Cads vs Tigers Monday 1/25

Cadavers (16) vs Tigers
Monday January 25

Milton Acad 9:10

4-1 Win!

Its a familiar story and it comes around again this week. A Monday night matchup with El Tigre over at the Milton Academy rink. An unusually warm night for January and a nice result on the ice from the hard working Zombies in Yellow against a classic division rival.
As per usual we have a couple of guest blog entries to tell you all about the game. Here's Mike Campbell with a nice recap to lead us off:

"Big win for the Dead Beercans… We were gold, since the pussycats wear red, too.
D: Reynolds & me; DWH and Michigan Mike
O: I have no idea how they paired, but the following were in attendance: Nelson, Steve, Pete, AK, Big Dan, Blake, Scott, and Chuck.

Highlights – Well executed game all around; they didn’t have all of their talent, but they had a good chunk of it. Lizzy played very well in net, giving up only one goal, late in the game. I think we had four goals all in – I had one, although It ricocheted off AK’s foot; Nelson rolled one up the goalie’s arm, and it went it. DWH sent a looping saucer from the point, and maybe Steve had the last one.

Overall, good passing, pretty good break-outs, (although we sucked at that at times) and pretty good play in the defensive end. Disciplined play, except for Reynolds who had a bad day in the office, and went out with three penalties – the last one timed perfectly at 1:30 left in the third, and they just let him serve it. (I’m floating the “Mark Reynolds Award” idea… What say you?

Their goalie was great, but gave up enough for us to walk away with the win. I think win makes the Schlidaveur enterprise 4-0-2 since the holiday break. Good 2010 so far.

And the MAPD left us alone long enough to throw back a 12 pack in the parking lot on a balmy Milton evening. ~ Mike"

Thank you Dr. Campbell... good news all around. Thanks for the words this week. Next up we have another contribution... this time from the Cagey Vet himself... Nelson Sharfman.

Here's Nelson: 4-1 win

Goals by Angry Ken (assist by Campbell, shot from the point and tip in); Dan with hands (shot from the point, assist unknown); Mark Reynolds (assist by Nelson); Nelson (assist by Steve)

Strong team effort across the board on this one. Good win, good game. We had more skaters than they did AND WE ACTUALLY WORE THEM DOWN. This is the first time I have ever seen our team use the extra skaters to our advantage. Rumor is that Tigre was missing a good player or two. Whatever. The line of Neil, AK, and Big Dan was a joy to watch. Plenty of hustle and they generated several chances. Strong game by Lizzie in net. Both defense pairs were strong. Excellent overall team defense. Shots were minimized. Lots of back checking.

Mark collected three penalties in the game, but the last was with less than 1:30 left in the game so the ref let him watch the rest of the game from the box.-- Nelson"

And now to wrap things up lets hear from Neil Shah who has a very nice summary of his own to share with us.

Here's Neil: " We won 4-1 on the back of a solid all-around effort. We started out the game strong with 2 quick goals. First goal came from some nice team work and puck possession in their end. I had the puck on the right side boards and skated it down into the corner. When the defensemen collapsed on me, I swung it around the net to a wide-open Gregson, who made a great pass to Campbell for a shot from the point. AK did a great job getting in position in front and deflected Campbell's well-placed low shot for a 1-0 lead. Second goal also came from a shot from the point. I had the puck on the right wing boards and dumped it off to Dan with Hands. He unleashed a great wrist shot that beat the goalie over the shoulder.

Third goal came from a highlight reel play from Mark Reynolds. He took a nice pass from Nelson and fired a shot that glanced off the goalie's shoulder and popped up in the air. Somehow, despite having a defender draped over him, he managed to bat it out of mid-air and into the goal for a 3-0 lead. In the third period, they scored a goal from the point to make it 3-1, but we iced it with a late goal from Nelson off a great pass from Steve (I think).

Solid win overall. We were helped by the fact that they only had 6 guys for the first 10 minutes of the game, but we still kept their offense in check when they had 2 full lines. Great job by Lizzie and our four defenseman- Daley, Campbell, Mark R., and Dan with Hands. "

EXCELLENT! Great work by all... on the ice and with the Guest Blogs. Nice to see that we have collectively seemed to found our way back to the winning side over the last month or so. Good news indeed. Thanks again everyone.
See you Wednesday for a 10:10 Game Suds vs Predators.

Zombies and Suckas MLK Monday

Cadavers (15) vs Windsuckers
Monday January 18

BU 10:10

1-0 Win!

Another matchup with the Windsuckers on the old Walter Brown Arena ice for this MLK day showdown. Sounds like this one was another classic division battle, and a very very close game. Once again the Blogger stands aside and gratefully presents some terrific guest blog comments and stories from the game. As always many many thanks to everyone who contributed. Lets start off with the short and sweet from Mike Campbell:

MC: "PIMs: Campbell 1:30; Capraro 1:30; Angry Ken 1:30
Larry got the only goal in our 1-0 win. We should’ve whooped them, but the win is a win."

Next up we hear some good stuff from Greg James.

GJ: "Ken got into another fight last night (pretty much in the same spot on the ice as a year ago when I pulled a third man in in exactly the same situation). And, despite my overwhelming urge to step in and play the role of heavy and crack some heads.., and despite the fact that by simply changing the date on a word document on my laptop I would have the suspension appeal letter already written… I quickly realized that the NESHL commissioner also had a readymade suspension appeal reply letter already written (coldly reading only: “suspension stands”), I smartly decided not to jump in. Turns out Kenny didn’t need my help anyway and ended up pulling a guy 3 times his weight down to the ground. Nicely done bro.

I don’t really remember anything else from the game except for perhaps some wicked point shots on net by me, sorry Jeff. -Greg"

No apologies necessary Greg. Thanks for the great recap. Now we move on to frequent contributer Pete Capraro who has another angle on things.

PC: "Hard fought win, I think we had 2 good offensive lines going putting solid pressure on all night. We did well bringing it through the neutural zone and putting it on net, lots of rebounds by the netminder that we could have capitalized on. BU ice looked 10x worse than the Capraro arena, with cones on the ice warning of the holes at center ice. Some terrible calls by the zebras but it didn't throw us far off our game, in fact we scored when I was in the box, see what happens when you get rid of trouble?"

Now we hear from a major player Ken Douville about how the night went:

AK: "Larry got a ridiculous goal shorthanded to win the game 1-0. Everyone played a great game which was needed versus that team. ... when asked to elaborate on his "incident":

sure... this team was very physical all night in front of the net with crosschecking etc. So when this guy started pushing I got into a little tussle with him and ended up on top. I usually don't win those so I was happy with the outcome. "

And lastly... but certainly not least... we have the Cagey Vet Nelson Sharfman.
NS: "Larry gets the number one star for a workman-like effort and a more than nifty unassisted goal, the only goal of the game, when he pressured the Windsuckers SHORTHANDED, caused a turnover behind their net, got the puck out from behind the net, skated by himself in front of the net, and roofed a wrister point blank off the goalie's glove and into the top netting.

