Winter season opener 2014-15 BU Schlidaveur

September 23, 2014
Schlitz vs Cadavers
BU 9:10pm

Something followed me down Babcock street last night. The familiar vortex whipping my hair, streetlight shadow jumping out in front of me as I carried my hockey bag down the hill, and in through the back door of the rink by the Zamboni ramp. It feels like home, in this old concrete bunker by the railroad tracks, so many warm, distant memories swirling in the darkness and the cold breeze. The sound of the game echoes around the dim empty space, the smell of the rubber mats in the tunnel beneath the stands... it's always good to be home, at least for a visit. 

It was great night to begin the 2014-15 Winter campaign for the schlidaveurs. Conveniently, and according to de facto tradition we started off with a Schlidaveur on Monday night at BU's Walter Brown Arena. It's always nice after a summer of playing with ourselves... I mean against ourselves... That we start off playing ourselves. Stands to reason we'd be good at it.

Decent turn out, even with last minute drops and an add we had 9 a side. As players filtered in, Ken (email? Why should I answer the email?) "AK" Douville showed up to even things out. Fosdick gave him some razz about the email which would have consequences on the ice.

Rosters.

Gold: Randy, Reynolds, Jeff, Valenti as D, Jared, baker, and Mitch as a group, and Nelson, Taylor, and Seva as the other. 

Black: sully in net, DWH, Bauer, iJosh as D; Larry, AK, Matt, and Matvey, Scot, and John Bric. 

Newcomers from this summer Chris Taylor and John Bric got shirts and were welcomed into our sad bizzare fraternity of middle aged hockey... So congrats to them. Welcome aboard boys, how long you stay is your own fault. 

Ken (now AK) was ready and told Jeff during warmups "Before I didn't care, but because of the locker room I'm going all out tonight to win, you'll see." 

So it was to be. The teams were pretty evenly matched. It was about halfway through the first when Larry would spring Ken, err AK who would make a nice move and bury the first goal behind Randy. He made sure to point it out at the face off. Good stuff, calling the shot and delivering. He was a contributor all night. 

It seemed Black played better in the first all around and the first ended 1-0 Black. 

Gold would recover a little in the second and got some traction finally in the offensive end. Jared made a nice play and springing Jeff made for the net. Jeff shot-passed and Jared got another swipe at it but Sully was there. Mitch, following the play, was right there and banged home the equalizer. The (imaginary) crowd went crazy for the long time veteran who was returning to the club after taking the summer off. Great way to come back. We look forward to seeing lots more, and lots more scoring from Mitch this season. 

Well it wasn't all good in the second for gold. On a long clearing pass randy ranged out to play the puck near the corner. Jeff came back to take the play but the pass was miffed and the puck went straight to the front of the net where Larry popped it in for the lead for Black. Larry, never shy about a point doesn't mind picking up the trash. The Stat whore was delighted to be on the board. End of 2, 2-1 Black.

The third saw more great bak mans forth action. Both sully and Randy had strong moments in net. There was less than ten minutes left when Jared would take a breakaway home by roofing one over Sully as he sprawled. Jared's backhand is a fearsome thing... Soft deadly hands. The game was tied down the stretch 2-2. That's how this one would end after great efforts on both sides. Nice way to kick off the year with a fun, hard fought 'daveur at old Walter Brown. 

Game stars:

3rd Star: Ken "Mitch" Goldenberg. A great goal for his return to the ice. Welcome back. 

2nd Star: Ken "AK" Douville. Way to take your motivation and deliver. AK was productive all night with many chances plus that strong first goal. Great job. 

1st Star: Jared "deadly hands" Gorden. A goal (a beauty) and an assist. Jared always seems to be the axis in which the game is decided. Good work out there. 

Honorable Mention 1: Jim Sullivan. A great game in the pipes. Thanks again for helping us all out by playing net. 

Honorable Mention 2: Also with a goal and an assist... Stat Whore Larry Bell... I just put him here because I dont think he counts game stars as a legit stat.

