wasn't helping the situation.

The game would close out just as ugly as it had gone. Seaver gets caught up with a guy who gives him a shot and he boils over and takes a punch at the prick and he gets tossed.
Just to close things out old pall 11 would score once more in the final minute to make it 8-4 and put the Zombies to bed.
A truly frustrating night.

Jeff would approach the shorter ref after the handshakes and officially protested the game and basically called "bullshit" on number 11. There was a multiple email conversation with the league office during the day on Friday but (however predictably) there was no action taken against the Predators. Accoring to the leauge all their guys played that season. Funny to imagine that club having a 6-6-3 record with that kind of talent.
Grr.
The only bright spot was the parking lot postgame. Valenti and Jeff brought a few cold ones. Lizzy joined us for a brew, and new fan Heather came along with iJosh for the night and joined the apres skate. Warm night and cold beer couldn't wash away the bitterness of this one though.
Lets hope that Team Beercan fares better.

Zombies Crushed in Season Finale

Cadavers (15) vs NESHL Leafs
Monday August 30th
Dedham 9:00pm

8-2 Loss



Wow. Really. Nothing on this at all. Sounded like the Leafs have put together a nice little squad in their innaugural season in D league.

Here are the vitals on the Zombie side of things.
Baker, un.

Baker from Campbell and Nelson

Pen: Campbell,Baker, Reynolds,Hammit

The blowout against the Leafs was just ugly. We were down 3 or 4-0 before the end of the first. They had a couple of supastahs #5 on offense and #12 on D who were just doing whatever they wanted out there and (particularly supastah #5) celebrating like they just won the cup after each goal. Not a fun game. Props to Campbell, Hammitt and the rest of the team for keeping our cool during the debacle. Nice work by Baker to pot a couple of goals in the third. Otherwise, well, I'm just glad there was beer after the game.

Wow. Thanks to Larry for the words. Sounds like a long night at the rink. We'll have to keep an eye on these Leafs as we will probably be seeing more of them in the playoffs.

Final Summah Daveur a tie

Cadavers (14) vs Schlitz (15)
Thursday August 26
Hingham 10:10pm


2-2 TIE


The final Daveur of the Summer 2010 season came around during prime vacation time so that's where the blogger was. Many of his teammates were out of town as well but there was still the core of the Schlidaveur Enterprise to pull together two squads and fight it out for Playoff Seeding rights. Larry would Gm the Cadavers and Mark Reynolds would manage the Suds. These guys worked out the following rosters and the game was on.

Red-Cads
Teddy - Goal
Larry
Hammitt
George
AK
Daley
Blake
Goody
Nelson
Greg J
Dan G
Roman
Baker

Gold- Suds
Brian – Goal
Reylolds
Capraro
Matvey
Pounds
DWH
John C
Matt E
Campbell
Eric
Jason
Parker

Again the Blogger was out of town so there is a limited tale to tell here. There haven't been any submissions from any of you pucksters so well have to piece this together as best we can.
Larry had this summary of the scoresheet to share.

Schlitz

DWH from Seaver

Capraro from Parker

Pen: Renolds, Campbell

Cads

Baker from Douville

Gregson from George

Pen: Greg James

Also not much description on the supposed 2 goals that the Red scored but weren't allowed. Anyone with some recollection here is welcome to comment.

Please.

Thats all we have for this one.

Zombies Battle Sparta... and Win!

Cadavers (13) vs Spartans
Thursday August 19
Hingham 10:10pm


5-1 Win



Team Zombie showed for a late evening match up with the Spartans and turned in an entertaining rarity these days... a win. The night featured a brand spankin new rookie goaltenter for the Zombies, a fan, a fight (nothing new here...), check that... Campbell fighting with high schoolers and yes you read that right... a victory.
Lets have the roster first off. Big ups from managment to our gal Lizzy for hooking us up with Teddy, a new goalie but experienced player who manned the pipes for us. This was good because the alternative was Nelson with the backup gear. No offense to Nelson, but we'd rather have him crashing the net than manning it.
So. Teddy in the pipes
D1: DHW, and iJosh
D2: Campbell and Jeff
OCenters: Larry and Jason and Steve (rotating)
Wings: Hammit, Howard, Elliot, Gregson, and Nelson

