Beatings By the Bay

Blues 9 - Schlitz 4

9:10 

November 13, 2014

UMass Boston

Death, Taxes, and the Blues being a bunch of @$$#0!#s; some things are just guaranteed in life.  Despite that fact, the Golden Beer Cans would make it as difficult as possible for Les Blues (which is French for the d!(^&#@*s).  Schlitz would skate only 7: K.Mitch,  Nelson, Daley, Bauer, iJosh, Baker, and Valenti with the first 4 mostly playing forward and the latter 3 playing mostly defense.  

The Blues would skate their - mostly usual - set of characters and their new addition, a young kid named Jay Galinauskas(#2) with his red pants and red helmet.  He played against us last game and simply put, his skillset is far and above anyone else on the ice.  Knowing this going into the game, the plan was to do our best to keep him in check.  However we were not confident that our attention to this effort could slow him down much.  Baker tripped him early and ended up in the box, but #2 would score his first goal 7:24 into the game.  This would be followed 1:31 later by his second tally of the night.  Already annoyed, Bauer would crosscheck him near the boards.  He would fall back into iJosh's crosscheck #2 headed toward the ice.  Mercifully there would be no call. Gold would not put up much of an offensive threat to this point. 


In the second period the Blues would strike again.  This time the play would be started by #2 and finished by one of his lackeys who was just smart enough to stand in front of the net and let the puck bounce off him.  (See Gretzky and any forward he made look good).  Valenti, now getting aggitated, would check #2 into the boards.  However, the problem according the ref was not the check (they seemingly were letting that go a bit), but was the high stick.  So Valenti would send 2 minutes in the sin bin.  This would get Daley going.  He would steal the puck mid ice and power into the offensive zone and put in a short handed tally.  Though the Blues would end the power play abruptly after that. 4-1 Blues.  The rest of the period was the #2 show as he showed just how much better than us he was.  He would net one more goal and another assist, but not before Bauer would crosscheck him again.  This time, however, he would make his way to the box.  

Early in the third period, Daley would get called for a trip. Nothing would come of it.  After the kill, #2 would put in 2 more goals with a 2 minutes of one another.  Mitch would find his way to the box.  And again, gold would find a way to put in a short handed goal.  This time Baker would find the back of the net.  Unfortunately for Baker his night would end soon after that.  He would get called for a double minor.  A trip and then roughing after the whistle.  Though I still don't get the 1st call and the 2nd should have been coincidental.  Later in the period, iJosh shifting to forward for a shift, would take the puck deep into the zone and to the back boards.  Passing it in front of the next it would bounce and find its way to Bauer's stick and to the back of the net.  8-3 Blues.  Bauer would put one more in, again short handed, to make it 8-4.  Nelson would net a short handed goal to make it 8-4. But the Blues would put another one in to make it 9-4.  As the game wound down, Valenti took a few shots at #2 and would be told to hit the shower.  Then after with less than a minute to go, #2 would take a slap shot from short range.  That and a dipsy-do attempt from between his legs prompted Bauer to warn #2, "If you do that again I'll @#$%ing take your head off!"  Well said.  After the final puck drop, #2 would have gotten one more cross check had his teammate not seen the 2 gold jersey lining him up as he waited to attempt a one timer from the right slot.  His teammate dumped the puck in to the corner and ended the game.  As the buzzer blew #2 was told, "Good thing your teammate was smart.  Otherwise you were getting hit hard".  

That all said, we complained to the ref about them not reporting to Paul the discrepency in talent on teams in general and implored them to say somethimg about the Blues #2.  It is suggested we do the same.  If Paul doesn't comply, whether it be us or another team, someone IS going to take his head off soon.