Brian was also quite solid in net. Hard to win those 1-0 games unless your goalie throws a shutout.

Their goalie was really tough, and they had a very solid defense in front of him (lead by the dude in the yellow helmet, not to be confused with the man with the yellow hat...). We had a lot of pressure against them all night but both the defense and their netminder was more than up to the task. I can think of at least one breakaway, one on zero, that came up snake eyes for us (that would be me), but I believe there were others as well.

Not that many people in the sin bin that night. What's that you say? Well, now that you mention it I don't remember Hammit being there...

A well earned and exhausting victory. The drive home at midnight is a lot easier to make when we have the one and they have the zero. -- Nelson"

Awesome work Team! On the ice and with your keyboards. Thanks for helping to keep the blog on life support.... the Blogger appreciates it. Great win guys... looks like things might be turning around on this season....

GoldenZombies Ice the Minus

Cadavers (14) vs D-Minus
Tuesday January 12
Milton Academy 9:20pm


3-0 Win



A cold night at the nice rink in Milton, and an evening that looked like it might be long on shifts and short on skaters as the room was a little on the empty side about 10 minutes before gametime. Nelson walked in and scratched his head knowing that not many usually show up after him, and he made 7.
Of course let it be known that the early omens weren't good. There happened to be a neatly printed page taped to the door that said "Girls Locker-room" which was noticed by more than one Zombie on the way in. Then there was the copious lack of water bottles... Mike Campbell had a full one in his bag, but since it had been in his truck all day, it was solid like a rock.
Luckily some more players filtered in. Goody, then Blake and Reynolds showed to round the Zombies out to a nice even ten.

Here's what the lineup looked like.
Brian "Long arm of the Law" Carey in Net.
D1: Campbell and Jeff
D2: Reynolds and Hammitt
O1: Goody, Baker, and Underhill
O2: Nelson, AK, and Chris

Not bad for a chilly Tuesday night and all ten made it to the bench in the opening few minutes of the game.
The D-Minus crew had their usual solid turn out. Again the Blogger salutes them for having one of the best Jersey's we've seen in our division in a while. Givent that those shirts are dark red the Cads would skate as the Gold for the night. They seem to have added a girl along the line somewhere and she was a bright spot showing great hustle all night. The rest didn't show too much pop and the Zombies in Gold were able to control the play for the balance of the evening.

Most of the Gold played pretty well but despite many many opportunities in the first period they were unable to break through to gain a lead. The Minus stood up pretty well to the Gold barrage, and Brian had to make a few stops as they counter punched a few times. The first would end 0-0, no goals and only one penalty to Hammitt who held up his man at the offensive point for a hook late in the period. The tie at the end of the first was good because we were able to beg for a water bottle and thanks to the Minus sportsmanship they shared and we had some much needed hydration.

The second saw a step forward for the offense but a continued problem with penalties. First the offense. The Gold was doing a solid job with the forward cycling and doing a nice job keeping the puck in the zone and moving it around for chances. Nelson would make a great play jon the end boards and fired a nice pass out to the point. Jeff one-timed the pass to the net and AK (who was mucking it up in front) deflected it by the keeper for the 1-0 lead.
Shortly after that the Gold would get called for too many men when there was a botched change about midway through the period. The PK went just fine, in fact the Gold was able to get a couple of chances even being down. Nelson and AK both did great work on the PK all night.
Speaking of the PK, Hammitt would make his next trip to the box later in the period. Hammitt got to a puck in our own end and fired it then decked the guy covering him. The ref came by the bench chuckling after the call and had this to say.
"I think that was the first roughing call I've seen from a belly buck... did you see how far the kid went that he hit?" The guy was noticeably smaller than Mike, but apparently had been running his mouth... for what its worth...
The third would see more of the same from the second. Goody would score a nice goal, lifting it over the keeper after a nice pass from Blake Underhill. This was actually the second goal scored in the period but the first one was disallowed because of Zeebra "selective shortsightedness"... he couldn't see the puck... mostly because it was behind the keeper...
The Gold would strike again when Nelson would take a pass from Jeff at the point and pop it home for the icing on the cake. 3-0 and no further scoring to report.
Hammitt however... would make the game complete as he would collect another rough after knocking over his guy after taking the puck from him in our end. 3 and out for Mike again and he watched from outside the boards the rest of the way. Campbell would take one in the closing minute... I think just to make sure Ham didn't get too far ahead in the Campbell Cup standings.

Game Stars
3rd Star: *cough cough* Jeff Fosdick for two nice assists and not a horrible night on D.
2nd Star: Nelson for a nice goal and an assist and his usual excellent leadership through hard work. The guy just never stops trying.

1st Star: Brian Zero Degrees Carey for a nice win and shutout.

Honorable mentions to AK for being all over the place and having a great night, and Mark Reynolds for the same.

One more HM for brother Chris who just happened to have a handfull of cold delight tucked under his seat. There was a very cold footstamping, hat adjusting, cars running sibling conference in the parking lot for no more than 15 minutes. No frostbite to report.

Schlitz defeat the Lobsters 2-1

Schlitz(15) vs Lobsters
Monday January 11
BU 9:00

2-1 win



Alright another Monday game, and another opportunity for a Guest blog from one of our talented players. The Blogger appreciates all the help he's been getting lately keeping this thing going... Sounds like this was a good one, a classic D-level clash with an old time division rival.

I'm going to turn it over to the guestblogger, Mr. George "Captain" Moorachian for some words.
Here's George's summary.

OK. Here's what I recall. Unfortunately I don't remember the details of our goals or the penatlies. So my report may be lacking as far as a narrative is concerned.

The gold skated with strong 13 with Jim Sullivan between the pipes The lines were:

Forwards:
Elliott/Larry/Nelson
Chuck/Steve/Scot
Gregson/Roman/Matvey

Defense:
Daley/DWH
Valenti/George

The Lobsters only had 9 skaters, I think. And it looked like they were missing their strong defenseman and very good female forward. However, they did add a ringer on defense (#10), that did not belong skating at the D level, and could seemingly skate end to end with relative ease. We thought it displayed a lack of sportsmanship on his part. He didn't even wear a Lobsters jersey. Matvey refered to him as Barney, due to his jersey color being nearly purple.

Regardless of Barney, play went back and fort, with episodes of Schlitz playing well in Lobsters end, and with the occasional rush from Lobsters #10. Sully played a solid game in net, turning away several Lobster scoring opportunities, and giving us the confidence to take care of business.

