Sunday Monsoondavuer!

Schlitz vs Cadavers

Sunday March 14th

Dedham 6:30pm

6-6 Tie

The season ending playoff seeding, monsoon season, Suday- daveur turned out to be an epic

daveur indeed, but ultimately left nothing more decided after the game than was before it. By that the blogger means... we tied. On a night when pucks were flying into the net at an alarming rate, ie... 6 total goals scored in the first 9 minutes of play, the combined schlidaveurs left with no concrete decision on which team would play as which for the upcoming playoff rounds.

Not to worry now... Managment will work something out, and will take suggestions from all participating 'daveurs on how the issue should be resolved.

First off Neil Shah (Cads) and George Moorachian (Suds) did a great job picking squads for this game. The sides were pretty even and it really was a terrific game up and down the ice all night. There was even a pretty good attendance factor given that it was a Sunday evening, and half the state was underwater at that point. Here's what the sides looked like.

Cadavers

Lizzy in net

D1: Valenti and Daley

D2: Reynolds and Baker?

O1: Neil, Nelson and AK

O2: Elliott, iJosh, Chuck and John Carey

Schlitz

Brian Carey in Net

D1: George and Hammitt

D2: DWH and Jeff

O1: Larry, Roman and Chris

O2: Gregson, KenMitch, Goody and Dr.Pounds

The game would open with the Dead in Red opening up like a house on fire. Led by Captain Neil and the Energizerbunnylike Nelson the Cads would capitalize on the early momentum and would take the game right to the Gold (and really down their throats).
First strike would go to Nelson from Neil. I think there was some good passing, and certainly some hard work that got that one done. This was followed up by the worst case scenario for Gold Goalie Brian Carey as son John would put in the second goal, this one from Steve Baker.

This would finally be counter by the Gold when Jeff Fosdick would keep the puck at the left point and fire a low shot that Lizzy got in front of, but then it dribbled under her pads and over the line to put the Suds on the board. Team Zombie was not slowed down much when only a shift or so after that Baker would assist AK on a nice 2 on 1 that would see the back of the net and put the Red back up by two, the score now 3-1.

It was punch counterpunch then as defensive star Dan "DWH" Herbert would push the play into the offensive zone, then taking the pass back from Roman would launch a wicked wrister that would give the Gold their second tally of the night. The momentum seemed to shift as the Gold would light the lamp again, this time a nice bang bang play that went from George to Larry to the back of the net. The game was tied 3-3 and we were only at the 8 minute mark of the first frame. Whew! The teams kind of settled in and there was no further scoring in the period.

The punch counterpunch theme would continue in the second, this time with the Gold taking the lead. The Gold line of Roman, Larry and Chris was really nifty at times. It showed on the next goal that went around the zone once quickly then from Larry behind the net to Roman, totally alone out front to the back of the net for the lead. I think... that the Gold would score again before too long when Lary and Roman would assist DWH who had another great shot that Lizzy didn't have much hope on. The Gold had a two goal lead and a pretty good feeling at that point. At some time Roman would take a hook call and there was no blood on the power play. The Red weren't down for long and would eventually answer with a goal from iJosh, assisted again by Baker, and then Steve would get one of his own not much after, this one assisted by Mike Daley who had a good night patrolling the blue line for the Zombies. The game was tied again, getting late in the period.

Then KenMitch Goldenberg would pop in a rebound from Roman and the Gold would take the lead again, now 6-5 just before the end of the period. 11 goals so far and the third looked like it might get even crazier... who knew if the game would end 9 to 8 or something like that at the rate we were going. It was still anyone's game.

The third, instead of being a scorefest was the opposite. The play got tight, and fairly well contested, each puck battled for at the line and in the corners, but there wasn't any scoring. That is there wasn't any scoring until less than 2 minutes left and the Red stacked a line and really put the pressure on the Gold.

It went like this. Steve Baker would make a nice shot after a scramble around the zone and a pile up in front. The ref blew the whistle as he lost sight of it. The puck goes in the net and Red starts celebrating. But the ref closest to the bench is skating in with his arms out (no goal). There is a huddle by the net, and then the other ref brings the teams up ice an says the goal was good. What? There must have been some good convincing going on because just about everyone was very surprised. The Refs, typically, offered no reasonable explanation and seemed pretty disinterested in general. As time wound down there was an intentional offsides, on Red and then instead of taking the faceoff down to the other end, with 3 seconds on the clock the Zebra tells the scorekeeper to run it off. What? Seriously. Jeff appealed and he said "no one's going to score from there in 3 seconds" pointing to the blueline dot. I appealed that it should be all the way down... but again, not interested. What crap. So bored they cant even give us the last 3 seconds on the clock. Kenny and Scott M were the fraud zebras in question. A couple of ham and eggers if you ask the blogger.

But enough of that. The game ends 6-6. Another tie for the season ending daveur. We'll have to work something out. Send your suggestions via email to management.

Game Stars

3rd Star: Larry for a goal and two assists and some great offensive work.

2nd Star: Linemate Roman Kurin for a goal and three assists and a big 4 point night.

1st Star: Has to go to Steve Baker for the Red. He had 2 goals and 3 assists for a whopper of a 5 point night. Good work Steve.

Honorable Mention to DWH for a pair of really nice goals.

Fourth period kudos to Chris Fosdick for bringing beer and to DWH, Matt Elliott, Mark Reynolds, Dan Gregson, and Jeff for standing in the rain (for about 5-10minutes) and drinking them. No shutout in the fourth, even on this rainy night.