Cadavers Fall Prey to the Predators

I have little information about this game.  Any updates would be helpful:

Monday, March 18, 2013 @ 10:20
Hingham C
Predators 3
Cadavers 2

Scoring Summary:
 1st Period:
  Predators @ 11:59 (0-1)
 2nd Period:
  Cadavers - Larry Bell (Jared Gorden, George Moorachian) @ 4:01 (1-1)
  Predators @ 7:43 (1-2)
  Predators @ 17:57 (1-3)
 3rd Period:
  Cadavers - Jared Gorden (Larry Bell) @ 18:36 (2-3)

Penalties:
 2nd Period:
  George Moorachian (Slashing) @ 16:00

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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).

Zombies mauled by Predators

Cadavers vs Predators

Monday 3/14

HinghamA 10:10pm

9-0 Loss

An early week matchup with the pesky Predators ended up being not much of a game as the short benched Zombies got "blowed out" by the irritatingly talented and douchelike Preds.

Here is your Cadavers Roster. Note that the Organization gives a hearty welcome back to John Carey who was back home on leave from his training with the Marine Corps. Great to have you John, and you should know you're welcome anytime.

Cadavers

Brian Carey in Net

John (home on leave) Carey

Nelson

Larry

George

Campbell

Matt Elliot

Scott

Gregson

Parker

Matvey

Roman

Again the Blogger wasn't able to attend this one... continuing this season's theme of... once you run the team, you stop playing... but we did have some comments mailed in from some of the guys that were there.

First off is the Good Doctor Pounds with a nice recap:

"We held them to single digits. They had more than one guy who could skate by us all and roof a backhander over Brian. After it was 7-0 or so our bench started cheering the other team’s goals and asking for autographs after the game. Parker got tossed out for questioning a call. Campbell got three or four minors without getting tossed. "

Hmm. Doesn't sound good. Larry chipped in his 2cents too:

"Lost 7-0 (the scorekeeper must have fallen asleep... the scoresheet has 9 goals) not really close. And to top it off they're a classless bunch of punks"

Thanks Larry. George then broke down the (ugly) stats:

Penalties:
Period 1
Campbell 1:30, trip
Matvey, 1:30, trip
Period 2
Parker, Game (3rd man)
Campbell, 3:00, leg check/rough
Period 3
Matvey, 1:30, unsportsmanlike

GA by period
4/2/3

Well. That doesn't sound so good. Sorry we didn't have more bodies, but it looks like it wouldn't have made a difference.

Zombies Rung Up by Preds

Cadavers vs Predators
Wildcard Playoff Game
Canadiens Division Playoffs
Thursday Sept 2nd
10:30pm Hingham C

8-4 loss


The Cadavers, Mark's Gold squad from the final 'Daveur, took the Hingham ice last night for a Wild Card Playoff Game against the Predators. There was a bunch of scrambling Wednesday as to how to determine who was playing, as what team and when.

It was ironed out in an 11th hour management boardroom crunch session that Larry's Red squad would be awarded a phony "win" in the Schlidaveur as they had scored twice and it had not been seen or called by the game officials. This gave Larry the choice of which club to play as. He chose the Schlitz, playing as a 3 seed in the Blue Jackets Division.

That meant we had to throw together a roster for Mark's team, now the Cadavers to play in a "one and out" wild card play-in game. The urgency to make it to the double elimination round was palpable, especially since a bunch of guys on this roster couldn't skate.
This is what we ended up with on the ice Thursday night.
Brian "long arm of the law" Carey in Net
D1:Teddy Locke, and George
D2:Reynolds and Valenti
O1: Baker, iJosh and Seaver
O2: Nelson, Parker and Elliot
O3: Capraro, John Carey and Dr.Pounds
Our gal Lizzy was scorekeeper for the night.

