Mid-Summer Stats!

Team,
Check it out. With the reduced workload of only one squad to keep track of the Schlidaveur International Statistics Division seems to be up and running again.

So below you will see a summary of the numbahs so far this summer.
We are roughly halfway in now that we have 8 games played.
I believe you can click on the image to make it more reader friendly.

Zombies rocked by Blues

Cadavers (8) vs Blues
Tuesday 6/28
BU 7:00pm

6-0 Loss


Ouch. This one sounded like it stung a bit. Early reports were grim... and don't look to be getting any better. So without further ado... here is a nice handfull of Guest Bloggers to tell us all about how the deal went down last night on Babcock street.

First tale out of the gate was grim. Here's Larry with a few words:
We got smoked 5 or 6-0.
We left Jon out to dry on several breakaways, 2-on-0's and other odd-man rushes and nice easy rebound goals in the slot. Worst of all, they only had 7 skaters to our 13 and we couldn't wear them down.
I skated with the russians, sully-elliot-gregson, baker-pounds-mitch.

Thanks very much Larry. Here is Eric Bauer with a short summary:

Wasn't pretty. 6 nothing. Their best skater floated around our blue line looking for outlet passes the whole night. We started to take a bit of our aggression out on him.

Daley brought his family and we got a rousing rendition of how the B's won the cup (apparently game 7 was last night).

Small showing for the 4th period, but Bell, Moorachian, Gregson and Bauer finished strong.

Thanks Eric. At least we made some showing in the fourth...

Here is another good summary from Mitch Goldenberg who added some more definition to last nights beat down:

We got crushed, something like 6-0 (I lost count). We started out with 12 guys (later rounded out to an even 13) vs their 6 (which later became 7) and I noted to Scott that we'd lost to shorter benches before. Seconds later, they scored on the first shift of the game, and then added another pretty quickly after that. 1st period ended down 3-0. We didn't test their goalie much, and they constantly had one or two guys cherry picking which led to way too many odd-man rushes. The game got a little chippy towards the end, with the highlight (for me) being Baker's arguing a penalty call because it was "a clean hit" (it was). The ref asked if he was aware that it was a non-checking league. One of those games...

-Mitch

I asked him if he knew how many penalties we got and he responded:
Mostly matching minors. I (personally) think the refs did a decent job to keep the game from getting ugly. We were shorthanded a couple of times, and as usual played some of our best hockey of the night while down a man.
We had some fans in the stands (so there MIGHT be a picture or two) but we were down so quickly that they really didn't have much of a game to cheer for/want to remember.

Annnnnd Here is Capt. George with a nice thorough breakdown of the action:

We lost: 6-0 shellacking.

Within the first few minutes we were down 2-0, and before the end of the 1st we were down 3-0. The Blues only had 7 skaters. But, apparently it was their best 7, and what I would call representative of a typical D league team. If they got behind our D, it was almost an automatic goal. And they got behind us an aweful lot, and had plenty of odd man rushes.

We weren't much of a threat in the offensive zone. So, that allowed their speedy snipers to cherry pick all night. We gave them no reason to help in their own defensive zone. I think it was a moral victory to hold the Blues to one goal in 2nd period. But, it just doesn't matter when you're shut out. The only way for us to get on the score sheet was to get

penalties: 7 minor penalties. I'm sure that didn't help our anemic offensive showing. You would think with a full bench of 13 skaters we would have been able to tire them out after a while. It didn't look like the slowed down at all.

Those of us that stuck around for the 4th period, closing up shop around 10:00 PM, declared victory and dubbed ourselves the co-1st stars of the game: Larry, Eric, Gregson, George. 2nd star to Mattie E. for participating in the 4th, but leaving early on, not going the distance.

Yeeesh. Thanks for the excellent breakdown George. Too bad about that game though...
A quick look at the scoresheet that George submitted shows the following penalties:

Larry and Sully both for holds in the first.
Baker for a cross-check in the second.
Bauer and Matvey for Roughs, Baker for a check and George for a trip in the 3rd.

At least we lit up the scoresheet... not in a good way... but we'll take what we can get.
No game next week due to scheduling.
We next play:
Thursday 7/14 HinghamC 10:30pm vs Spartans

Have a nice 4th of July weekend.