This group of twelve would do a nice job getting things underway and creating offense early. The Spartans had their usual crew (apparently some guys from the Wolverines crossover) and guys to keep an eye on. Number 20 (black helmet) needs watching and the Red did a good job setting the tone early and working the game.
Larry would be the first to break the ice. He would bury a play from Hammitt and Team Dead was up a goal just 3 minutes in. This was good! The Red were moving pretty well and doing a nice job counter attacking. Matt Elliot would score on a wild rebound and the Dead were up 2-0 at the 12 minute mark.
Interesting here that the Green got a few bodies added to their bench mid way through the period. They happened to have off colored jerseys, one with no faceguard and looking suspiciously fresh and young faced. Of course these two were awesome, and young and made for special minding whenever either of them stepped on the ice. The Green would get a goal at the six minute mark and it was 2-1. Thats how the first would end.
Things were growing a little contentious between the squads and there was no shortage of physicality here and there but nothing major... yet. Larry would strike again, this time with help from Dan With Hands Herbert and Team Zombie was up 3-1 now halfway through the game. But things were about to boil over.
As a by the way here... Teddy the guy who has only been playing goal for 6 months or so was playing well. Dude was athletic and made nice saves even if he was a little awkward around the net with the puck. He was asked to be there on a number of occasions and answered the call all night.
The two superstahs were ramping things up and Campbell, who started the game a little... amped up... was at the end of his rope. While towering over one of the guys (teal jersey) and working him off the puck... as Mike does so well... the kid had a bad idea. Launching himself up and under Mike's chin he stunned him with a head butt and the "horse left the corral" somewhere in Campbell's head. The kid didn't have much of a chance as Mike explained in detail that he took exception to the head butt. Mike was "explaining" with his gloves and arms pretty well, D partner Jeff was trying to hold off the other young dude (no mask) but couldn't keep them apart. Next thing you know Campbell is rolling on the ice with both the boys, and Jeff (now realizing the good fortune to be had here) is yelling to the ref that the other kid was 3rd man in and had to be kicked out. Two ringers for the price of Campbell immediatley seemed like a good swap.
Of course Jeff should have been paying more attention to Mike who was still "explaining" now with the original kid against the back boards and the Zeebs had thier whistles and hands in the air. Jeff soon corralled Mike and sent him to the locker room and the Zeebs tried to sort everything out.
Red ended up with a powerplay (Campbell for a double, a third and an eject) thanks to the 3rd man but before the puck was dropped they decided they needed to toss one more Red shirt... they just couldn't come up with a number. Now. The Blogger believes that they were probably looking for Jeff who was trying to separate Mike from the Green players but he never "got involved". Regardless someone had to go, the Zeebs told Jeff and he went to the Red bench. Now, Jeff offered to go unless anyone else wanted to... and Mike Hammitt (a little riled up hizownself) volunteered to go. This is a big teammate move by Mr. Hammitt and gives him an automatic game star. The Blogger doesn't think this really went the right way though in retrospect, Jeff should have gone as he was the only one it could have been the Zeebs were looking for. Regardless Hamm is a standup guy. Thanks.

Things basically settled down after that. A little pressure was off, the Green goalie had done enough screaming as time was going off the clock while the Zeebs worked things out that the Zeebs were not going to give Green any breaks. In fact they collected another two penalties in the third to only one for Red (iJosh with a hook).
Dan Gregson would put home a play from DWH and the Red would go up 4-1 with 5 minutes left in the game. Neslon would cap it off (from Elliot) with just over a minute to go and this game would be a rout as time ran out Red 5 Green 1. Good stuff.

Game Stars
3rd Star: Teddy Lock. Fill in goaltender. Nice work Teddy... we'll be seeing you again I'm sure.
2nd Star: Matty Elliot with a goal and an assist and a nice overall game.
1st Star: Larry for a nice pair of goals and his usual agressive play all night.

Honorable Mention: DWH for a pair of helpers and solid work throughout the game.
Honorable Mention2: Gregson for a nice rebound goal and celebration. I think his hands went up so quick it knocked the big man on his ass... in fact I'm sure of it. Doesn't matter. Nice goal Dan.

Thanks again to Gregson/DWH and Campbell for Apres Skate beers.
Thanks also to guest star Fan Heather who came along with iJosh. She said she wanted to see some action... we were glad to oblige. Thanks for watching... and for staying for the apres skate.