Now... The blogger felt good writing this one... but dont expect a full game story or literary ruminations for every game. I'm trying to nurse this puppy back into shape, if I've got the time, and the energy. Regardless... its good to be "back", and thank you for reading.

Summer of Daveur - Week 5

Okay, so there hasn't been a blog for sometime and this one is by no means going to be as robust as they once were.  Reason: the bloggers have jobs and I now like mine, so blogging  on company time is a rarity.  Anyhow here is how Week 5 of SOD played out.

Schlitz	Cadavers
Net=Randy Baker DWH iJosh  J.Carey (shooting on dad...) Parker Bittker  Iain Michel Eric Leykin Sully Taylor Elliott (2nd & 3rd periods)	Net-= Brian Carey Bauer Reynolds Elliott (1st period) Kurin Sharfman Daley Vagodny Ivanov Vasserman Nikhamik Pounds Scot's Friend

Okay so first off, [Iain] Michel somehow ended up on black (wearing red). So some extras were added to black, Michael for one - who was in red.  Then after noting that the sides were a little uneven numbers-wise and that he had already scored a goal for the Cads, Elliott traded himself to the Schlitz for a couple of water bottles and a used goalie whistle.


Schlitz would storm back and take the lead. The Cads would keep coming back, but the Beer cans would keep going ahead. In the end I think the score was 6-4. But I lost track. During the 3rd period with about 8 minutes left Reynolds tried to take Lizzie's head off. Reynolds tried to clear the zone up the boards and hit Liz right in the ear. She dropped and claimed she was okay, but left the ice for the evening.  Hopefully Liz is okay and will be quickly back in black & white stripes.

The 4th period was scarce.  Daley and Elliott provided some refreshments. However neither Daley nor Elliott were brutally murdered after helping a woman walking down the street with a gas can.  She needed to find a gas station and get back to her car. Daley drove and Elliott navigated.  At one point we saw Daley's car pass and  Bauer commented, "Either they found an open gas station or that woman found a Honda". Shortly thereafter they returned with nary a scratch and grabbed another beer.

See you next week.

Don't !@#$ with Mr. Zero

Schlitz 1
Tigers 0
Monday September 30, 9:10
at Walter Brown

Long time no blog folks.  After a long summer season of Daveur™ the Schlidaveurs Incorporated returned to the NESHL Ice.  This first non-Daveur game would pit the Golden Beer Cans - donning the new slick unis - against the Tigers.  

Early on it did not look good.  Jasse and KenMitch had to bail and Campbell was a no-show.  But that was not the issue.   The big issue was that due to circumstanses beyond our control (Randy having twins and Tom having his fantasy hockey draft) we were scrambling to find a keeper.  Thankfully we would find a fill-in goaltender.  Though one with little experience.  

So the lines would shape up to be:

Larry centering iJosh and Leykin
Roman centering Matvey and Rudenko
Defense would rotate with: Reynolds, George and DWH.  

The action would be fast and furious.  #8 on El Tigre was a tough challenge.  Many times he would rifle a shot in from the blue line that was bound to find its way to the net.  Though with much luck it never found the back of it.  

There were many chances.  All missed.  The Tiger goalie would stand on his head at times.  He would knock away a few certain goals.  Ones from Larry, iJosh and a few others.  There were also a couple posts and  missed empty nets.  However in the middle of a line changes, Matvey would sail into the high slot from the blue line calling for the puck like a former BU forward had done often times on this ice, but most notably a few miles north-west in 1980.  Larry would feed the puck to Matvey who buried the chance and put the Schlitz up 1-0.  

The Tigers would be intent on tying the game.  And they had their chances.  Seventeen by the goalies count.  That does not include a puck off the post on a relatively open net.  But the goalie in goal would not let it happen.  Not this night.  The Schlitz D knowing that the goalie needed the help worked relentlessly to keep the puck away.  And they did not disappoint.  

