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...

Dead in Gold battle the Rats!

Cadavers (13) vs River Rats
Monday Aug 8
Canton 1010pm


3-1 Loss


The dead in Red hit the Ice in Canton last night as the Dead in Yellow, with new and old faces trying to bust up this miserable streak that the team has been on since the early part of the summer. Newcomer Jay McNamara was manning the pipes for the first time for the Dead and he did a fine job in his first appearance. Jon Carey (brought by his Dad Brian) was home on leave from the Marines and he skated a reunion shift with the forwards for the night. Likewise it was nice to see Eric Snow on the blueline again as he made only his second game for the Cads. Here’s how the roster shook out.

Jay McNamara in net
D1: Eric Snow; Bauer
D2: Baker; Jeff
O1: Sully, Daley, Matvey
O2: Parker, Carey, Elliot
and Doc Pounds did the floating.


The opponent for the night was the River Rats, a club we’ve seen before but very rarely. They usually play in a division one or two above us, and after the debacle last week against the Shock, there was a bit of trepidation in the room about the prospects of being badly outclassed on the ice. The blogger is glad to tell you that this wasn’t quite the case, and the situation was certainly made much better given that the Rats acted with a lot more class and sportsmanship than the F*ckbag Shock.
They were better than us. No question. They had two guys, no face sheild number 6 and blue helmet 18 that were a full step or two above the talent level we are used to. It was clear from early on we’d have to keep a sharp eye on both of those guys whenever they were on the ice.
I’m also glad to report that the Dead in Gold looked at the task at hand and dug right in and played hard matching the Rats intensity and keeping a dull shine on Zombie pride preventing anything from getting out of hand.
The Red forwards did a nice job backchecking, and the D was pretty well shutdown all night. Great play by Steve Baker all night helped anchor that D unit and he must have had 30 stops/breakups over the course of the game. Bauer and Snow worked pretty well together and the Gold limited the Red to short cycles in our end.

More good news. Jay McNamara is a nice find. Kudos from management go to George Moorachian for digging this guy up. He’s got game and shut down the Rat’s big guns a number of times in the first and third. The ‘davuers look forward to seeing him back in the nets sometime soon.

The first period would see a few scrambles in our end but in general the Gold did a nice job reacting to the Rats speed and snuffed out everything they brought. Its notable that the first time the blogger remembered a good hard shot on the red keeper was at about 4 minutes remaining in that period. It would end a 0-0 draw and the Gold clearly had a moral victory at that score.

Really the only bad section of the game for the Cadavers was the beginning of the second period. The Rats would turn on the juice and land a bang bang pass and shoot goal just 15 seconds in. The goal was set up by the speedy number 18 who had serious wheels when he wanted to open it up. They plunked another one in less than a minute later and there was clearly a sinking feeling on the Gold bench. They would hand semi tough though and get their legs back, only to let another one in at the 1130 mark and the game was 3-0, but that was as far as the bleeding would go that period.

The Gold would get the next one on a nice play by Sully and Daley. Mike led the play in the zone 2 on 1 and threaded a beauty of a pass to Sully who ripped a good shot by the Red keeper to make it 3-1. That seemed to buoy the Gold hopes and they seemed to play a bit harder after that.

Each team would take a penalty. In our case Matvey went for a trip with about 4 minutes left in the second. No scoring on either the kill or the power play and the period would end 3-1.

The third would be a grind all the way. The Rats were clearly looking to bust it open but thanks to great plays by both Jay in Net and Baker on the blueline the Gold held them without a score in the final frame. Of course we didn’t generate much offense and didn’t make any ground back on the 2 goal lead. Still it was again a bit of a moral victory just to play to a draw in two of the three periods.

It was all around a very good skate and a nice competitive game that had none of the nonsense from the blowout the week before. A tip of the cap to the Rats for that.
Honorable mentions go out to Mike Daley who played his usual very solid game covering lots of ice with each shift. Sully also looks to be becoming more of himself and showing the occasional flash. Nice to see greybeard vet Kevin Parker out there grinding it up with the offense too.

