Cadavers(11) vs CH Terriers
Thursday July 28
HinghamA 10:10pm
3-3 Tie
The Cadavers hit Thursday night’s game in Hingham with a 5 game losing streak and a need to get back in the win column against the Terriers, a team we’ve matched up with decently over the last few meetings. The Dead in Red had a scramble finding a keeper, now that Jon Cole has headed off into the sunset, but management was able to ink Teddy Locke at the last minute to come by and man the pipes.
Here’s your roster
D1: Moorachian, Bauer
D2: Campbell, Fosdick
O1: Baker, Gregson, Goldenberg
O2: Daley, Sullivan, Kurin
O3: Sharfman, Elliot, Pounds
The game would start with a delay of game penalty as the Terriers keeper was late arriving. The first really only got underway at the 12 minute mark.
Depending on the lineup, and as always, who shows up for them, we’ve played the Terriers fairly even of late, and the 1st was largely a stand off with no scoring.
The Terriers would take the first penalty but no action on the power play for Red. With the period winding down the Cads would get turned around in their own end and would leave number 2 alone to bury one past Teddy for the 1-0 lead. That was how the first would end.
Unfortunatley the Terriers would continue their momentum and would score the next one only a couple of minutes into the second. Now down 2-0 the Zombies would have to dig deep to get back into the game. I’m glad to say they did just that.
The next goal would be from the Dead in Red. After some good work in the offensive zone Dan Gregson Sully would pop home a rebound from a Greggy shot and it was back to a one goal game. The Second would grind on with good chances at both ends as the Red started to turn the momentum back their way. Teddy was also digging in and was making solid stops, and even flashing the glove and
blocker when needed. He gave us all we could have asked for.
The period would wind down and the Red was working hard to make something happen. When you say working hard, the first name you ought to be thinking is Nelson Sharfman, and you’d be right, as he led the play into the zone as the seconds ran low. He fought off a defender, swinging wide and got the shot off that hit the keeper. The puck dropped down and he wasn’t covering it when Jeff Fosdick rushed in from higher in the zone, and not hearing a whistle pushed at the puck under the keeper and it squirted into the net to tie the game as time expired.
After the game Jeff was heard saying to the local media: “ I wanted to crash the net, just like Nelson always does. He’s kind of my inspiration. You know, shows you how its done. He was down there and made a good play, I figured I owed it to him to finish hard.” The veteran Sharfman left without comment to the press.
Unfortuneately the third didn’t get off to the start the Dead were hoping. Just a couple shifts in a strange play in our end saw the forward’s shot glance off George’s skate and deflect into the net by Teddy who couldn’t snag the misdirected shot. The Dead clearly still had some work to do, but there were good signs as they conintued to get good chances. The forwards all did a nice job of passing and getting chances on offense. The teams would trade penalties. First the Terriers, then the Cads when Mike Campbell would go for a trip as he knocked over one of the speedy forwards. 99 had been giving us trouble all night but there was no blood on either penalty.
The blogger had a great view of what happened next. Jeff would back check in our zone and
hacking at a forward he would knock both the puck and his stick loose. He then grabbed his stick off the ice and spun around with the play and the loose puck was close by floating near Dr. Pounds. The Doc tapped it to Jeff who now had momentum after a couple of strides. Jeff would proceed up the ice and would shake a forward on the way. Then, defying the eyes, and all laws of inertia, Jeff actually made a move (something that looked like a cow shifting its weight) and split the defenders. He would rip a wrist shot as he closed in on the goal and it would find the twine behind the keeper high glove side. The game was tied and Jeff tried out his Ray Bourque fist pump on the way back. He was also gracious enough to recreate the goal with the media members postgame lining up people to be players in the Hingham conference room. Ok maybe that didn’t happen… but the goal was awesome.
The rest of the 3rd would be a muck and grind. Major kudos are due for the guys that kept getting good shots on offense. Sully, Nelson, Roman, and Baker would all have excellent chances that we just couldn’t slip past the Terrier keeper. Teddy also made a pair of absolutley aweseome saves down the stretch. Going one side to the other he dove across the crease to snuff the first and picked one clean with his glove on the second when the white forward was less than 5 feet away. Teddy really deserves a ton of credit for keeping us in the match.
Alas.. that was how this one would go down. No further scoring and the game would end 3-3 and the Cadvers would still be .500 on the season.
More kudos need to be given to Mr. Campbell for bringing the Limeys and for hanging out in the parking lot. A good handfull of chaps stuck around to enjoy the summer apres skate, which always seems to go well in the Hingham lot.
A nod also here to Greggy... who came up big with a little lighter he shared with his teammates.
Jeff and Mike hung out as the team went home one by one and somehow the night brought back memories of other nights and times the two have had, and how long that time has actually been. Thanks again Mike, it was great just to talk for a while.
No game stars, but no shame in hanging tough and coming back to … not lose.
Good job to everyone who came out and thanks again to Teddy.