We scored 1 goal in each of the 1st and 2nd periods. The score keeper only marked down the goal scorer. But, I filled in the assists in the locker room after the game.

1st goal: Chuckie, from Nelson and Larry.

2nd goal: Roman, from Matvey and Daley.

And Lobsters finally got one pack Sully in the 3rd period, after shot was deflected twice on the way to the net. As a matter of fact, I think that I (George) got the first deflection off of the blade of my stick.

At the end of the 3rd period, the Lobsters pulled their goalie for an extra skater. But, Schlitz held them off.

The penaties were:

• Roman for a trip in the 2nd

• Nelson for a high-stick in the 2nd

• Matvey for a hook in the 3rd

• Larry for a cross-check in the 3rd

The Lobsters had a total of 3 minor penalties throughout the game.

Overall, a good game by Schlitz, anchored by solid goaltending.

If I had to give out game stars, I'd go with:

3rd Star: The entire defensive corps. With only 1 goal allowed, I'm going to give the D some of the credit.

2nd Star: Sully: Geat solid game in net. Only 1 goal allowed... that wasn't his fault. Great game.

1st Star: Roman. Played a solid 2-way game all night. Scored the game-winner, and applied good pressure by having a few good scoring opportunities (possibly even being robbed by the Lobsters netminder once or twice).

GREAT Guest Blog George! Thanks a lot! Good work on the ice boys!

Fight night at BU! Monday Daveur!

Schlitz(14) vs Cadavers (13)
Monday January 4
BU 9:20pm

Schlitz 4
Cads 4


Well the blogger sent his regrets and it sounds like he missed a fun night at the old BU rink when he missed this post Holiday Monday Daveur. Thanks to some very nice guestblog work we've got a couple of good angles on the game. So without further ado... Here are your guestbloggers on the event. First up is Larry Bell the always fiesty and scoresheet conscious...

Here's Larry: Last nights Schlidaveur was a hard-fought affair with fought, or its present tense "fight" being the key word. The game started late, around 9:20 after the zamboni driver finally showed up. Apparently there was a car fire on 93 north that seriously delayed traffic... Lizzie missed out on the first period, so a sub goalie from the previous game filled in for the Cads

The cads struck first - Matt Elliot banged one past Brian after a freakish bounce from the end boards. LB tied the game later in the first period on a shot from the point that bounced off AK's skate and then off my stick. Schlitz took the lead in the second period when I was able to fight off the red d to send a pass across the slot to AK who finished it off with a shot by Lizzie (2nd assist to Neil). Chris Fos tied it later in the second when he tapped in the rebound of a Capt George rush.

It looked like the Schlitz were going to run away with the game in the third. First, Matvey wristed in a shot from the tops of the circles that was going wide until Lizzie deflected it in off the inside of her stick. Then AK and Neil combined for some nice passing from the corner to behind the goal to me waiting in front for a 1-timer and it was 4-2 Gold. Then the Cads fought back. At around 6 minutes to go, Greg James sent a backhander from the point that Pete Capraro deflected in (2nd assist to George).

As the red were coming back into the Schlitz zone again, and really starting to apply more pressure, Hammit plastered Baker into the boards, Baker took exception to the hit and punched Hammit several time in the face mask. Neil tried to break things up and got a 3rd man in penalty. On the following PP, Nelson tied the game with and assist to Parker (according to the scorekeeper it was #9) who wasn't actually at the game. I think the assist goes to DWH or Daley.

The fourth period featured bud light and Molsen Canadien and a truck driver who could barely manage to drive his snow laden rig out of the parking lot. Cheers

NICE! Thanks very much to Larry Double Vision Bell for this report from the rink. Now we will hear from another excellent guest Blogger... none other than the Cagey Vet Himself Nelson Sharfman. Here's Nelson.

Many interesting elements to last night's game. There was the car fire on southeast expressway that made much of the Cadavers (including Lizzie) quite late for the game. Then there was the Zamboni driver who was AWOL, and therefore did not shoo off the previous hour's crew off until they had consumed a fair amount of our ice. The two random events seemed to cancel each other out, so other than using one of the previous goalies for half of the first period and the fact that the contest finished well after 10pm, the game seemed to go off without a hitch.

Cads went ahead 1-0 and 2-1 on goals from Matt Elliot (putting in the trash from a horrible shot by me; my shot had some rather peculiar English and bounced off of the back glass depositing itself near an unprotected post next to the crease, Mr. Elliot man-on-the-spot finished the job) and by George (putting in his own rebound). Schlitz then stormed ahead with three straight goals, the last by Larry on a rebound. I thought I had his stick hooked to prevent that. I guess not.

With four minutes left in the third period the Cads came storming back. The line of Steve, Pete, and Matt put one in after the Roman, Big Dan, and Chris subjected Schlitz to withering pressure in their zone. (It had to be in there for over two straight minutes. No simple task.)

Then came the Hammit show. By all accounts he had played a "physical" game and that was certainly my experience as well. In the first period I had a deja vu moment when he had lined me up for a check into the boards as I was trying to skate by him. This time, however, I had the good sense to NOT trust that he would let up and decided to juke him instead. That worked much better (though my shot was well wide). Nonetheless, he got me back later in the game and stood me up at the blue line (a play that Campbell would have been proud of) after I had taken a shot. Still sore from that collision...

Anyway, the Hammit show: I couldn't see it very well as it was on the far corner of the ice but there appeared to be some "contact" between Hammit and Steve which Steve found "unacceptable" so they exchanged dissenting views and performed some elaborate choreography. (I don't remember seeing them practice this choreography before the game, but I came late.) The refs needed a fair amount of time to sort this one out and when they did there was two minutes left on the clock and a man advantage to the Cadavers.

In the subsequent power play there was more sustained pressure on the Gold which seemed to be breaking down their defense as I heard Brian calling out to his charges to stop running around. Eventually there was a shot from the point and I scooped in the resultant rebound.

Like all good though somewhat unsatisfying Schlidavuers, it ended in a tie, 4-4.-- Nelson

Outstanding guestblogging Nelson. Thanks... we always know we can count on solid work from you. To wrap this up lets have this comment from Pete Capraro.

Pete: A schlidaveur in its truest ugly form. Generally sloppy play, lots of laughs and a good fight or two amongst friends, making for a thoroughly enjoyable evening.

Good stuff. Thanks very much to all the guestbloggers for their kind words.

Suds and Blues hogtied at BU

Schlitz (13) vs Blues
Monday December 28
BU 9:00pm


4-4 Tie



Hey... sounds like this one was a classic Blues type game for a holiday matchup. Lets hear from super Guest Blogger Doctor Michael Jasse who has an outstanding recap of the game. Here's the good Doctor.