In the end.  Schlitz would hold on for the 1-0 shutout win and secure its first points against a team not managed by Schlidaveur Inc.  

Without further ado, the stars of the game:

3rd Star: Matvey.  For his game winning goal

2nd Star: The Defense.  Just a great job.

1st Star: Mr. Zero: Nelson Sharfman. There is nothing I can say that the score cannot explain.  THANK YOU for playing net.  And congrats on the shutout.  

Beers for 4th Period were had under the turf field.  Provided by Larry.  

Winter season opener-daveur!

Nice to be back on the ice last night in the cozy historic confines BU's Walter Brown Arena. The new look Daveurs faced off in our first league game since last spring, when the Beercans hoisted the championship trophy.

The night had drama early as the fill in keeper for the Cads apparently only arrived with one skate. That deflated the mood for a bit until, in a big upset, a skate appeared! Management would like to throw a big thank you shout out to the Zamboni driver the helped us out.
The Daveurs owe you a cold one sir. 

So back in business we were able to start the game with about 10 mins remaining in the first.

The Cadavers 
Steve in Net
DWH, Bauer and George playing D
Baker, Chapman, Roman, Seva, Matvey and one other? who am I forgetting?

The Schlitz
Tom in Net
Reynolds, iJosh, Jeff and Campbell on D
Larry, Douville, Sully, Daley, Mitch, and Matty Elliot playing forward.

The game was tight. Gold spent a lot of time chasing Paul Chapman around in his new shirt. but there was no blood after the first abreviated period.
Black/Red would get the first one after Matvey would tip home a shot from Bauer late in the second period to take the lead. 
The Gold would see the inside of the penalty box plenty, with Douville going once and Campbell going twice (on his way to 3 and an ejection) before the end of two... 
Apparently the big shock in re-joining the league was a bucket full of penalties...

Gold would play tough, and the Larry, Sully, Daley group would do very well on a few cycles through the offensive zone. But it wouldn't be enough to get over on the man with one skate. The fill- in Steve would not let a thing by and the gold was left in the cold.
Roman would grab an empty netter as time wound down to make the final 2-0.

3rd Star: The Zamboni Driver for "aquiring" the needed skate
2nd Star: Matvey for the Game Winner
1st Star: Steve Mitch... for showing up, finding a skate, and pitching a shutout!


Great to be back on the ice... and looking good! 
Please comment if I've forgoten anything.

Looking good at corporate HQ...

Championship Daver!

Championship Daver Post game!

Scenes from the locker room afte the Schlitz won 2-1 last night.

Shadow of Destiny

Tonight's game is for the division championship... For the Suds. If the Dead in Red can win tonight they'll force a final ultimate Daveur. But lets not get ahead of ourselves.
Here are tonight's rosters. Team beer can can win the hardware tonight.


SCHLITZ
Tom Net
Herbert D
Fosdick, J. D
Moorachian D
Valenti D
Gorden
Vagodny
Daley
Leykin
Jasse
Douville
Walsh
Goldenberg
Pounds
Nelson (maybe)

CADAVERS
Randy Net
Tiesling D
Bauer D
Reynolds D
Greenstein D
Bell
Baker
Sullivan
Rudenko
Kurin
Ivanov
Gregson
Nikhamik
Elliott
Kharchenko D (Landing at BOS from Ireland at 6:00 PM)

The 2nd Penultimate!

When you think of classic sports rivalries, who do you think of?  Islanders-Rangers?

Sox-Yankees?

Maybe Bruins-Habs?

None of these compare to Cadavers-Schlitz.  

Ever since these two teams started playing in the same division and started playing each other regularly, familiarity quickly bred epic storylines--and epic battles.  Perhaps it's due to the number of skaters that have played for both squads, but there's just no denying that when these teams face-off... it's something else entirely.  Often the games aren't truly decided until well into the 4th period.

Sunday night will be a re-match of the 2007 Penultimate game.  The CADs hope to repeat that performance and force a second CHAMPIONSHIP-DOUBLE-DAVEUR (which the Schlitz won to claim the 2007 trophy).  