Magnificent 7 crunched by 138Autobody

Schlitz (14) vs Rte.138 Autobody
Thursday August 1
Canton 7:00


7-1 loss



The Golden Beercans, at least a few of them, showed up to play the C level Rte.138 Autobody club for an early evening matchup in Canton last night, and suffered a predictable beating at their hands. This was despite a great effort by the few that skated.

This game was not exactly popular. Despite everyone on the roster and sub list being asked we only had 10 confirmed until a late visit from the Verizon man to the Capraro house made us 9 at best. Its never easy to get through the 93 traffic for these early games and yesterday a car fire and full highway closure resulted in 128/93 north and south becoming more clogged than Rex Ryan’s colon. It was not good.

This is all besides the fact that the opponent was a club that we’ve only seen once before, for good reason, they’re a C level squad, and we took it in the teeth that night. This must be our turn in the barrel week at the NESHL as the Monday night out of division opponent laid a smackdown on us too. Pretty sure that this, as well as gametime lent to the popularity, or lack there of, for this one.

It was about twenty of 7 when Mike Campbell kicked open the locker room door with a “Hello bitches” only to find the glum faced Fosdick boys contemplating their fate. After a while iJosh and Nelson would show and Lizzy after them as 7 approached. We’d have 5 at least and it was becoming clear that we’d have to go there and face a C level club with no subs, or at least very few, if anyone else survived the traffic crunch to make it. Lizzy was late enough and we all stalled a bit so the refs ran the clock at the beginning of the game.

We lost about 7 minutes by the time we were ready to play and they dropped the puck around the 10 minute mark of the first. Thankfully the Zeebs seemed to neglect to give the Beercan’s a delay of game penalty. They probably figured it was punishment enough to skate the whole time with 5.

I’m here to tell you, friend reader of the blog, it wasn’t nearly as bad as it could have been. The Can’s skated with a reasonable tempo, and countered the immediate strength of Team Autobody. They still worked us, but we did a good job defensively breaking up wat they were trying to do. Mike and Jeff played D, and Nelson centered iJosh and Chris. We held them scoreless for about 4 minutes until they scored at the 6 minute mark. Lizzy had already made a handful of good saves but it was clear that it would only be so long that we could stem the tide until they would get a few breakthroughs.

The first period would grind on and the Gold really took to the defensive style and even counter punched a few times. There was no shortage of Beercan Pride as the period got late with no breaks. Roman was sighted coming in near the end of the period.

Team Autobody would get another with 30 seconds left in the period on a ridiculous bang bang that we were undressed on.
The Gold was glad for the break and Roman made it out for the start of the second.

The grind was on. Jeff would get called for a hook about three minutes into the period. Maybe his strategy was to get a rest, but it backfired as 138 would score about a minute later to cancel the penalty. It was now 3-0 and the Gold was trying just to keep too much blood from getting in the water. But, they held strong. They kept fighting them to a draw and with 5 minutes left in the period something awesome happened.

Nelson, as usual, would tirelessly heft the puck into the Black end and create a play. His shot led to a rebound which Chris would wrist into the net for a goal. The Gold was only down 3-1 against a far superior club, with only 1 sub, almost to the end of the second. Unfortunately it wasn’t close enough to the end of the second and Black would deposit two quick goals, 40 seconds apart in the closing minutes.

The Gold welcomed Neil Shah to the bench for the start of the third. He had shown late in the second, and Neil deserves extra credit for showing up, at 740 after a ridiculous ride down in traffic. The guys were glad to see him.

The Blogger has to admit some pride here. I can honestly tell you that I think the Schlitz played a step faster in that third period. At least a little faster than the first. Its amazing what two subs will give you. So they started the third down 5-1 but dug in hard.

Team Autobody would score twice in the opening 5 minutes but that’s all they would get. Even at 7-1, the blood clearly in the water and the sharks clearly feeding the Can’s didn’t despair and no one gave up. No one.

To cop Nelson’s phrase from the postgame… The Magnificent Seven did everything they could to preserve whatever dignity we could for those last 12 minutes and held the Black scoreless.

Lizzy needs some bigtime props here. The Girl was ON it. She made at least 10-12 good saves. She made more than a handful of impressive saves. The slapshots were like lasers and the play was often right on top of her and moving side to side. All I can say is that she played great. That’s not usually what you say after getting 7 hung on you but it’s the truth. Great work Liz.