We had 12
They had 7
We tied 4-4 but we really should have lost

Larry and Roman centered 3 pairs of wings (Jasse and Roman would switch positions in the 3rd)
Jasse and Chuck
Elliot and Capraro
Pounds and Greggson
Defense
Reynolds and Campbell
George and Baker
CEO BMF in between the pipes

We scored first; Roman from Capraro on a bit of a bang bang play.
They came back to tie and then go ahead. Then things started to get interesting

I got interfered with and then pitchforked down but the ref didn't call it. I can certainly understand why b/c he was only a stick's length away and looking DIRECTLY at the play but alas, sans whistle. When the play stopped my frustration got the better of me and I took my stick, put it under the attempted mugger's lumber and promptly flung it into the 3rd row narrowly missing a peanut vendor. The ref apparently found his whistle and I got called for unsportsmanlike conduct (the first in my 15 yr career). My second unsportsmanlike infraction immediately followed when I asked the now whistle-happy stripes if he was f'n high (I was just looking for a doobie-partner for the 4th period but he didn't quite see it that way). As I was contemplating my punishment in the box of shame, I muttered something about the on-ice official doing bong hits in the parking lot before the game and next thing I know the aforementioned ref is in my face demanding to know exactly what I said. Apparently he thought I was challenging to meet him in the parking lot after the game (which is so me). George mediated the exchange (thankfully) and all was forgiven. When I got back to the bench, Greggson turned to me and said,
"You're being verrry undude."
Classic.
Back to the game.

Jasse and Chuck had a nice 2-1 give n go where mj fed Chuck who made his move and clanged one off the iron; more from the goalie's best friend later.
Mike Campbell made a spectacular play; lugging the mail out of his end, feeding Jasse with a cross ice pass while he and Larry barreled into the offensive zone. Jasse then went back to Campbell with the oft-maligned no-look backhanded pass which Campbell promptly fired a zinger of wrister which beat the keeper short side. A sweet play ending with a helluva shot, a helluva shot.
Larry would score and also Baker (I think) but the game was getting testy.
A series of head-scratching calls by the Zebras:

Capraro had a golden opportunity to bury a rebound in the crease but the ref lost sight of the puck (which everyone in the building could plainly see) and stopped play.
Baker had great momentum in the offensive zone and then an inexplicable whistle for man in the crease
The Blues scored but the goal was waved off b/c the net was off its mooring; perhaps a sly, veteran move by Steve Baker?
Pete Capraro got called for interference WHILST CARRYING THE PUCK
Finally, Larry got spilled in the offensive zone (no call) and then made his way back up the ice with an obvious bee in his bonnet. A bang-bang play in front of Kilroy would result in the puck going in and quickly out of the net and Larry STAPLING not one but 2 Blues into the back boards. The result was Larry in the box of shame BUT the refs missed the goal. The Blues were justifiably upset but no goal. 4-4 with the clock ticking down.
With 38 seconds left, Jasse blocked an attempted pass which ricocheted off the knee pads and made its way to center ice. A sprint ensued and Jasse poked the puck up ahead and the race was on. A 1 on 3 with Jasse leading the way but the D closing in. Jasse took a peak and unleashed a wrister headed for the stick side.
As soon as it left my blade I was thinking,
'That's got a chance.'
Clang!
Off the post.
That was it-game over.
I think Reynolds summed it up best by channeling Johnny Upton from Slapshot,
"That was fuckin' disgrace."
True true.
Perhaps our fortunes will turn with the new year.
'Till next time
# 12 in your program

Dude... that was quite a guest blog... I mean clasic. An excellent ... if not dudeisticly eccentric.. outstanding. Thanks very much.
Nice job at lest getting the hard fought tie. Good work boys.

SantaDaveur! Nice Beat Naughty!

Cadavers (12) vs Schlitz (12)
Tuesday December 22
Dedham 10:10pm

Cads (The Nice) 4
Schlitz (The Naughty) 2


Santa set the teams for this Christmas week Daveur over at the Dedham rink. The weather was certainly like the North Pole and the teams assembled to settle this whole Naughty and Nice business thanks to the man in the Red Suit guest GMing. The rosters were set and looked like this.
Cadavers-Nice
Matt in net
Defense: Daley, George, DWH, and Brian Carey
Offense:Neil, Nelson, Daley, AK, Jasse, Roman, Matvey, and Brian's son John

Schlitz- Naughty
Lizzy in Net
Defense: Campbell, Jeff, Reynolds, and Parker
Offense: Larry, Chuck, Goody, Elliot, Hammitt, KenMitch, and Capraro

The game was a classic Schlidaveur with a slightly better than average competitive factor and some better than expected back and forth play.
Lets boil this one down to the nitty-gritty... especially given that the Blogger is tackling this one about 2 weeks after it happened... The Red would clearly take the advantage in the early going and really throughout the first period. This was assisted by... no surprise here... the Yellow taking a few penalties. Campbell would make a trip to the box only to be followed by Mark Reynolds.
The Red would score on a slapshot from Brian at the point. Nice to have Brian skating out for this one as the CEO was in the pipes. The Red would break through again later in the period when Matvey Nikhamik would land a nice shot.
Both goals are on the sheet as unassisted... but lets face it... the scorekeeping was dubious at best. Jeff skated over in the pregame to ask for the keeper to write the times on the sheet when the goals and penalties... and she gave a good natured "It's going to cost ya..." and laughed. Jeff was skeptical given that Linda looked like she was well into the "Holiday Spirit(s)" at that point. Who can blame her given that she has to watch the likes of us.
To the second we go with the Red up 2-0 and the momentum would continue on the Nice side. Really, what did you expect 3 days before Christmas... when Santa picked the teams even? The Second would see a return to the box for Campbell and another two goals for the Red. The first the scoresheet shows Roman assisted by ... Roman. I'm sure there is some other explanation for that goal but you guys will have to fill us in in the comments. The second was the dominating Brian Carey this time assisted by Dr. Jasse and Nelson. Great work all the way around from the Red this whole period, taking it right to the Naughty. The second would end with the Red boasting a 4-0 lead and CEO Keeper Kilroy talking smack as he passed the wheezing Yellow bench.
The Naughty weren't going to take it lying down and shortly after the start of the third they would break through when Mark Reynolds would basically take the play end to end with a brilliant rush. He would beat Matt to break the shutout and put the Yellow on the board. This would be followed by a goal from Goody who had a nice shot from a wide angle... I think... its been a while... someone is going to have to set me straight.
Anyway Campbell would get another call and was shown the gate for the night. Hammitt would take a trip to the box... just for good measure and the Naughty would pretty much not be able to recapture the early period momentum.
Sorry to be so late on this one.

