Schlitz vs Blues Division Rivals!

Schlitz (5) vs Blues
Tuesday 10/25
UMass Boston 7:00pm


6-2 loss


Once again the Blogger has not been a regular attendee... so last nights game gets a great write up by Doctor Scott Pounds. Always nice to hear from the good doctor and this summary hits the spot for those of us hungry for a little game story.
So here is Doc Pounds with the recap:

The Suds went into the UMass dressing corner with five skaters (happily, Gorden brought his friend Seth along, and the extra body was greatly appreciated. Seth gets the 'Come back anytime' award) and no goalie some fifteen minutes before game time, but Mark Boudreau, Baker, and Bauer came in just in time to make the generous NESHL 180 second warmup period. 
 
We started with two subs. A few minutes into the game, Ken and DWH hit the bench, so we were able to play with two full lines and three D (thought the lines fluctuated as Elliot was under the weather and we seemed to be adjusting around penalties a lot). 

The UMass women had just concluded a practice, leaving the ice very rough and rutted. The Beermen were full of bubbles in the early going despite being initially short and scored the first goal, Pounds to Gorden to Baker. The first period ended 1-0 Adult Beverages, and the bench was full of confidence. 

The Blues, however, had their very good goalie in net and had a couple of what Nelson would call half-shields on the bench, #8 and somebody in a Deep Blue jersey and put in the next two goals in the second period. Then Gorden corralled a loose puck at center ice, deked a couple of Blues, and dished it to a streaking Herbert, who faked the forehand and tucked the puck between the goalie's legs to make the game 2-2. 

Unfortunately, that was the high point for the 'Cans. Deep Blue and #8 had legs and the Beermen came to room temperature and went slowly flat. Though the final was 6-2, Mark Boudreau was stellar in net, robbing the Blues at least a dozen times.

I think we forfeited the fourth period, as it was early and the campus cops were out in force due to the women's volleyball game in the gym. If anyone did stay, make it known in the comments.

F: Goldenberg, Baker, Seth (friend of Jared)

F: Pounds, Gorden, Elliot

D: Marietta, Bauer, Herbert

First Goal: Baker from Pounds and Gorden (score sheet says assist to Marietta - that's wrong)

Second Goal: Herbert from Gorden

Shots on Goal:

Schlitz  14

Blues  29

Thanks very much Doc! Great writeup.

Zombies thump Preds

Cadavers(5) vs Predators

Monday 10/25

BU 9:10pm

6-2 win

The Dead in Red faced the Predators, wearing green but not looking themselves, last night at BU looking for another Monday night win. Team Zombie posted a very nice roster of even 13 with Randy in net, but the Preds had 10 that clearly did not contain the usual level of humbling quality they’ve used in the past to beat us like unwanted step children. It was going to be a good night for the Red.

Here’s your roster

Randy Dudek in Net

D1: DWH, iJosh

D2: Fosdick, Valenti

O1: Josh Bitker, Sully and Matvey

O2: Baker, Gregson, Ted Galante

O3: Larry, Jasse, and Parker

(lines might be fuzzy here….please comment and set me straight)

It was going well from the start, but Green put on an early push that tested Randy a couple of times. We could see though that they clearly didn’t have the game changer players (or enough of them) to be as tough as they usually are. Red got chances and continued to carry the play, between some scrambles and worked hard.

Sully would lead things off, with a nice finish off on the feed from Josh Bittker. This would become a theme, these two, later in the game. This came a minute in.

With about seven minutes left in the first Larry would put a cap on a nice shift in the green end when he would take a play from Dr. Jasse and bang it home.

Greggy would take a slashing penalty after a solid exchange of blows with the one, no face shield dude that they had. They both went to the box but Greggy ended up with the extra minute and a half. Still, taking the initial from the no face shield got him off the ice so Greggy helped us out there.

