Season Openerdavuer! New look Suds dominate!

Cadavers (1) vs Schlitz(1)

Monday Septermber 26

BU 9:10pm

Suds 6

Cads 1

The winter 2012 season kicked off Monday night at Boston University’s Walter Brown Arena with a Seasonopendaveur featuring a bunch of new and old faces among the Gold and Red. Management was very happy to be able to field two squads again this season after a trimmed down Summer season. Great to have another Schlidaveur really… these games are one of the best features of the two team setup.

The teams broke out hastily just hours before the game ended up being a little of the new guys versus the old guys.
The Schlitz would feature three new skaters, all free agent pickups signed in the offseason. Jared Gorden came over from the Sitniks and was a force at center all night long. Geoff Marietta, a Mike Daley connection played D for the gold, and Josh Bittker, from the Mass Skaters waiver wire, played forward. All three looked like solid players that will certainly help us out, we welcome you all aboard.

Here’s the breakdown of the rosters.
Schlitz

Randy Dudek in Net

D1: Reynolds, iJosh

D2: George, Geoff Marietta

O1: Jared Gorden, Matvey, and Roman

O2: Daley,  Gregson, and Josh Bittker

Cadavers

Jim Sullivan in Net

D1: Parker, Bauer

D2: Campbell, Fosdick

O1: Larry, Nelson, and Elliot

O2: Baker, Pounds, Goldenberg

The game tone was set by the New Look Suds immediately. Winning the opening face off and streaking right up ice Jared Gorden walked through Campbell and Fosdick and right to the net where he laid one in for the lead. Just like that, 15 seconds in and it looked like it was going to be a long night for the “old guys” in Red.

Things settled right down after that but it was clear the Red would have to keep a close eye on Jared all night and really the Gold did a good job keeping the Red off balance and only occasionally productive.

The first would turn into a grind as the teams settled in, both goalies would get going and were making nice stops. Campbell would go for a trip for Red, and Mark Reynolds would go for a check for Gold before the period was out but no blood on the penalties.

It took until halfway through the second period for Gold to score again. This time Dan Gregson would finish up the work on a shot/pass from iJosh and popping the rebound under Sully (defensemen no where to be seen) the Gold were up 2-0.

This is roughly when the new look Suds took over the game. At the start of the third period Josh Bittker, playing the right side, would score unassisted, after some nice work in the offensive zone. This was less than a minute in and things were getting harder for the Dead in Red.

As the grind went on, Mike Capmbell would be called for a minor assault at 12:35. As the ensuing power play wound down, Josh Bittker would assist Mike Daley who would score on a nice play and with 11 minutes left it was 4-0 Gold.

Then the play got more and more contentious as the Red desperation level rose as they just tried to get on the board. George would go for the Gold on a hook but there was no scoring on the power play for Red.

The Bittker-Daley combo would work again with 3 minutes left as Daley would land his second goal of the night. His success was well deserved as he had a great night, wheeling and dealing on offense and doing his usual solid job of covering the entire ice sheet.

The Gold would get called on a retalliation again and this time Geoff Marietta would get a High Stick call and the Red would have one last chance.

Larry would make good on the chance… but it was all Eric Bauer who afterward, quite deservedly said “I’m taking credit for that.” Bauer made a nice play at the top of the zone with the puck and then sent a great shot through traffic that deflected off of Larry’s stick and into the net. This was the only time all night that Red could solve Randy Dudek who got better as the game went on. He’s turned into a nice solid option in the pipes for us, and his work has been well appreciated.

That was how this one would end. 6-1 with the New Look Suds on top.

Big welcomes to Josh Bittker, Geoff Marietta, and Jared Gorden who all look to be quality pick ups by management.

Game Stars

3^rd Star: Randy Dudek. Another very nice performance in the pipes snuffing out everything that got close to him. Nice job.

2^nd Star: Josh Bittker. Early candidate for Rookie of the Year, Josh jumped right in and started producing, looking very at home as Daley’s winger.  He was able to rack up a goal and 2 assists in his franchise debut.

1^st Star: Mike Mr. Everywhere Daley. Only two goals on the night, neither of which I can really remember all that well, but this is chiefly because I was probably just beaten badly by Mr. Daley or a teammate on his way to the net.  Great work as always formed the backbone of the Gold attack.

Honorable Mention: Jared Gorden. Especially given his impressive game opening goal, Jared looks like he is going to be a force to reckon with.

Fourth period goodness provided by Eric Bauer and Matt Elliot.

Nice to see a big Post-Daveur group hanging out in the BU parking lot. Feels good to be back. 

Welcome back also needs to be said to a few returning players that it was great to see again.

Mark Reynolds showed he hasn't accumulated any rust over the summer.

iJosh Greenstein was also a frisky competitor holding the line very well at his D position. Nice to see him... and Superfan Heather after the game.