Now. We had a slight case of "over manegment" here. Jeff in his haste to put together a solid 13 actually ended up as number 14 when Kevin Parker (the forgotten forward) came through the door as the 'boni was circling the rink. Jeff quickly undressed fetched himself a beer and a waterbottle and headed to the bench. Too bad for the rest of the guys who had to listen to him the rest of the night. Usually he's too busy wheezing to say much.
Anyhow... the game.
It was clear from very early on that the Preds had some added talent for the evening. A generic green shirt with a weak white tape 11 on the back and no face shield was clearly a stand out. The Dead in Red would spend most of the night chasing him around and just trying to contain him.
He could move any way he wanted at whatever speed and pretty much scored at will when he needed to. #2 on D was not far off from his level. Clearly, from the start it was going to be a long night.

I'm here to tell you friends that there was a little Zombie Pride going on out there and the guys in Red did the best they could with the situation at hand. Brian played great. He was tested constantly and early.

Number 6 from Green would get things going at exactly the one minute mark into the first with a sick double move then a wrister that was like a lazer to go up 1-0. The Red would try to take the play right back but had limited success. Frustration was already setting in as Parker would go for a slashing call at 14 minutes. The Red would survive the penalty and play tough. The Green would take a penalty for a high stick at about 1230 but no scoring on the penalty.

Marc "back from hiatus" Valenti would unleash a slapper at the 11 minute mark that their keeper had to make a big save on. Nice to see that slapper... Brian Carey would make a pair of excellent saves at the 10 minute mark that showed he was bringing it and hanging in there.


Then John Carey would score on a very nice lifted backhand shot from Scott Pounds at 7:40 and the game was tied 1-1. The Green would then ramp it up and came with the big guns again and they would take back the lead 4 minutes later when 2 would score after doing this ridiculous drag move at the blue line and fired a sniper shot from 30 feet. This was followed by the 8 and 11 show a minute later for a more comfortable 3-1 lead.
Red would take another penalty, Scott for a trip at the 1 minute mark and 11 would cap the period off with another goal in the closing seconds that would make it 4-1 at the end of the first.
Really things went off the rails about then. The Red roster was frustrated and starting to get mouthy. All agreed that the only way to handle it was to work hard and play the best we could. If douchebag 11 superfuckingstar wanted to score 17 he probably could. All we could do was play as best we could to combat the talent disparity. For the most part everyone did that. All the guys gutted it out and the second passed for a long time with no scoring. Red would send Parker to the box, then Teddy would go but still Red held on. Green would take the next 2 penalties but one was a matching with Valenti and still no scoring.
Green would of course score next at 630 but the Red would answer not 35 seconds later when Matty Elliot would drill a nice shot from the high slot to put up the second tally for the Zombies. All this meant was the big guns were back out and 11 made short work of getting the goal right back in less than a minute.
Baker would take a trip to the box, not without yapping his face off and Green would send one more and the period would end 6-2 Green. Just as a point in recap, we had 4 penalties in that period, and really the refs did us a favor by giving green 3.
Green would, predictably open the period with another goal. This time from 8.
Then Pete Capraro would land a beauty of a shot, again the helper from the Good Dr. Pounds for the 3rd Red goal. Not long after that Jay Seaver would weave his way over the line and pull up and score unassisted on a brilliant shot for the 4th Red goal.
Green would take 3 total penalties in the third, the Zeebs still working with us but we couldn't help ourselves. Baker continued the verbal onslaught.

Three quick examples.

First. iJosh comes out of the zone hollering about being slashed and swearing away and the taller Ref turns and yells "are you talking to me?!?" at which point the ENTIRE bench says "No hes not talking to you." Classic.

Secondly. George goes into the corner with a forward. They lock arms and tumble down. The tall ref is close by. The two get up and head back up ice and George can't help himself and he starts screaming at the ref for not calling something. The Ref pulls the whistle out and calls George, who goes to the box with steam pouring out of his ears like Yosemite Sam with a hockey helmet.

Third. At one point Jeff was holding on to Valenti who was about to go down the bench to stuff something in Baker's mouth which apparently just wouldn't stop working... There were thoughts of Dave Wheeler and Jamie Campbell running in his head. Marc wasn't the only one trying to impress on Steve that his mouth wasn't helping the situation.

The game would close out just as ugly as it had gone. Seaver gets caught up with a guy who gives him a shot and he boils over and takes a punch at the prick and he gets tossed.
Just to close things out old pall 11 would score once more in the final minute to make it 8-4 and put the Zombies to bed.
A truly frustrating night.