Game Stars
3rd Star: Matty Kilroy for another great night in net.
2nd Star: Roman Kurin for assisting himself on a nice goal.
1st Star: Badass Brian Carey. A pair of goals and great work all night. Maybe we need to find a way to get him to skate out a little more often?

Nice save Sergeant Carey

Friends and teammates I bring you a Christmas tale for one and all. A true hero that walks in our midst, not only manning the pipes for our late night fun, but more importantly walking a beat and saving lives when he's on the clock. Some of you were right on this (Mike Hammitt) and forwarded the story on the team email. Thanks. I wanted to share the link here too so people can check out this story.

Brian Carey who has been with us for a few seasons now, is also an MBTA police officer and yesterday at Back Bay Station Brian made the best save of his hockey or maybe professional career.

Boston Globe Story Here

Thank you for your service Sgt. Carey. Thanks for saving at least one families Christmas and looking out for your fellow man. This is a Christmas story for the books.

Nice save Brian.

Cadavers go down to SLJ @ BU

Cadavers (11) vs SLJ

Wednesday December 16

BU Walter Brown Arena

5-1 Loss

A cold, dark, and windy night on Babcock street for this meeting between the Zombies and out of division opponent SLJ. We dont see these guys too often but last night they were on the schedule. The Blogger will gladly stand aside as series of Guestbloggers gives you a rundown of the action. First up Dan The Man Gregson with a short and sweet recap.

Gregson: "D pairings wereMatvey and RomanElliott & DaleyWe had 3 sets of wings 2 centre'sKen G. and myself were a set of wings... See MoreThe Centers switched it up with the other lines a bitIjosh, AK, Steve, Nelson, and Neil and Chuck and Lizzie in netI remember falling down 3 times other than that they had some dude that looked like Scott Neidermayer. It might have been him."

Thanks Dan. Now we will hear from Matt Elliot, Mike Daley, and Nelson Sharfman... in that order. The Blogger's cup runneth over on this and he truly appreciates everyone chipping in.

Elliot: The Defensive pairings were set-up as U.S. (Myself and Mike Daley) vs. Russia (Matvey and Roman). The U.S. didn’t allow a goal until the end of their last shift which was a disappointing way to end the game.

Also, Mike D had one of the greatest Penalty Kill shifts ever. It was me, Gregson, and Mitch out there with him. He was everywhere, and essentially killed the penalty singlehandedly. It was really impressive. If you were to award game stars I think he would definitely deserve the first one just for that shift alone.

Daley: I brought an 18 pack and still have 14 left. Bunch of Sally's can't handle the subzero temperatures. I'll bring what survives the weekend on Tuesday.We were not going to win this one but managed to avoid a blowout. The highlight was the defensive pairings. We felt the need to involve nationalism in our line structure. Elliott and Daley represented USA while Roman and Matvey represented Russia. Final score USA -1, Russia -3. USA!

Nelson: Uggly (two "g's" required)
5-1 loss
I guess they were pretty good. I was pretty bad.
AK scored our only goal. (My single contribution for the evening was being an opaque.)
There were some strong individual performances by selected Cadavers throughout the game, but overall they were unable to carry the deadwood (me and whoever else feels like they belong in that shameful category) past a team that by comparison certainly had their act together.

The next game can't come soon enough.

Wow. Thanks guys. Sorry about the outcome. Also sorry to hear that those 4th period beers went un consumed... we'll have to work on that for next time. See you all next week.

More spawn of daveurs!

Congratulations go out from all of us here at Schlidaveur International to the Valenti family for the delivery of thier new baby boy!

Massimo "Max" Joseph Valenti
Here are his stats:
Born Dec 6th @ 2:56 AM
7 Lb. 9 Oz (with the hair)
20"

Congratulations to Marc and Joanna! Looking forward to seeing the little guy on the ice soon.

Schlitz soaked, tanked, blotto'd... by Call

Schlitz (11) vs Last Call
Monday December 14
Dedham 9:00

6-3 loss



The Golden Beercans threw a decent lineup out on Monday night against a struggling Last Call team which, according to the website, only had 2 wins on the year so far. There was a nice even 11 in the room and the optimism was high… especially given the preponderance of “natural” defensemen in the room. No we still haven’t nailed down the certified “natural-ness” of any of us just yet...the blogger has always been a believer in better living through chemistry...but I digress.
Here’s what the lineup looked like.
D1: Campbell, DWH
D2: George, Jeff
Centers: Larry and Neil
Wings: Daley and Baker; Parker and Goody; Blake and Gregson
Lizzy in the Pipes.

The early returns weren’t just good, they were awesome. After two shifts the puck hadn’t left the Call’s end and there were shots flying from everywhere. Clearly the Gold would be able to move the puck around a bit if the first five minutes were any indication. Daley would come close on two occasions as he wheeled and dealed around the zone. It took two or maybe the third shift around for Mike to finally hit paydirt. Neil would feed Mike who would step to an open spot about 10 feet out and blew his shot past the Call’s keeper. Good guys 1-0.

The Gold would keep up the momentum and would continue to get chances in the White end and the confidence level was high. The Call wouldn’t exactly go quietly in the first and they would make a nice play that got behind us and would plunk one by Lizzy to tie the game. The first would end 1-1 but the Gold was feeling very good about things.

The second would see Magic Mike Daley bust off another beauty of a shot after another extended cycle in the White end. Linemates Neil and Steve Baker would figure on the helpers and did a great job all night moving the puck around. Baker was returning, tentatively from a foot injury just 4 weeks ago. According to Steve in the post game locker room he spent 3 weeks on crutches, a week walking around, then showed up to this game. He wasn’t feeling great after the game, and honestly was limited at times on the ice.

The Gold was still doing a good job carrying the play but the Call were starting to get their chances. They were starting to take advantage of the opportunities presented to them, and they would come back to tie the game just a few minutes after the Gold had gone ahead. A bang bang play from their man 33 (blue helmet) and the game was tied about halfway through the game.
The play would definitely start to go a bit more back an forth. The Gold would take a penalty when Larry would go for an interference but the penalty was killed. As the period began to get late the Gold would strike again. Jeff would take the puck at the top of our own end and he flipped it to Goody in the slot. Goody flipped the puck up ice as Jeff streaked ahead of the D and picked up the puck for the breakaway. Jeff was able to stay ahead (miracle) of the D and got off a good low shot that beat the keeper for a 3-2 lead. Assist to Goody, that one read 10 from 10 on the sheet.

That my friend is the end of the good news I’m afraid. The period was coming to an end and just a shift or two after Jeff's goal the game changed, dramatically.

