Cads Roll to 5 and Oh!

Cadavers (5) vs CH Terriers
Thursday June 16
Canton 7:00pm

9-1 win


The Dead in Red continued their summer season roll out with a strong win over the undermanned CH Terriers in Canton last night. The Terriers had 6 and the Cadavers brought double that and a good effort that turned the game into a rout in the early going.
Here is your Zombie lineup.
Chris “beat the spam filter” Colman in Net
D1: George, Bauer
D2: Daley, Jeff
Centers: Larry, Steve, later on Nelson
Wings: Greggy, Sully, Matvey, Roman, and Scott

The game would start shaky despite the obvious advantage of numbers the Cads had. The first fifteen seconds saw the Terriers win the opening face off, proceed untouched into the zone and then a pass and a shot later would go up 1-0. The clock said 16:46. What?

That would be the entire night’s highlights for the Little Dogs. The Dead in Red would take the play right back to them and the puck would literally stay in the White end for the next several shifts.

It wasn’t’ until just under 12 minutes that the Zombies would tie it up. Larry, working with the Russian connection Roman and Matvey (both assisted) would tie the game after hard work in front.

Again the play would stay in the offensive zone and at 7:42 Greggy would pick up a long rebound from some nice work that Sully and Larry (both assisted) were doing down low slamming the puck past the diving and desperate keeper and the Cads would have their first lead of the night. Greggy pointed out that this would indeed stand up as the game winner…

The roll was just getting going as only two minutes later the puck would go from Scott to Nelson to Bauer who would finish nicely and it was now 3-1.

Bauer was clearly feeling it and just another 2 minutes later he would feed Baker who would unleash one into the twine and the rout was in full effect.

Before the close of the period Mike “wheels” Daley would press the play down low and as the rebound squeeked out to the short side Sully would roof a back hander that found the top of the net, “top shelf, where Momma keeps the Peanut butter” and it was 5-1 in the closing seconds.

Red would clearly dial it back a notch or two as the Terriers were clearly out of gas and hope and, similar to the team in Vancouver, just hoping the whole thing would hurry up and get overwith.
It was less than 8 minutes left when the puck would come out to the point on an errant clear, Jeff would pick it up and launch a slapper that beat the keeper low in the corner as he slid across. No celebration… but it did feel good.
A mere minute and a half later Roman would thread a beauty of a pass… wait did I just write that?... yes.. Roman threaded a beauty to Baker on the doorstep and it was now 7-1. Mike Daley would get his on a nice rush from our zone through the combined rosters on the ice and while showing pass to the streaking forward instead buried a sick shot between the keeper and post for a cozy 7 goal lead.

The only other thing of note in this period was Larry putting Roman deliberately off sides as he waited, waited, and then waited some more for the Russian to pass the puck up to him. Instead Roman weaved in and out and never really looked at Larry waiting on the blue line, so Larry just skated in as Roman continued to dance down the line then looked up surprised when the ref blew the play offside. The bench roared in laughter.

Oh yes… the other thing was George with a spat in front of our keeper that landed him in the box for roughing. He and that particular guy were exchanging pleasantries all night. Never let it be said that George lets up his intensity… 7 goal lead be dammed…

Larry would then decide to switch shirts and would skate the third period with white, but to little effect.

Baker would get one more, again from Daley and that’s how this one would end 9-1. The period ticked away and the Terriers would get a handful of decent chances that Chris Colman would snuff out.

That was it, and the Zombies would find themselves riding a 5-0 season opening streak that must be unprecedented in franchise history. Records is checking on that… just don’t hold your breath for an answer.

Game Stars

3^rd Star: Eric “I’ve got plenty of beer” Bauer. A nice goal and assist on the night and better yet a strong sponsorship of the 4^th period. Thanks Eric.

2^nd Star: Steve “didn’t even need to say anything” Baker. The hat trick and some nice moves all night. Great work all the way… plus not once did he even say a thing to the refs.

1^st Star: Mike “I just want the workout” Daley with a goal and two assists and once again a 10k work of ice covered in the game. Dude is tireless and his goal late in the second was really sweet.

Honorable mentions:

Sully with a goal and an assist and another step in his comeback to form.

Larry also with a goal and assist and a good sport move playing for the gassed Terriers in the third to give them a hand. (It was probably self serving but I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt)

Roman for a pair of assists both great passes and then the high comedy of the Larry play. Sometime changing ingrained behavior is hard… but we love you Roman.

Lastly Chris Colman for answering the call for a keeper. Chris was smart enough to email Jeff directly when he didn’t hear back. Turns out Jeff's email spam filter had weeded out all the goalie list responses… glad it worked out. Thanks for playing a good game Chris.

lets see… anything else happen this week…? hmm?

Oh yes.

Congratulations to the Boston Bruins for winning the STANLEY CUP!!!!

Its really been a great ride. Below are two ‘daveur submissions. One is self explanatory

...the other is Paul Chapman from the winter roster who’s clever sign made the Bruins, Canucks and Vancouver Sun websites.