Jeff would approach the shorter ref after the handshakes and officially protested the game and basically called "bullshit" on number 11. There was a multiple email conversation with the league office during the day on Friday but (however predictably) there was no action taken against the Predators. Accoring to the leauge all their guys played that season. Funny to imagine that club having a 6-6-3 record with that kind of talent.
Grr.
The only bright spot was the parking lot postgame. Valenti and Jeff brought a few cold ones. Lizzy joined us for a brew, and new fan Heather came along with iJosh for the night and joined the apres skate. Warm night and cold beer couldn't wash away the bitterness of this one though.
Lets hope that Team Beercan fares better.

Zombies fall to Predators.

Cadavers (2) vs Predators (3)
Thursday April 8th
Bavis Arena 9:30pm

4-2 loss


The Cadavers, the lone surviving member of Schlidaveur Enterprises remaining in the playoffs, took to the ice on Thursday to play a very scrappy and competitive Predators team. Unfortunately the result was not what we were looking for, but the game was a tight contest and Team Zombie certainly had their moments. Lets get right to the lineups.
Net: Jim Sullivan
D1: George, Valenti
D2: DWH, Jeff
O1: Larry, Chris, Roman
O2: Goody, Scott, Pete
O3: Hammit, Gregson, Blake

Lets say this about the green wearing Preds. They had their Playoff roster. A couple of half shields and a guy with tape numbers on his generic shirt (44), so clearly they were prepared and brought the talent. Beyond that they let the talent play and there were very few shifts that didn't see at least one of their strong players on the ice. This included Red helmet #8 Newcomb, and the centerman #14 with no shield that would score just a ridiculous tally in the first. The aforementioned 44 was troublesome because if you didn't keep both eyes on him (and hands) he'd skate right by you, and often did so to the Blogger. It was clear, from very early on that the Zombies would have their hands full.
The first period would get going and it didnt take long for the Red to act in frustration. The Green would rip off a couple of shots and by the time Hammit had chased 44 around the ice once or twice he caught him and stapled him to the side boards and went for the first penalty about 3 minutes into the game. The Red would survive the penalty kill and really worked themselves into the Green end more as the period went on. As the shifts rolled the Red would get some opportunities, and the longer the game would remain scoreless the better they felt. Jim would turn aside a bunch of good chances and showed his consistent stability.
Before the end of the period #14 would strike on a nice break that DWH was all over. In fact DWH was all over the guy as he drove to the net, then flipped the puck up as he was being ridden off and it went top shelf over Sully's shoulder for the goal. Speaking from someone who saw it from a bout 3 feet away... it was ridiculous. The first would end 1-0 Preds.
The second would progress much as the first, with more wheezing. Jim would pull out some terrific stops, and the Red held together very well under the constant pressure. Still, scoring chances were infrequent and eventually the Green guns would get us. Before that Larry would go for a hook at some point. No blood on the PK as I recall... The Preds would score again when old tape numbers 44 would rack up another sick talley and put the bad guys up by 2. Roman would be the next to fall victim to frustration as he laid a nice check on his man but would take a seat in the box for his efforts. Not long after... but not on the power play... 44 would score again, this time with help from #8 red helmet and the second period would end 3-0 Predators.
Team Zombie faced a serious uphill climb in the third. The situation would get worse before it got better when 44 and 8 would team up yet again, this time with 8 providing the finish on a bang bang play and it was 4-0 Predators early in the third. Things finally came around just a little for the Dead in Red and good things began to happen.
George was clearly in meltdown mode as he verbally berated a teammate as the Red struggled again with the breakout. But moments later the play was in the offensive zone, George had fed it up to Dan Gregson who made a great play and in turn zipped a pass to Dr.Pounds who was in the slot and finished the play for the first Zombie score of the night. There was no small hint of irony as George congratulated his teammates after the goal. Regardless, it was good play all the way around by everyone on the ice, and it finally managed to turn the tide.
Larry's line had been up and down all night, but was starting to get better chances. Only a minute or two after Scott's goal they would put it together. Larry would keep the play and work the zone, he sent it to Dan Herbert and he would send it with force to the net. Chris Fosdick was there to bang it home and suddenly the Zombies actually had a pulse. ...well... you know what i mean.
It was nice to see the Green react by essentially keeping its best line(s) on the ice for the rest of the game. I think 8 might have taken a minute off in the last 10, but I could be wrong. He and 44 and 14 would pretty much play the rest of the way making it extra difficult for the Red to keep the momentum going. Eventually Hammit would go once more for a rough, but he showed good restraint by simply staying in the game, and once again there was no scoring on the penalty.
The Red would fight hard, Jim would again close the door when needed but there would be no dramatic comeback for this club. A bit too little, a bit too late against a team that was going to be hard to beat.
So thats how it would go for the Zombies. 4-2 final and a first class ticket to the "losers" bracket and a matchup on Tuesday coming up. We'll find out who we are playing and have an email out for roster purposes Monday.
No game stars.
... but ....
We can say, in an honorable mention capacity, that the Cads did take the fourth period... and maybe the fifth. Its always a "good" night when the zamboni driver tips his hat and reminds you to pick up the empties on his way out of hte parking lot. Kudos to all who stayed... you know who you are...

