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...