Cadavers (7) vs Rangers Friday 6/24
Hingham A 9:10
2-1 loss
The Dead in Red faced the South of Boston League Rangers (looking a whole lot like the CH Terriers) in Hingham on Friday night for what turned out to be a grinding tough skate and competitive but disappointing game.
The Cads featured a pair of call ups from the secondary roster given that half the roster was at a wedding and the rest apparently have a life... unlike the 10 of us that showed up on Friday night at the Hingham rink. To add to the reunion feel Lizzy DeFlurin was handling the score keeping duties. Nice to see her, and Mark Reynolds and Teddy Locke who both played D and provided a nice boost.
Scott pounds seemed to have left the house without his pants… and without comment as to weather that is regular behavior for the good Doc on a Friday night... it didn’t work so well for us as he couldn’t go. We missed him but went with the 9 we had.
Heres’ your breakdown.
Jon Cole in Net
D: Teddy, Mark and Jeff
O1: Baker, Daley, Matvey
O2: Nelson, Jasse and Sully
The “Rangers” looked a lot like members of the Ch Terriers and Tigers as there were several familiar faces. They featured a few half shields with wheels, some big D, a speedy and very pesky female forward and a big guy with soft hands that cherry picked half the night.
They were clearly experienced, steady and relentless. We had our hands more than full, even with the addition of Teddy on the blue line. He did a sold job all night covering a ton of ground and steadying the play when needed in our end.
Jon Cole needs a mention here too. He played very well, making bunches of great stops on their tricky shooters.
The play was even but daunting for most of the first. The Rangers would finally crack the ice just under the 5 remaining. The big guy who was often cheating up behind our D finally got a pass and Jeff was no where close enough to make a play on him as he walked in solo and buried a wicked shot by Jon.
The killer was that they would score again with only 30 seconds in the period after a long scramble in our own end. That was a big shot to the hopes for the Red.
The Second played as a total grind. Trying to control their chances and creating a few of our own. The forwards pushed the puck well at times, the line of Sully, Nelson and Jasse was doing hard work all over and making nice passes but nothing was quite coming together for any of them.The Baker, Daley Matvey likewise created some nice chances but nothing came together. Daley did his usual ton of skating and had a solid night trying to make things happen. Steve deserves some credit for the way he played as the frustration and tension mounted in the final period. It went 5 minutes into the 3rd 2-0 badguys and we were really pressing to get something. Steve took some abuse in front of the net and the guy yapped at him after the play. Steve not only kept his cool, (and his hands off the guy), but then on the restart of play he drew a penalty from the guy, taking a trip and gaining the Red the only power play of the night.
The Red would not have a great PP however and didn’t score.
Baker would then would pick up a puck in the offensive zone and doing the “spinarama” shot backhand through traffic and scored to get the Red on the board. (unassisted).
Unfortunately that would be the only highlight of the night other than Jon’s occasional stellar work to keep us within shouting distance of the game.
A tough, but hard fought 2-1 loss for a Friday night treat. This would complete the sweep fo the week after we lost the night before in Dedham to the Spartans.
So much for the undefeated dream season… 5-2.
4th period honors for Jasse, Mark, Daley and Jeff who enjoyed the ambiance of the Hingham parking lot for the rest of the evening. Not bad for a Friday night and warm enough.
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