Suds and Preds tangle to a tie

Schlitz (16) vs Predators

Wednesday January 27

Dedham 10:10pm

3-3 Tie

An interesting evening in Dedham last night as the Suds would face Division Rival the Predators for a late evening game. Things didn't bode well at the very start as the Gold were almost entirely late for the pregame warmups. Thankfully enough guys were able to make it out and get some stretches in to start the game. The rest of the team would filter in over the first few minutes. We didn't have a whole 13 as was figured upon but decent numbers nonetheless... here's what we looked like

Lizzy in net

D1: Valenti, Goody

D2: Reynolds, Jeff

Offense: Roman and Neil as Centers

Wings: iJosh, Mitch, Matvey, Chris, AK, and Nelson.

First off lets say this. The Preds have some players. By my estimation they had probably 3 guys skating that were better than just about anyone on our roster. In the opening minutes the Blogger was thinking we'd need a great effort just to stay close... but looks may have been deceiving... The first settled into a decent back and forth with the Gold getting more chances than the Preds for the better part of the period.
The Gold would go to the box 2ice, first Roman then Jeff for a trip late in the period. The Preds also sent two to the box earlier on, but no scoring on those PPs. During the Jeff penalty Nelson would make a terrific steal and would rush in and score a great hard work goal that would put the Gold up 1-0 with 2 minutes left in the first.

The Gold wasn't done. Just after the penalty expired Chris Fosdick would score on a feed from Neil (who did some great work in the zone) and would increase the lead to 2 with 30 seconds left. But they STILL weren't done. Neil and Chris had such good results from their hard work that after the puck drop they went right at it again. Neil charging into the zone, wheeling and dealing to get a chance. Chris was there as everyone converged on the net and he jammed home the puck just before the horn blew for the end of the period.
Suddenly the Gold sat on a 3-0 lead at the end of the first period. Stunning, but we knew it would still take a lot of work to win the game.

The Green would come out gunning to open the second. They put out a stacked line that took less than a minute to score. Thankfully their momentum was slowed by another penalty just a few minutes later. The Gold would send AK to the box but the two teams would play back and forth without incident until late in the period. One of their no shield strong skaters, the Red helmeted number 8 would take the play right into Lizzy in the slot and then was tackled by Valenti... who did the right thing. Of course 8 then cries and whines like he's never been touched in his life and... get this... talks the ref into giving him a penalty shot. Unbelievable but true. So as time expired this douche would get his penalty shot which he made about 3 moves on and put behind Lizzy for the second goal. 3-2 after 2.

The Preds would continue to build momentum as they would open the third with the stacked line again and would score to tie the game just over a minute into the period. The Gold was disheartened but to their credit no one backed down and the effort was still strong as the game wound down.

There would be more penalties as Matvey would go after a standoff/pushfest with #2 (another big no shield dude) in the corner. Number 2 would end up pushing a ref and getting tossed. Matvey would go off for ... falling down I guess. Goody would tangle with #8 and they would go for matching roughs.

