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).