The Cadavers needed to win a play-in round just to make the playoffs this season, and have systematically gotten the job done... with just one blemish to an otherwise spotless postseason record... a 5-2 loss at the hands of the Schlitz.  Do the beercans have the zombies figured out?

The 2007 trophy was the last appearance in the championship game for the Schlitz.  The Cadavers last competed for T-shirts in 2011, but fell short.

Rosters haven't been finalized yet, but the next chapter of Schlidaveur (which is apparently a rather risque word in a Scandinavian language) will be written on Sunday.

Game:

Sunday April 28, 2013
9:10PM  Hingham/C

General admission seating available!

Cadavers Fall Prey to the Predators

I have little information about this game.  Any updates would be helpful:

Monday, March 18, 2013 @ 10:20
Hingham C
Predators 3
Cadavers 2

Scoring Summary:
 1st Period:
  Predators @ 11:59 (0-1)
 2nd Period:
  Cadavers - Larry Bell (Jared Gorden, George Moorachian) @ 4:01 (1-1)
  Predators @ 7:43 (1-2)
  Predators @ 17:57 (1-3)
 3rd Period:
  Cadavers - Jared Gorden (Larry Bell) @ 18:36 (2-3)

Penalties:
 2nd Period:
  George Moorachian (Slashing) @ 16:00

Forward your info, if you have any.  

Return to Sparta....again!

So the Cadavers would play yet another game against the Spartan.  Feeling like that is the only team we play lately.

We traveled to UMalcatraz to face the men in green this time.  Albeit with similar results as last time:

UMass Boston
Thursday, March 14 @ 9:20pm
Spartans 5
Cadavers 2

The Cadavers would have a full squad of 13 players.  The Spartans would be, well, sparse.  This should bode well for the men in red.  Is that your final answer?  Because if it is, then you are wrong.  The Spartans would, or actually shall I say, one Spartan pretty much dominated this game.  The fill-in goalie, Steve, played great.  He made some stellar saves.  However he could not get in the way of some of the constant slew of break-away plays that presented themselves behind the D.  Very quickly we would be down 2-0.  Though Jim Sullivan would find a way to put on into the net this time.  If you recall, last time he should have had one, but somehow got robbed.

Number 12, had quite the game for the Spartans.  He was able to score all five goals (according to Point Streak he only scored 4, but they left out the empty net goal).  He also was able to sit for 2 minutes for calling George a lady part name after he fell  into the boards and blamed George.  He would also draw a penalty on iJosh while the Spartans were already on  a power play.  He would grab the puck, curl around and lose an edge.  As he fell, his skate his iJosh's stick as iJosh tried to stay with #12.  When even your own team disputes the penalty, it is a pretty bad call.  But despite all protests the Cads would have to endure a 5 on 3 that they would eventually kill.

In the end Leo (#12) was too much for the Cadavers.  He did a wonderful job of skating to and from the icing line to the blue line.  I would complain more if the Spartans had a full squad, but they only had 6, so I will only slightly grumble about that.

Again, kudos to the fill-in goalie.  Hopefully we will see him in the pipes again for Schlidaveur International.  

Schlitz can't get past the Booze

Monday March 11, 2013

Boston University @ 10:20pm

Schlitz 2

Booze Brothers 2

Roman passed....a blog enter over.  So here is Roman with the rundown:

