Wild night in Brockton and the return of Lizzy!

Schlitz (22) vs Generals
Thursday February 21
Brockton 9:00pm


5-2 Win!




One thing is for sure, we are like old Patriots. Win, lose or bizarre event you just had to tune in because you literally never knew what would happen or how the game would go down. Last night was a goodie. The Blogger shows to the rink a few minutes late and is greeted with rumbles and mumbles about where the F*@%^ng goalie is... Hmm. No OEJ and its less than 15 minutes to game time. A quick trip back out to the car for my cellphone and a confirmation with the home office that Mike was "In" for tonight... then a message to OEJ himself. No luck. No answer. So as I'm closing my phone..... doesn't our friend Lizzy DeFlurin come walking across the entry way to the rink.

It just so happens that our pal Liz is here scoring the game tonight. To which I say "Do you want to play? I mean can you play...please!" She says yes and calls up a friend who lives just a few minutes away to have her stuff brought down.
Now we are closing in on game time here so time is short. The Zebras (whom Liz had been chatting with the whole time) start the clock for the first period and let her (and the team) know that if she isn't ready (or some goalie for us) at the end of the (run-time) first period than the Schlitz forfeit the game. But if she CAN get ready before the period is up... we play a regular game from the time she's ready. The Schlitz will have to start with a Delay of Game penalty... but really. Who cares?
So the guys are skating around a bit Larry scores one or two while the stats don't count but we are getting some skating in and Lizzy's stuff shows up in no time and she's changing in the lobby.

Wouldn't you know it. With 1 minute and 22 seconds remaining in the first Lizzy is set to go and the refs blow the whistles while stepping on the ice and start the game.
Needless to say we all (the skating Beercans) owe Lizzy a debt of gratitude. Honey, it was so lucky for us that you were there and willing to suit up for us. We all really appreciate it. Not only that but you played great. Consider yourself back in the regular rotation, and the holder of a great big I.O.U. for a case of whatever beverage in the world you would like. Cash it in anytime you want. Thanks again.




So there you have it.The game was off and running and the play went back and forth quite a bit while the two teams kind of felt each other out as the new game began. In fact we played the entire second period scoreless, but not without many many opportunities in the General's end.

The Beercans had 13 total that broke down like this.
O line 1: Larry, Dr.Jasse, and Chris Fosdick
O line 2: Nelson, Dr.Pounds, and Matt Elliott.
O line 3: Gregson, Hammitt, and Pearlman
This group would go on to be known as the "Plummer Line" due to the fact that Hammitt and Gregson's pants are usually riding so low you can see the... well you know what I mean. Another name I liked for this group was the "Battle Ship Line". Pearlman's kid was quoted as saying "When you guys came out together the other team looked like a bunch of midgets."
Indeed.
D line 1: George and Marc Valenti
D line 2: Mike Daley and Jeff Fosdick

The Generals struck first about a minute into the third period. This after we had done a good job creating consistent pressure in their zone. Definitely not Lizzy's fault as we left her a bit out to dry without getting back. Not to worry as about a minute and a half later Marc Valenti let go a laser for the Gold's first tally. Credit hard working forwards Chris and Larry for the helpers.
The Beercan's held the play pretty well at this point and the Generals were starting to ice the puck.
At the 12 minute mark the group of Nelson, Scott and Matt Elliot cycled the puck around the zone resulting in a rebound goal. The play had been started by Scott grinding the puck from the side boards over to Matt for a good shot that gave Nelson the rebound bid... which he tucked away nicely. Good work from that line.
The play continued with the Dead continuing to get chances here and there so the game was a tight 2-1 until Dr. Jasse made the rounds with 2 minutes and change remaining.
Let's listen in to Mike telling a teammate about the goal...
"I scored the eventual game winner by adhering to Andy Brickley's mantra of sometimes you just have to throw it at the net and good things happen. I was along the goal line and previously tried a number of fancy-dan passes that didn't work out so I just flung it at the goalie and approximately 16 bounces later it fell in. Got me officially off the snake-bit club after Monday's highway robbery."
Well put Doc. Good goal.
The Generals weren't finished. A with a minute to go they took a faceoff right down the ice into a breakaway and scored to make it a one goal game again.
The Generals even pulled their keeper as time wound down but to no avail. Jeff Fosdick fed Nelson in their end for the dagger, an empty net goal with about 20 seconds on the clock.
Believe it or not, not enough strange things had happened yet, because after the ensuing face off the Generals just stood there as Matt Elliot took a pass from Nelson and scored with 7 ticks left on the clock. I suppose you can chalk that one up to "defensive indifference". But hey, it all looks good on the scoresheet.
Ok. Let's hand out some pats on the back.
Honorable Mention 1: Jasse for the "Ricochet Rabbit" game winner.
Honorable Mention 2: The Plummer Line. This has to make a return. It just has to. Also I think we can come up with a better name than that... whatever you guys like, we'll go with that....after all, who's going to argue?
3rd Star: Mike Daley. I don't think he made the scoresheet but the dude was all over the place all night. If he wasn't making offensive chances, he was bailing us out in our end. Great work as always Mike.
2nd Star: Nelson Sharfman. The Greybeard just keeps on truckin'. How about 2 goals and a helper? Ok. No problem. When #14 checks into the game, you better be ready to work. Good job Nelson, Larry's still within reach for the scoring title.

1st Star: Ok... to borrow a phrase. "...do I have to say Her Name?" I shouldn't have to. You know her, you've missed her, and last night we couldn't bleeping live without her...
Lizzy.
Some great work from a great teammate. Not only does she jump on the horn and get her stuff brought down to the rink, but she changes in no time at all and then proceeds to make a bunch of nice stops backstopping our way to a good solid win. This was a game that was 1 goal difference nearly the whole way.
Way to go Liz. Nice to have you back.



As for that other goalie... a certain someone might be getting a visit from our furry friend... very soon.

