Suds drop the Minus!

Schlitz (13) vs D Minus
Thursday July 29th
Hingham 10:10pm

2-1 Win

Another beautiful night for steamy summer hockey on the south shore and our heroes in Gold faced off against the more and more plucky D-Minus club that we've had some good games against this season. Last night was true to form and the game was even or a one goal affair for most of the way.

The heat hasn't done the ice in Hingham any favors and for a long time it was wet and soft in lots of places which had a big effect on the smoothness of the game for a while.

Here is your melty/sweaty humid Beercan Roster

Brian "long arm of the law" Carey in Net

D1: Reynolds, Parker

D2: Jeff, iJosh

O1: Baker, Chris, Jay Seaver

O2: Roman, Matvey, John Carey

O3: Nelson, Ken/Mitch, and Howard

The game was close. Brian made some nice stops but only saw occasional action as the Beercans would take the game right to the Minus and would do well moving the puck and getting chances. The Minus keeper played VERY well and saw lots of shots. He gobbled up everything near him and the Can's couldn't seem to get anything consistent going. The Minus players did a good job getting after it all night and contested everything.

The first would go scoreless and without penalties.

The second would go a long time before the lamp was lit and the ice "broken" as far as scoring. Mark Reynolds would make a nice play at the point and would drive a shot, two feet off the ice toward the net. Jay Seaver would pivot, and deflect the shot, in mid air into the net for the 1-0 lead. Nice work there by both guys. The second would end 1-0.

The third period would see a bit more action as contests for the puck all over the ice became... more contentious shall we say. Baker would go on a match for a rough early in the period. You could see it coming with Steve, he has been prone to boiling over lately when receiving "attention" from the opponents. The teams would skate 5-5. Then later in the period Mark Reynolds would go, also on a match where lots of pleasantries were exchanged. Just helpful hints and encouragement I imagine passing between sportsmen... or not.

Sometime before the Reynolds penalty, but with less than 10 minutes remaining the Beercans would strike again. This time John Cary would pick up a Roman rebound and bury it to give the Gold the 2-0 lead. Good work by Roman working the zone, and great finish by John who has been a nice little addition to our squad this summer.

The Minus weren't quitters and the two goal lead didn't slow them down. With just under 2 minutes to play the Gold would be back on their heels and scrambling in our own end and eventually they would poke one under Brian who had been down, up, and squirming around trying to get the puck... no one in Gold could get it either and the game was within a goal. They would pull their keeper but the Mighty Beercans would survive the last minute and a half and take home a very nice, hard fought 2-1 win... just like mother used to make.

Good stuff.

Game Stars: (two for one theme this week)

3rd Star: Nominated in the locker room by Brian... Ken/Mitch and Howard for getting after it and being in position all night. True dat. Props to the third line wings for making it happen all night.

2nd Star: I'm going with Mark Reynolds and Roman Kurin both with assists and good work all night on both ends of the ice.

1st Star: Goal scorers Jay Seaver, and John Carey. Without their finish... we'd be finished. Good work guys.

4th period awards....

Howard and Chris for bringing Bud Lite... and Bud Lite. Always nice to down a cold one... or two in the postgame lot in Hingham. Warm, moonlit night... Stones on the radio... too bad the blogger had to work today...

Zombies blow lead to Sputniks

Cadavers (11) vs Sitniks
Monday July 26th
Milton Academy 8:10pm

5-4 loss

Once again the Blogger was not in attendance for this tilt against our Russian friends. Therefore we will get a smattering of Guest blog action here to describe how the evening went. First off we have a very short and sweet (and stats oriented) recap by Larry Bell:

Come form behind loss as we gave up 2-0 and 4-2 leads to lose 5-4
1st: Seaver (unassisted) Pen: Baker-roughing, Baker-Fighting, ejected
2nd: DWH from Daley. Pen: Bell, tripping
3rd: Bell from Seaver, Seaver (unassisted)

Alright. Thanks Larry. Next we have a few more words from the always helpful Mark Reynolds on how things went:

"I have nothing but bad memories of Mon. eve. Overall a disjointed effort.
During Baker’s brawl, he did land 7 or 8 unanswered shots to the opponent’s cage. He was smart enough to leave his hockey gloves on this time (unlike his bout with Hammit).

