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.