Cads face Rangers Friday Night

Cadavers (7) vs Rangers
Friday 6/24
Hingham A 9:10

2-1 loss


The Dead in Red faced the South of Boston League Rangers (looking a whole lot like the CH Terriers) in Hingham on Friday night for what turned out to be a grinding tough skate and competitive but disappointing game.
The Cads featured a pair of call ups from the secondary roster given that half the roster was at a wedding and the rest apparently have a life... unlike the 10 of us that showed up on Friday night at the Hingham rink. To add to the reunion feel Lizzy DeFlurin was handling the score keeping duties. Nice to see her, and Mark Reynolds and Teddy Locke who both played D and provided a nice boost.
Scott pounds seemed to have left the house without his pants… and without comment as to weather that is regular behavior for the good Doc on a Friday night... it didn’t work so well for us as he couldn’t go. We missed him but went with the 9 we had.
Heres’ your breakdown.
Jon Cole in Net
D: Teddy, Mark and Jeff
O1: Baker, Daley, Matvey
O2: Nelson, Jasse and Sully

The “Rangers” looked a lot like members of the Ch Terriers and Tigers as there were several familiar faces. They featured a few half shields with wheels, some big D, a speedy and very pesky female forward and a big guy with soft hands that cherry picked half the night.
They were clearly experienced, steady and relentless. We had our hands more than full, even with the addition of Teddy on the blue line. He did a sold job all night covering a ton of ground and steadying the play when needed in our end.
Jon Cole needs a mention here too. He played very well, making bunches of great stops on their tricky shooters.
The play was even but daunting for most of the first. The Rangers would finally crack the ice just under the 5 remaining. The big guy who was often cheating up behind our D finally got a pass and Jeff was no where close enough to make a play on him as he walked in solo and buried a wicked shot by Jon.
The killer was that they would score again with only 30 seconds in the period after a long scramble in our own end. That was a big shot to the hopes for the Red.
The Second played as a total grind. Trying to control their chances and creating a few of our own. The forwards pushed the puck well at times, the line of Sully, Nelson and Jasse was doing hard work all over and making nice passes but nothing was quite coming together for any of them.

The Baker, Daley Matvey likewise created some nice chances but nothing came together. Daley did his usual ton of skating and had a solid night trying to make things happen. Steve deserves some credit for the way he played as the frustration and tension mounted in the final period. It went 5 minutes into the 3rd 2-0 badguys and we were really pressing to get something. Steve took some abuse in front of the net and the guy yapped at him after the play. Steve not only kept his cool, (and his hands off the guy), but then on the restart of play he drew a penalty from the guy, taking a trip and gaining the Red the only power play of the night.
The Red would not have a great PP however and didn’t score.

Baker would then would pick up a puck in the offensive zone and doing the “spinarama” shot backhand through traffic and scored to get the Red on the board. (unassisted).
Unfortunately that would be the only highlight of the night other than Jon’s occasional stellar work to keep us within shouting distance of the game.

A tough, but hard fought 2-1 loss for a Friday night treat. This would complete the sweep fo the week after we lost the night before in Dedham to the Spartans.
So much for the undefeated dream season… 5-2.

4th period honors for Jasse, Mark, Daley and Jeff who enjoyed the ambiance of the Hingham parking lot for the rest of the evening. Not bad for a Friday night and warm enough.

Cadavers vs Rangers Tuesday 6/29

Cadavers (7) vs Rangers
Tuesday June 29th
Canton 8:10pm


Rangers 4
Cads 3


The blogger doesn't have much on this one. He did collect the scoresheet from the CEO who had a few words but no official guest blog on this one.
Lets start off with who was there:

Roster
Campbell
Ken/Mitch
Baker
Jason Seaver
Scot Pounds
Dan G
Dan H
AK
Brian Carey
Kevin
Blake
Howard
Goal- Matt

Sounds like it was a tight game and the Dead in Red kept the game close and kept coming back, but unfortunatley the Rangers would dominate late and snatched the game from our cold withered hands.
Here is how the scoring looked from the sheet.

1st per: Larry assisted by 36 @ 16:25 Pen: Baker rough 14:46
The Rangers scored in 1st @ 4min and 2:55

2nd per: Rangers score @ 2:55. Zombies Jay Seaver from DWH @ 1:50. down 3-2 after 2.