Jay continues to be a stud player demonstrating some nifty puck handling and skating. Larry played a great game as well. His back-checking shut down some Ruskie plays.

In the end, the Ruskies had two players that controlled the pace of play when they were on the ice. We just couldn’t stop them.

Not much else to it." Thanks very much Mark. Good stuff.

And now we have a rarity in Guestblog action. Here, from the Opponent's perspective is Mr. Roman Kurin who skated with the Sputniks and had these words to contribute.

"To start the game the Schiltz had a good group of 12 skaters with Lizzy between the pipes. Sitniks only had 8 to start but then later 2 more people joined, so we had 10. Good back and forth action which was interrupted by a small fight between Steve and one of our D-men. The Refs got involved really quickly and that didn't result in ejections, just minor penalties. Unfortunately 5 min later there was another fight involving Steve and another D-man from our team which did result in ejections. Can't blame the refs, both guys were rolling on the ice, have to say it was entertaining. In any case that left 9 people for Sitniks for most of the game.

Lizzy made some amazing saves for the rest of the game, there were a few loud pings off the posts and crossbar by Sitniks. Jason scored a beauty of a goal, i had a front row sit for that one, he beat me behind the net, made a spin-o-rama and somehow managed to stuff the puck between the post and a goalie while skating from behind the net. pretty good stuff.

Second goal scored by DWH i think on the solo effort when he took the puck on the Sitnik's blue line and made a good wrist shot from faceoff circles. 2-0 after the first period. In the second Sitniks came back to tie it at 2-2. One was a solo effort by one of our guys and a good shot, the other one was a good passing game which was finished by "nifty #5".

In the third schlitz would score 2 more goals, one by Larry off the faceoff win i think and the other one was off the scramble in front of the net, not sure who got that one. Sitniks would come back again to tie it at 4-4 and then score the last goal on a breakaway 2 min before the time expired. All in all a good competitive game. Overheard during the game:"Way to be a hero!" to our guy who scored the last goal by Mark Reynolds"You got lucky!" - by Eric during hand shakes. Maybe true :)"

Great stuff Roman. Thanks very much for your contribution. The Blogger is in debt to everyone who sends in a few words and helps keep this space alive and ticking...

Suds take the Lobsters!

Schlitz (12) vs Lobsters
Wednesday July 21st
Quincy 8:10pm

5-3 Win

Another beauty of a summer night for hockey at our "home" rink in Quincy. Something nice about coming here in the summer, good memories in the building... and the parking lot.

The Beercans faced off against Team Shelfish on Wednesday night and it turned out to be a good competitive division game.

Here's the Gold Roster

Lizzy in Net

D1: DWH, Bauer

D2: Baker, J.Fosdick

O1: Larry, Seaver, Jasse

O2: J.Carey, Scott, Chris

O3: Nelson, iJosh, Gregson

The Lobsters had the usual suspects. They have a few players to watch but the young lady wearing #18 with Weiss on the back deserved special attention all night. She has wheels as many of us know and the Gold had to keep a close eye on her whenever she was near the puck.

The grumbling in the locker room about us not taking any opponent lightly must have paid off becuase the Gold came out with a stong effort and took the game right to the Lobsters.

Eric Bauer would break the ice with a nice spin-o-rama shot from about 15 feet. He called it a weak backhand but hey it went in the net so it goes down as a beauty of a spin-o-rama and a 1-0 lead for the Gold. Credit the good Doctor Jasse with the assist. Very nice to see the Jassman back on the ice after he was on the DL with the ever uncomfortable groin injury. Glad you're back Doc.

The Red would answer just before the end of the first with a good goal and the period would end 1-1.

Red would continue to take the momentum and despite lots of shots by Gold the Red would get the next one about 5 minutes into the second and would take a 2-1 lead.

Gold would not back down and the guys played great making sure we kept the energy up. Lizzy played great in net, the last goal she had been kind of hung out to dry and couldn't be helped.

The Gold got going and Chris Fosdick and John Carey did some very nice back and forth work that resulted in a terrific goal by John. Chris with the assist and some all around good work with the puck for the rangey forward. He pushed the play all night.