 D was Peter-Baker, DWH-Bauer

O: Jared-Larry-Matt, Seva-Roman-Scott

They scored the first goal on a power play with DWH in the box for slashing. We(me) could not clear the puck out of the zone several times. Randy was livid about that one. DWH tied the score off the scramble up front with goalie giving up rebound of my shot from the slot. Seva and Scott were fighting for the puck as well, but it was Dan who flipped it over the goalie. They made it 2-1 of the rash and a good shot that went over Randy's blocker. Somewhere in between Seva got called for offside, but he thought he got called for a penalty and placed himself in the box! After about 20 seconds of playing 5 on 4 Refs decided to tell poor Seva that there were no penalty and he got released from the cell. Luckily they did not score on that "powerplay". And so it was 2-1 until last 2 minutes of the game. Later on in the locker room Larry said he was contemplating hanging them up. I made a rush down the left side, somehow made it around the D and got to the net at which point goalie made a good play and pocked the puck away from me, but god bless the luck bounce it ended up on my stick and while falling pushed it towards a net where goalie did not have time to recover and it ended up in the net. 2-2 and Larry is still with us. Jared Matt and Larry had plenty of chances, breakaways and two on ones, missing empty nets but no luck. Puck was really bouncing all night. Seva was rushing all night and played well (not including his brain fart with the fantom penalty). He almost scored the goal last minute of the game with 2 on 1 with Larry.  Scott almost had a breakaway off the rush.

We really should have won this game, but oh well. 

Thanks Roman.  

Cadavers fail to capture Sparta

So in a snowy Thursday night many would make the trek to Canton to take on the Spartans.  After a little bit of shuffling the eventually roster would fill out to a robust twelve skaters.  Somehow the score sheet disappeared in the snow, so my weathered memory is a little more clouded due to this issue.  The long and the short of it is that:


Spartans 4
Cadavers 2
Thursday March 7, 10:10 
at Canton A

The goalie was again excellent for us.  However we would quickly get down 2-0.  Jim Sullivan would rattle one, not quite home.  He grabbed  a pass from behind the net and riffled one at the net.  The goalie would get a very small piece of the puck.  The puck then hit the post and bounced out of the crease.  Jim raised his arms thinking that he had the goal, but he would quickly have to just get back on defense.

The Cads would eventually cut the lead to 2-1, but Sparta would quickly re-establish a 2 goal lead.  Later in the game Alex would make a nice play, kicking the puck to himself, beating some Spartans and poking it home.  But the Spartans would eventually pad their lead again, before fending off the Cads for the rest of the 3rd.

Due to the snowy weather there would be no 4th period.  Seemingly everyone was able to get home safely, though it was definitely tough at time.

And no, keeping up with the Blog is not easy.

Schlitz's D is Offensive vs the Tigers

Schlitz 6
Tigers 2
Monday Feb 25, 2013 @ 10:10
Milton Academy

So another day another blog.  The Original Blogger is probably home, sipping tea with his pinky extended watching as other people do HIS work.  But that is okay,  we are happy to contribute.  So without further ado here is the skinny:

This Monday night would begin with a smattering of folks in the locker room.  Rumor had it that Dan with Hands was sneaking away by claiming to get bread and milk for a household filled with children, an infant and in-laws to get some of his frustrations out on the ice.  But until we actually saw him in the locker room, it would be exactly that, a rumor.  As some of us laced up the final skate and headed to the ice, DWH would arrive......shortly followed by Nelson.  

As the puck dropped on the 1st face-off a few stragglers would remain in the locker room causing some dynamic assignments until they all arrived.  Once they did the lines would settle into: Elliott & Matvey centered by iJosh; Gregson & Sullivan centered by Roman. So for once we had no forwards skating back on D and had a strong defensive core and instead pushed some defensemen forward, hence defenseman Bauer & Nelson would be centered by Defenseman Jeff Fosdick.    That would leave DWH, Valenti, George and Reynolds to cover the blueline and stellar goalkeep Tom Denault sat in the pipes.

This alignment would pay pretty quick dividend as it was evident that all cylinders were working early.  Foz and Bauer would be able to move the puck well and the D was evidently solid.  Desipite the Tigers having a couple guys who could move, only #8 and the guy with grey pants (#26) were really strong.  The Schlitz would trade chances.  About halfway through the period, Reynolds would get a hold of the puck with some time at the blueline.  He would fire one toward the net and through to give the Suds a 1-0 lead.  This type of play would continue.  Valenti would fire a few toward the net and the Gold were even able to make some crisp passes and contain the puck.  Despite all that a defensive lapse late in the period would leave Tom all alone and the Tigers would net one on a mini break-away on the glove side of Tom.  1-1 at the end of the 1st. 