Zombies grind out a tie with the Windsuckers

Cadavers (22) vs Windsuckers

Monday February 18th

Milton Academy 8:30pm

4-4 Tie

A full scale Presidents day tilt with the Windsuckers last night at Milton Academy. The Cadavers took on division rival the Windsuckers and came away with a nice come from behind effort that gained a point to save a slightly scary evening. Here’s the story.
The Zombies were well stocked with 11 skaters and the forwards made nice with the rotation even without Nelson’s abacus.
The forwards were Roman, Matvey and Scott, with Larry centering Jasse and The Chuckster. Ijosh found a home in there somewhere and while floating through the lines he did noting of the sort on his way to a 2 point night.
The Defensive crew was staffed with “Always nice to see you…” Stephan and George, spelled by the infamous Campbell and J.Foz. Backstopping was CEOBMF Madd Matt Kilroy.
The game started out ingloriously for the Zombies with a bizzare episode in our own end. The puck came up the right side of the zone, the forward received the puck then under pressure passed back to Campbell on the same side. The puck went through Campbell off his skate toward an unprepared Kilroy who tried the old “Ole-backhand I think I’m gonna catch it” stop and the puck agonizlinly slipped over the goal line for the first goal of the game. No dis to the Chairman of the Pipes, that one was all on us for springing it on him. Regardless… it was clear the Dead in Red were in for an interesting night.
Thankfully roughly two shifts later we heard from the big man on D Mike Campbell took a long shot from near the top of the zone (perhaps even slightly out of it) that found its way to the back of the net. Good move by Mike, often we don’t just fire away as often as we should. This one paid off. Which led to the following exchange on the bench.
Jeff: “Good one.”
Mike: “Yeah. I’ve never scored the first two goals of the game before.”
The Zombies seemed to snap out of the early going funk and started to create some chances. The forwards cycled well and the Red was able to get several good shots on net. The ‘suckas keeper was solid, stoning just about everything close in, he only seemed to struggle with the outside stuff.
The cycling resulted in a nice “clean it up” goal from Dr. Scott Pounds. The assist from iJosh and George who had done a great job of keeping it in at the point. That was fairly consistent all night. The duo of George and Stephan did a great job holding the play in their end and creating some chances. I think Stephan had at least 2 (poss 3) Patened Wennik end to end and around the net-ers.
That was the end of the good news for the Dead. Chuck “I just wanna get on the scoresheet” Slate was whistled for an interference call just at the end of the first period. It was funny to watch Campbell check with the ref to…you know make sure he got the right guy… PIM whore…
The ensuing start of the second went poorly as the ‘suckas took advantage of the power play. Their guy with the purple pants, clearly one of their best, charged through the neutral zone then turned an off balance and badly beaten Jeff Fosdick (this was a theme…) just inside the zone and then buried it past Kilroy. 2-2.
The second period saw a bit more cycling from the Red but again they seemed to jump on every chance and the ‘suckas continued to work hard, and got good chances on us. The Windsuckers broke through again and scored again…twice… but no one can seem to recall the circumstances of the third goal. Regardless we headed to the 3rd Period down 2-3 and we have another conversation overheard on the bench...

Jeff: "One period to go. When was the last time we came from behind to win a game?"

Mike (and everyone else): " ... "

The bad mojo was still flowing as the third frame got off to a shakey start.
There was a mad scramble in front of Kilroy who made the initial stop, but then inexplicably chose not to cover the puck and instead tried to shovel it out to his right, the only problem was that the ‘suckers had a guy there who buried it putting the Zombies down 4-2 with about 10 minutes left in the game.

Big man on D Mike Campbell came through again with roughly 6-7 minutes left as he took a big shot to the net after rushing up the zone from the right point to the left side. Again he had an important momentum goal and the Dead were down by 1 and calling on all reserves of Zombie Pride and legs to save the night.
The chances were coming and the ZP magic carried the play as we set up shop in the 'suckers end. With about 3-4 minutes remaining we set up a face off in thier end on the left dot. Larry wins a nice draw that comes back to Jeff Foz at left point. Jasse ties his guy up, likewise Chuck on the other side and Larry keeps his guy in place so Jeff has a nice open lane into which he pounds a slapshot that goes off the keepers right pad and into the net for the tie.

The Dead in Red were able to hold fast for the last few minutes and get a few more agonizing shots that never found paydirt. All in all, a good salvaged tie with the 'suckas.

Major props to the Windsucker's goalie Sean who along with another guy (big defenseman) hung out for a few beers. As we were all dressing and leaving the fire alarm went off in the building so the fourth period was kicked off under the flashing lights of the responding Milton FD. Nice of them to come by and keep everyone busy while we enjoyed a little apres skate.

Ok lets give out some awards... only a tie I know but what the hell.

Honorable Mention 1: Dr. Scott Pounds with a beauty of a goal.
Honorable Mention 2: Jeff Fosdick saving an embarassing evening with a nice bit for the game tieing goal.

Game Stars

3rd Star: The Russians. Both Matvey and Roman had really good games despite not making the score sheet. Matvey played excellent center wining draws and making plays. Roman passed the puck well and really got some things going. Good work both of you.
2nd Star: iJosh for a two point night (both assists) and all the chances and movement that helped the forwards do a great job cycling all night.

1st Star: I don't think he's been here before but lets hear it for Mike Campbell for two critical goals and a ton of great stops .. usually covering for his (badly beaten) D partner. Great effort all night Mike, good job!

Good skate by all involved. We've now tied our last two against these guys... next time let's make sure we get it done.

Suds fall to the Golden Gophers in Dedham

Schlitz (20) vs Golden Gophers
Wednesday February 13th
Dedham Rink 9:00pm

6-2 Loss.

A tough draw for the skating Beercans against a C level team at the new digs in Dedham. Despite a valiant effort on the part of all participating Schlitzers, the Suds fell to the higher division group who certainly played up to their ranking.

Let's roll with the guest bloggers.

Here's Greg James on the tilt:
"Lost 7[6]-2 to a C division team that clearly practices once per week, we missed several great chances including a Nelson breakaway, I was thrown in the box when an opponent fell down simply for being within 2 meters of me, I fell down several times just stepping onto the ice, Campbell was thrown out of the game... Nuff said..."
Good recap Greg.