Striking again and taking the lead back, the Gold continued to play well. This time Nelson would put the finnish on a Steve Baker bid and the Beercans held a 3-2 a little more than halfway through the period. The second would end with that score.

The third saw another goal by the Lobsters to tie the game but afater that it was all Gold. Dan "DWH" Herbert would land a beauty of a shot through traffic that would beat the goalie low. Credit John Carey on the assist. Not long after Larry would get his as the Gold held the play in the Red end for a nice series. Credit Bauer and DWH with the assists on Larrys goal to make it 5-3.

The third would showcase some excellent work by Lizzy in the pipes and time and again she smothered Red chances and made a bunch of stops on odd man rushes. The Red really deserve credit for playing hard to the end as they continued to get good chances.

Steve Baker seemed to relish his job of "shadowing" number 18 and he did excellent work containing the speedy forward. She would have her chances including a breakaway that she tried an extra dipsy-doodle that Lizzy snuffed out. Steve finnally got under her skin as she held his stick long after they separated near the blue line then the two were tangled behind the net and Steve would go for a slashing call. It was kinda fun to watch.

Good stuff all the way around. The game would end 5-3 good guys (and girl) and we headed to the parking lot.

Big ups to Bauer and Gregson and Jasse for bringing postgame beverages. It was another very nice night by the swamp under the pale streetlights.

Game Stars

3rd Star: Steve Baker for the Shadow job on #18 and good play all night

2nd Star: Lizzy for a terrific night between the pipes. Great work Liz!

1st Star: A little un orthodox but hey... We've got four guys for the game star.

DWH, John Carey, Bauer and Bell. Each one with a goal and an assist. Nice work boys.

Suds downed by BC f*ckwads

Cadavers (10) vs The Hal Gills
Sunday July 18th
Quincy 7:50pm


10-1 Loss

Woah. The blogger got a few word of mouth reports form this Sunday night debacle in the Q. Tough night for a game, Sunday, during the summertime when we all have so many things going on, it was a bit thin stringing together a roster for this one... and it showed.
Team Zombie would report and start the game with 8 hearty skaters. There would be a total of 10 but not until later in the first. Here are the ten Zombies
Brian in Net
Chris, Hammitt, Daley, Seaver, Baker, John Carey, Scott Pounds, AK Douville, and Neil Shah, aand one more that the blogger can't recall... sorry.

The opponent for the night was the "Hal Gills" which we figured out is short for "BC fuckwad ringer cherry picking bastards". We'd never seen this group before which is appropriate given that they had a handful of players that were clearly not D League talent. These young pukes showed up with the BC gear, bags and equipment and all and had no problem showing off their obvious talent. They also had some D talent, after all they had 3 full lines at least on the bench. You may have a feeling that this didn't go well, friend reader of the blog, and you'd be right.

It took these guys all of about 2-3 minuets to be up 4-0 and Brian had pretty much no shot at all of those chances. According to Steve Baker, they were dipsy-doodling, behind the back spinnoramma type breakaway plays, that made his blood boil early. It was a test of restraint for Mr. Baker to not lay out any of these guys, apparently, and given that Mr. Hammit was on the roster its amazing there weren't more penalties for the Dead in Red. Nice work keeping cool boys.
The game was out of hand early. The BCringerpukes kept cherry picking the rest of the way, not concerned that they were up by 6, 7, 8, or 9 goals. Cool guys.
The Red did show Zombie Pride as they held the "Gills" (I preffer BCringerPukes) to only 1 goal in the third and only 2 in the second. Good work by everyone keeping your head with it.
Jason Seaver scored the one goal for Team Zombie. That would be the only bright spot for the night.

Hammit had a slash pen. then matching at end when a dude he rubbed up against took exception to the contact and threw a hissy. Nevermind that Hamm could have annihilated the guy, and didn't, and he did a nice job staying cool.
Daley took one late too... which doesn't happen often.

Thats all from here... hopefully we won't be seeing this group again anytime down the road.

Zombies survive the Shock!