No real trouble on the PK as the D held pretty well, the forwards forechecked hard and Reliable Randy played steady baking.
Before the period was over Josh (Bittker... we need a nickname for this guy) Sully line was starting to show some pay off from their excellent hard work.
Jeff would hold the puck at the point and fire  a low shot that was slightly wide. (The other) Josh (hmm... ) would wrist it home after Sully tipped it toward the net. Nice pinball play but OJosh (hmmm…closer) provided the finish.

The first would end 3-0 good guys. Still a little odd for a Preds game.

OJB (maybe…)_ would start the second as strong as he finished the first and about the 10 minute mark he would take a pass from Sully and zip up the left side of the zone. Then he unleashed a wicked wrist shot that went top shelf, knocking off the water (and the peanut butter) and the Red were up 4 zip. It only took about 45 seconds for JoshB (better?)  to complete the hat trick. I think this one came across the front from Sully and JoshB slammed it home. So he gets the natural trick all assisted by Sully who I guess gets the A-trick.

To cap the run off DWH would make a few of his patented slow but swift moves and rush the puck through the neutral zone and into the zone where gliding by the net he roofed a very nice wrister of his own and finished the unassisted score.

It was a little surreal for the blogger sitting there with exactly half the time gone in the game (8:30 second) up 6-0 on the Predators, who were clearly done, despite the two scores they’d come up with later on.

The Preds would score with 3 minutes left in the second on a play that went around our end after a slight let down, but being up 6 will do that to you sometimes.
Green would get one more late in the 3^rd but that was it. Team Zombie kept the blanket on the Preds, who didn’t show too much the rest of the way. We had to keep the no shield dude under surveillance but he only had a few big bursts in him.

Nice way to start the week. Solid all around. Good work.

Game Stars

3^rd Star: Doc Jasse, Larry Bell, and Dan w/Hands. All with one point. DWH and Larry with goals.

2^nd Star: Sully. Who is racking up points like they are going out of style. An Atrick with Joshb. And a goal of his own. Great work all around.

1^st Star: JoshB. Josh Bittker who has literally taken over the scoring race in the early going, nearly locking up Rookie of the year with a mere X games played. His play has been a big boost and he’s clearly looking like a quality acquisition…. Of course he’ll be looking for Free Agent type money next season but we’ll cross that bridge when we get there. Great work man. Nice to have you around.

Fourth period honors to Dr. Jasse and Marc Valenti who both brought tastey beverages.  The crew hung for quite a while… trying to riddle out the messages in the BU dorm room windows… and discussing all manner of topics, drunken or otherwise. None of which can quite be recalled… at least by me…

I do believe Dr. Jasse was not far off the mark when he said:

“Apparently our 4^th period strategy is to drink the number of beers matching our jersey numbers.”  Always astute info from the doc… not sure we got there but we tried. (For the record 12 and 10).

Tripods thump Suds at UMalcatraz

Schltiz (4) vs Tripod Allstars
Tuesday 10/18
UMass 10:30pm


4-1 loss



Yet another night at the rink that the blogger couldn't make. Yet another opportunity for the blog's saviour iJosh to come through with a game summary. iJosh deserves major props for helping to keep this phoney baloney enterprise running and the Blogger can't thank him enough.
Without further ado...
Here's iJosh:

Welcome back to UMalcatraz where Schiltz took on The Tripod All-Stars.

A light showing of 10 skaters would arrive with rookie goaltender Mark Boudreau.

The lines would shape up to be:

 iJosh and Dr. Pounds centered by Steve Baker  The Other Josh (Bittker) would center Matt Elliott and Dan Gregson.

 Defensive Pairings would be Dan with Hands with Mike Campbell and Geof Marietta and Eric Bauer.

Bauer was fresh off his 3 penalty night from last week.  And after Campbell heard about the 10 penalty game (as well as the roughly 100 minutes of penalties the Bruins accumulated vs the Hurricanes), he was in the mood for some physical play. 