So there you have it. A beating, but we didn’t ever fold. That’s just about all we’ve got, with the exception of our aches and pains this morning.

Props again to Neil for showing so late and helping the cause. Props to Mr. Campbell for the delicious Limeys in the postgame.
Lizzy… go to the doctor. Today

This one would end with all seven in the lot for a few mintues behind Campbell’s truck but it was short lived. Everyone was tired and eager to be on their way. Campbell pulled out leaving behind the dour faced Fosdick boys by themselves to commiserate with a last round in the lot. They too were soon gone not having enough energy to long discuss their sour fates.

Zombies clawed by Wolverines

Cadavers (12) vs Wolverines

Monday August 9th

Quincy 10:30pm

6-1 loss

The Blogger put out the call for this one as he could not attend.... and Dan Gregson came through with a very nice Guest Blog contribuition.

Here's Dan:

The D lines were Elliott and DWH

Campbell and Bauer

First line was Jason, Neil and John C.

Second line was Hammett Matvey and Scott

I floated through the lines.

Brian kept us in it the first period and they only scored 1 or 2.The refs called a few crease violations as they were crashing the net and staying there. I recall John talking about being penalty free in the locker room, maybe the refs heard that one so they called him for something. Hammitt got a double minor for some guy fancy skating around him and him not liking that. Making it a 5 on 3.

The second period is when I got a garbage goal from off the boards on a DWH shot.Then it was all downhill form there. They had some guys who could skate and does not reflect their standings on the leader board. The end was somewhere around 6 to 1.The best part was Dr. pounds having some Corona and Sam light in a cooler with some freshly cut limes and a bottle opener.And after this game I hate Michigan even more.

Word to that Gregson.... I hate Michigan too...

Hey, look who stopped by for a word. It's Mike Campbell:

Took a beating. Brian played brilliantly, but couldn’t stop everything we let fly at him. We lost 6-1, although probably should’ve had at least two more.
These guys were good, fast, and pretty civilized, although there was a little chippiness by #22. Good effort, just outplayed by a better team.

Thanks to the good Dr. Pounds, though, we won the fourth period with icy cold Corona’s AND cut limes. A nice late night treat in the swamps of Quincy.

Right on Mr. Campbell. Thanks for the words.

Not a great night for the boys... hopefully we can fare better later in the week.

Suds drop the Minus!

Schlitz (13) vs D Minus
Thursday July 29th
Hingham 10:10pm

2-1 Win

Another beautiful night for steamy summer hockey on the south shore and our heroes in Gold faced off against the more and more plucky D-Minus club that we've had some good games against this season. Last night was true to form and the game was even or a one goal affair for most of the way.

The heat hasn't done the ice in Hingham any favors and for a long time it was wet and soft in lots of places which had a big effect on the smoothness of the game for a while.

Here is your melty/sweaty humid Beercan Roster

Brian "long arm of the law" Carey in Net

D1: Reynolds, Parker

D2: Jeff, iJosh

O1: Baker, Chris, Jay Seaver

O2: Roman, Matvey, John Carey

O3: Nelson, Ken/Mitch, and Howard

The game was close. Brian made some nice stops but only saw occasional action as the Beercans would take the game right to the Minus and would do well moving the puck and getting chances. The Minus keeper played VERY well and saw lots of shots. He gobbled up everything near him and the Can's couldn't seem to get anything consistent going. The Minus players did a good job getting after it all night and contested everything.

The first would go scoreless and without penalties.

The second would go a long time before the lamp was lit and the ice "broken" as far as scoring. Mark Reynolds would make a nice play at the point and would drive a shot, two feet off the ice toward the net. Jay Seaver would pivot, and deflect the shot, in mid air into the net for the 1-0 lead. Nice work there by both guys. The second would end 1-0.

The third period would see a bit more action as contests for the puck all over the ice became... more contentious shall we say. Baker would go on a match for a rough early in the period. You could see it coming with Steve, he has been prone to boiling over lately when receiving "attention" from the opponents. The teams would skate 5-5. Then later in the period Mark Reynolds would go, also on a match where lots of pleasantries were exchanged. Just helpful hints and encouragement I imagine passing between sportsmen... or not.