Cadavers (9)vs Shock

Monday July 12th
Canton 9:20pm

6-5 Win

Here's Guest Blogger Larry Bell with a quick game story from the nightcap game from Monday night. Some guys did try to skate both and left the locker game after game 1 a Cadaver loss to the XXX and drove over to lend a hand.
Here's Larry:

The CADs showed up with a weel-stocked roster of 7 skaters at the beginning of the game: Capt George, Parker, Elliot, Hammitt, Seaver, LB and George's friend Greg. We received a bit of good news in the locker room that the goalie didn't have his skates because his mom forgot to pack them. Luckily? Greg brought an extra pair of size 9 skates for the goalie to put on his size 12 feet.

While he was busy stretching out Greg's skates, the Shock goalie was late coming out onto the ice which resulted in a delay of game penalty. The Dead in Red took advantage of the man advantage. I carried the puck over the blue line on the right wing and dropped a pass for Seaver trailing. Seaver's shot lead to a bobbling rebound that Hammitt was able to corral and deposit into the net. 1-0 Cads.

Later in the first, after getting hemmed into our defensive zone for a shift, Parker sent the puck 3/4 the length of the ice. Hammitt beat the goalie to the puck and fired it into the empty net. 2-0 Cads, end of the first.

In the second period we received some reinforcements as DWH, Daley, Bauer and Gregson arrived from the 8:00 game in Quincy. With our added bench depth we quickly coughed up the lead. 3-2 Shock end of the second.

Then DWH would take a feed from Bauer and tie the game at 3. Seaver then found Greg on the left wing and he buried the go-ahead goal for a 4-3 win. Great goaltending by Matt at the end of the 3rd with the Shock skating 6-5 preserved the win.

Nice stuff Larry. The Blogger greatly appreciates your contribution to help keep this space alive...

Suds fall to Leafs Monday 7/12

Schlitz (11) vs NESHL Leafs
Monday July 12th
Quincy 7:50pm


4-3 loss


First game of monday night double header this game then later in canton the Zombies would take on the Shock. Another early evening game at our Quincy "home" rink ... come to think of it this summer has held quite a few good game times for our teams... anyone who remembers regular dates at U-Ass @ 10:30pm should be thankfull... just sayin'...

Anyway this team definilty has a sneaky name. In the past teams that have NESHL in the title are usually Clinic level teams or a hodge-podge of players thrown together. Now this Leafs club had some hodge, even some podge, but they also had some talent. Primarily though... they were not an instructional team. They had easily 2 guys with good moves, and despite their age, ahem... they moved pretty well and were enough to hold all of us off at times.

Here is the roster...

Lizzy in Net

D1: DWH, Bauer

D2: Baker, Jeff

Centers: Daley, Roman

W1: Chris, Pete

W2: AK Douville, John Carey
W3: Gregson and Scott

Here is a breakdown of the scoring by period.

1, 1 after 1. our goal by Daley from Jeff- great rebound and finish from Daley.

2,2 after 2. our goal by Capraro from Daley- More great hard work from both guys.
3,3 during 3rd goal on solo rush from DWH nice dropping shot inside line
then they closed it out on us with the last goal in 3rd.

No penalties to report.

They just had a nice comeback in the third led by their best player. At one point this guy had half the beercans chasing him around the zone... and he wasn't all that fast. Too bad. Definitly a game we coulda shoulda woulda had... but ah... didn't.

Lets get 'em next time boys. Until then... enjoy these scantly clad ladies that have barley anything to do with the Maple Leafs...

Suds down Goats! Last minute Win!

Schlitz (10) vs Scapegoats
Thursday July 8th
Quincy 7:50pm

3-2 Win!

Another terrific night for summer hockey in Quincy. There was a positive vibe in the air as the Suds gathered for an early evening matchup with the Scapegoats. The Good Doctor Jasse even made an appearance. He stood on the bench and took some pics. Nice to have him with the team even though he was still on the DL.
Here is the breakdown of the Golden Beercan Roster.
CEO in Net
Jeff, Bauer
DWH, Roman
Ken/Mitch
iJosh
Chris
Scott
Matt Elliot
Gregson
Daley
John Carey

The 'Goats had the usual suspects but no real stand outs or half shield wonders. The Beercans took the game right to them and did a good job moving the puck and passing. This paid off right away when iJosh would take a pass from Gregson and Jeff and he would rifle a shot that was a thing of epic beauty just over two minutes into the first.
Clearly my man was feeling it. He had a fan in the stands and picked the right night to score his best looking goal in a long time. At least that the Blogger can recall...
The game looked like the Beercans would be able to do what they wanted and there were long stretches of sustained pressure by Gold and some really nice passing. Regardless the 'Goats would get one with about 7 min left in first and the first would end 1-1.
The Second frame was all grind it out but not much scoreing as the Gold would work some nice moves but clearly was having a problem finishing their opportunities. To top it off on a breakdown and rush the other way the Gold would give one up about 6 minutes into the period.