Now here's CEOBMF Madd Matt Kilroy's take on the game:
"Lost 6-2. They were the bottom team of the C division. I think it was Paul's test to make sure his divisions are correctly aligned. Anyway, they were pretty good. They all could skate and they passed great. We scored first and stayed with them through the first and most of the second. I think it was only 2-1 them, at the end of the second. Then they scored more. We had lots of penalties and they had a couple power play goals. Campbell had three penalties by the end of the 2nd and was tossed. It was a skate your balls off game. Good natured game, no one got out of hand on either side. We were a little winded at the end. Much fun though, good workout. Brian made some great saves. If I were in goal it would have been about 12-2.
1st goal parker from nelson
2nd goal hammitt

Another nice recap. Thanks Matt.

Here is another from regular guest contributer Matvey: "Good game, we were right there with them for about 2 periods. I think the score was 3-1 after 2nd period. We actually scored first, and then they got a couple of power play goals. We were out of gas by the 3rd period and Campbell was thrown out on his 3rd minor of the game end of 2nd or start of 3rd - can't remember.

They were quicker and better than D level teams - so when a D team usually turns the puck over 50% of the time - they wouldn't, so instead of jumping the play trying to force a turnover and getting ourselves out of position we needed to skate with them and just play better positional hockey. I think with their quickness they got us running around in our own end a few times creating a lot of chances.


Here are a few brief notes from Mike Campbell:
"It's a new rink.
The doors were still sticky.
I felt it was necessary to contribute to the well being of the rink by
"breaking" in the penalty box door, by opening and closing it
repeatedly... Seven times, in fact. (Once was to let Parker in.)
I was just trying to help."
Ok Mike.

Lastly some more notes from Nelson Sharfman:
"For the record, Nelson was stoned on two break aways and one beautiful feed from Kevin. The goalie was good. I was not.
I did have one assist on a goal by Kevin. Hammit had the other goal on an assist from Kevin.
We skated with them for a while, but our legs gave out and theirs didn't.
The goalie played a hell of a game and kept us in it much longer than we deserved.
Greg did actually back into the person who fell over, but it was a pretty cheap call nonetheless."
Good effort boys.

Let's hope our future games at the new rink go better than this one.

Dedham Preview!

Team,
Check out these spiffy pics courtesy of our man on the scene Dr. Scot Pounds! This looks to be a significant upgrade from the digs at the Prison by the Bay. I don't think anyone will be missing those games, as long as it doesn't take forever to get to.
Great work Scott, way to work the scouting team!
Look at all that brand new rubber matting... I bet it smells like tires and fresh paint.
What's with the BC pukefest color scheme?... not that I'm complaining.
Reminds me of Campbell's back yard the day after Thanksgiving...
Soon to be pictured here...Mssrs. Campbell...Bell... Hammitt... Nikhamik... Capraro...
Sorry guys, I couldn't resist.
Woo eee doggies! Let's hope we have a better record here than at the House of Horrors... Prison by the Bay... UMAlcatraz. Good F*ng Riddance!
We will take to this very sheet on Wednesday night as the Flying Beercans... err Golden Schlitz. 9pm against the Golden Gophers... hopefully these guys won't show up in a bus from Minnesota. The league website says they are 1-14-3... in the bottom of C4 Division...who knows what that will mean until we play them. I'd like to think we have a good shot.
See you then.
Thanks again for the pics from Scott.
Go Suds. Go Zombies.

Double header-Double wins against the Clinic.

Schlitz (19) vs. Clinic Maroon
Tuesday February 5th
UMass 9:20pm
9-1 Win.

Cadavers (21) vs Clinic Blue
Same night 10:30pm
5-1 Win.


Well how do you like that? The last two games to be played at the Prison by the Bay this season by ANY NESHL team's and its a double header starring US and the clinic... both Blue and Maroon. At least we made the most of it and had a good night all the way around by all the reports that have been coming in to the Blogger.
Two big blowout wins against a pair of Clinic squads that really... we should blow out.

Let's give it to the Guest Bloggers...
Matvey on Game 1: we had 12 skaters to start and then Nelson came in a little late, so we went with 3 full lines from the middle of the first period. Line that I was on was: Roman, Jasse and myself.
Then one line was centered by Nelson, I think he had Matt Eliot on a line and another center was Mike Daley. Scott, Peter and Killroy were the other wings.
D: Mike Campbell, Marc Valenti one pair
and then Dan and Dan another pair.
I think we started slowly, but it was 9-0 or so close to the end of the game and then they got several chance and magaged to score one late.
Final score was 9-1.
Scoring plays:
Our line had a good chemistry with Roman stepping by passing the puck :)
I scored a goal that was assisted by Roman and Jasse.
Jasse made a very nice pass to Roman who took a quick shot, but shot it into the sprawling goalie. I got to the rebound in time to flip it over the goalie.

Another goal was a nice play, Roman passing me the puck, I send it Jasse's way and Mike just flipped it behind the goalie.

One scoring play was Campbell taking a good shot from the point after getting a puck from Roman.

One more, Nelson winning a face off and in the same motion passing it to Eliott who took a quick shot and beatthe goalie.
There was one small altrecation and Peter was sent to the box as part of matching penalties. I think Peter was just trying to pick up some PIMs to get on a goon squad for the next Schlid.

Nice recap. Now we'll get some thoughts from Dr. Jasse:

Greg James-Freight Train Down the lane. A forward in a D's body. Played hard all night.Kept jumping into the o-zone with the puck and creating opportunities.

Mike Campbell was his usual hard-chargin' self. A bullet of a wrist shot for a goal. Lot of talking out there to his teammates; we need more players to communicate like he does.

Nelson-He only had like 17 goals I think. Played ass off as usual. Always setting the tone for his line-mates.

Matt Kilroy-some spectacular passes (one behind his back from his but). Set Pete C up with a sweet pass for a WIDE open net that.....well, we all remember Glen Wesley vs the Oilers.