The first period would show some nice work by the Suds.  A lot of puck possession and decent chances.  But the Tripod goalie was not having any of it.  He made some nifty saves en route to a scoreless (for him) first frame.  Campbell would get the first of his penalties and hit the box for a few.  Eric Bauer would find his was to the box as well.  Luckily no damage was done during the penalty kills. Though the green would get a couple goal for themselves 

The second would have the All-Stars start to break through.  The first would be give-away in the neutral zone.  The Tripod would go in all alone with a lone forward chasing him, but not close enough.  He made a nice little deke and beat Mark to put the Green Team up 1-0.  Not too much later the All-Stars would get a second goal off another defensive breakdown.  This one just bad position and a bad change.  Again, it would find the back of the net for a 2-0 deficit.  Though Campbell would decide to take a 2 minute rest again and find his way back to the box.  Again no damage and the period would end 2-0. 

The third period is a little fuzzy.  The All-Stars would eventually go up 3-0.  And Josh Bittker would net a goal to make it 3-1.  Campbell would exit the game early in the 3rd after receiving his 3rd penalty as he tries to reclaim his namesake award.  In the end we were unable to mount any type of a comeback.  They would get one more before exiting the arena and leaving us with a 4-1 loss.

Thanks again to iJosh for chipping in with these game stories... better luck next time vs les rats.

Zombies chewed by Rats

Cadavers (4) vs River Rats
Monday 10/17
Canton 10:10pm


5-1 loss





No story on this one. Only this one line submitted by defenseman Mark Reynolds:

"The Cads (wearing gold) fielded a very strong team last eve, but took a 5-1 loss. Faced a superior opponent with a couple of solid players."

Roster Breakdown.
Randy in Net
D: Valenti, George, Reynolds, Bauer
Offense: Matvey, Baker, Daley, Sullivan, Gorden, Nelson
George did send me the scoresheet which is much appreciated.
1 goal. Daley from Baker.
Valenti tossed after 3 trips to the box.
Bauer and Reynolds also with penalties.

Not much more to be said really...

Suds outlast Minus in PIM fest

Schlitz (3) vs D-Minus 
Wednesday 10/12 
Canton 10:10pm 

2-1 Win


 

Again the blogger was not around for this one so again we call on the excellent talents of one of our regular guest-bloggers iJosh. Here he is with all the sordid truth you can take.

So a rainy night in Canton would have the Golden Suds take on D-Minus. 

We would welcome new goalie Mark Boudreau.  He Mark would be a welcomed addition playing a solid night between the pipes. 

Mark would be joined by:

Roman Kurin, Matvey and Jared Gordon on the Sitnick line.Nelson Sharfman, Kevin Parker and Matt Elliott on the 2nd line and Mike Daley, Mike Goodwin and Dan Gregson playing on the checking line.  Dan with Hands and iJosh would pair up on the D.  Eric Bauer would pair with Jeff Marrietta. 

The game would be chippy from the start.  Jeff Marrietta would go for a questionable trip, followed by Mike Daley for a matching rough.  Shortly after leaving the box, Jeff would return (he missed it) for another questionable trip.  That's not all.  Matvey would be shown the sin bin after an ill-advised slashed.  In the middle of all of this, Mike Daley was able to pick the trash (off a Gregson shot) with some hard work and put one past the goalie.  This would get the D-Minus yelling about the officiating as they believed that the whistle should have been blown.  At the end of one it would be 1-0 Good Guys. 

The second would start with a quick whistle in front of the Suds goalkeeper.  This would get the Minus grousing even more.  However despite their constant griping it would not help our position with the refs as Matvey would be shown the box again.  This time for a trip.  After a successful kill, the Minus would even up the score with a tip in that would make its way between the pads of Mark.  But Dan with Hands would put the Suds back on top.....this came with a.......wait for it.......wait for it......an assist from Roman. The 2nd would end 2-1 Schlitz.

The 3rd would be notable.  But not necessarily for good reasons.  Bauer would start the trend with a hook.  This would be followed by a slash from Jared Gordon.  Then an elbow from Bauer.  Then iJosh would lose his cool briefly as he would fall to the ice pinned in the corner.  The Minus player, holding his stick and yelling that iJosh had him in a leg lock (legs were wrapped around but not holding him there).  iJosh got up and told the guy to STFU and gave him a push a shove and tried a take down.....over reaction?  Maybe.  The bitching didn't stop there as the Minus would continually chide iJosh while they both were in the box.  Finally Josh told him to stop being such a "kitty cat".  Okay maybe another word for kitty was used.  Shortly after that Bauer would get his 3rd for unsportmanlike and get shown the door.  The Suds would kill off the penalty to end the game. 