Sometime before the Reynolds penalty, but with less than 10 minutes remaining the Beercans would strike again. This time John Cary would pick up a Roman rebound and bury it to give the Gold the 2-0 lead. Good work by Roman working the zone, and great finish by John who has been a nice little addition to our squad this summer.

The Minus weren't quitters and the two goal lead didn't slow them down. With just under 2 minutes to play the Gold would be back on their heels and scrambling in our own end and eventually they would poke one under Brian who had been down, up, and squirming around trying to get the puck... no one in Gold could get it either and the game was within a goal. They would pull their keeper but the Mighty Beercans would survive the last minute and a half and take home a very nice, hard fought 2-1 win... just like mother used to make.

Good stuff.

Game Stars: (two for one theme this week)

3rd Star: Nominated in the locker room by Brian... Ken/Mitch and Howard for getting after it and being in position all night. True dat. Props to the third line wings for making it happen all night.

2nd Star: I'm going with Mark Reynolds and Roman Kurin both with assists and good work all night on both ends of the ice.

1st Star: Goal scorers Jay Seaver, and John Carey. Without their finish... we'd be finished. Good work guys.

4th period awards....

Howard and Chris for bringing Bud Lite... and Bud Lite. Always nice to down a cold one... or two in the postgame lot in Hingham. Warm, moonlit night... Stones on the radio... too bad the blogger had to work today...

Zombies blow lead to Sputniks

Cadavers (11) vs Sitniks
Monday July 26th
Milton Academy 8:10pm

5-4 loss

Once again the Blogger was not in attendance for this tilt against our Russian friends. Therefore we will get a smattering of Guest blog action here to describe how the evening went. First off we have a very short and sweet (and stats oriented) recap by Larry Bell:

Come form behind loss as we gave up 2-0 and 4-2 leads to lose 5-4
1st: Seaver (unassisted) Pen: Baker-roughing, Baker-Fighting, ejected
2nd: DWH from Daley. Pen: Bell, tripping
3rd: Bell from Seaver, Seaver (unassisted)

Alright. Thanks Larry. Next we have a few more words from the always helpful Mark Reynolds on how things went:

"I have nothing but bad memories of Mon. eve. Overall a disjointed effort.
During Baker’s brawl, he did land 7 or 8 unanswered shots to the opponent’s cage. He was smart enough to leave his hockey gloves on this time (unlike his bout with Hammit).

Jay continues to be a stud player demonstrating some nifty puck handling and skating. Larry played a great game as well. His back-checking shut down some Ruskie plays.

In the end, the Ruskies had two players that controlled the pace of play when they were on the ice. We just couldn’t stop them.

Not much else to it." Thanks very much Mark. Good stuff.

And now we have a rarity in Guestblog action. Here, from the Opponent's perspective is Mr. Roman Kurin who skated with the Sputniks and had these words to contribute.

"To start the game the Schiltz had a good group of 12 skaters with Lizzy between the pipes. Sitniks only had 8 to start but then later 2 more people joined, so we had 10. Good back and forth action which was interrupted by a small fight between Steve and one of our D-men. The Refs got involved really quickly and that didn't result in ejections, just minor penalties. Unfortunately 5 min later there was another fight involving Steve and another D-man from our team which did result in ejections. Can't blame the refs, both guys were rolling on the ice, have to say it was entertaining. In any case that left 9 people for Sitniks for most of the game.

Lizzy made some amazing saves for the rest of the game, there were a few loud pings off the posts and crossbar by Sitniks. Jason scored a beauty of a goal, i had a front row sit for that one, he beat me behind the net, made a spin-o-rama and somehow managed to stuff the puck between the post and a goalie while skating from behind the net. pretty good stuff.

Second goal scored by DWH i think on the solo effort when he took the puck on the Sitnik's blue line and made a good wrist shot from faceoff circles. 2-0 after the first period. In the second Sitniks came back to tie it at 2-2. One was a solo effort by one of our guys and a good shot, the other one was a good passing game which was finished by "nifty #5".

In the third schlitz would score 2 more goals, one by Larry off the faceoff win i think and the other one was off the scramble in front of the net, not sure who got that one. Sitniks would come back again to tie it at 4-4 and then score the last goal on a breakaway 2 min before the time expired. All in all a good competitive game. Overheard during the game:"Way to be a hero!" to our guy who scored the last goal by Mark Reynolds"You got lucky!" - by Eric during hand shakes. Maybe true :)"

Great stuff Roman. Thanks very much for your contribution. The Blogger is in debt to everyone who sends in a few words and helps keep this space alive and ticking...