Brian the goalie. Got some good zzzzz's the first game but played very solid in the second.

Marc V-what a cannon. When he has the puck at the blue line I'm usual camped out in front of the net in prayer, "Please don't hit me." Very solid 2-way game.

Thought Mike Hammit skated very well-continuous to get low hard shots on net or make plays from the point.The Russians-Brialliant passing and playmaking. They set me up for mine that my grandmother could have finished.

Excellent work. Major Kudos to both Matvey and Jasse and everyone else that chimed in with some info. I'm finishing this a long time after the fact so that's going to do it for this one. I leave you with some lasting momentos of our least favorite league venue...that with any luck we shall never visit again.

Beercans tied up by 'suckas.

Schlitz (18) vs. Windsuckers

Wednesday January 30th

UMAlcatraz 9:20pm

5-5 Tie

All kinds of stories coming in from last night at the Prison by the Bay. A rousing matchup with the Windsuckers at our less that favorite (but about to be eliminated) venue. Here are a group of guest bloggers to tell us the tale.

First up is Goalie Mad Matt Kilroy:

"Right away they score twice. Wrister on my right, he made me move first. Then a wrister on my left, I over compensated from the first goal. Didn't look good, I wasn't at all focused. BUT from then on out it was mostly in their end and I focused. Kenny gets us on the board with the first goal, being where he is suppose to be in front of the net. Neslon and Larry scrapped it out to Kenny who punches it home. Then Kenny ties it up the same way, being where he is suppose to be.
They go up 1, then Daley tied it up.
They go up 1, then someone else from our team ties it up.
We go up 1 with Nelsons goal to make it 5-4. This goal was great because Ken broke out of our end with the puck deeked by a defender and took it all the way to the net but missed wide. Nelson was right there and scooped in the slop.
Kenny gets first star easy, with maybe second and third star too. He played great. Jasse also was all about the place playing well. Some great passes and a great move to the net a couple of times. His assist on Ken's second goal was much the same as Ken's assist on Nelsons. Jasse broke out of the neutral zone with the puck made a couple of good moves and got a good shot off.
After their first two goals, we were in their end most of the night with a ton of shots. We got unlucky. All three of their last 3 goals were deflections that went in. Oh and their last goal to tie it up was with like 20 seconds left in the game."

Oof. Sounds like a tough one... but a hard fought match. Here are some more comments.

This one from TSW Larry Bell:

"No 1 star: Ken "don't call me Mitch" Goldenberg. This was without a doubt Ken's finest performance in Beer League hockey. He was only a "net-dislodged" whistle away from a natural hat trick in the first period as the first of his three goals was disallowed when the net came off its mooring. He followed that up by knocking in a rebound from one of my drives to the net. Next, Jasse took the puck to the net, was denied, but Ken was there to follow it up with his 2nd allowed goal of the game. In the third period, he set up our go-ahead (at the time) goal by racing for the puck down the right wing, getting off a shot that left a juicy rebound for Nelson to find the twine with.
Scoring was:
Ken from LB
Ken from Jasse
Daley maybe unassisted
LB from Elliot
Nelson from Ken"

Lastly this in from Dr. M. Jasse:

"Ken 2 goals and assist (first star)Larry had a nice break-a-way goal on a sweet feed from Elliot (I think)I had a helper on Ken's 1st.Nelson scored our last goal after Ken took a loose puck from center ice and had a nice bid for the trick. Took the shot and the rebound went sky high. When it finally landed Nelson buried it home. Should have been the game winner but we couldn't hold it.Good skate, good game. We should have had a big X in the W column, though. Sigh."

The one theme running through here is the play of longtime vet Ken "Mitch" Goldenberg, who has been overdue for a night like this for ... a couple years. Great to see him break through... shame he couldn't land the 'trick.

Too bad also that the Beercans couldn't lock this one away... but it sounds like there was no lack of effort.

So... we don't usually do this but I'm giving game stars for this one...if only 2 since it was a tie.

2nd Star: TSW Larry Bell... goal and an assist and good hard play...as always.

1st Star: Who else... the man of the hour... Ken Goldenberg. Ken has been with the club... hell Ken RAN the club (Cads) for many years before the current administration. Its great to see him have a break out night. Great work Ken!

Stat update... and correction.

Just a quick stat update.

Larry helped me find an error in my formulae.

Here is the new (hoepfully more acurate) up to date as of today...Stats.

As always....

click to enlarge.

Comments and corrections welcome.

Still, a very nice scoring race going on.

The leaders are tightly grouped but pulling

away from the pack.

Larry, Mike Daley, and Roman are all within

two points of each other.

Larry... in his quest to lead everything....is

also on top of the penalty totals.

Great numbers and good fill in work from our

substitute Goalies. Hats off to new guy Brian

Carey who has played twice and done very well.

Word even has it around the halls of the corporate

offices that Lizzy is pretty well healed from her knee injury and will be available

for some spot duty between the pipes.

Feel free to comment... talk smack... call the blogger names....whathaveyou.

Cats pounce on the Cads...again.