Bing, bang, boom. The Gold chased their collective tails in our own end... and the game was tied again. Not more than a minute later another goal for the Call and the second period ended, in a stunning reversal, Last Call 4 Schlitz 3.
To coin a phrase from the postgame locker room... and we weren't done sucking yet.

The Third period would open with the momentum still squarely in favor of the Call. They would rip off two more goals in the first five minutes of the period. Now it was 6-3 Call and the Schlitz were stunned. More chasing around on our part but really, something threw the switch on the other side there. The game was totally different after that stretch late in the second. The Call suddenly counter punched, effectively, and often. We were caught flat footed or would blow an assignment or lose an open puck battle and they pounced on it and turned it into trouble. Where were these guys in the first half of the game?

That's the way it would end folks. 6-3 bad guys with little redemption in our lackluster play the rest of the way. Everyone was trying, to be sure. There was a good effort from everyone on the Gold, but they just got chewed up and spit out by the Call after rocking the early periods of the game.
Strange but true fans.

Lets hope the Dead in Red have better luck at BU on Wednesday night.

Suds go down to Goats

Schlitz (10) vs Scapegoats
Tuesday December 8th
UMass Boston 10:30pm


5-3 Loss



Looks like the Suds had a long night at the Prison by the Bay on Tuesday night. Major props off the top to Dan Gregson who checked in with a scan of the score sheet. Looks like we had a good crew for a late night but things didn't go so well.
Nelson and Neil both had goals in the first but the Goats had 3. The Goats would get another 2 in the second and Mike Daley would land one for the good guys in the third.
Looks like the Gold were no stranger to the penalty box taking 3 in the second, and two more in the third... at least we won the penalty total (5-3).

Now, big thanks to Neil Shah who sent in a quick recap of the relevant action...

Forward:
Ken-Nelson-Neil
Gregson-Roman-Mike

Defense:
Dan with hands and Matvey
Daly and Kevin Parker

I think Daly took Roman's place at center after Roman got hurt late in the game.

We actually started the game pretty well and staked ourselves a quick 2-0 lead. Nelson scored the first goal- our line did some nice cycling down low and then Ken found Nelson in front and he put in a backhander through the goalies legs.

Second goal was scored on a rebound. I'm not sure who shot it but the rebound came out to me for a second shot which went in over the goalie's shoulder. Though I'd love to take credit for roofing one, I think in actuality the puck might have deflected off a defender or someone else in front and went in over the goalie's shoulder.

Unfortunately, beyond that things didn't go so well. Our defensive zone coverage was not great; we made some bad line changes; let in a few soft goals, etc.

I think Daly scored the third goal on a nice shot.

Thanks Neil. Thanks for giving us a few words about the game. Too bad about the outcome.
The Suds are on quite a skid.... good thing the Zombies are doing well...

Cads capture Tigers for nice win!

Cadavers (10) vs Tigers

Monday December 7

Canton 10:20

4-2 Win

A late night engagement for the Zombies against El Tigre in Canton last night saw something that we haven’t seen around here in a while. A win. Seriously. Not bad for a Monday night. There weren’t an abundance of Zombies, but we hit the ice with a nice even 9, and a good crew it was.

Lizzy in Net

D George, DWH, Jeff

O1: Larry, Neil, Gregson

O2: Daley, AK, Chuck

I think that’s how it went, but I could be sketchy on the forwards. The Tigers had their usual lineup. Number 8 with the Cooperalls was there as always, they were also 9 or 10 but added a handful of players as the first period went on. They had the Asain kid with the Red shirt and pads in the net. Naturally, due to the Tigers Red shirts Team Zombie skated as the Gold.

The first would see lots of back and forth action and both goalies made some good stops and the teams fell into the rhythm of the game. The Red would take a penalty with about five minutes left in the period, but survived the Gold power play without giving one up. The Gold did get some nice chances but nothing off the ice. Fortunately just after the penalty expired the Gold finally broke through. Larry would feed DWH at the point and Dan would launch an absolute laser into the top corner for the 1-0 lead with just over 2 minutes to play.

The good momentum would continue for Golden Zombies and Neil would land a nice shot (again from Larry) about 2 minutes into the second. Things were starting to fall for the Gold but they were clearly going to have to keep the effort up to preserve the lead. Larry wasn’t done with the score sheet quite yet, and four minutes later he would send a wobbler toward the net. There are conflicting stories on the flightpath of the puck but it went under, over and glanced off of a defenseman or something and ended up in the net (unassisted). That gave the Gold a nice 3-0 lead with just over 10 minutes left in the second.

Team Kitteh wasn’t done either and they would clearly bear down and try to make some things happen. They would break through only another minute and a half later to get on the board. The Gold was looking tired but continued to grind despite the loss of momentum. At the four minute mark the Tigers would land another one, this one a long shot from the point and the game was now 3-2 in the closing minutes of the second. Larry and a Tiger would go for a match with a minute and a half and the game but the sides would skate 5 on 5.

The Gold did a nice job not backing down and thanks to some hard work by Chuck, AK and then Daley they would score just before the end of the period. Daley had a nice finish on the play that had gone around the zone nicely. Onto the Third 4-2 Gold.

I’m here to tell you friends, there were lots of tired faces on the Zombie bench but everyone was game to bring it for the whole third. Golden Zombie pride was on display as the Cads would handle the early surge by El Tigre and settle the action down. The Gold was able to get some more chances but nothing was falling. Larry in particular had a great opportunity that the Red Keeper slammed the door on after it looked like half the net was open. AK would get stuffed on a breakaway. It seemed the first period troubles were back with a good number of shots but just no finish. As time wound down the Gold started to play a bit more conservatively and did a good job keeping the Red bottled up. We went to the final 5 minutes and the intensity was clearly rising. Mike Daley made a nice call and requested a timeout with a faceoff in our own end at the four minute mark.
Jeff: “Good call on the timeout”

Daley: “ You were looking pretty tired there Jeff”

Jeff: “You’re just noticing now? I’ve looked like this since the first period.” Actually the Blogger is pretty sure Jeff looked like he was about to fall over on his face… just sayin.

So with a quick breather the Gold reapplied themselves to close out the game. The Red would really take the game to us in their last surge. Lizzy stood strong on not 1, not 2 but no less that 3 great stops that really stymied the cats and kept the good guys ahead by two.

Just under a minute Larry would give a forward a hit and the guy turned as he bumped him and went head first into the boards which garnered a whole bunch of “Hey!” but Larry appropriately helped the guy up and told him he didn’t mean to send him face first into the boards. Good intentions not withstanding Larry went to the box, the Cats pulled their goalie and we skated 6 on 4 for the final minute. All the Gold skaters did a great job breaking down the Red chances and this one would end, thanks to Lizzy as a 2 goal win for the good guys. It felt really good.