3rd Per: Rangers score @13:12. Zombies Seaver from Howard @4:31 Pen: Larry rough 1:59

That was how it would go. Just not enough to come back and tie it up at the end. Good work by the Cads to stay with it and make a game of it, too bad we couldn't pull it off.
Well... so not much of a story here... so lets revisit some ancient history involving the Rangers... shall we?



Old time hockey...
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Cads show Zombie Pride... but lose in a stinker.

Cadavers (2) vs Rangers

Wednesday 10/10

UMass 9:30pm

9-1 loss.

Oh Boy.

I'd like to say that this one was fun, or that it was competitive, or that we played well, or that we worked hard 'til the end.... but I can't. The Cads got smoked by a veteran Rangers team that had a few snipers (slow... but niffty) and a few driven women (nevermind) and otherwise a mediocre blend of talent. Actually the game was competitve for 2 periods. This was in no small part to the contribution of Madd Matt Kilroy taking his second start of the season (and the week) between the pipes.

Matt was fabulous in his first game with real goalie skates and made a bunch of awesome stops in the first period. He stopped 'em in traffic and from in close, he was everywhere poking the puck away or just covering up when it was needed. The first period was a 0-0 draw. The skating dead were holding thier own, even as the Ranger's veterans were filtering onto the bench during the first 10 minutes of the game. The Zombies were getting chances and holding together pretty well.

Then came our dreaded 2nd period letdown. I'm going to have to study this but it seems to me that we've been scored on inside the first 3-4 minutes of the second period of like every single game we've played. Well, last night was no exception.

Thanks to a dubious change by the Defense (Jeff F and newcomer Mike Daley) the Rangers had a break and finaly put one past the CEG. (Chief Executive Goalie...). Things began to slide downhill from this point on. The Rangers scored again not long after and then went up 3-0 as they really started to smell the blood in the water.

The forwards couldn't seem to get back into the groove they had in the first period despite the efforts by Larry, Matt Elliot, Mike Jasse, iJosh, Ken, Mark Bates, Nelson, and Matvey.

The Cads got on the board after DWH (Dan Hebert) made a great goal from Nelson and Matvey that pulled the red within two. DWH and his defensive partner Dan Gregson worked hard all night and did all they could to stem the tide. Mike Daley was also tireless and skated well... he's a great new addition.

The third period doesn't really deserve much of a writeup. Suffice to say the Rangers were slobbering all over themselves to rack up the score. One of their snipers... wearing a New England Whalers shirt and looking like a Meth addicted evil twin of Brad Park... kept at it until he had a handfull of well picked goals. Gregson flipping the puck into this guy's grill (no facemask... of course) didn't even slow him down. Kudos to Gregson for the effort, but this guy was out to show us what a washed up, overweight, really ugly, player who once had skills really looks like. We got the picture.

Alas... no wins yet for our beloved Schlidaveurs... (combined 0-3-1) but they will come. Hope none of our fans are holding thier breath.
Three games next week.

Cads Monday (BU 9:30) and Wednesday (UMass 10:30), and Schlitz on Thursday (UMass 10:30). Get your confirmations into the CEG (Matt).

Zombies derailed... and destroyed.

Cadavers vs Rangers
Playoff Game 2
Thursday 8/30
Canton 7:10

11-2 loss.

Thats right... trainwreck. The Cadavers faced off with the Rangers for the second game of the playoffs and hoped to get one over on the talented Rangers. Not to be. I think the first clue that things weren't going the Zombie's way was when they scored :48 seconds into the game... or maybe when they scored again just under 2 minutes later... or when they scored again 4 minutes after that. I think you get the picture my blog reading friend. The Zombies got croaked last night.
That's not to say there wasn't plenty of effort and even a glimmer of Zombie Pride on the ice, it just wasn't enough. This was a theme all night. Not enough. The Zombies struggled to mount consistent offensive pressure and on the other end let up far too many good scoring chances to a group that clearly knew how to finish.
Let's give some credit where credit is due. The Rangers are pretty good. They have an excellent mix of older, skilled guys and younger speedy and competitive women that played very well together. They had lots of good passing and really they had the skill players to turn it on whenever they wanted.
The Zombies were tough. To a person, there was hard work and effort all night. There were even some bright spots amid the rubble.
*Kevin Parker produced a tremendous gutty performance just going out for his shift throughout the game. Kevin was not feeling well and .... well the Blogger doesn't feel like getting into it. Suffice to say under great duress Mr.Parker gutted one out for the team, knowing how outgunned we were. Thanks.
*DJ played great with the first line of Kevin and Jim Sullivan. In position consistently all night long Deb had several chances and even created some oppportunities. Really its the small things...ie: 6 out of 7 times when the puck came around to her point in our end she got the pass and connected on an outlet. Excellent work.
*The only goals were scored by DWH from Sully and Jeff Fosdick from Dan Gregson.
Other than that there was some solid play from the Defensive corps featuring George Moorachain, DWH, Mike Campbell, and callup Billy Pearlman. Everyone played hard, it just wasn't going to happen for the skating dead last night.
Now the Zombies face a 0-2 Playoff record and the only thing remaining before the book is closed on this summer season is the final showdown with our brothers the Schlitz. A chance to knock the 2-0 (with the bye) Suds out of the coveted Championship Game. Sounds like a good Schlidaveur story line to me.