Cadavers (20) vs Tigers
Bavis Ice Arena
Monday Jan 28th
10:20pm

0-2 Loss


Another tight game with the El Tigre. The Cads went to the mat with the Cats last night in Rockland, and once again stared down an opportunity to beat this new rival club. Once again the opportunity slipped by and El Tigre has run his streak to 3-0-3 against us.
All of these games have been close. All of them have featured long periods of 0-0 or tie scores, more than half of the games we have led... every lead more than 1 goal. Yet this team turns it around on us in the third period and beats us, or rallies to tie every time.
Last night was no exception. Running right to formula the teams came out and played to a 0-0 draw after the first two periods.
The first frame, and the first real momentum of the game clearly belonged to the Tigers. They were able to get several quality chances on new fill-in keeper Brian Cleary. Brian has played a pair for us and has really brought some nice game. On no fewer than 3 occasions he kept us in the game singlehandedly... just in the first.
The often scrambling defensive corps in front of him were the pairs of Marc Valenti, Billy Pearlman, and Mike Campbell, Jeff Fosdick.
The Forwards consisted of two solid groups that got some, but not an abundance of chances as the period wore on. Chris Fosdick, Kevin Parker and Scott Pounds were backed by Mike Jasse, Pete Capraro, and Chuck Slate.
The Zombies survived the period and even had a nice penalty kill when Kevin Parker was sent to the box by our large friend with (stretching) stripes.
The Second period saw a near repeat of the first but the Zombies were more in the game neutralizing some of the initial momentum of the Cats. Brian continued to make great saves as things routinely broke down in our zone.
That scrambling led to the gamewinner at the 9:30 mark of the third when the Tigers held it in our zone with good pressure and finally netted one of the many rebounds.
The Zombies kept moving. There was clearly lots of effort from the Dead in Red... it just wasn't enough. More exhausted scrambling during a (second) penalty on Mike Campbell led to another breakdown and they put it out of reach with about 5 minutes left.
Another chance by the wayside. Sometime we are going to get over on these guys. There is a sentiment to assemble a "squad" for our next meeting. The Blogger agrees. These guys are like the new Blues. A team we can run with...that we should be able to beat... but we don't. Credit to them, they've beat us as we've worn down and found a way every time.

No game stars.

Let's get a good turnout for Wednesday night's Schlitz game against the Windsuckers.
Go Zombies.
Go Suds.

This week's rosters.

Tonight Bavis 10:20pm Cadavers vs. Tigers

Jeff Fosdick

Chris Fosdick

Mike Campbell

Scott Pounds

Mike Jasse

Bill Pearlman

Kevin Parker

Marc Valenti

Chuck Slate

Pete Capraro

Brian Carey in Net

Wednesday Night 9:20 UMass Schlitz vs Windsuckers

Roman Kurin

Matvey Nikhamik

iJosh

Nelson Sharfman

Ken "Mitch" Goldenberg

Larry "TSW" Bell

Dr. Michael Jasse

Stephan Wennik

Dan Gregson

Dan "DWH" Herbert

Matt Elliot

Mike Daley

Blake Underhill

Kilroy in Net

Going into this week the Cads are on a nice little 2 game winning streak as they head into a rematch against the Tigers (who beat the beercans last week) . Overall against this team we are 0-2-3 which really should be better. Let's get over on them tonight.

The Suds take a .500 record (7-7-2) into the Wednesday night tilt with the Windsuckers. We have only played the 'suckas twice...both against the Cads and we won one, and lost one.

Let's keep the ball rolling this week as next week we have a juicy double header scheduled against clinic teams. Good a time as any to get some wining streaks going!

Play well.... and may the puck be with you.

Almost forgot.

For all you SW out there... a quick look at the scoring leaders....

1. Daley, Mike 17GP 12G 10A 22PTS 1.294PPG
2. Kurin, Roman 18GP 12G 10A 22PTS 1.222PPG
3. Bell, Larry 16GP 10G 11A 21PTS 1.313 PPG
4. Greenstein, Josh 14GP 6G 10A 16PTS 1.143PPG
5. Elliott, Matt 16GP 4G 9A 13PTS 0.813PPG
6. Herbert, Dan 19GP 8G 4A 12PTS 0.632PPG
7. Nikhamik, Matvey 16GP 3G 8A 11PTS 0.688PPG
8. Fosdick, Jeff 17GP 5G 6A 11PTS 0.647PPG

Pete Capraro has 9 pts and there are 3 guys (Nelson, Parker, and Chris F.) that have 8.

Beercans Melt the Freeze!

Schlitz (17) vs Deep Freeze
Wednesday Jan 23
UMalcatraz 9:20pm

6-2 Win!

Alright, alright. A nice sounding win for a change...esp at the prison by the bay. Here with the long and short of it are the guest bloggers.....

iJosh with the "short & sweet recap": Pretty much our game all night. We scored about 15 seconds into the game. Were up 4 - 0 at one point. They got as close as 5 - 2 with the final score rounding out at 6 - 2. Their goalie was pretty bad. Our fill-in goalie was decent.

A very nice recap from Chris Fosdick:
Lines were:Chris F. LW, Larry C, Nelson RWScott LW, iJosh C, Ken G. RW Roman floated Defense: DWH, Dan G., Mark V., Bill P.
I scored 2 and 1 assist, I know Larry scored 2, Scott scored 1, Dan G. scored 1, Larry had two PIM's and iJosh got a dbl minor for a meele that erupted with about 2 mins left in game. One of their guys hacked Ken down next to their net, then iJosh crosschecked him from behind and continued to crosscheck him while he was on the ice, at which point one of their guys (#11) comes off their bench and tackles iJosh. Meelee ensues.
Generally, we were all over them most of the game. My line was passing like we knew what we were doing. There were so many close chances that the score could easily have been 20 - 2.
D played great coming back after pinching a little too much. Bill P and Mark both caught up to save a few odd man rushes. We did let up about 4 clean breakaways, but Brian denied all but one. Both goals they scored were good ones, nothing to apologize for on the goalies part.
4th period was good with Mark & Larry, Scott, and Myself supplying beer.

Good gratifying spanking of a weak team. Nice to get thrown a bone once in a while.

Larry on the "melee": The end of the game featured some melee as Ken "the Goon" Goldenberg was sniffing around the net for a rebound just before the whistle blew. The deep freeze defense took exception and planted Ken on his ass. IJosh stood up for his teammate and quickly retaliated on the df dfense. Then, #11 on df came skating off the bench straight into the crease and cross-checked Ijosh from behind. The resulting call - 2 minor penalties on df, one on #11 (who should have been thrown out) and one on the dfense who planted Goonberg. Double minor for Ijosh.

iJosh himself on the "melee": "With about 4 or 5 minutes left in the game, Ken (Mitch) tried to put a loose puck into the net and wound up just hitting the goalie's glove (and apparently knocking it out). The whistle blows and Mitch is hit from behind and hits the ice. That prompted me to take out the guy who started it, with a solid hit. Some pushing ensued and some f*gg*t jumps off the bench and gives me blindside crosscheck. No more hits are thrown as it is stopped pretty quickly unfortunately. Somehow, the guy who started it and the guy who jumped off the bench to join in (should be an automatic game misconduct) get a single minor each. I somehow get the ire of the fat-assed, lazy referee who slaps me with a double minor. His reason? It was a crosscheck from behind (um, and I didn't get crosschecked from behind). Anyway we scored again during the 5 on 5 that resulted and the game ended. Good times indeed."