The Gold wasn't going anywhere and to the Roster's credit everyone brought it and the offense and puck possession kept on coming.

With less than 5 left in the period Mike Daley would find the net after some nice work in the zone. He took a pass from iJosh who took it from Jeff at the point. Good work all the way around grinding out the chance by the forwards. Daley was a beast all night working the puck in the zone. I have to say there were stretches where we were putting 3 and 4 or more passes together on a shift. A thing of beauty. After 2, 2-2.

The Third was all the grind of the second, with plenty more wheezing, from both clubs. Nice saves at both ends kept the game scoreless. The CEO did a masterful job stopping the play any time the Blue got something going. Good stuff all the way around.

Which brings us to less than 2 minutes to play. Daley's line on the ice and the Gold applying nice pressure on the 'goats as it came down to the wire. Chris Fosdick would work a pass to Eric Bauer who would make a play at the point and get it low to Daley who was working the pocket low off to the goalies right. He shook two defenders and walked right to the side of the net and banged home the game winner with authority and sent the Gold home happy with a 3-2 win.

Just great work by Daley to make it happen when we needed it. All the guys on the ice did a great job getting chances as the time ran out.

Game Stars.
3rd: iJosh for a crowd pleasing score... his very first of the night.

2nd:Matty CEO Kilroy for making the stops all night and lookin' good.

1st: Magic Mike Daley for a pair of goals and a stylish game winner in the closing minutes. Doesn't get much better than that.

Actually... it did.
Awaiting us in the parking lot was the good Doctor himself, standing by his portable camping grill with a cooler of beer at his feet. Burgers and dogs for the victors who relished the moment in the heat of the evening and discussed our victory... and the absence of #21 from the postgame... for some time.

So a big 4th period Game Star for Jassman. Thanks very much for the pics, the burgers and the beers!

Fight night in Canton vs the 'suckas!

Cadavers (8) vs Windsuckers
Wednesday July 7th

Canton 9:10pm

4-2 loss

We are going directly to the Guestblogger for this one... and it sounds like it was a doozy. Here he is makin' it happen as always... guestblogger iJosh:

Dedham, MA - Some days it isn't easy being the Dead in the Red. Those red sweaters might as well have bulls-eyes on them at times. Last night against the Windsuckers was no different. On more than one occasion sticks were swung, hits were given and punches were thrown. It was definitely not the worst set of incidents ever for Schlidaveur Inc, but not the best either.

Dressing for this game would be: Larry, Neil, Blake, Hammitt, Jason Seaver, Howard, Steve Baker and AK for the forwards. Campbell, Capt George, Parker and iJosh for the defense. The fearless leader, Matt Kilroy, manned the pipes.

From the outset, this looked to be a tough game. The Cads did not put much pressure up front and rarely, if ever, got a strong shot on net. The shots that did get through to the net were in clear view and easily handled by the goal keeper for the Suckers. On the defensive end, the Suckers would get through early putting a shot by Matty. George would be sent off the ice early as well for a hold. The Dead would hold off that penalty. And Campbell, after a few games without a trip to the box, would return to his familiar perch. This time he would go for a trip. Again, the penalty would be killed. But Matt would get beat once again from close range. Despite a two man advantage in the period, the Cads were unable to put much pressure on the Windsuckers and the period would end with a 2-0 deficit.

