Zombies thump Preds

Cadavers(5) vs Predators

Monday 10/25

BU 9:10pm

6-2 win

The Dead in Red faced the Predators, wearing green but not looking themselves, last night at BU looking for another Monday night win. Team Zombie posted a very nice roster of even 13 with Randy in net, but the Preds had 10 that clearly did not contain the usual level of humbling quality they’ve used in the past to beat us like unwanted step children. It was going to be a good night for the Red.

Here’s your roster

Randy Dudek in Net

D1: DWH, iJosh

D2: Fosdick, Valenti

O1: Josh Bitker, Sully and Matvey

O2: Baker, Gregson, Ted Galante

O3: Larry, Jasse, and Parker

(lines might be fuzzy here….please comment and set me straight)

It was going well from the start, but Green put on an early push that tested Randy a couple of times. We could see though that they clearly didn’t have the game changer players (or enough of them) to be as tough as they usually are. Red got chances and continued to carry the play, between some scrambles and worked hard.

Sully would lead things off, with a nice finish off on the feed from Josh Bittker. This would become a theme, these two, later in the game. This came a minute in.

With about seven minutes left in the first Larry would put a cap on a nice shift in the green end when he would take a play from Dr. Jasse and bang it home.

Greggy would take a slashing penalty after a solid exchange of blows with the one, no face shield dude that they had. They both went to the box but Greggy ended up with the extra minute and a half. Still, taking the initial from the no face shield got him off the ice so Greggy helped us out there.

No real trouble on the PK as the D held pretty well, the forwards forechecked hard and Reliable Randy played steady baking.
Before the period was over Josh (Bittker... we need a nickname for this guy) Sully line was starting to show some pay off from their excellent hard work.
Jeff would hold the puck at the point and fire  a low shot that was slightly wide. (The other) Josh (hmm... ) would wrist it home after Sully tipped it toward the net. Nice pinball play but OJosh (hmmm…closer) provided the finish.

The first would end 3-0 good guys. Still a little odd for a Preds game.

OJB (maybe…)_ would start the second as strong as he finished the first and about the 10 minute mark he would take a pass from Sully and zip up the left side of the zone. Then he unleashed a wicked wrist shot that went top shelf, knocking off the water (and the peanut butter) and the Red were up 4 zip. It only took about 45 seconds for JoshB (better?)  to complete the hat trick. I think this one came across the front from Sully and JoshB slammed it home. So he gets the natural trick all assisted by Sully who I guess gets the A-trick.

To cap the run off DWH would make a few of his patented slow but swift moves and rush the puck through the neutral zone and into the zone where gliding by the net he roofed a very nice wrister of his own and finished the unassisted score.

It was a little surreal for the blogger sitting there with exactly half the time gone in the game (8:30 second) up 6-0 on the Predators, who were clearly done, despite the two scores they’d come up with later on.

The Preds would score with 3 minutes left in the second on a play that went around our end after a slight let down, but being up 6 will do that to you sometimes.
Green would get one more late in the 3^rd but that was it. Team Zombie kept the blanket on the Preds, who didn’t show too much the rest of the way. We had to keep the no shield dude under surveillance but he only had a few big bursts in him.

Nice way to start the week. Solid all around. Good work.

Game Stars

3^rd Star: Doc Jasse, Larry Bell, and Dan w/Hands. All with one point. DWH and Larry with goals.

2^nd Star: Sully. Who is racking up points like they are going out of style. An Atrick with Joshb. And a goal of his own. Great work all around.

1^st Star: JoshB. Josh Bittker who has literally taken over the scoring race in the early going, nearly locking up Rookie of the year with a mere X games played. His play has been a big boost and he’s clearly looking like a quality acquisition…. Of course he’ll be looking for Free Agent type money next season but we’ll cross that bridge when we get there. Great work man. Nice to have you around.

Fourth period honors to Dr. Jasse and Marc Valenti who both brought tastey beverages.  The crew hung for quite a while… trying to riddle out the messages in the BU dorm room windows… and discussing all manner of topics, drunken or otherwise. None of which can quite be recalled… at least by me…

I do believe Dr. Jasse was not far off the mark when he said:

“Apparently our 4^th period strategy is to drink the number of beers matching our jersey numbers.”  Always astute info from the doc… not sure we got there but we tried. (For the record 12 and 10).