The Official Scoresheet from Larry...
Goals
1: LB from Chris
2: Big Dan from Ijosh?
3: Chris from Nelson
4: LB from Nelson
5: Scott from Roman
6: Chris unassisted.
Penalties
LB 2 Penalties
IJosh 2 Penalties

This came in from Billy P: "One last thing, you know the scene in the beginning of SlapShot when the guy comes up to Reggie Dunlap and says he shitfaced and if anyone hits him he's gonna piss himself? Well, the DF had this asian kid on defense who apparently was shitfaced. He probably pissed himself too, because your bro Chris took him down like a ton of bricks during a scramble in front of the net, that left the guy 'twitching' on the ice. Later on, during a scrum at the blue line he ran into me and fell like a ton of bricks and did the whole twitching on the ice thing again. Numerous times all night he would take these horrific falls (due to lack of skating ability) and slowly get back up, only to have it happen again and again. It was pretty amusing!"

Game Stars:

3rd Star:Nelson Sharfman. Two assists from the ever-hard working veteran.

2nd Star: Larry Bell. Two goals and a pair of penalties for the always relevant to the scoresheet Mr. Bell.

1st Star: Chris Fosdick. How about 2 goals and an assist for the night. Not to mention a solid blog contirbution AND he brought beer. The guy does it all. Great work bro'.

Good job by one and all. Never a dull moment with the Suds. Good work.
See you all this week!

Generals Surrender to the DEAD!

Cadavers (19) vs. Generals
Tuesday January 22
Boston University 9:20pm


8-2 Win!


The Hockey Gods were clearly showing favor with the Dead in Red last night from the start. First of all there was a scattering of parking spaces right up close to the rink at the bottom of Babcock St. . Secondly we were located in Locker Room #1. That's right, nice and big, (relatively) clean and above all else warm. A chorus of "why can't we play here every week" went around the room as everyone got dressed. Things looked good with a strong turn out of 12 skaters for a face off with our old friends The Generals.

The lines broke down thus...
Offense Centers: Mike Daley, Matvey Nikhamik, and Roman Kurin Offense Wingers: Pete Capraro, Dan Gregson, Matt Elliot, Blake Underhill, and Matt Kilroy (who also took a shift or two at center).
Defense 1: Dan [DWH] Herbert, and Greg James
Defense 2: Mike Hammitt, and Jeff Fosdick
Pipes: Mike [OEJ] Gash

Rumor had it that Roman Kurin switched into this game for point collection purposes, given that we have an excellent record against the "not so stalwart" Gens. Those sparks of rumor evolved into a full scale blaze as the Radical Russian pounded out 2 goals and a handful of assists on his way to a 6 (six) point night.

The First Period saw some nice pressure in the Gens zone. A few nice cycles, and multiple passes from the Red, and things were looking good. DWH started the scoring off with a very nice rush. Dan made a nice move up the ice and then after a shot and rebound took a glancing feed from Matt Kilroy and buried a beautiful wrister. The gauntlet was tossed and The Dead in Red kept it up and swarmed the Gens zone with many more chances.
On this night, unlike the previous, the chances were falling. Next up Jeff Fosdick sent a long drive in from the point that glanced through Blake Underhill on its way off the back boards and on to Capt. Kilroy who was waiting at the side of the crease to bang home his own tally. There was really good play in general by everyone wearing red. DWH and Greg James played strong D and got good chances with occasional rushes throughout the game. Greg was also nice enough to bring along a fan... the lovely Miran. After Kilroy's goal it was 2-0 Zombies after one.

The Second period saw more of the same but not without a few twists. Jeff decided he would see what might happen if he lazily turned the puck over RIGHT IN FRONT of OEJ. Nothing of course because OEJ was on it. At least Jeff "somewhat" made up for it with a nice rush of his own. Taking the clearing pass combo from Matt Elliott and Roman he took a nice breakaway into the zone and fired it low right side for the third goal. Somehow he must not have seen Roman with him on that rush for the pass....
Jeff wasn't done... he figured since OEJ stopped the first one, he'd try again. After the SECOND turnover RIGHT IN FRONT of OEJ the Generals were on the board with a goal. Somewhere the Coon of Shame picked himself up, brushed himself off and began to look for a ride to Jeff's house. BTW... where the hell is the 'coon anyway? Post in comments if you've seen our furry friend.
The rest of the period was really all good and saw two nice goals from Matt Elliot, both assisted by Roman and Mike Daley. Matvey got in on the action before the end of the second with a goal (from Roman...see a trend here?) of his own. 6-1 Zombies after two.

The third period saw the emergence of Roman as he potted a few of his numerous chances to add to his pile of points. Roman scored two goals, mostly after some nice cycling in the zone, and usually after a few rebounds. Both assisted by fellow Comrade Matvey and the second also by Matt Elliot, who had a very nice statistical night for himself (2 goals, 2 assists). The Generals were able to break through once more as the Red scrambled a bit in our own end, but that was as much glory as the Generals would taste.
That was it, a nice 8-2 win for the Zombies.

Game Stars.
3rd Star: Matvey Nikhamik. A good solid game with a goal and two assists.
2nd Star:Matt Elliott. Another gritty, grind it out performance from Matt. He was all over the place and figured heavily in the scoring with 2 goals and 2 assists. Great job.
1st Star: Roman Kurin. A stellar 6 point night with 2 goals (after numerous rebounds) and 4 (count 'em Larry) assists. Clearly Roman chose the right game to give himself a "boost" in the scoring standings. Great job, nice finish, good solid work. Now lets see some more.