Management would be remiss not to thank Jon Carey for not just coming out last night, but all for his service to our country. Jon looked really well, and certainly added some muscle (and a new tatoo) over the last few months. Stay safe Jon. It was great to see you and remember you can play with us anytime.

Also nice to see his Dad who seems to be on the mend from shoulder surgery. It will be nice to have him back this winter.

That’s how that one went. The last bit of good news I’ve got for you is that we won the all important 4th period thanks to nice chilly collection of beers brought by Eric Bauer. There was good conversation to go with the beer and a laugh or two in the Canton lot before we called it a night.

Rats chew on Cads.

Cadavers (p2) vs River Rats

Monday April 13th
Dedham 10:20pm

4-0 loss

Looks like we didn't fare any better against the Rats than we have any other time we've played them this season. Reports are still slow coming in on this one...

Anyone with a Tale to tell... drop a dime to the Blogger... you know where to find me.
I will update this post when I have something of significance to add....

Oh wait a minute... I do have something...

Twas some other playoff hockey to think about over the weekend. So in the interest of denial… and the cheap excuse to crow about my own team…
The Blogger would like to congratulate the 08-09 Boston University Terrier Hockey Team on their National Championship. The Terriers played an incredible game on Saturday night. I’m here to tell you that as the evening wore on at Chez Blogger there was long faces and copious beer consumption. Things looked very dark… then things got much much better. Zach Cohen pulls them within one, then Colin Wilson ties it up. When Colby Cohen’s goal fluttered in during overtime I can tell you this… there was some serious dancing on the coffee table. Way to go boys. Way to go Jack.
Its always special when your team wins the big one… let alone when they practically give you a heart attack doing it.

Credit Boston Globe for Pics from Today's Championship Rally on Comm. Ave.

Woo Hoo!
...and by the way... BC STILL SUCKS!

River Rat Smackdown!

Cadavers (22) vs River Rats
Monday February 23
10:20pm


0 to ... don't ask.



Master Guestblogger iJosh is here to give it to you straight
friend. I ain't standing in his way so here he is...

"So do you remember when you were little? There were time that you wanted to be like the adults the big boys. But inevitably you were told to either go away; go play with your own friends; or this is no place for a kid. Essentially you were put in your place. Well folks this is exactly what the River Rats did to us. The let us know that we didn't belong there. At least not last night.

The players for this night would be: Matvey & George, Chris Fosdick & Mark Reynolds on D. iJosh centering Ken D and Chuck. Roman would center Gregson and Matt Elliott.

Sometimes when we have a great exciting game it is described as having it all. Well there was absolutely none of that. We would spend the first period on our heel trying our best just to not give up a goal.
There was no offense just genuine effort just to keep up. The Rats passed well, shot well and defended well. Not a good combo for the Dead in Red. Finally well into the 1st the Rats would finally strike. This would be followed by more struggling efforts by the Cads. The only shot in the 1st was a tipped pass that floated in the air and captured by their keeper. Lizzie put in a fantabulous first period, making some very impressive saves. But as the period wound down the Rats would get a pass away and a streaking player would roof one with only seconds to
go. 2-0 Rats

The second would see numerous breakdowns by the Cadavers. This would lead to a total of 4 goals in on Lizzie. Don't get me wrong, she still played well. But some of these saves Gerry Cheevers wouldn't have made. Okay that would be the Gerry Cheevers of 2009. He is much older and slower. But he is still a better player than any of us. Our favorite ref even felt a little sorry for us as he even let us know that he let a hook by iJosh go. But eventually he would have to start calling them and that would put Roman in the box for tripping. By the end of two it was 6-0.

The third would see the Rats lay off a bit. But that would make little or no difference. Matt Elliott would have our one and only legitimate shot at a goal, but it wasn't meant to be. Lizzie let more in via screens, tips and overpowering shots. Again, nothing that she could anything about. In the end the score would be 10-0.

Hindsight being 20/20, even if we had more natural defensemen or played better positioning or passed better the outcome may not have been much different. Yeah, maybe we put one in and maybe they score 2 or 3 less.