The second frame would see things get more interesting. The Cads would finally get through to the goalie. The first an unassisted rush. George would get the puck and race up the right side. He fired a nice strong wrist shot that beat the goalie to cut the deficit to 2-1. A shift later, Baker would collect the puck from AK and let a nice hard shot go. It would be too much for the goalie to stop as it would find its way through the 5-hole and slid in for a 2-2 tie. Now the Suckers started to mount the pressure again. They were fighting for the puck and position. Each play ended with an extra shove, or chop from them. But the refs were on it at this point. And the word on the ice was to not retaliate and let the refs call it as they were. So numbers were noted for later if necessary. Midway through the second, Larry would get called for interference as he pushed a Sucker offsides. Not long in the penalty the Suckers would strike again putting one past Matty from the right side. On the ensuing face-off, the Suckers would take the puck right back at the net and bury it for 2 goals in 30 seconds. The period would end 4-2. The Cads hadn't played great, but were still in this game.

So the third round, I mean period, would see a lot more physical activity. Larry, not feeling really ready to leave the box so soon the first time, decided to return. This time for a little hook. Two more minutes to reflect alone. However, Larry would be joined not too long after by Mr. Campbell for a rough. A little scuffle in the corner turned into a little more when Big Mike was taken down and a little extracurricular activity led to Mike giving the guy a few hits to the helmet. But #19 decided that this was not going to be a one-on-one battle and jumped in. #19 would be shown to the locker room, but not before Hammitt had a little shouting match with him from the bench. Campbell and the Sucker would go off with matching minors. The refs would take their time - about 3 minutes - trying to sort everything out (it was a 4 on 4 for a few more seconds guys. It isn't String Theory.). The next shift would see iJosh collect the puck on the left point and take a wrist shot that was deflected into the goalie by [I think] Neil. AK would try to pick up the rebound, but it would be quickly covered by the keeper. #9 would take offense to AK having the gall to try to pick up a loose puck and throw AK a little jab. So AK - all 5'7" of him - would take on this 6'2" Sucker. Some debate was quickly made on the ice about weather or not to step in. It was determined, rightly or wrongly, that this one-on-one battle would remain one-on-one unless another Sucker stepped in. The refs even yelled a warning about 3rd man in.

So every Cad watched the Suckers to make sure no one got close. As soon as the 2 bodies fell to the ice, it was quickly broken up. AK, to his credit, agreed with the decision to sit tight and let him fight his own battle. You have to give him credit for doing so. Though Parker thought that someone should have stepped in considering the size difference. Good points were made on both sides of the argument.

Let it be known that if it got out of hand that someone would have stepped in as needed. AK and #9 would be sent home for the evening. But it wasn't over yet. Campbell would get a bit confused as his matching penalty expired and jump on to the ice and head to the bench. However, this would create a two many men situation and put a man back in the box. A minute later, iJosh (serving the too many men) would get some company in the form of Steve Baker for a slash. And more company was about to enter the box when Hammitt would deflect a puck just inside the defensive blueline. As he skated forward to collect the puck he would "Hammitt" a Sucker (a "Hammitt" would be to essentially run him over like a Battleship would run over a dingy). Bogus call if you ask this guest blogger.

Regardless, the Sucker would take exception to being no match for Hammitt and give him a push. Hammitt already aggitated by the 3rd man in on Campbell took his frustrations out on the little guy, who then tried to face rake our bull in a china shop. This would prove to be too much for the refs to handle who promptly ended the game with about 4 minutes left on the clock.

Hands would be shook by some still on the ice, but not all.

So the final tally would be: 4 goals against. 2 goals for. 3 fights. 7 penalties for the Suckers. 10 penalties for the Cads and 3 overall ejections.

The 4th period was thankfully not called off by the refs as the Cads enjoyed beer provided by Larry, Campbell and iJosh who also brought the leftover jello shots from the 4th of July.

Overheard in the parking lot regarding testicular fortitude of some players: Sometime you have a little pussy. Other times it becomes a Gash.

Scoresheet:
1st:
Penalty: George (holding the stick)
Penalty: Campbell (tripping)
2nd:
Penalty: Larry (interference)
Goal: George (unassisted)
Goal: Baker (from AK)
3rd:
Penalty: Larry (hooking)
Penalty: Campbell (rough)
Penalty: AK (fighting - ejected)
Penalty: Bench (too many men)
Penalty: Baker (slash)
Penalty: Hammitt (skating)
Penalty: Hammitt (roughing)