2nd Period we would see more good movement and good hustle.  At about the 9 minute mark of the period, iJosh would dive and poke the puck away from the defender.  He would slide into the boards and while getting up would get tangled with an opponent.  In the ref's opinion it was a blatant trip.  However it appeared to be nothing more than two guys sliding into each other.  Regardless, iJosh would be box-bound.  Schlitz would pretty handily kill this penalty, and shortly there-after, Foz would get into the action with a nifty shot from the high slot that would put the Gold up 2-1.    More positive work for the Suds.. Play again move to the offensive zone.  Reynolds would move the puck to Matt Elliott who would fire the puck toward the net where iJosh was screen the goalie.  The puck would get tipped by the defenseman, just in front of the screen and find its way to the top of the net.  2-1 Gold.

3rd Period would open up the floodgates a bit.  Roman would get criticized for hold the puck too long and not making the right pass to a forward moving teammate.  I think the actual quote by Sharfman was, "Hey Roman, there is this guy on your right wing (Sullivan) who's actually pretty fast.  Use him".  So the next shift, Roman would hold the puck at the red line and amble over toward the blue as Sully streaked past him only to have to put on the breaks to avoid the offsides.  Roman would skate in the zone, get rid of the puck as the rest of the bench called to him to finally pass.  Sully would pick it up and send it toward Gregson camped out in front of the net.  Greggy would take the pass and send it home for a 3 goal lead. iJosh would again make the scoresheet, but again by finding the box.  Another trip, another trip....to the box and again the Suds would handle iJosh's indiscretion with ease. Bauer would also get into the action.  He would sail in and push the puck past the goalie and celebrate winning the Stanley Cup™, at least it seemed like it as he raised his hand in triumph as he backed into the corner wall.  5-1 Suds.  Then DWH would try to mimic Zdeno Chara's spin-o-rama move.  He would spin clockwise and make his way around some defenders, just before the blueline he would find Bauer heading toward the net and feed him.  Roman would net the goal and make it a 6-1 lead.  In the waning seconds of the game, the Tigers would make a mad rush and get one past Tom to finish the night at 6-2.  

I cannot forget to mention that despite the offensive night by the defensive personnel, it was another stellar night for Tom in net.  He sent away chance after chance whenever the Tigers did get their opportunities.  

A nice night in Milton.  No 4th period as none of us really want to end up on the Milton Police Blotter.  Plus DWH had to find and open Stop & Shop along the way home to find the milk and bread he claimed to be going out for.  

Stars of the Night:

• 3rd Star: Tom Denault for his understated, but yet solid play in net.
• 2nd Star: Eric Bauer: 1 goal and excellent play on both the offensive and defensive zone.
• 1st Star: Jeff Fosdick: 1 goal, 1 assist and just great overall play. Almost down graded him due to blog neglect. I guess I'm starting to get over it. 

Postscript:  The scoresheet on Pointstreak lists almost all goals as "Substitute".  My guess is as good as yours in regards to accuracy for goals & assists.

This is not Sparta! Zombies crawl to an 8-1 victory?

According to the scoresheet there were 0 penalties. 

Spartans started with 4 and managed to get 6 skaters to kind of finish the game.

Sparta was about 296 warriors short for the first period.

Cadavers were listed as  #6 #88 #5 #44(that's me) #7 #13 #90 #9(Possibly one of the Beatles) #83 #17 #23 or #25 can't tell #18 and rounding out an uneven 13 #55.

The referee/lineman's name was Brian and he really didn't want to do much except go home.

The scorekeeper was too busy writing down names and stats to write his own name so I will just refer to him as the nihilist.

