Sometimes you eat the dek, and sometimes - well, the dek eats you. We played the part of a 10 course meal for opposing teams in our first only session playing in the big, bad, B league. To sound cliche, there were ups and downs - mostly downs. Lots, and lots of downs.
We had limited attendance. We scored very little. We gave up very much. We played on Sundays. We never had a single beer after our games.
These and many other factors contributed to the lousy session that was Spring 2010.
My new name would be "Mead Maiden."
We'll regroup. In the spirit of European football, we've been relegated. Next session we're back where we belong in the "C"rappy League. There are like 320 teams that play in the C league, hopefully we avoid playing any kids, moms, or nannys.
Ok, this next bit of information is wild. We have been tracking our goals this session for our "Goals for Charity" event. After looking around a bit I decided that we would donate our charity to the Mario Lemieux Foundation, click the link for some additional information. If you're a Pens fan you already know a lot about the foundation and what they stand for. They are huge in the area, and a huge advocate for cancer research and a giant contributer to Austin's Playroom (named after Mario's son) to aid kids with autism. I also figured that since we at least act like a hockey team (we don't always look like one), we may as well contribute our donation toward something hockey related.
All of that said (and here is the wild part), we finished the session with 22 goals. Donating $3/goal - our donation amount totals $66! Sick isn't it? So I'll simply tack that amount on to our fees for next session for those of us that were a part of the team for this session, and we'll continue the event next session as well if it's cool with all of you dudes. Hopefully we'll be closer to an $87 contribution next session.
A quick recap of last game: we got badly outplayed by a bunch of scrubs. We only had 4 regular players including Shoup in goal. Luckily Dougy played and we picked up a couple dek rats. The one dek rat Mark scored two goals, one assisted by Doug, the other by myself. Mark also picked up the assist on our third goal that was scored by me.
Final stats/results for the session are updated on the stats page here. If you didn't know already, or you're too lazy to occasionally check the site for updates - the stats page is also linked at the very top of the page under "UNCOMFORTABLE STATS/RESULTS." That link also directs you to the stats/results/awards archive from the defunt Random Lengths Hockey Club if you wanted to see how you and the team played 2 years ago.
Still no word on if the last place team in the league qualifies for the playoffs. Let me know if you find out or watch for an update on the site.
Peace.
Peace.
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