What it all came down to in the end was that the very frustrated and slightly more talented Predators did everything they could to get the game winner, but it wasn't going to happen. Lizzy made some great stops down the stretch. The D played great, and the Offense for the Gold just kept getting chances and keeping the puck in the the other end when they could. All in all a good tie to earn against a strong opponent.

No Stars for a tie... but good effort by all the skating Beercans on this night.

Cads Pound Predators in Rematch

Cadavers (4) vs Predators

Monday October 26th

Canton 8:10pm

7-5 Win

Another in the long early season string of double header games this one stands apart for two reasons. First we are thankfully back at our usual winter "home" rink in Canton, and secondly we had enough players to (mostly) fill out two rosters without having the majority of the team skate two games. This was a big help.

Here is your early game, Team Zombie lineup.

Lizzy in Net.

Roman

Valenti

Goody

Elliot

Daley

Baker

KenMitch

Larry

Matvey

Gregson

Nelson

AK Douville

DWH

The blogger freely admits he did NOT play in this game and really didn't get too much of a chance to watch it. Any of you guys that played in it, please comment and give us a few words to let us know how this one went down.

It looked like a close game for a while, then the Zombies pulled way ahead, then the Preds came back in the third to make it close. Thankfully, given that the game was in Canton I have a beautifully filled out scoresheet that tells the story.

Mike Daley would lead off scoring just over 3 minutes into the game unassisted. If it was half as nice as his second goal, which I did see, then it was a beauty. Larry would land one from Gregson and Daley with 11 and a half to go in the first.

The Predators would answer a minute later to make it 2-1 Zombies. Kenny AK Douville would score from Roman and Goody at the 8 minute mark only to be answered by the Green with 2 minutes left in the first. The first period would end 3-2 Zombies.

The Second period was all... and I mean all Team Zombie. KenMitch Goldenberg would lead it off with a beauty of a shot from the slot, credit the assist to linemate Matt Elliot. Thats 2 goals in 2 weeks for Ken. Mike Daly would rip off a phenominal solo rush from the red line that would weave through half the team and end in a great goal, unassisted. AK would strike again from Larry and Goody, this one a nice low shot glove side. And not to be boxed out of the big period Roman Kurin would score with help from DWH at the point. All of these goals came before the 8 minute mark of the second. The Zombies would take a 7-2 lead to the third.

The game was pretty quiet the rest of the way. The Predators would take two penalties then all hell would break loose in the last five minutes. Must have been somekind of letdown but the Predators finished very strong, even in defeat as they score 3 goals over the last five minutes to turn a blowout into a pretty close game. This one would end 7-5.

No game stars for the moment....

Schlitz tie frustrating Predators

Schlitz (3) vs Predators
Monday October 19th
UMass 7:00pm


3-3 Tie

Another week, another double header matchup at the Prison by the Bay. This was thankfully the last double pair of games in the early going... the blogger is knocking on wood... and hopefully we wont have any more games scheduled at this lovely venue. From paying to park, to it being close to the arctic circle, but yet still in Boston, to the lack of lockerooms or space to change in general... ahh it just goes on and on.

The Suds were once again thin as a result of the doubleheader but put a good crew out there. Here's your roster. We were backed by Mark Marrese who was a fill in for both squads on this night. We needed Mark because Matt and Kerry had their second child on Saturday night, the lovely Laura Katherine Kilroy.

The rest of the lineup was this.

Matvey
Nelson
Jeff
Valenti
Douville
Elliot
Gregson
Herbert
Goodwin
Baker

Their keeper was a huge dude with a red helmet, not their regular guy and we couldn't get a thing by him. The guy just gobbled everything up. My recollection being far *ahem* from perfect but I think we spent the whole night in their zone. Remember we were fresh because this was still only the first game of the night.

We matchup pretty well with the Predators and the game was a good skate. Again the Suds were able to take the game right to the opponent and get groups of chances after sometimes multiple passes.

I know that Nelson would lead off the scoring, unassisted and put the 'Cans out in front early. The Predators would counter though and score two decent goals of their own before the first period was out.