Game Stars

^3rd Star: Tough call. DWH had a great goal to break the ice… but Mike Daley just does so many things well, and he had a nice goal too. Those two can share the Star. Great work all night from both of you.

2^nd Star: Lizzy. Nice solid play all through the game, and showing a very UN-Patriot-like tenacity in the clutch, she shut down the Tigers when it counted most with just a couple minutes left in the game. Great work.

1^st Star: Larry Double Vision Bell. A nice 3 point night, and two penalties to round it out. Larry was all over the place and had a terrific all around effort.

Plus Larry bought the victory rounds at TGIFriday’s across the street for the Fourth Period win. He was joined by Star goalie Lizzy, Chuck and Jeff. The bartender (wearing a ref shirt) said “boy you guys look tired” as we sat down. I guess it really showed.

Cads sing the Blues

Cadavers (9) vs Blues

Wednesday December 2

UMass 9:20

6-1 Loss

Well, looks like this one was another long night at the Prison by the Bay. Never a treat to skate at UMass, worse when its cold out, and even worse when you take a beating from an old rival like Les Blues. Didn't sound like a lot to tell after the game but we have two good check in reports from Guest Bloggers Reynolds and Sharfman who have a few things to note. Thanks guys from the Blogger who wishes he could skate every game but just can't make it some nights.

Here is your pregame Zombie Lineup. If there are any obvious changes or ommissions please use the comment feature.

Campbell
Ijosh
Nelson
Ken G
Hammitt
Gregson
Dan H
Matt E
Greg
Mark R
Daley
Ken D
Blake
Goal - Lizzy

Alright. Enough from me. Here is the news from the men on the scene.

Reynolds:
Wednesday’s loss to the Blues wasn’t due to lack of effort, but rather smart play on the Blues behalf. They shut down our passing lanes and managed to get far too many odd man rushes…even a few 3 on 0 breakaways due to some poor play by one defenseman (sorry guys, I hope to play better next game). There were a couple of bright spots. Lizzy played well between the pipes. She saved my arse on the odd man rushes all night. Chuck scored a nifty “Rick Middleton” type goal on a breakaway. After streaking down the ice, he held the puck and forced the goalie to commit to a diving poke check. Chuck expertly lifted the puck over the goalie for our only goal of the game.

Sharfman: Tough game. We lost 6-1. I, for one, had a terrible game. I felt like I was skating (or not skating) with a piano on my back (or for those who are familiar with my regular skating prowess, two pianos on my back). Too much left over turkey I would guess. We kept it close for the first period and even scored the first goal (Chuck, great hustle). Liz had a handful of ten-bellers or similarly close calls in the first, which I suppose is how it managed to remain close. Some nice individual efforts throughout the night but in the end their horses were better than our horses.

Thanks for the words guys. Too bad we didn't have a better night on the ice and scoreboard.

Schlitz stoned by Sucka's

Schlitz (9) vs Windsuckers
Monday Nov 30

Canton 10:20

3-1 loss

Dissapointing night for the Golden Beercans against the Windsuckers whom we seem to have seen quite a bit of this season. Yet another in a seaon long series of Monday night events, Managment is still scrambling at times to fill out the roster for these games. Looks like we had a hearty and even 10 to go to war with at gametime.

Here is your lineup

Schlitz

Matt Elliot

Mike "Goody" Goodwin

Pete Capraro

Roman Kurin
Matvey Nikhamik
Larry Bell

Dan Gregson
George Moorachian
Mark Reynolds
Mike Daley
Goal – Lizzy

No surprise that this one has a long list of penalties given the way the last one ended against these guys. Unfortuneatley, the penalties didn't look to help us at all. I believe, if I read this scoresheet correctly that we out PIM'd the Sucka's 11 to 7. That would include 4 penalties in the first period (Daley, Bell, Capraro, and Matvey) in which the sucka's would outscore us 2-0. Then 3 more in the second period (Pete, Roman, George) in which we broke even at a goal apeice. Roman was the goal scorer from George. The Gold would round the night out with another 4 penalty period in the 3rd (Mark, Mike, Matt, and Mark again), but managed to keep the Sucka's from adding to their lead.

Apparently not much brewing on the offensive side of the puck on this night.

Here is Guest Blogger and man on the scene Mark Reynolds with a breif recap:

"Monday’s loss was to the Windsucka’s was due to a lackluster effort and multiple penalties (11) by the Gold. We fell behind and could never regain momentum as we were shorthanded for much of the game. Think about this fact: no Hammit or Campbell and we took 11 penalties. Capraro (2), Reynolds (2), George (2), Larry (1), Daley (1) and I forget the rest. I must add they had 3 players that were way beyond the typical “D League” ability. This certainly caused lots of frustration. Maybe they think it’s cool to add a few guys in their young 20’s that have some skills. "

Thanks Mark. The Blogger always welcomes any commentary with open arms. Thanks for your input.

Lets try to get a better performance against these guys the next time out.

Zombies mauled by Tigers in Milton

Cadavers (8) vs Tigers
Monday November 23

Milton Academy 10:10

4-0 Loss

Here is the lineup for this game. The Blogger doesn't have much to offer here... he didn't play and there was no input from anyone that skated that night... not that it sounded like there was really anything to write home about.

Campbell
Ken G
Chris
Larry
Jasse
Greg
George
Kevin
Marc V
Chuck
Goody
Mark R
Lizzie in Net

There was just this comment, that kind of stands alone and says quite a bit really.

Here is Dr. Jasse " We couldn't do Jack Shit."

Well. There you have it. If anyone recalls anything about this game regarding penalties or anything else that might give us some insight as to what happened... please use the comment feature below this post. Thanks.

RedDaddys win Whosyourdaddydaveur!

Schlitz (8) vs Cadavers (7)

Monday November 16

Umass Boston 7:00

Schlitz 4

Cad-Dads 6

The Who’s your Daddy Daveur was featured last night at the Prison by the Bay. The fathers, playing at the Dead in Red (possibly a comment on the amount of sleep they receive) faced off against the Non-Daddy Schlitz (possibly a reference to the “gusto” of the good life) in a game that was, as usual, a pretty good matchup. This was a terrific team split concept and major ups go to CEO Daddy BMF Matt Kilroy for coming up with it. The concept worked perfectly and we only had to adjust with one player given the turn out, so new Dad Dan Herbert played with the Suds to even out the squads at 9 each. Dan had the youngest child of any of us… Here are your Team Breakdowns.

