Beatings By the Bay

Blues 9 - Schlitz 4

9:10 

November 13, 2014

UMass Boston

Death, Taxes, and the Blues being a bunch of @$$#0!#s; some things are just guaranteed in life.  Despite that fact, the Golden Beer Cans would make it as difficult as possible for Les Blues (which is French for the d!(^&#@*s).  Schlitz would skate only 7: K.Mitch,  Nelson, Daley, Bauer, iJosh, Baker, and Valenti with the first 4 mostly playing forward and the latter 3 playing mostly defense.  

The Blues would skate their - mostly usual - set of characters and their new addition, a young kid named Jay Galinauskas(#2) with his red pants and red helmet.  He played against us last game and simply put, his skillset is far and above anyone else on the ice.  Knowing this going into the game, the plan was to do our best to keep him in check.  However we were not confident that our attention to this effort could slow him down much.  Baker tripped him early and ended up in the box, but #2 would score his first goal 7:24 into the game.  This would be followed 1:31 later by his second tally of the night.  Already annoyed, Bauer would crosscheck him near the boards.  He would fall back into iJosh's crosscheck #2 headed toward the ice.  Mercifully there would be no call. Gold would not put up much of an offensive threat to this point. 


In the second period the Blues would strike again.  This time the play would be started by #2 and finished by one of his lackeys who was just smart enough to stand in front of the net and let the puck bounce off him.  (See Gretzky and any forward he made look good).  Valenti, now getting aggitated, would check #2 into the boards.  However, the problem according the ref was not the check (they seemingly were letting that go a bit), but was the high stick.  So Valenti would send 2 minutes in the sin bin.  This would get Daley going.  He would steal the puck mid ice and power into the offensive zone and put in a short handed tally.  Though the Blues would end the power play abruptly after that. 4-1 Blues.  The rest of the period was the #2 show as he showed just how much better than us he was.  He would net one more goal and another assist, but not before Bauer would crosscheck him again.  This time, however, he would make his way to the box.  

Early in the third period, Daley would get called for a trip. Nothing would come of it.  After the kill, #2 would put in 2 more goals with a 2 minutes of one another.  Mitch would find his way to the box.  And again, gold would find a way to put in a short handed goal.  This time Baker would find the back of the net.  Unfortunately for Baker his night would end soon after that.  He would get called for a double minor.  A trip and then roughing after the whistle.  Though I still don't get the 1st call and the 2nd should have been coincidental.  Later in the period, iJosh shifting to forward for a shift, would take the puck deep into the zone and to the back boards.  Passing it in front of the next it would bounce and find its way to Bauer's stick and to the back of the net.  8-3 Blues.  Bauer would put one more in, again short handed, to make it 8-4.  Nelson would net a short handed goal to make it 8-4. But the Blues would put another one in to make it 9-4.  As the game wound down, Valenti took a few shots at #2 and would be told to hit the shower.  Then after with less than a minute to go, #2 would take a slap shot from short range.  That and a dipsy-do attempt from between his legs prompted Bauer to warn #2, "If you do that again I'll @#$%ing take your head off!"  Well said.  After the final puck drop, #2 would have gotten one more cross check had his teammate not seen the 2 gold jersey lining him up as he waited to attempt a one timer from the right slot.  His teammate dumped the puck in to the corner and ended the game.  As the buzzer blew #2 was told, "Good thing your teammate was smart.  Otherwise you were getting hit hard".  

That all said, we complained to the ref about them not reporting to Paul the discrepency in talent on teams in general and implored them to say somethimg about the Blues #2.  It is suggested we do the same.  If Paul doesn't comply, whether it be us or another team, someone IS going to take his head off soon.   

Winter season opener 2014-15 BU Schlidaveur

September 23, 2014
Schlitz vs Cadavers
BU 9:10pm

Something followed me down Babcock street last night. The familiar vortex whipping my hair, streetlight shadow jumping out in front of me as I carried my hockey bag down the hill, and in through the back door of the rink by the Zamboni ramp. It feels like home, in this old concrete bunker by the railroad tracks, so many warm, distant memories swirling in the darkness and the cold breeze. The sound of the game echoes around the dim empty space, the smell of the rubber mats in the tunnel beneath the stands... it's always good to be home, at least for a visit. 

It was great night to begin the 2014-15 Winter campaign for the schlidaveurs. Conveniently, and according to de facto tradition we started off with a Schlidaveur on Monday night at BU's Walter Brown Arena. It's always nice after a summer of playing with ourselves... I mean against ourselves... That we start off playing ourselves. Stands to reason we'd be good at it.

Decent turn out, even with last minute drops and an add we had 9 a side. As players filtered in, Ken (email? Why should I answer the email?) "AK" Douville showed up to even things out. Fosdick gave him some razz about the email which would have consequences on the ice.

Rosters.