The second period would see Mike "Goody" Goodwin score a nice goal on a feed from Matt Elliot. Steve Baker would take a penalty for slashing, and Dan DWH Herbert would go for a hook also during the second.

The game would go to the third 2-2 . I'm pretty sure that the Predators scored next and we were down for a few minutes but I really dont remember. Anyone that does remember please, please comment on the post and let us all know how it turned out.

I do know that Goody would score again, this time from DWH and the tie would be salvaged from a game that really we felt like we should have won going away. I can't stress enough how well the Predator keeper played.

For his part Mark did a nice job filling in and we were very glad to have him.

Tie... still no game stars.

So again this game led directly into the nightcap, featured in the next post...

Dead in Yellow down the Preds

Cadavers(8) vs Predators
Monday July 6th
Quincy 7:00 pm


8-3 Win!


Game one of a dava double headah was an early start in the City of Presidents. An early affair against a club that according to the crew we’ve played before… but the blogger will be darned if he can remember it. Regardless the Cadavers showed up and wore yellow so we played as the dead in yellow for no particular reason, hopefully we wont throw off the league office when the scoresheets come in.
The Cads in Yellow were well represented with a nice round 10 players. It broke down like this.
D1: Roman (yes that Roman) and Steve Baker
D2: Dave Diloretto and Jeff Fosdick
O1: Larry, Nelson, and iJosh
O2: Angry Ken, Mitch, and Dr.Pounds
Brian “Long Arm of the Law” Carey in the Pipes.

The game would really be decided in the first period and Larry would set the tone right off the oppening draw. Larry beat his man, turned the d and shot, Nelson and Josh kept it in and in less than a minute Nelson fed Larry who would bang it home for the 1-0 lead. Things were looking good. The Preds had a couple of good skaters but they were on one of the forward lines and it looked like they had at least three lines of players over there. The D was, well, not their best players and it looked good for the Red/Gold early. Of course the Yellow jerseys come with the usual attention from the zebras and we took a couple of penalties a few minutes after the first goal.
Baker would go for a trip (on their best player)
Jeff would go a minute later for a trip also. That left a breif 5-3 that the Gold killed off well. Of course the Green was gaining a bit of momentum, and when the penalties had expired they were able to break through with a goal that Brian didn’t have any help on.
Not to be outdone, Larry would take the faceoff and again turn the pylon defenders and plunk it home unassisted to put the good guys back on top. This would be followed within 2 minutes by a nice goal by iJosh, again from Nelson, and in the closing minute of the period Jeff would step up into the play in the neutral zone and went in on a breakaway that he finished by going 5 hole on the shakey keeper for a very nice 4-1 lead at the end of one period.

The second would see Nelson grabbing a goal from iJosh who was returning the favor, then Larry would complete his Hat Trick, again fed from Nelson, and Dave Di. Sporting a comfortable 6-1 lead the Dead in Gold got just a tiny bit complacent and the Green would land another one and held off the blow out to make it 6-2.

The third period would start off with Larry scoring his fourth goal of the game, this one from Jeff. There was more than a little banter about Larry being motivated by Jasse’s 4 goal night last week, and knowing Larry, it may not be too far from the truth. Whatever it was Larry was all over the ice last night. He had no fewer than 3 tremendous backchecks on their best player, to go along with all the scoring.
The Green would score another one, amazingly not on the power play as both Steve and Dave Di would go during the third for tripping. Steve would make up for it with a really nifty break away and wicked shot that capped the night off at 8-3.

Great effort all the way around. It didn’t show on the score sheet but it needs to be mentioned that the line of AK, Mitch and the Doc was very productive and came very close on more than a handful of opportunities. Also notable was the very solid Defensive play by Mr. Roman Kurin. Our Radical Russian deserves big kudos for not only volunteering for the position, but for good effort and solid play all night.

Game Stars
3rd Star: Hrm…hard to pick. I’m going with the Defensive corps. Roman for chipping in. Steve for a goal. Dave for a helper and really playing shut down all night, and Jeff for a goal and an assist.
2nd Star: Nelson “just doing my job” Sharfman. A quiet 4 point night for the cagey vet, with 3 assists and a goal. Its just something to watch the man work, shift after shift, season after season.