So the final tally:
 2 goals for.
 1 goal against.
 10 penalties.

Very undisciplined game.  But luckily we got through.  Next time we may not be so lucky.

Game Stars:

 1st: Mike Daley for his gritty goal.
 2nd: DWH for his GW goal
 3rd: Mark Boudreau for his rookie performance in goal.

Great work iJosh. Thanks for the guestblog. Excellent stuff.

Zombies vs Tigers

Cadavers (3) vs Tigers
Monday 10/10
Canton 10:10pm

5-1 Win


The Blogger was not in the house for last night's game against El Tigre, but Larry Bell was and he's stopped by to deliver a very nice game summary for us here.
Take it away Larry:

Pretty easy win last night. 

Line Breakdown:

Sully-LB-Theodore

Josh-Jared-Pounds

Nelson floated

Baker-Bauer

Valenti-George

Scoring Summary:

1.        Gordon from Pounds and Sharfman – nice puck relay to Jared who came down through the middle of the slot and went top shelf over the tigers keeper.  Sweet pair of hands to roof the shot from in tight.

2.       Sharfman from Capt George – Nelson fought for and put in a rebound of George’s shot from the point

3.       Josh from LB – Josh made a nice pass from the corner to me skating into the zone from the bench.  I whiffed on the shot, but it went right to Josh who cut across the crease and beat the goalie.

4.       Josh from Gordon – Jared carried the puck across the perimeter of the zone and drew 3 tiger defenders then dished a pass to Josh at the goalmouth.

5.       Baker from LB and Sharfman – I fed Baker for a backscratcher from the point.

The best action of the night was when Marc stepped up on a Tiger forward and lifted his stick as the puck came.  The Tiger forward lost control of his stick, hit Marc in the head with it and chased the puck to the top of the circle where he unleashed a weak shot that trickled through the otherwise solid Randy.  Marc went for an unsportsmanlike conduct after accosting the ref about the non-call.  Other penalties to Baker, Bauer and Bell.

Thanks very much Larry. Seems to be pretty nice to see the Tigers on the schedule these days. Hopefully this trend will continue.

Zombies and Boozers at UMalcatraz!

Cadavers (2) vs The Booze Brothers

Tuesday 10/4

UMass Boston 9:20pm

8-3 Win

Alright! With the return of #1 Guest blogger iJosh to the club this winter we will be treated to some excellent game story guest blogging! iJosh played last night at UMass and filed this report with the blog early this morning. The blogger just wants to say how overjoyed he is to have iJosh helping out making quality contributions in this space. I can't possibly play and write about 'em all and his help really keeps things going.

Thanks. Now... Here's iJosh:

Welcome to the Prison by the Bay on this raw rainy evening.  A perfect setting for this one of a kind rink.  They did spruce up the place a bit and painted the once crap-brown, stone walls white.  Still the same old crappy rink with parking fees and no locker rooms.  However let's not let that bring us down there is hockey to play.

So this night the Cadavers took on the Good Ole Booze Brothers Hockey team....from Chicago (I think).  With a name like that Larry was worried that maybe they would be the odds on favorite to win the 4th period.  But we can cover that later.  The Booze Brothers would don crimson, league issued jerseys.  So the Dead in Red would sport the yellow with the Schlitz logo.  I see a theme brewing. 

The game would start with Roman centering Matvey and Dr. Pounds.  Larry would sit in the middle between iJosh and KMitch.  And Matt Elliott, Gregson and new comer Theodore Galante.  The defense would feature Mike Daley, Geoff Marietta.  Both Dan with Hands Hebert and Marc Valenti made their return to the ice.  Randy Dudek would sit between the pipes.