Honorable Mention 1: Mike Daley. A force all night at forward. Mike was all over the place in the attacking zone and did a nice job with face offs. Great work all around.
Honorable Mention 2: Pete Capraro. Ditto...except the part about the face-offs.
Honorable Mention 3: Blake Underhill picks up a point. Great work out there, its tough to get going but you are coming along nicely. Blake had some terrific breakups and played strong positionally.

Don't forget Larry and Roman are on the roster for tonight against the Deep Freeze at the Prison by the Bay. Tune in next time for scoring updates!

Tigers chew up Beercans

Schlitz (16) vs Tigers

Monday Jan. 21

Milton Academy 9:00pm

3-1 Loss.

The Tigers seem to be having thier way with us lately. Not so good. It didn't help that the boys took the ice last night with only six (6) skaters to start the game. They ended up with a hearty nine but it sounded tough. Look. Things happen. Things come up. But if you know you can't make it...be sure to let management know... early. This public service message brought to you by Schlidaver Management and the 6 wheezing dudes that took the ice last night.

We'll have some guest blog action today to help out with the game story. This one wasn't pretty so here we go.The lines (after the 9 showed) looked like this.

Offense 1: Larry Bell, Kevin Parker, and Chris Fosdick

Offense 2: iJosh, Scott Pounds, and Chuck Slate

Defense: Marc Valenti, George Moorachian, and Stephan Wennik

Here is iJosh on the first Period: [We were] slow and tired. The Schlitz can't get out of their own way and certainly cannot even clear the puck. No whistles blow and rest is nothing more than a fantasy. The team is skating more like the Skating Dead than the team we usually know. The Tigers get on the board early to make it 1 - 0. Then later in the 1st as our Favorite Team in yellow tries to create an opportunity, it loses the puck in the neutral zone. The Tiger player shoots the puck. OEJ makes the initial save, but the puck bounces high and just over his head, where it wobbles into the net, 2 - 0 Tigers.

Here is Chris Fosdick with a nice whole game summary: "As usual we played them pretty close, although the Tigers seemed to have only their best players, and we had legs of lead at first. They scored two goals in the 1st. They seemed to be very good at intercepting passes, and generally getting in the way. They were playing better than I have seen them play in the past. They were very good positionally. The suds one bright spot was that we did continually improve over the course of the game including our legs. We held them from the 1st on, and Larry finally put one home as he flipped it out from behind the net and it ricocheted off the goaltender's pads back into the net. During the 3rd, in particular my line, and iJosh's too, had MANY great opportunities, but their goalie was pretty good, and we just couldn't put 'em in. Many post ringers, etc. We were really swarming on them, but it was too little, too late. We pulled OEJ with about 2 mins and they got a lucky empty netter on a clearing shot right at the end. So final was 3 - 1. We had two penalties I think, and don't recall who they were. Both on D, I believe.."

Feel free to "fess up" to the penalties in the comments section gentlemen.

Here is Larry on the 3rd Period: "We were all over them in the 3rd period. Chris gave me a great feed for a one-timer from the high slot with Parker in front of the net. I dinged it off the inside of the post and out. Next shift I got a rebound in front, deked the goalie down and skied a backhander over the empty net. Next shift, I tried to make a pass from behind the net that bounced off their D's skate and into the net. Last shift, got the puck to the left of the goal, tried to slide a backhand feed to Parker on the other side of the crease. The puck bounced off the goalie's skate right to their D who whipped a blind backhander down the length of the ice into our open net. We just didn't get the bounces last night..."

iJosh's thoughts on the end of the game: " As the 3rd period began, the team put it into desperation mode. Working as hard as they could to even up the score or even get on the score board. Larry barely missed two opportunities as he put one past the goalie, only to have it hit the far post and bounce back out across the crease and out. Then minutes later, he would be stuffed by the opposing goalie on a seeming goal. As his shift came to an end he would jump off and iJosh would jump on, only to have the same thing happen to him as Parker would give him a perfect pass with the left side of the net mostly empty. He would lift the puck about two feet up, but it would not be enough as the goalie kicked it out with his pads.

[In the closing minutes] OEJ rushed to the bench and I rushee onto the ice as the 6th man during a 6 on 4 power play. I kicked the puck at the blue line to keep it in and carried it a few feet before throwing a wrister at the goalie. A save is made and it deflects to Larry "TSW" Bell. Larry throws it toward the net, but it deflects off a skate between a few yellow jerseys. But the yellows are just not close enough to beat the red jersey as he bindly backhands the puck perfect and straight for the empty net goal ...3-1 Tigers.

Wow. Rough night for the Skating Beercans.

No Game Stars for sure.

Better luck next time boys.

Goons Pummel Ladies in Schlidaveur 5

Cadavers/GOONS(18)
vs
Schlitz/LADY BYNGS(15)
Monday January 14
Bavis Arena 10:20pm

Goons 10
Byngs 0


Well. That didn't really go the way we were hoping. A fun night if you were a Goon, not so much if you were a Byng. Splitting the teams along the lines of the the penalty leaders versus the penalty (virtually) free, was a good idea, and one we may revisit with some careful consideration, but the execution didn't work so well. Keep in mind that the Schlitz had a few key players that were not able to make it, that could have changed the game at least a little. No sour grapes from the Byngs however, as the Goons deserved their victory. The Dead in Red skated hard and finished well all night and sent the Byngs home crying in their now tarnished sportsmanship cups.

The Goons had a great turn out with all Thugs reporting. Campbell and James (The Twin Towers) worked with George and Valenti (The Mediterranean Duo) as the Goon Defense. Thugs R Us Forward lines were Larry, Daley, and Pounds as the first line, and Gregson, Pearlman, and Matvey as the second. Latecomer (and Goon) Mitch Goldenberg rotated in. They were backstopped by Goaliegoon Mike Gash.