So they started out with no goalie and had 4 skaters and and the usual "if the goalie doesn't show the game is off" Thanks Buddah he showed and they started down a man.

3 full lines and 2 sets of D were running short shifts. I don't remember much of the game because I was doing my bench yoga. 

This is pretty much what the first period looked like.

So here is the scoring breakdown.

Period 1

Cadavers #17 at 8:25 assists #18 & #7

Cadavers #55 at 1:45 assists #18 and 3

Period 2

Cadavers #5 at 12:45 assist #23 and \ 

Cadavers #5 at 11:45 assist #23 and #83

That has to be some sort od NESHL record for us.

Great work by these two, I'm just guessing it was gordon & sully.

Cadavers #90 at 5:15 assists \ \   selfish guy in the blue helmet skated down the ice around the net and managed to somehow pop it in. 

Period 3 

Cadavers #13 at 16:41(how is that even possible?) Thanks nihilist. Assists #90 and \ 

Cadavers (Power Play) #88 at 11:10 assist #6 and #44

I think it may have been #6 assisted by #44  because this guy wasn't passing.

I know it was a power play because it felt like the start of the first period but nothing on the scoresheet.

Spartans#23 at 6:12 assists by \ and  \

This play is called by Randy - 

"It would have been a shutout, but the D screwed up and actually allowed a shot-on-goal in the third period."

The game ended soon after that as this was not Sparta and the Sully/Gordon combo injured the other goalie with about 4:30 left on the clock. I'm not sure what happened but I think Gordon smacked the puck on his knee or pulled the goalie muscle.

Conclusion 

WE WIN!!!!!!!!!

Period 4

Goal by parker as he ventured into another locker room with a bunch of dudes dancing and playing with their dog. Came back with a beer with not comments.

3 Stars

*     ---  #5 for 2 goals and a goalie takeout

**   ---  #55 for 2 silent goals one of them being the game winner

*** --- #18 for 3 assists

Honorable mentions

Randy for an almost shutout and needing an escort for the way home.

and #90 little blue helmet goal & assist

Once again working together we proved that you can do it through teamwork.

Oh and this - 

I still believe in Miracles!

Return of the Blog

 
457 Days!!!!!!!! Yes boys and girls, that is the last time that Mr. Jeff Fosdick actually posted a Schildaveur Blog Post.  So after a few requests and finally a plea from K.Mitch Goldenberg, the keys have been granted.  So, I, the Official Guest Blogger™ will be taking up semi-permanent residence along with Mitch and Dan Gregson....and the Original Blogger if he <sarcasm>ever finds the time</sarcasm>.

The Blog now returns after what feels like a twenty year slumber.

So without further ado, here is the skinny:

Schlitz Bloodied by the Cones
Schlitz vs the Streetcones
Wednesday  February 21, 2013
Quincy Youth Arena 10:10pm

Schlitz 1 - Streetcones 6

So the last time I blogged.....well, I don't remember.  But the last time I recall playing the Streetcones it wasn't a fun affair.  We held our ground, mostly because of a fill-in goaltender.  Can't say that this is going to be any different

Early in the game it was evident that the Cones were a better skating team.  However because of goaltending, some luck and a little bit of hard work, we were able to keep them at bay.  Tom (I think), did a great job of turning away every slap shot and breakaway that came towards his crease.  We really have to  hand it to him.  A few chances were even missed by the Golden Beercans.  Larry made a couple passes to iJosh who just could not get a handle on the puck to get a good enough shot.  There was another shot, I think by Campbell, that just missed the near side of the net and went just wide.  So the 1st period  would end 0-0.