The game started with the Russian Crew of Roman, Matvey and Dr. "Zhivago" Pounds.  With less than one minute elapsed on the clock a deflected puck would make its way into the back of the net behind Randy putting the Cads in a quick 1-0 hole.  Definitely not the way to start the night.  The next shift of Larry, iJosh and Mitch would quickly even up the score with a pass from iJosh up to the point.  Valenti would send the puck to the net.  Larry would pick up the rebound and put it home.  1-1.  Roman, never one to let himself slack in the scoring race, would net one from DWH at the 11 minutes mark to put the Dead up 2-1.  Next shift saw Larry put another one home.  This time from iJosh in the slot. 3-1 Cads. Then Dan with Hands in open ice tried to beat the goalie high and whiffed a bit on the shot only to have it in trickle far side right, just past the goalies skate.  And the first would end with the Cadavers holding a 4 to 1 lead. 

The Cads had spent much of the 1st period controlling the puck and play.  Randy was getting a little bored back in the defensive zone.  However the Cads, specifically Mike Daley, had no plans to make his night any more exciting.  So Daley would spend much of the 2nd period trying to explain to us how Kaberle should have been able to help the Bruins offense last season.  Thankfully for both the Cadavers, Daley pulled it off (and thankfully for the Bruins, Kaberle didn't keep them from winning).  Mike on the rush took a pass from Larry and shot it past the Booze keeper for a now 5-1 advantage.  But Daley would get in alone again and tuck it behind the goalie again 2 minutes later to make it 6-1. 

So the Dead go into the 3rd with a comfy 6-1 lead.  Randy would finally get to see some action as the Booze Brothers were able to beat him on a little breakaway to cut their deficit to 4 goals.  iJosh would get back on the score sheet with a backhand putback of Daley's shot to get back the goal.  But a deflection from a Cads defender off a hard shot would find itself top shelf behind Randy to Make it 7-3.  Mr. Valenti would cap off the evening from Gregson to make it an 8-3 win.

All in all not a bad game.  A few defensive lapses, but that wasn't really until garbage time.  Randy wasn't really tested much.  And only let in one goal off an opposing players stick. 

Despite Larry's pregame worries, there were Bud Light Limes, Bud Light and Molson Canadians to be had in the misty parking lot.  No Booze Brothers to be found except for a short conversation before they bolted for the car.  So with that a complete wire to wire victory for the Dead in the Schlitz logo. 

Game Stars:

 1: Mike Daley - 2 goals, 1 assist and stellar D.

 2: Larry Bell - 2 goals, 1 assist and 0 penalties.

 3: Dan with Hands - 1 goal, 1 assist

Cadavers Scoring Summary:

Period 1:

 (1-1) Larry Bell from Valenti and iJosh

 (2-1) Roman from DWH

 (3-1) Larry from iJosh and KMitch

 (4-1) DWH from Theodore

Period 2:

 (5-1) Daley from Larry

 (6-1) Daley unassisted

Period 3:

 (7-2) iJosh from Daley

 (8-3) Valenti from Gregson

New-look Suds romp El Tigre!

Schlitz (2) vs Tigers

Monday 10/3

Canton 10:10pm

8-2 Win

The Golden Beercans faced old friend El Tigre last night in Canton for the second game of the Winter season. This was a short notice affair, with the league only getting the schedule up late Friday… however the Suds answered the call and while we only had 9… at least we had 9. Better yet, it was apparently the right 9 to get the job done as the Suds basically took the Tigers apart piece by piece, picking the body bare by the end of the night.

We haven’t seen the Tigers since early in the Summer when we were racking up wins against the lower  D division (that sounded weird) teams. This night was similar. The New-Look Suds were not to be messed with and hung a good one on the guys in Red once we got going.

Here’s your breakdown:

Randy (on the spot) Dudek in Net

D: Bauer, George, and Jeff

O1: Baker, Jared, and Josh Bittker

O2: Sully, Parker, and Nelson

The first few shifts, every one got situated, and the late arrivals made their way out to the bench during the opening minutes. It was clear from the start we would be in pretty good shape with a decent effort against these guys. Their Captain (8 with pants) wasn’t around and it looked like they were light a forward or two.

