Red get revenge in Daveur Rematch!

Cadavers (10) vs Schlitz (9)

Monday Nov 21

Milton Academy 10:00pm

Cads 4

Suds 3

Last week’s Schlidaveur matchup was such a hit, and a tight contest that with another ‘davuer scheduled for this week it was a natural to run a rematch of the same two teams. So that’s what we did last night in Milton Academy… with a few slight alterations.

A couple of guys couldn’t make the game so there was a slight shuffle. Gold lost Marietta and picked up Teddy Locke to play net and bumped Sully up to the forwards. Red ended up 2 players light losing Jasse and Bittker and rolling with 9.
Here are your lineups for Daveur-deux.

Cadavers

Randy Dudek in Net

D1: Valenti, George, Bauer

O1: Baker, Gorden, Gregson

O2: Larry, Nelson, iJosh

Schlitz

Teddy Locke in Net

D1: Campbell; DWH

D2: Jeff; Reynolds

O1: Daley, Parker, Elliot

O2: Matvey, Mitch, Doc Pounds, and Sully rotated.

The Gold felt very good about the game and came out with lots of confidence that adding Sully up front and Red being down to 9 players they would have a better chance to pull off another win against the talented Cads.

That confidence got results in the early going when Sully would score taking a play from Campbell and Parker. They had been grinding away in the Red zone and Sully jumped on the pass and showed the finish he’s had all season.

While Gold felt good, the play was pretty even. At the 8 minute mark Red would strike back. The play from Baker to George would find Dan Gregson standing right by the slot where he would bury the game tieing goal by a sprawling Teddy.

Gold was not to have its momentum checked so early and Mike Daley would take matters into his own hands. Mike would break out on a nice rush and whipped a ridiculous wrist shot over Randy Dudek in the Red net and the Gold would be back on top by one. End of 1, 2-1 Gold.

The Beercans would take the night’s first penalty when Matt Elliot would go for a trip a little over halfway through the second. They would hold on during the penalty and then Matvey would take a feed from Sully and would land a nice shot that put Gold up 3-1 with about 7 minutes left in the second.

The two goal lead was a treacherous beast for the Suds. They were clearly comfortable and weather it was fatigue or a slight reducing of pressure, they would see the momentum fade from that point.

Jared Gorden, who had been threatening all night for the Red finaly got the chance he was looking for. Working in space about 10 feet out he would rip a great shot that would bring the game back to 1 goal with  5 minutes left in the second.

Larry would go not long after as he would check Jeff from behind as they both went after the puck at George’s feet on the side boards. This time the Gold would threaten but Randy Dudek would stand tall for the rest of the way in the Second.
One series saw Dan Herbert crashing into the crease to push home the loose puck and somehow, someway Randy held and covered and the Gold got nothing.

Sully and Daley would also have excellent chances that Randy would turn aside.

End of 2, 3-2 Suds.

The third would open with both teams pressing. It only took one shift for the simmering battle between Larry and Mike Campbell to boil over. The two had been exchanging pleasantries all night and finaly they ended up in a tangle in the Gold end and the Zeebs sent both guys to cool off and the teams skated 5 a side.

The Gold was clearly fading as the Red was getting better chances and Randy continued to snuff out anything the Gold got going.

The Red would hold the play in the Gold end and Mark Valenti would work a play through Eric Bauer who worked down low in the zone. Bauer would send a superb pass out to iJosh who was not exactly closely (or at all) covered by Jeff. iJosh would make him pay and would bury the shot by Teddy and the game was tied.

The Red now clearly had the momentum and the game was turning fast. Larry, now out of the box would take a nice play from Jared and Nelson and would put away the go ahead goal with still 7 minutes left in the third. Nelson and Jared had been busting it all night, and Larry was clearly due, fueled or not by the missed chance in the penalty shot the week before. It was clear he was going all out to get the win. That was how it would go, and Gold would not be able to get the game back from the hard working Red nine.

Reynolds and Baker would go for matching calls two minutes after the Red goal, and really it was lucky for the Gold to get the match. Still the Suds couldn’t get much pressure until they pulled Teddy at the 130 mark.

Gold had an excellent doorstep chance that had come from DHW to Jeff to Daley to everyone else crashing the net. Somehow Marc Valenti would help Randy cover the puck, (looked like Marc did the covering) and the Red escaped.

So this one would end up the opposite of the week before and you know what that means… we’ll just have to have a rubber match. Next time.

Game stars

3^rd Jared Gorden with a goal and an assist and lots of chances all night. The Gold had to keep an eye on him (and Baker) all game long.

2^nd Randy Dudek in net. Just a spectacular set of saves in the late second and mid third period for the steady netminder. Randy held the fort and Red clearly gained momentum to come back from 2 down.

1^st Larry Bell. Captain of the Red squad and scorer of the game winner. Larry had his motor running and made hard plays all night long. Great game.

Monday Schlidaveur! Red vs Gold!