Suds take the Lobsters!

Schlitz (12) vs Lobsters
Wednesday July 21st
Quincy 8:10pm

5-3 Win

Another beauty of a summer night for hockey at our "home" rink in Quincy. Something nice about coming here in the summer, good memories in the building... and the parking lot.

The Beercans faced off against Team Shelfish on Wednesday night and it turned out to be a good competitive division game.

Here's the Gold Roster

Lizzy in Net

D1: DWH, Bauer

D2: Baker, J.Fosdick

O1: Larry, Seaver, Jasse

O2: J.Carey, Scott, Chris

O3: Nelson, iJosh, Gregson

The Lobsters had the usual suspects. They have a few players to watch but the young lady wearing #18 with Weiss on the back deserved special attention all night. She has wheels as many of us know and the Gold had to keep a close eye on her whenever she was near the puck.

The grumbling in the locker room about us not taking any opponent lightly must have paid off becuase the Gold came out with a stong effort and took the game right to the Lobsters.

Eric Bauer would break the ice with a nice spin-o-rama shot from about 15 feet. He called it a weak backhand but hey it went in the net so it goes down as a beauty of a spin-o-rama and a 1-0 lead for the Gold. Credit the good Doctor Jasse with the assist. Very nice to see the Jassman back on the ice after he was on the DL with the ever uncomfortable groin injury. Glad you're back Doc.

The Red would answer just before the end of the first with a good goal and the period would end 1-1.

Red would continue to take the momentum and despite lots of shots by Gold the Red would get the next one about 5 minutes into the second and would take a 2-1 lead.

Gold would not back down and the guys played great making sure we kept the energy up. Lizzy played great in net, the last goal she had been kind of hung out to dry and couldn't be helped.

The Gold got going and Chris Fosdick and John Carey did some very nice back and forth work that resulted in a terrific goal by John. Chris with the assist and some all around good work with the puck for the rangey forward. He pushed the play all night.

Striking again and taking the lead back, the Gold continued to play well. This time Nelson would put the finnish on a Steve Baker bid and the Beercans held a 3-2 a little more than halfway through the period. The second would end with that score.

The third saw another goal by the Lobsters to tie the game but afater that it was all Gold. Dan "DWH" Herbert would land a beauty of a shot through traffic that would beat the goalie low. Credit John Carey on the assist. Not long after Larry would get his as the Gold held the play in the Red end for a nice series. Credit Bauer and DWH with the assists on Larrys goal to make it 5-3.

The third would showcase some excellent work by Lizzy in the pipes and time and again she smothered Red chances and made a bunch of stops on odd man rushes. The Red really deserve credit for playing hard to the end as they continued to get good chances.

Steve Baker seemed to relish his job of "shadowing" number 18 and he did excellent work containing the speedy forward. She would have her chances including a breakaway that she tried an extra dipsy-doodle that Lizzy snuffed out. Steve finnally got under her skin as she held his stick long after they separated near the blue line then the two were tangled behind the net and Steve would go for a slashing call. It was kinda fun to watch.

Good stuff all the way around. The game would end 5-3 good guys (and girl) and we headed to the parking lot.

Big ups to Bauer and Gregson and Jasse for bringing postgame beverages. It was another very nice night by the swamp under the pale streetlights.

Game Stars

3rd Star: Steve Baker for the Shadow job on #18 and good play all night

2nd Star: Lizzy for a terrific night between the pipes. Great work Liz!

1st Star: A little un orthodox but hey... We've got four guys for the game star.

DWH, John Carey, Bauer and Bell. Each one with a goal and an assist. Nice work boys.

Suds downed by BC f*ckwads

Cadavers (10) vs The Hal Gills
Sunday July 18th
Quincy 7:50pm


10-1 Loss

Woah. The blogger got a few word of mouth reports form this Sunday night debacle in the Q. Tough night for a game, Sunday, during the summertime when we all have so many things going on, it was a bit thin stringing together a roster for this one... and it showed.
Team Zombie would report and start the game with 8 hearty skaters. There would be a total of 10 but not until later in the first. Here are the ten Zombies
Brian in Net
Chris, Hammitt, Daley, Seaver, Baker, John Carey, Scott Pounds, AK Douville, and Neil Shah, aand one more that the blogger can't recall... sorry.

