Anyway, we had a shortened bench for our August 22nd game, and old T-Mike was delegated back into an offensive role.
Old Randall Shuler once again graced us with his jersey-less presence in net and because of it we had a 56% better chance of winning.
The game did not start out so well. Why does that seem to be a reoccurring statement in these posts? They took a 2-0 lead in the first period and they had us running around like a bunch of homos at an Astroglide Christmas party.
Their defense was tough. They continually stood us up at the center line and they were keeping everything in the zone.
Our biggest advantage - speed- was a non-factor. The Flying Hawaiian was enjoying a Luau on the dek and I swear at one point I saw him place a Lei over Curt's head and give his a kiss on the cheek.
One dude thought it was a skills competition and he made our D look silly a few times.
Any way you look at it they were in complete control of the game.
Curt finally got us on the board early in the second with a nice play by "Who's this Dave?" out of the back field.
Line two took the dek and Trav took off after a loose ball into their zone. Our speed finally prevailed and Trav beat the defender to the ball and played it to the middle. Erock Reges snuck in from the point and put a low-liner toward and into the goal.
Skillz McGee made us look silly off of the ensuing face-off and they once again took the lead. The score at the end of two periods was them 3, us 2, but you would never know that from the final score.
As stated numerous times in these posts - when Random Lengths score, they come in bunches. This is the story of the third period.
Tim and Curt got it going early and Curt tied the game on an excellent shot.
Trav then scored a highlight reel goal by beating a man along the boards, taking the ball to the net only to meet two more defenders, and then pulling a spin-a-rama and sneaking one in on a between the legs shot. He had his arms raised before the ball ever crossed the line.
Curt and Tim scored a few more times and then Goldie went on an offensive tear assisting on one and then putting in a goal of his own to put the game far, far, out of reach.
The game was called early because Marky was thrown out of the game by Marxist because he spoke something democratic, and the Flying Hawaiian thought that instead of us fighting (which we had no intent on doing since we were winning by 6 goals) we should all sit on the beach and share some coconut juice.
All in all, we came on like a hard on in the third period and showed that the better team should and will most times win.
Game Highlights
- Randall Shuler was Hasek good in net. He kept us in the game early when we had our thumbs up our asses.
- "Who's this Dave" covers an estimated 15 foot radius - standing still.
- Who would have thought that all of those nights spent playing the ladder game instead of going on dates would actually benefit Curt at some point in his life.
- Trav looks like an IRobot Roomba on speed when he's on the dek.
- Erock scoring in front of his super hot girlfriend.
- Goldie pulling an Urlacher and changing the course of the game.
- Marky's offensive defensive play. I think he blocked like 34 shots.
- Head Marxist is such a dick.
Stats updated. Game at 4:00 next week.
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