Schlitz (8) vs Cadavers (9)

Monday November 14

Canton 10:10pm

Suds 4

Cads 2

Last Monday night saw the assembled ‘davuers face off in the second intra-squad game of the season. This one had a nice angle right from the start. Management put out the request for guest captains/gms and Larry Bell stepped up to help. Larry and Jeff would have a playground-style pick ‘em over the phone on Friday afternoon.

Larry would captain the Cads and Jeff the Suds and both rosters filled up and both captains clearly had a philosophy in mind.

Larry would go with a heavy offensive look, snapping up multiple scoring leaders (Nelson, Baker) and this season’s rookie phenom Josh Bittker. Jeff would counter with most of the defensemen on the roster, well… most. Then to work around the possiblilty of needing Sully to play net, we made a trade and Eric Bauer would go over to Larry’s D lite Cads and Kevin Parker and Mitch Goldenberg would come back to bolster the Gold offense.

Here is your final rosters.

Cadavers

Randy Dudek in Net

D1: Valenti; iJosh

D2: George; Bauer

O1: Baker, Gorden, Gregson

O2: Larry, JoshB, Nelson and Mike Jasse

Schlitz

Sully in Net

D1: Campbell; DWH

D2: Marietta; Reynolds

O1: Daley, Parker, Elliot

O2: Matvey, Mitch, Doc Pounds, and Jeff rotated.

The game started quick for the Dead in Red. Larry’s offensive philosophy would show immediate results as Greggy would bury a close chance as the play went around the zone from Josh B and Jared Gorden. This was in the first two minutes and the Gold knew they would have to play a tight defensive style to keep a hold on the Red.(I thought the first goal was from Baker...)
But the Gold would counter no more than 2 minutes later when Jeff would keep the play in the zone and worked it to Matvey who did some nice work getting it to Scott Pounds who whipped a low shot from high in the circle that beat Randy, sneaking through the legs and into the net to tie the game.

Valenti would go for a trip at 10 minutes when he took Jeff down low in the Red zone. Scott would go for a trip of his own but there was no scoring on the penalties.

The teams would go back and forth at each other and really both goalies made some nice plays all game long, keeping things very tight. The first would end a 1-1 draw, but the Gold felt good about the gameplan.

The Red would find that their chances would start to dwindle in the second as the Gold D would smother everything that came over the blue line and the offense was counterpunching well, getting good chances. Mike Daley was doing his usual excellent job of pushing the play and being all over the place. His line with Elliot and Parker would get lots of excellent chances. Mike would get results with 3 minuets left in the 2^nd when he would wrist home an nice play from linemates Matt and Kevin. Suds 2, Cads 1 after 2.

The Red were starting to show some frustration at not being able to get things going but that wouldn’t last all night. With that kind of talent they were going to make something happen eventually. Jared Gorden would finish a hard work cycle from Nelson and Gregson and the game was tied at 2 with 10 minutes to play.

The Gold would do a nice job counterpunching though, and only a few minutes later Matt Elliot would feed Mike Daley who would fire a great pass to Jeff who was camped in front of Randy and Jeff would bang it home for the 3-2 lead.

Not long after that iJosh would go off for the Red after tripping Jeff (who was clearly enjoying playing forward). He would slide along the ice like a seal…mostly to have a rest not so much to embellish…

Mike Campbell would go for the Gold before penalty was up but there was no scoring on either.

This takes us down to the last 2 minutes. Gold up 1. Red desperate and surging, getting chances. Larry would get a break doing a great job with his legs to get ahead of the D, but Mike Daley would tackle him and he was awarded the dreaded penalty shot.
So Larry would have it in his hands to tie it up with 1:30 to play. The teams would rise and there was plenty shouted, both pro and against his chances. Larry would take the puck and work fast into the zone favoring the right side. His move was not his best (or fastest) but he made it, but Sully was there and came across the crease to swat away the backhand bid. Really a good try by both.

Later in the parking lot Larry went to Sully to get some shooter’s feedback and Sully told him he dropped the shoulder so he knew he was going backhand.

The game still had a minute and a half to go with both squads pressing hard. The Gold would get the sealer when Mark Reynolds would hold the play in the Red end and get the puck to Jeff who was again working the middle of the zone. Jeff would fling it at the net and Daley would burst into the crease area and would slam home the puck for the 4-2 lead with less than a minute to go.

That was how this one would end and the Gold locker-room discussed offering the Red squad another chance at the contest and since there was another daveur scheduled for the next Monday… it was a natural.

Before the rematch though…

Game Stars:

3^rd Star: Jeff Fosdick. 1 goal, 2 assists. Jeff has now played 3 games in a row at forward and is looking like he likes it. Hmmm…  maybe that’s some insight into his selection of a D-heavy roster.

2^nd Star: Sully in net for the Gold. Sully was pressed into service in the nets when management  was unable to book another keeper. He did a tremendous job, making great saves all night on a bunch of pretty darn good shooters.

1^st Star: Mike Daley. Doing huge amounts of work for the Gold. Two huge goals and an assist and once again about 100km skated. Great work.

So after a Tuesday morning email to Larry…. The rematch was set for the following Monday.

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.