1st Star: Larry “anything you can do I can do better” Bell. a very nice game all the way around and 4 goals to really pad the stats. Larry was a force all night. Great work.

Check out the next post for the second game of the double header.

Just a quick note on last week's business. Everyone on both squads has been asking about Chris and he is doing much better. Everyone sends their best wishes and thoughts bro, we are all thinking about you.

Chris himself just checked in with an account of how his injury took place and I've added it to the game story from last week. Check it out, with gruesome visuals here.

Also here is a pic that iJosh grabbed of half the team in the penalty box. Shame it isn't clearer... it would make a nice banner for the blog from now on. Its pretty hard to win when 40% of the roster is in the box and busy yelling at the zeebs. Some of those calls were crap, to be sure, we just can't let our mouths blow the game for us...

wait that didn't sound right...

aw shut up Parker and stop looking at me like that...

....aahh just forget it.

Hat Trick for Duxbury!

Schlitz (3) vs Predators
Tuesday May 26th

Canton 8:10 pm

3-1 Win.

Here for the game story from Tuesday night are fabulous Guest- Bloggers iJosh and Mike Jasse. Let's hear what iJosh had to say first.

The last few seasons have seen the rest of the NESHL D League out recruit the Red and Gold. However this season the Schlidaveurs look like they may have the cream of the recruiting class. For this game that was evident with the additions of Mike Goodwin, Steve Baker and Dave DiLoereto.

This game was full of skater. A complete locker room of 13 arrived for the 8:10 start, primed and ready. The lines would be shake out to be:
George and Mark Reynolds; Campbell and Steve Baker on the defense.
Larry Bell centering Mike Jasse and Mike Goodwin
Dave DiLoreto centering Pete Capraro and Mike Hammitt
iJosh Greenstein centering Dr. Pounds and Matvey Nikhamik.
and CEO Mad Matt Kilroy would man the piped.

The first period would be a bit sloppy. A few mistakes were made as the gold often found their shots and passes blocked causing a number of turnovers and rushes. Luckily no damage would be done. The 3rd line for the night would quickly neutralize our defensive lapses. Dave Di would gather the puck and skate behind the net, throwing a tape to tape pass onto the stick of Mr. Capraro who deftly sent it to the back of the net. 1-0 good guys. Late in the period Capt George would take the first of many penalties by both teams. The PK unit would hold their own until the Predators would take the first of their penalties. So the period would end with the Cans a man up and a goal ahead.

The second period would see the gold continue to press offensively.
The line of DiLoreto, Capraro and Hammitt would hold the puck in the offensive zone for seems like 2 straight minutes, stopping clearing pass after clearing pass and putting shot after shot on net. Though nothing would come of the pressure, it certainly set a tone. But as we often find momentum is a funny thing. After another shot was deflected the Blue would rush back. The Suds would get back giving the Blue little option, but to take a shot from just inside the blue line. Mad Matt would make the initial save, but the puck would be deflected high into the net. 1-1 tie. George would take the 2nd of his penalties as he would trip a Predator in the slot.

Schlitz would again hold their own in the PK, but would again be forced to play a man down as Mike Campbell would get called for his first as he would get called for a trip. And again the PK was successful. With about a minute to go, the Predators would get their 2nd penalty. However the power play would be unable to convert. The period would end with the teams in a dead lock.

The third was time to pull ahead and the Cans would oblige. Early in the 3rd the gold would get call for another penalty. This time new addition Dave Di would get called for a trip. This was around the same time as the Preds getting called for a trip of their own. So a bit of 4 on 4 would be played. Shortly after the penalties expired, Mr Campbell would be escorted to the sin bin once again. This time for an interference. During this PK Mark Reynolds would break out and send the goalie one way as the goalies jock went another. 2-1 Suds. Momentum was clearly back on the Schlitz side. Pete Capraro would come back to the bench and (warning artistic license) mutter that he is the best player on the team from Duxbury and that our happy go lucky defensemen was certainly not in his class. So Pete would show who from Duxbury had the most game that night as he would intercept a pass and take it in for his 2nd goal of the night 3-1 Schiltz. After that the whistles would return.