The opponent for the night was the "Hal Gills" which we figured out is short for "BC fuckwad ringer cherry picking bastards". We'd never seen this group before which is appropriate given that they had a handful of players that were clearly not D League talent. These young pukes showed up with the BC gear, bags and equipment and all and had no problem showing off their obvious talent. They also had some D talent, after all they had 3 full lines at least on the bench. You may have a feeling that this didn't go well, friend reader of the blog, and you'd be right.

It took these guys all of about 2-3 minuets to be up 4-0 and Brian had pretty much no shot at all of those chances. According to Steve Baker, they were dipsy-doodling, behind the back spinnoramma type breakaway plays, that made his blood boil early. It was a test of restraint for Mr. Baker to not lay out any of these guys, apparently, and given that Mr. Hammit was on the roster its amazing there weren't more penalties for the Dead in Red. Nice work keeping cool boys.
The game was out of hand early. The BCringerpukes kept cherry picking the rest of the way, not concerned that they were up by 6, 7, 8, or 9 goals. Cool guys.
The Red did show Zombie Pride as they held the "Gills" (I preffer BCringerPukes) to only 1 goal in the third and only 2 in the second. Good work by everyone keeping your head with it.
Jason Seaver scored the one goal for Team Zombie. That would be the only bright spot for the night.

Hammit had a slash pen. then matching at end when a dude he rubbed up against took exception to the contact and threw a hissy. Nevermind that Hamm could have annihilated the guy, and didn't, and he did a nice job staying cool.
Daley took one late too... which doesn't happen often.

Thats all from here... hopefully we won't be seeing this group again anytime down the road.

Zombies survive the Shock!

Cadavers (9)vs Shock

Monday July 12th
Canton 9:20pm

6-5 Win

Here's Guest Blogger Larry Bell with a quick game story from the nightcap game from Monday night. Some guys did try to skate both and left the locker game after game 1 a Cadaver loss to the XXX and drove over to lend a hand.
Here's Larry:

The CADs showed up with a weel-stocked roster of 7 skaters at the beginning of the game: Capt George, Parker, Elliot, Hammitt, Seaver, LB and George's friend Greg. We received a bit of good news in the locker room that the goalie didn't have his skates because his mom forgot to pack them. Luckily? Greg brought an extra pair of size 9 skates for the goalie to put on his size 12 feet.

While he was busy stretching out Greg's skates, the Shock goalie was late coming out onto the ice which resulted in a delay of game penalty. The Dead in Red took advantage of the man advantage. I carried the puck over the blue line on the right wing and dropped a pass for Seaver trailing. Seaver's shot lead to a bobbling rebound that Hammitt was able to corral and deposit into the net. 1-0 Cads.

Later in the first, after getting hemmed into our defensive zone for a shift, Parker sent the puck 3/4 the length of the ice. Hammitt beat the goalie to the puck and fired it into the empty net. 2-0 Cads, end of the first.

In the second period we received some reinforcements as DWH, Daley, Bauer and Gregson arrived from the 8:00 game in Quincy. With our added bench depth we quickly coughed up the lead. 3-2 Shock end of the second.

Then DWH would take a feed from Bauer and tie the game at 3. Seaver then found Greg on the left wing and he buried the go-ahead goal for a 4-3 win. Great goaltending by Matt at the end of the 3rd with the Shock skating 6-5 preserved the win.

Nice stuff Larry. The Blogger greatly appreciates your contribution to help keep this space alive...

Suds fall to Leafs Monday 7/12

Schlitz (11) vs NESHL Leafs
Monday July 12th
Quincy 7:50pm


4-3 loss


First game of monday night double header this game then later in canton the Zombies would take on the Shock. Another early evening game at our Quincy "home" rink ... come to think of it this summer has held quite a few good game times for our teams... anyone who remembers regular dates at U-Ass @ 10:30pm should be thankfull... just sayin'...

Anyway this team definilty has a sneaky name. In the past teams that have NESHL in the title are usually Clinic level teams or a hodge-podge of players thrown together. Now this Leafs club had some hodge, even some podge, but they also had some talent. Primarily though... they were not an instructional team. They had easily 2 guys with good moves, and despite their age, ahem... they moved pretty well and were enough to hold all of us off at times.