But all in all this was the spanking that your daddy gave to you just when you needed to be put in your place. Maybe you enjoyed that. But that would make you a freak. The rest of us just bowed our head in shame and walked away.

The 4th would have a few quick die hards. Beer courtesy of Mr. Fosdick. But the time, temp and lack of enthousiasm made it a quick night.

Josh... you rock. Great work as always. Unfortunately we dont have a very pretty story to tell at times. There were a bunch of other contributors on this one and the Blogger thanks you all. Here is a few words from Captain George:
" ... Not a muscle in body that doesn't fell like lead. Left it all on the ice last night. ...
...You know me. I always have something to say, or some comments after the game on how we might have slowed the opposition down. But, after the game, I had zero complaints for any Cad
performance. There was simply nothing we could have done with the roster we had versus that Rats team. As a matter of fact, I believe that even if we had a Schlidavers A-team skate, we would not have been able to win. The River Rats have no business being our division.... It's not their fault. I blame the league administrator for allowing it."

Alright Cap... Thanks for your words as always, here in the blog and at the rink. Next up on the hit parade is our Lady of the Pipes... Lizzy who had a word or two for her teammates after a long night at the rink. Here's Lizzy:
Even though we lost last night I think there should be some honorable mentions stars. Everyone who played defense Matvey, George, Chris, and Mark, played really well considering there was a lot of pressure the whole game and the only real on this team defense man was George. George and Chris played especially well on the boards. Three people from the other team were often boarding George it looked like a George sandwich. If I could pick one star it would be Chris, he really stepped up to play D last night and did an great job. "

Alright Lizzy, thanks for that. Again the blogger wants to thank all contributors as always send your love, hate, venom, and questionable content to yours truly here at the blog.

Suds Cheesed by Rats!

Schlitz (13) vs River Rats

Monday Decmeber 15th

Bavis 10:20pm

5-0 Loss

This one didn't go much better than the first one on Monday night. There were a bunch of guys who skated both games as we only had a handfull of guys show for the nightcap.

This is how things looked. The guys in bold skated twice.

Campbell, James, Jeff and Valenti on D. Brian in Net.

Nelson, Larry, Ken Douville, Chris, Gregson, Daley, Reynolds, iJosh, Mitch

Again... a tough team with decent talent. They had at least 2 guys who could turn it on and off as needed and made for an uphill climb for the tired boys in Gold. This game was similar to the first one in that we hung with them for a long time and the game was very close for a long long time. Then things fell apart at the end. (seems to be a theme...).

The Rats would score one about mid way through the first, and despite clearly being the better team, they were being pushed a little by the guys in Gold and there were chances at both ends... albeit more frequently at our end...

Here's what it boils down to. 1-0 after one. They scored with a minute left in the second to make it 2-0 (that was killer goal). Then the third was a washout. The Gold took 2 penalites, Greg James in the first, Larry in the third. Unfortunately there was nothing else on the scoresheet to discuss....

The Rats scored 3 times in the third to put this one away, and really it did feel closer than 5-0 ... but since the Suds never even got on the board... you can 't really say that.

So there you have it, outscored 12-1 in the course of 2 games on 1 night. Sheesh....

No game stars.

Zombies crushed by Rats!

Cadavers (9) vs River Rats

Monday December 1st

Milton Academy 9:00pm

6-1 loss

Here is Guest Blogger Exraordinaire iJosh with the play by play!

This one was a full team effort folks. Yes it was.

It was craptacular at every level. But at least we sucked as a team.

Boys and girls, I wish that I had better news and a more interesting story. However all I can say is that on paper, we didn't do as poorly as the last time we played this team. That, unfortunately, is not saying much.
To begin the game the Cads would have a healthy 10 skaters. This would be shortly followed by our late arriving 11th in the form of Stefan.

The lines would play out as follows... On defense: Valenti and Capt George; Stefan and Mike Daley. The lines would be: Larry centering Parker and iJosh; Chuck centering Gregson and Ken Douville. Matt Elliott played the floater role.