Cad-Daddys’

Matt in net

D: Dave DiLoretto, Mike Daley, Jeff Fosdick

O1: Larry Bell, Nelson Sharfman, Mike Jasse

O2: iJosh Greenstein, Ken Goldenberg, Blake Underhill

Schlitz-Non-Dads (or in this case new or almost Dads)

Lizzy in Net

D: Dan Herbert, Greg James, Marc Valenti

O1:Matt Elliot, AK Douville, Roman Kurin

O2: Neil Shah, Mike Goodwin, Dan Gregson

The game would start off pretty well and the teams would settle in and get into the flow a bit. It only took 2 players and 3 explanations to both the Ref and Katie the scorekeeper (a Umass staple) to get them to figure out that both teams rosters were on the same piece of paper. That aside the game got going and got up to speed pretty quickly.

Nice to have some fans in the stands for this one. Appropriate to the theme we had Family Night at the home of the Beacons. The Goldenbergs, Greenstiens, and Jassess were all in attendance and the squeek of little voices echoed around the rink as the dads and dudes wheezed it out on the ice. Thanks to everyone that made it.

The Beercans would be the first to strike. Goody would land a wicked shot from the slot after a pass from Valenti and Neil. This came at the 11 minute mark of the first. The ‘cans would continue to build on their momentum as the Reddaddys wouldn’t be able to really get anything going offense wise.
It wasn’t until the 330 mark of the first when the Red would put something nice together and the Cagey Vet Nelson would land a nice shot on a feed from Larry and Daley. The game would go into the first intermission tied 1-1.

The second period would see a bunch more action as the offenses would warm to the task.The Gold would be the next to strike when Goody would land a fierce shot that came from a feed by Neil and the Schltiz would be up 2-1. Not long after that the things would continue to get difficult for the Dads when Mike Daley would go for interference with about 10 minutes left in the second. The Dads would be up to the task and would kill the penalty but the momentum was definitely in Gold's favor. In fact the goal combo of Neil to Goody would come through again, on a very similar setup if I recall(iffy). I just remember Goody in an open space and a good shot that beat Matt. The Kidless Beercans were now up 3-1.
The tide was soon to change however, and only minutes later Mike Jasse would land a shot from iJosh and the Red Dads would only be down one, 3-2. Before the period was out they would strike again, this time iJosh with the goal from Chris and the period would end in a 3-3 tie.

Onto the third we would go. A tie game and both teams clearly in the groove. The first nearly 10 minutes of the third would go back and forth, up and down the ice with good chances at both ends, both keepers playing very well. Greg James (he'll be playing for the Dad's next year) would go for hook at some point in the early going.

The kids in the stands were clearly having a great time... weather it was watching the game or playing with each other (most likely the latter)... but it was cool to have them in the building regardless. Maybe it was the children that inspired the Dads... because the third would start to go their way, led by Big Doctor Daddy Mike Jasse who was doing some great work with his line. Nelson would be in full grind it out in the corners and down low mode and would feed Mike for the go ahead goal at the 8 minute mark.

Credit to the Kidless Beercans they would answer to keep the game tied at 6 minutes when AK Douville would score on a breakaway (I think).

Not a minute later the Nelson to Jasse combination would give the Red Dads another goal putting them up 5-4 at the 5 minute mark. And the Dad's weren't finished yet. Mike Daley would seal the deal with the help of Double Vision Dad Larry. Daley's goal would come with 3:15 remaining and the Dads would hold on for the last 3 minutes and win the game 6-4 to much celebration. Good stuff. Really a fun game.

Big Kudos to the families that made it and a shout out to the Kids! Madison Jasse (very proud of her Hat trick dad), Lewis and Elliot Greenstein, Robyn and Max Goldenberg! Thanks for coming guys!

Game Stars

3rd Star: A tie here between two three point guys. Nelson Sharfman with a goal and two helpers for the Red Dad cause. Nelson is always a contributor and a leader in effort on the ice and this night was no exception. The other is Nifty Neil Shah with 3 helpers for the Kidless Beercans. Neil is also turning out to be a very consistent producer. Good work guys.
2nd Star: A Hat Trick in a losing effort, still good for a game star. Mike "Goody" Goodwin. All of them wicked shots. Mental note... get Goody the puck in open space as many times as possible... unless you are playing against him. Nice Job Goody.

1st Star: Big Hat Trick Daddy Dr. Mike Jasse. Three goals and a multiple game scoring streak for the good Doctor. The Blogger doffs his hat to you sir, and apologises you had to wait so long for this blog post. Great work Mike.

Tonight! Who's Your DaddyDaveur!

Schlitz vs Cadavers
Monday November 16th
UMass Boston 7:00pm



That's right Team... we finally figured out a gimmick for this week's Schlidaveur experience and this is it. Those with kids will skate as the Cadavers, those without will skate as the Schlitz. See below for the roster breakdowns... just in case you can't recall if you have any kids or not....

Don't forget to give yourself time to get there even though the game is early. Also remember that the State Troopers have been carefully patroling around the campus and have been pulling folks over for going just over the speed limit... so keep your eyes open.
Here are you MondayDaddyDaveur Rosters.

Cadavers (used for the Daddies, because “Cad” sounds like “Dad”)
Nelson
Jeff
Ken G
Scott
Larry
Jasse
Dan H
Kevin
Blake
Daley
Di-lo
Matt – Net

Schlitz - Not Daddies
Roman
Hammitt
Gregson
Matt E
Greg
Marc V
Ken D
Goody
Neil
Mark B
Lizzie - Net

Suds versus Sputniks in nightcap

SCHLITZ (7) vs SITNIKS

Monday November 9th

UMASS 8:10 PM

9-1 Loss

The nightcap game featured a rivalry with some of our own good friends and 'daveurs. The Sitniks feature regular 'daveurs Roman Kurin and Matvey Nikhamik so its always fun to play against those guys... Although they had plenty of players and let us keep Matvey who joined a bunch of guys who had just played against the Windsuckers to face the RED MENACE.

It didn't go well. Think opposite of the cold war.

Let me put it this way... by the time the blogger left the building it was 3-0 Sputniks and that was with 8 minutes left in the first.

Here's Positive Pete Capraro with a recap.

Second period, The goal by Baker Assisted by Shah and Capraro.Second period,

Campbell sin bin for roughing in first. Chris Foz for checking.3rd period Hammit for holding.

That's it. 9 goals against.

My only blog comment is that it looked like after game 2 Larry the stat whore, with a big smile on his face, approached the score keeper that he berated with anatomical verbal gestures a few games back to make amends. Looked like he even showered and shaved the landing strip on his face for the approach.

What a beating, but I like that faster skate, I think we did alright for the first few seconds in the first period until they scored.

Thanks Pete. Well. I think we are just going to leave that right there and move on to sunnier topics.