Just one more thing for you team. Last night marked another seminal moment in our franchies history. The 'Coon has been replaced! That's right bitches...


THE RETURN OF THE 'COON OF SHAME!

The ghostly spectre of the 'Coon has returned to remind us all that poor play, or outlandish behavior will once again be rewarded with our fiendish furry friend. Seen here in the beer cooler during last night's fourth period, the 'Coon was quoted as being "glad to be back" and "just here to help the team". I guess that stinker of a performance by the skating dead brought him out of semi retirement...

So we have a group 'Cooning for the entire Cadavers roster last night for losing by 9 in a playoff game.

Schlitz go down to Rangers in regular season finale.

Schlitz (15) vs Rangers

Quincy Youth Arena

Tuesday Aug. 21

9-6 Loss.

Bummer of a night for the Suds who were optimistic going into the game about wrapping up the first place spot in our division. That optimism faded as we settled into the game and began chasing the Rangers all night. They had fewer skaters, but probably a couple that were better quality than what we put out on the ice. This showed as the game began and the Rangers scored on their first rush and shot to put us down one 15 seconds into the game. That was it. We were a goal (or two) down the whole night.

Playing from behind we still had a pretty good showing. The Rangers went up 2-0 before we broke through on a hard work effort by Nelson Sharfman. Nelson and Dangerous Dave cycled low and thanks to Nelson's grit and determination got the puck out to Jeff Fosdick who was camped out in the slot and buried it. After 1 it was 2-1 bad guys but the Suds were feeling pretty good.

The second period was more of the same uphill climb. They scored 4 min into the period to go back up by two but again more hard work from Nelson and Dave resulted in a goal by Dangerous Dave about a minute later. They scored again, (maybe you see a pattern here...) and then the first line broke through. Larry Bell put one away on a feed from Mike Jasse that again kept us within one. Unfortunately the Rangers scored again just before the end of the period to make it 5-3 after 2 periods.

The blogger wishes he could say that the third period was different but alas... it wasn't. The Schlitz did score first, right after a lineup change that sent Jeff Fosdick back to defense in exchange for Kevin Parker. Kevin scored (helper from Nelson) about four minutes into the period on what was becoming a common setup for the Schiltz. Grinding around the net and picking up rebounds in the traffic out front. Unfortunately the Schiltz bench was full of tired, huffing and puffing faces and the resulting let down spelled our doom. The Rangers scored the next two (7-4) and the Suds called time.

The timeout seemed to help as we had a minor lift. Mike Jasse put one away from Larry this time but the come back would fall short. Despite a goal from Nelson (assist Billy Pearlman) the Rangers were able to put away 2 more and the dissapointing final was 9-6.

Not much penalty action to speak of other than Billy for 1 and Hammitt had his usual 2 (but at least one was matching...maybe both were) but weren't a major factor in the outcome.

Tough way to lose the last regular season game but... it just wasn't our night. A game we could have won but you have to give their good players credit for getting it done. No game stars for that one but in general everyone played pretty well.

Honorable Mention: Nelson Sharfman with 1 goal and 3 assists for a big 4 point night. Great effort all night dude. Nelson always brings it.... like the cagey vet he is. Plus he looks SO GOOD in those Yellow Jerseys!

See you in the playoffs. Stay tuned for updates on games....