The Byngs had a bit of a cobbled together look, with several subs filling out the ranks. The Good in Gold were led by Chris Fosdick, Parker, and Capraro on the first line of offense. Newcomers Chuck Slate and Mark Bates, worked with sub Eric Bauer and Roman as the second line. The D pairings were Jeff F and familiar fill in Kevin Manning, along with DWH and sub Jeff Spears as the other pair. Thanks to DWH for bringing along Eric and Jeff, things would have been a lot thinner on the Byng bench without you guys. The Byngs were backstopped by Goodguygoalie Madd Matt Kilroy.

Things were downright tight in the first period and things looked to be shaping up for a good match up as the Byngs were able to cycle the Goon zone and get some good chances on OEJ. It was not to be as the Goons took to the counter attack and it wasn't long before Dan Gregson broke the ice with a nice goal from George Moorachian. It couldn't have been much more than a minute or two later when they struck again, this time Mike Daley began his parade of goals, this one from Mike Hammit. Before the first was out the Goons would effectively ice the game with an unassisted tally from Marc Valenti, and a nice goal from "Wild" Bill Pearlman set up by Larry.

That was pretty much it for the guys in yellow. The second and third periods provided some opportunities here and there but they were never really able to mount any kind of offense against the smothering thuggery of the Goons. The second period saw goals from Pearlman (from Matvey), Daley (from Larry), and Valenti (from Hammitt) again and a deepening hole for the Byngs.

The third period saw no real change in things as Pearlman rounded out his hat-trick (from James) and Mike Daley scored two more, one short handed (from George)...[ I guess he needed to bring up the difficulty] and the last unassisted... and frankly gratuitous. Just kidding. I would have done the same thing if I had the chance.
Big time props to all the Goons with goals. Nice job boys, you certainly backed up the smack.


So here we are with... Game Stars. This win was so big, I'm giving the boys more than just 3 stars, I'm giving them 5.

5th Star- George Moorachian and Larry Bell. Great defensive work and two assists for George. Solid as always. Scoring leader (for now) Larry with 2 assists.
4th Star- Mike Hammitt. Two assists and the Goons only trip to the box. Good enough for a parking lot Goon serenade of "MVP, MVP, MVP...." whatever.
3rd Star- Marc Valenti. Two nice goals from the Rookie with the big shot. Nobody wants to get in front of that. Keep up the good work.
2nd Star- "Wild" Bill Pearlman. Nice hat-trick. We have to get this guy the puck in front of the net more often. Dude clearly has some finish. Good job.
1st Star- Soon to be scoring leader Mike Daley. A beautiful 4 goal performance from the Rookie of the Year candidate. Daley was playing a lot of D when he first got here but lately has been racking it up on the offensive side of things. He is now only 1 point behind Larry for the combined scoring lead. This might be interesting. Good game.

Honorable Mention 1: Mike Gash. No star buddy, you know the drill, you were never really tested. Good job with the shutout nonetheless.
Honorable Mention 2: Madd Matt Kilroy for the 6 FOOT SUB and BEER for postgame. Dude... you are the best. Thanks.

Here are some grainy pics of the postgame vittles.....my that's a big sandwich.

More Picture Smack! Byngs on Goons!

Courtesy of Madd Matt Kilroy... Lady Byng Goalie.
This here is a Goon... but I'm not sure he skates much.












Also these photos were all chosen by the Blogger to represent the Goons.


Tie Domi was always a Goon. He was such a Goon that he really should have his face on the Goon's Jersey.

I'm pretty sure this dude is a Goon.

Really this guy is a Rat. [Claude Lemieux] But you know... lots of Rats really turn out to be Goons, or worse, Goon wannabees. Acutally... he kind of reminds me of Larry.

Picture Smack! The Goons tee off on the Byngs

The Blogger had to share some of the immediate email smack talk... and post it... just because it has been pretty good so far. This is all Goon Smack the next post will have Byng Smack...

Scott Pounds (Goons) sez: Here is a photo obtained by our moles of the Schlitz [Byngs} practicing their defensive zone strategy.








Greg James (Goons) sees it going something like this.

Billy Pearlman (Goon) adds this: "Goon Cadavers vs. Lady Bings cover...check it out!"

as well as this....

"Lady Bing Team Picture"

....notice how the Goon misspelled Byng.



Another from Dr.Pounds:

Chuck Norris says: “The Cadavers don’t shoot the puck. The puck flees in terror from their sticks.”

Schlidaveur #4 Roster Madness!

Cadavers vs Schlitz
Round 4
Series: Schlitz 2 , Cads 1 , and 1 tie.
Monday January 14th
Bavis 10:20pm

We threw out the possiblilty of a guest GM and got a terrific idea back from the team. Billy Pearlman gets all the credit for his suggestion...

"Why not do an all penalty team against an all no-penalty team?" Ok so he didn't really say "no penalty team" but I don't want to repeat it here.

Schlidaveur Management thought this was a tremendous idea. Then after looking at the numbers we decided that this would be a great way to go. So here is the breakdown. We have one team of the penalty leaders and one team that while not completely clean, has almost no penalties. Given that the Cadavers, as a group have been called for 34 penalites versus the 13 collectively called on the Schlitz, they (the Cads) would be the GOON team and the Schlitz will play as the Lady Byng's.

So here are your rosters.

The Goons (Cadavers)
Larry Bell
Mike Campbell
Matvey Nihkamik
Greg James
Mike Hammitt
George Moorachian
Mike Daley
Dan Gregson
Bill Pearlman
Scott Pounds
Marc Valenti
Ken Goldenberg
Mike Gash in Net



Lady Byng's (Schlitz)
Roman Kurin
Jeff Fosdick
Mark Bates
Chuck Slate
Dan Herbert
Kevin Parker
Matt Elliott
iJosh Greenstein
Kevin Manning
Pete Capraro
Chris Fosdick
Stephan Wennik
Matt Kilroy in Net


There you have it kids. Let the smack talk begin. And remember you Goons... you can't score points from the Penalty Box!
If everyone shows this has terrific potential for a good matchup.
See you all on Monday!