First Campbell would get his 3rd of the game for a slash and "foul out" of the game. iJosh would serve the penalty for Mike. But he was feeling lonely and was hoping for some company. Luckily for him Mike Hammitt would get a triple minor. Yes that is a triple minor. A double minor for checking with an added unsportsmanlike for being large (actually that was the explanation given by the ref. Since Hammitt can do some damage the ref expects him to have more self control). So Hammitt would join Campbell for and early exit (actually only about a minute to go). Matvey would serve that penalty and Schlitz would find themselves in a 6 on 3 situation as the Predators had pulled their goalie. But the same magic that recently worked for BU would not work here. Once more whistle from the refs would see a Predator get called for a trip. And that would wrap it up. A hard fought, well deserved 3-1 win.

For all our defensive lapses there was a lot of good offense this games. Twice the gold were able to completely dominate in the offensive end, stealing passes and blocking clears and putting multiple shots on net. Some nice deep play to get some quality shots on net happened again and again. Unfortunately for the gold, the Preds goalie played a nice game.

And that brings us to Mr. Kilroy who despite letting in that one goal, played a spectacular game in net and segue very nicely into the next sections:

Stars of the game:
3rd Star: Mark Reynolds (goal and solid D play)
2nd Star: Matt Kilroy (great game between the pipes)
1st Star: Pete Capraro (2 goals and just great offensive play all game)

Great work iJosh. Great game guys, even if it finished kinda ugly...

Now here is Mike Jasse with another take on the festivities. He wasn't sure of a couple of the new guy's names... but we can be forgiving ... right? Right. Here's Mike.
First and foremost, I would like to extend a hearty 'thank you' to whomever heads-up our recruiting department; our talent and depth levels are certainly going in the right direction.

Larry centering Mike Goody on the left and Jasse on the rightDave(?) centering Hammit on the left and Pete Capraro on the rightIJosh centering El Doctorino Pounds on the left and Matvey on the rightCampbell Steve (?)George Mark R Twiddles in between the pipes.

My memory is a bit hazy (thanks in part to an excellent 4th period) but both teams showed up with plenty of skaters and it was a well-fought, up tempo game. The pervading feeling from this scribe is how the line of Larry, Goody and Jasse did not score. We were in their zone all night, we set each other up nicely on numerous occasions and just peppered their goalie. But, to no avail.

Their keep played well (or maybe we made him look good-I certainly took a beauty of a Bell pass and fired it right at his gut). Our second line turned out to be our scoring line; Pete got us on the board b/c of a terrific set-up and pass from new guy, Dave (Specs).

Matt may have played his best game between the pipes. He wasn't neccessarily tested all night but he was busy enough and looked cool, calm and collected all game. He did give up a long-range goal but the good thing is you know he's never going to get beat on a shot like that again.

Pete would score again and it was a quitensential Capraro goal. His intense forcheck forced a bad pass which he intercepted (I believe right off the money-maker; Let's give praise for the invention of the cup) and he just cranked it up to an extra gear, took a puck on edge and put it home. A nice, hard-working goal.

Reynolds lugged the mail in the 3rd period during a penalty kill (our PK rocked all night) and found an opening between their D, made a couple of qick moves and beat the goalie 5-hole. A sweet and well-needed goal.Penalties:George had 2.

Campbell got tossed (I think for unsportsmanlike conduct but I'm not sure)Late in the 3rd I turned to Pete on the bench and said, "Hamitt's going anytime now."About 5 seconds later Hammitt just CRUSHED some poor sap into the boards; absolutely stapled the guy.

GameStars

3rd star: Reynolds. A much needed insurance goal from our winger who was needed on the D. He played well in 3 zones and was great on our PK.

2nd star: Matt BMF Kilroy Solid game in net. Matt's playing with more and more confidence as he continues to play a calm, quiet game in between the pipes.

1st star: Has to go to Pete. 2 goals to go along w/ his usual hard charging, never quit skating style.

Alright! Great guest blogs gentlemen... if you aren't careful the blogger may just turn over his post completely... Thanks again. Personally I like how they both had the same pics for the 3 stars. That would make it official.

See you all next week at the rink.