Gold: Randy, Reynolds, Jeff, Valenti as D, Jared, baker, and Mitch as a group, and Nelson, Taylor, and Seva as the other. 

Black: sully in net, DWH, Bauer, iJosh as D; Larry, AK, Matt, and Matvey, Scot, and John Bric. 

Newcomers from this summer Chris Taylor and John Bric got shirts and were welcomed into our sad bizzare fraternity of middle aged hockey... So congrats to them. Welcome aboard boys, how long you stay is your own fault. 

Ken (now AK) was ready and told Jeff during warmups "Before I didn't care, but because of the locker room I'm going all out tonight to win, you'll see." 

So it was to be. The teams were pretty evenly matched. It was about halfway through the first when Larry would spring Ken, err AK who would make a nice move and bury the first goal behind Randy. He made sure to point it out at the face off. Good stuff, calling the shot and delivering. He was a contributor all night. 

It seemed Black played better in the first all around and the first ended 1-0 Black. 

Gold would recover a little in the second and got some traction finally in the offensive end. Jared made a nice play and springing Jeff made for the net. Jeff shot-passed and Jared got another swipe at it but Sully was there. Mitch, following the play, was right there and banged home the equalizer. The (imaginary) crowd went crazy for the long time veteran who was returning to the club after taking the summer off. Great way to come back. We look forward to seeing lots more, and lots more scoring from Mitch this season. 

Well it wasn't all good in the second for gold. On a long clearing pass randy ranged out to play the puck near the corner. Jeff came back to take the play but the pass was miffed and the puck went straight to the front of the net where Larry popped it in for the lead for Black. Larry, never shy about a point doesn't mind picking up the trash. The Stat whore was delighted to be on the board. End of 2, 2-1 Black.

The third saw more great bak mans forth action. Both sully and Randy had strong moments in net. There was less than ten minutes left when Jared would take a breakaway home by roofing one over Sully as he sprawled. Jared's backhand is a fearsome thing... Soft deadly hands. The game was tied down the stretch 2-2. That's how this one would end after great efforts on both sides. Nice way to kick off the year with a fun, hard fought 'daveur at old Walter Brown. 

Game stars:

3rd Star: Ken "Mitch" Goldenberg. A great goal for his return to the ice. Welcome back. 

2nd Star: Ken "AK" Douville. Way to take your motivation and deliver. AK was productive all night with many chances plus that strong first goal. Great job. 

1st Star: Jared "deadly hands" Gorden. A goal (a beauty) and an assist. Jared always seems to be the axis in which the game is decided. Good work out there. 

Honorable Mention 1: Jim Sullivan. A great game in the pipes. Thanks again for helping us all out by playing net. 

Honorable Mention 2: Also with a goal and an assist... Stat Whore Larry Bell... I just put him here because I dont think he counts game stars as a legit stat.

Now... The blogger felt good writing this one... but dont expect a full game story or literary ruminations for every game. I'm trying to nurse this puppy back into shape, if I've got the time, and the energy. Regardless... its good to be "back", and thank you for reading.

Summer of Daveur - Week 5

Okay, so there hasn't been a blog for sometime and this one is by no means going to be as robust as they once were.  Reason: the bloggers have jobs and I now like mine, so blogging  on company time is a rarity.  Anyhow here is how Week 5 of SOD played out.

Schlitz	Cadavers
Net=Randy Baker DWH iJosh  J.Carey (shooting on dad...) Parker Bittker  Iain Michel Eric Leykin Sully Taylor Elliott (2nd & 3rd periods)	Net-= Brian Carey Bauer Reynolds Elliott (1st period) Kurin Sharfman Daley Vagodny Ivanov Vasserman Nikhamik Pounds Scot's Friend

Okay so first off, [Iain] Michel somehow ended up on black (wearing red). So some extras were added to black, Michael for one - who was in red.  Then after noting that the sides were a little uneven numbers-wise and that he had already scored a goal for the Cads, Elliott traded himself to the Schlitz for a couple of water bottles and a used goalie whistle.


Schlitz would storm back and take the lead. The Cads would keep coming back, but the Beer cans would keep going ahead. In the end I think the score was 6-4. But I lost track. During the 3rd period with about 8 minutes left Reynolds tried to take Lizzie's head off. Reynolds tried to clear the zone up the boards and hit Liz right in the ear. She dropped and claimed she was okay, but left the ice for the evening.  Hopefully Liz is okay and will be quickly back in black & white stripes.

The 4th period was scarce.  Daley and Elliott provided some refreshments. However neither Daley nor Elliott were brutally murdered after helping a woman walking down the street with a gas can.  She needed to find a gas station and get back to her car. Daley drove and Elliott navigated.  At one point we saw Daley's car pass and  Bauer commented, "Either they found an open gas station or that woman found a Honda". Shortly thereafter they returned with nary a scratch and grabbed another beer.

See you next week.