Tripods thump Suds at UMalcatraz

Schltiz (4) vs Tripod Allstars
Tuesday 10/18
UMass 10:30pm


4-1 loss



Yet another night at the rink that the blogger couldn't make. Yet another opportunity for the blog's saviour iJosh to come through with a game summary. iJosh deserves major props for helping to keep this phoney baloney enterprise running and the Blogger can't thank him enough.
Without further ado...
Here's iJosh:

Welcome back to UMalcatraz where Schiltz took on The Tripod All-Stars.

A light showing of 10 skaters would arrive with rookie goaltender Mark Boudreau.

The lines would shape up to be:

 iJosh and Dr. Pounds centered by Steve Baker  The Other Josh (Bittker) would center Matt Elliott and Dan Gregson.

 Defensive Pairings would be Dan with Hands with Mike Campbell and Geof Marietta and Eric Bauer.

Bauer was fresh off his 3 penalty night from last week.  And after Campbell heard about the 10 penalty game (as well as the roughly 100 minutes of penalties the Bruins accumulated vs the Hurricanes), he was in the mood for some physical play. 

The first period would show some nice work by the Suds.  A lot of puck possession and decent chances.  But the Tripod goalie was not having any of it.  He made some nifty saves en route to a scoreless (for him) first frame.  Campbell would get the first of his penalties and hit the box for a few.  Eric Bauer would find his was to the box as well.  Luckily no damage was done during the penalty kills. Though the green would get a couple goal for themselves 

The second would have the All-Stars start to break through.  The first would be give-away in the neutral zone.  The Tripod would go in all alone with a lone forward chasing him, but not close enough.  He made a nice little deke and beat Mark to put the Green Team up 1-0.  Not too much later the All-Stars would get a second goal off another defensive breakdown.  This one just bad position and a bad change.  Again, it would find the back of the net for a 2-0 deficit.  Though Campbell would decide to take a 2 minute rest again and find his way back to the box.  Again no damage and the period would end 2-0. 

The third period is a little fuzzy.  The All-Stars would eventually go up 3-0.  And Josh Bittker would net a goal to make it 3-1.  Campbell would exit the game early in the 3rd after receiving his 3rd penalty as he tries to reclaim his namesake award.  In the end we were unable to mount any type of a comeback.  They would get one more before exiting the arena and leaving us with a 4-1 loss.

Thanks again to iJosh for chipping in with these game stories... better luck next time vs les rats.