In the second, there would be a bit of confusion on the lines and the original set-up of John Walsh-Larry Bell-iJosh Greenstein and Nelson Sharfman-Roman Kurin-Dan Gregson with K.Mitch Goldenberg rotating through the lines was mixed up a bit with iJosh and Nelson shifting lines.  Shortly after that, Larry would feed Mike Campbell  who would put one past the Cones goalie to give the Schlitz a surprising 1-0 lead.  But the lead would not last for long.  The Cones would get one past the stellar goalkeeper and tie the game at 1-1.  In the middle of the period, Reynolds would crash to the ice and fall awkwardly, hitting his head.  He would have to be helped to the bench and seemed a bit woozy.  He would remain on the bench and try to regain his balance. Back on the ice, iJosh would soon take a tripping penalty near the defensive blue line as he would slip and lose the puck and make a last gasp attempt at stopping the opponent.  No dice - 2 minute timeout.  Schlitz would hold on and keep the Cones off the board. However with 10 seconds to go, the guys in gold would ice the puck.  Larry would lose the face-off and before anyone to get to the point, their defenseman would bury one  from the high slot to take a 2-1 lead with only 6 seconds left in the period.......DAMN!!!!

The 3rd would not be so kind.  Reynolds would try to finish the game, but he only managed one shift before calling it a night.  This would move Roman to the blue line to join Baker, Bauer and Campbell.  Early in the 3rd there would be some chances.  The gold even were able to control play a bit in the offensive end.  But no one could find the back of the net.  Campbell would, as one would expect, find the penalty box after a trip behind the net.  This would lead to a power play goal.  Now the Streetcones were heating up and would eventually start scoring at will.  A couple on the breakaway, one just on the inside of the net.  Schlitz just kept leaving the goalie on his own and the superior play of the Cones got the best of us.    So Schlitz would try to just make it respectable and as the period wound down play would continue in the offensive end.  Again no great chances.  On the last feeble attempt, the puck would find its way behind the Cone's net with 2 seconds to play.  iJosh, who was closest to the puck, noticed the time and stood up and started to curl away from play only to be leveled by a Cone at the buzzer.  That would prompt iJosh to get up and take a shot at the Cone.  A bit of jawing continued and eventually Josh would skate away.  Larry - who gets big kudos in my book - then took matters into his own hands and took on a Cone and would find himself rolling around on the ice trading punches. The ref would kick Gold off the ice, no handshakes this time.  Someone from our bench then decided to take a puck and throw it over the scorer's booth into the Cone's bench.  At that point it was time to clear the area as the Gold would spend the 4th in the locker room rather than intermingling with the Streetcones in the parking lot as I would hear them chatting about the projectile after the game.

Overall a great effort by the goalie and a good  effort by the Gold.  Too bad it had to end like that.

In other news it was reported before the game that Dan with Hands has added two more hands to the family.  Congrats to him, his wife, and his new daughter.

But at least the Blog is Back!!!!


 

The beast is alive

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.

Zombies top Guns n Hoses...

Cadavers (8) vs Guns n' Hoses
Sunday 11/13
Canton 9:30pm


3-2 Win!


This was a swap out game that the leauge bestowed on us as a result of our complaining about scheduling us for two games on the same night last Thursday. Kind of a sandwich game given that we have a BIG Schlidaveur showdown the next night... and the Guns n Hoses weren't a team we'd ever played before in my recollection.
Word coming back was that they were a very good team but our Zombie pride showed through and we gave them all they could handle.
Heres the Roster
Randy in Net
Baker
Bauer
Bell
Bittker
Daley
Gregson
Herbert
Kurin
Marietta
Moorachian
Pounds

The Gun's scored first only 3 minutes into the first but the Zombies kept after it and things settled down.
Roman Kurin scored, unassisted before the end of the first and it was tied 1-1 after one period.
The second period would be a grind the whole way until Josh Bittker would score with a helper from George and the Dead in Red were in the lead!
The Guns would come back about halfway through the third and would tie the game. But Zombie pride was not to be denied. Steve Baker would make a brilliant rush that fell just short, but Josh B would be right there to pop in the rebound and with one minute to play the Dead in Red would take the 3-2 lead and win the game. The only penalties were Larry who went for a matching call with one of the Gun's at 7 minutes into the 3rd.
Sounds like great work all the way around for the Red.

Nice job.