Here is the roster...

Lizzy in Net

D1: DWH, Bauer

D2: Baker, Jeff

Centers: Daley, Roman

W1: Chris, Pete

W2: AK Douville, John Carey
W3: Gregson and Scott

Here is a breakdown of the scoring by period.

1, 1 after 1. our goal by Daley from Jeff- great rebound and finish from Daley.

2,2 after 2. our goal by Capraro from Daley- More great hard work from both guys.
3,3 during 3rd goal on solo rush from DWH nice dropping shot inside line
then they closed it out on us with the last goal in 3rd.

No penalties to report.

They just had a nice comeback in the third led by their best player. At one point this guy had half the beercans chasing him around the zone... and he wasn't all that fast. Too bad. Definitly a game we coulda shoulda woulda had... but ah... didn't.

Lets get 'em next time boys. Until then... enjoy these scantly clad ladies that have barley anything to do with the Maple Leafs...

Suds down Goats! Last minute Win!

Schlitz (10) vs Scapegoats
Thursday July 8th
Quincy 7:50pm

3-2 Win!

Another terrific night for summer hockey in Quincy. There was a positive vibe in the air as the Suds gathered for an early evening matchup with the Scapegoats. The Good Doctor Jasse even made an appearance. He stood on the bench and took some pics. Nice to have him with the team even though he was still on the DL.
Here is the breakdown of the Golden Beercan Roster.
CEO in Net
Jeff, Bauer
DWH, Roman
Ken/Mitch
iJosh
Chris
Scott
Matt Elliot
Gregson
Daley
John Carey

The 'Goats had the usual suspects but no real stand outs or half shield wonders. The Beercans took the game right to them and did a good job moving the puck and passing. This paid off right away when iJosh would take a pass from Gregson and Jeff and he would rifle a shot that was a thing of epic beauty just over two minutes into the first.
Clearly my man was feeling it. He had a fan in the stands and picked the right night to score his best looking goal in a long time. At least that the Blogger can recall...
The game looked like the Beercans would be able to do what they wanted and there were long stretches of sustained pressure by Gold and some really nice passing. Regardless the 'Goats would get one with about 7 min left in first and the first would end 1-1.
The Second frame was all grind it out but not much scoreing as the Gold would work some nice moves but clearly was having a problem finishing their opportunities. To top it off on a breakdown and rush the other way the Gold would give one up about 6 minutes into the period.

The Gold wasn't going anywhere and to the Roster's credit everyone brought it and the offense and puck possession kept on coming.

With less than 5 left in the period Mike Daley would find the net after some nice work in the zone. He took a pass from iJosh who took it from Jeff at the point. Good work all the way around grinding out the chance by the forwards. Daley was a beast all night working the puck in the zone. I have to say there were stretches where we were putting 3 and 4 or more passes together on a shift. A thing of beauty. After 2, 2-2.

The Third was all the grind of the second, with plenty more wheezing, from both clubs. Nice saves at both ends kept the game scoreless. The CEO did a masterful job stopping the play any time the Blue got something going. Good stuff all the way around.

Which brings us to less than 2 minutes to play. Daley's line on the ice and the Gold applying nice pressure on the 'goats as it came down to the wire. Chris Fosdick would work a pass to Eric Bauer who would make a play at the point and get it low to Daley who was working the pocket low off to the goalies right. He shook two defenders and walked right to the side of the net and banged home the game winner with authority and sent the Gold home happy with a 3-2 win.

Just great work by Daley to make it happen when we needed it. All the guys on the ice did a great job getting chances as the time ran out.

Game Stars.
3rd: iJosh for a crowd pleasing score... his very first of the night.

2nd:Matty CEO Kilroy for making the stops all night and lookin' good.

1st: Magic Mike Daley for a pair of goals and a stylish game winner in the closing minutes. Doesn't get much better than that.

Actually... it did.
Awaiting us in the parking lot was the good Doctor himself, standing by his portable camping grill with a cooler of beer at his feet. Burgers and dogs for the victors who relished the moment in the heat of the evening and discussed our victory... and the absence of #21 from the postgame... for some time.

So a big 4th period Game Star for Jassman. Thanks very much for the pics, the burgers and the beers!