The Gold didn’t get around to making things happen until later in the period. Josh Bittker would go for a trip at the 5 minute mark. The penalty passed without trouble and then Kevin Parker would put the first one home for the Gold, the assist coming… are you ready… from Steve Baker. This was with just under 2 minutes.

End one, 1-0 Schlitz.

The Cans would waste no time at all pouring it on as the second opened. Sully would open the period with the first of several scoring plays of the night. Working from Josh B, to Nelson back over to Sully he would press to the net and working the 2 on 1 with Nelson took what the Keeper gave him (low left side) and scored for the 2-0 lead.

Baker would be next, just 2 minutes later, when he would take the play from Josh B, to Jared then to Steve who popped it home and just like that it was 3-0. Jared was all over the place in a lot of ways, his terrific hands and smooth stride just seems to help so much controlling the play. He had a great night, but only made the scoresheet on this goal.

Nelson would be next as he would take the return favor pass from Sully and with 13 minutes left in the 2^nd we were up 4-0. That line of Sully, Nelson and Parker really did some great grind it out work in the offensive zone all night long.

In fact some of that work came just a minute later when Sully would again score on a nice bang-bang play from Nelson and it was 5-0.
Parker would take a seat a few minutes later after a meeting with number 25 in the slot. No trouble with the pk though and that line was back at it again soon.

Sully would land his hat trick goal from Kevin and Nelson at 4:30 remaining and at this point Sully had enough scoring that the blogger has completely lost track of how they all went down.

The Tigers would show that they wouldn’t go without something said on their behalf and would score twice in the last 2 and a half minutes of the period. We were clearly letting off the accelerator and they turned it pretty quick when we went soft.

So after 2 periods, things looked pretty “Tip Top” (credit Dr.Jasse).. and really… how many 5 goal periods have we ever had? Good stuff. It was also noted post game by Nelson there haven’t been many times that by the middle of the second we know the game is finished.

The third would be no surprises either.

They would take a penalty. We would take 2 more. Bauer again for an elbow… punk… and George for and interference late in the game. George was due that one as he had just pushed over 25 in the neutral zone not long before… it was a clean open ice push down and the guy had a hard time getting up… and for some reason the blogger thought this was hilarious. I was tired… anyway… There also haven’t been many times we’ve had 5 penalties on the night and won decisively.

Sully would score again just a few minutes in on that power play. The play was sick from George (stat whore assist) and Nelson just worked low and zipped an excellent pass to Sully out front. The dude had all the finish required on the night.

Parker would put the cap on the night in garbage time (9 minutes remaining) from Nelson and Sully. That line, those three guys, ended the evening with a jaw dropping 14 points. Nice work indeed.

So there you have it. The New Look Suds are a hit, and thanks to playing the Cads (ahem) and El Tigre are 2-0 to open the season. Of course we blew this over the summer going 5-0 and getting hammered in a higher division the rest of the season. Who cares. Winning is good. More games with the Tigers.

Game Stars

3^rd Star: Randy on the spot Dudek. Helping out the club on short notice and turning in some fine work in the pipes. Very steady… and becoming a fixture back there.

2^nd Star: How do you not go with Nelson Sharfman? The cagey vet works the zone, works hard all night and ends up with five points. A goal and 4 assists.

Have to also mention Kevin Parker here as part of the program with 2 goals and an assist. Great work gentlemen.

1^st Star: You can see it a mile away… Jim Sullivan. A slow evening with 4 goals and 2 assists and a whopper of a 6 point night. Great work. Last week he was clutch playing net for the ‘daveur and this week he’s an offensive machine… great stuff Sully.

Honorable Mention: Josh Bittker. A strong early push for rookie of the year with another 2 points in his second game. Nice to have you aboard!

No fourth period joy. Everyone seemed pleased to take this sweet one and roll. Maybe it was the fact that there was no water (showers) due to an Ecoli situation in the Canton water. We play there next week... keep it in mind... and next time lets bring beer.