Gameplay would not be kind. The Rats out worked us early. Out skated us early and out scored us early (middle and late too). The 1st shift would end with a botched defensive cover on the point by someone who shall remain nameless, but is a common guest blogger. 1-0 Rats. Two shifts later, a shot from the point would get through again. This time from the other side. 2-0 Rats. Play would not get much better at the end of 1 it was 3-0 Rats.

The second would see better effort, but the Dead in Red were still outclassed. It would be deep into the second before the Rats would strike again for a 4-0 lead. The Rats would take some penalties. One for a crosscheck and another for a delay of game. But it would make little difference as the Red could not muster up much in terms of offense. Yes there were some opportunities. Larry and Parker and iJosh would each have a couple of shots on goals. But mostly the game was laden with missed passes and ill advised clears. The 2nd would eventually finish with a 5-0 lead for the Vermin.

The third would see the team come together a bit more. Mike Daley would rush to the net and eventually put one in to cut the deficit to 5-1. As the clock wound down, we would get called for our first penalty. A hook by Larry as he fell past the opponent who had changed directions on him. That would quickly be followed by a trip on the faceoff on the Rats. So with a 4 on 4 situation the Red would get some good pressure on the Rats. But that is where it would end. The final score 6-1 (I missed a goal there somewhere, but oh well).

Note: The Abacus caused a little confusion on the bench resulting in a little bit of frustration bubbling over. Hopefully all are calm today.

Great work as always iJosh. The Blogger thanks you... and gives his condolences to the game in general.

Look for a roster post tomorrow or Thurs morning for the Suds game Thursday night.

Suds..er Cads Smoked by Rats

Cadavers (7) vs River Rats

Monday November 17th

Canton 10:40pm

8-0 loss

This one sucked.

I think Campbell mentioned in the parking lot afterward that Paul was giving us our due for having won the division 3 seasons straight. The Suds have had a tough go and havent won many games this season. Last night was no exception....except we were the Cads...

Of course the rink is on a new schedule 10:20 instead of what the website says... but the scorekeeper and refs were cool and waited unitl Brian was out there before they started the pre-game clock.

Regardless the Cads were short handed. The rest of the 'daveurs were at BU playing at the same time so this one was a little on the thin side. We started the game with 8, and Kilroy showed a few minutes into the game to make 9. The roster looked like this.

D: Campbell, Jeff, Kilroy

O: Chris, Larry, iJosh, Ken, Scott, Parker.

Aaaand thats it.

The Rats were pretty good. This club hasn't played them in a long time. It is curious that they had a losing record going into the game and played very well. They had a couple of standout players, 9, and 14 I think were very good, but the topper, clearly the best guy on the ice didn't have a number... hmmm.... just a plain white jersey. He made sure that whenever the Red got something going, it stopped in a hurry. Just for good measure he would skate it end to end and take a shot or two in case we spent any time in thier zone. It was that kind of night. I'm not calling for any "ringing" endorsements here... we dont know this team well enough... but one of these things... is clearly not like the others.

Any way. I think it was 3-0 by the time Kilroy dressed and made it out to join the team. They scored 2 more in the second, and topped it off with another 3 in the third.

There is a (VERY) small consolation that we kept them from scoring 10. They were clearly trying. Our friend without the number had many chances in the 3rd, and seemed quite eager to stick it to us repeatedly. That was nice.

Chris had the only penalty, a total bullshit call from our friend Butterball the Zebra. This was early in the game so he wanted to get his hits in before things got out of hand.

That's it. We all felt bad for Brian who didn't get a world of help back there.

The parking lot was a bit of co-miseration. Highlighted... or lowlighted as the case may be, with Parker making a Gregson in a thong reference... I'm serious... and then Larry running over his hockey bag... twice. If that doesn't tell you how the evening went... I don't know what will.

And that's just about all I've got to say about this one... other than we are playing these guys again in the coming weeks. Lets be ready.

Sheesh... edited to account for Gregson's Comment... and the fact that we skated as the Cadavers last night... I think the blogger needs to cut down on the 3 martini lunches....