yesterday was our first and only playoff game of the spring season and had we known from the offset that this was the only game we would be playing and that it was for all the marbles (the marbles being the thursday B or C championship), I like to think we may have played with a little more urgency throughout the game.
Although we won the game, we and specifically I made some silly mistakes throughout the first two periods that could have easily cost us the game had it not been for some great goaltending and back-checking. One upside from this game is that the only goals the other team scored were on the powerplay and they couldnt compare with us at even strength.
The first period of the game was pretty fast paced and we set the tempo early. lots of shots and scoring chances but we couldnt bury and they couldnt muster much of an attack. the only real chances they had were shitty outlet passes to the few quick players they had. They did, however, get on the board first after I took a mindless high sticking penalty. I wasnt even thinking when I did it, they tried to clear the ball from their zone and the guy shot it high and I instinctively raised my stick to stop it. I actually stopped the ball which felt pretty good then I realized that was against the rules and was kicking myself all the way to the box. The other team was able to set up and we werent pressuring much and a shot from the point resulted in a rebound that was tapped home for a 1-0 lead.
The second period was more of the same, lots of chances for us but we couldnt beat their goalie. he was playing pretty well now that i think about it. Ross took a phantom interference call and went to the box and the other team was able to cycle yet again and set up with a big guy in front of the net and there wasnt much Maj could do when he got the rebound.
The third period we still had plenty of gas in the tank and the other team was starting to show signs of fatigue thanks to their short bench and we got many more chances. eventually it got to them waiting for us to come down the floor and, either letting their goalie make a huge save or watching us shoot it way wide. then they would get the rebound, get past the blue line and fire it down the floor. Stabs, who was still recovering from his surgery was watching the game and went home in the first period to grab his gear incase he needed it. he showed back up around 12min left in the game and got ready. we were finally able to beat their goalie with 6:15 left in the game. Stoute got a nice goal, then Cowin potted one 2 minutes later to tie it up. we had them on their heels down to the wire and Hackett came through clutch and sealed the deal for us with 11 seconds left in the game. comeback complete, game over.
overall we played a decent game but almost got shut out by a mediocre goalie. summer season starts this weekend. aint no break for the Minivans.
Special shoutout to Stabs. You're a trooper bud, no one is as tough as you. and i mean no one. MVP of the game just because he played while still recovering from hernia surgery, and he set up hackett on the winning goal.
good season team
Friday, May 6, 2011
Sunday, May 1, 2011
game vs The Red Army (who actually wear black outfits instead of red... wierd)
Like i said in the title, we played the Red Army on thursday. big game to see if we could grab 2nd place from the Ducks or Rampage and had we won, we would right now be tied for first in the division. with that said, you now know that we didnt win, but we didnt lose either. overall the game wasnt terrible, we were outplaying them for most of the game and they had a short bench so essentially, we should have gotten the W. we started off well enough and had a 2-0 lead after the first and then we were able to extend it to 3-0 but after that things started to go downhill. they got 1 and after that they played with a renewed energy and managed to tie the game up and put it into overtime. the overtime proved nothing and we left bitter with ourselves after we could have and should have beaten a team that isnt as good as us.
thats all for now.
good job team regardless. lets win more
thats all for now.
good job team regardless. lets win more
Sunday, April 24, 2011
game 7 - spring season
another solid game by the minivans and another resounding victory to put us back over .500 for the first time since week 3. feels good winning, it feels even better when i score, which doesnt happen often but did happen this week so im feelin pretty winning right now.
we were playing the worst team in the league The Broken Sticks and knew coming into the game that we couldnt take this team for granted because you never know what's going to happen.
we started off the game well and we were up 3-0 by the end of the first period. Iain Anderson sniped a goal from the point on a beauty slapshot, Stoute lit the lamp on a nice shot and Kells got a goal too.
the second period was more of the first. my line of jason, jeremy and I, or jeremy, me, and whoever on center was bringing lots of heat and pressure to the other team and we were getting really close to potting a goal but had not thus far in the game. regardless, we were leading 4-0 at the end of the second and it was starting to look like a route. Stoutey got the goal for us in the second, on his second of the game on a nice set-up by Hackett.
Finally in the third period I was able to get that monkey off my shoulders and snipe a goal for the first time in a long long while. talk about slumps, this one was starting to piss me off. i got absolutely robbed earlier in the game on a wrap-around so this was sweet revenge. I roofed it over the goalie's glove on a beauty pass by Jeremy and just like that it was 5-0. I celebrated when i shouldn't have after my goal and it fired the other team up and they proceeded to pot 3 goals before the end to make the final score 5-3 for the Minivans.
all in all, we got the W and thats all that really matters. another good game by Ross, he's getting back into the groove of things and getting his speed back. he'll be sniping cheese in no time. good game by Heavy Beavy too, he played well on defence and I have still yet to see him take a shot in the past 4 seasons. good game by the goalie, like always. everyone played really well and we ran shit. Stabs is done for atleast 6 weeks now because he just had his hernia surgery so special shoutout to him, get better soon bud.
Good win team.
BOXSCORE
we were playing the worst team in the league The Broken Sticks and knew coming into the game that we couldnt take this team for granted because you never know what's going to happen.
we started off the game well and we were up 3-0 by the end of the first period. Iain Anderson sniped a goal from the point on a beauty slapshot, Stoute lit the lamp on a nice shot and Kells got a goal too.
the second period was more of the first. my line of jason, jeremy and I, or jeremy, me, and whoever on center was bringing lots of heat and pressure to the other team and we were getting really close to potting a goal but had not thus far in the game. regardless, we were leading 4-0 at the end of the second and it was starting to look like a route. Stoutey got the goal for us in the second, on his second of the game on a nice set-up by Hackett.
Finally in the third period I was able to get that monkey off my shoulders and snipe a goal for the first time in a long long while. talk about slumps, this one was starting to piss me off. i got absolutely robbed earlier in the game on a wrap-around so this was sweet revenge. I roofed it over the goalie's glove on a beauty pass by Jeremy and just like that it was 5-0. I celebrated when i shouldn't have after my goal and it fired the other team up and they proceeded to pot 3 goals before the end to make the final score 5-3 for the Minivans.
all in all, we got the W and thats all that really matters. another good game by Ross, he's getting back into the groove of things and getting his speed back. he'll be sniping cheese in no time. good game by Heavy Beavy too, he played well on defence and I have still yet to see him take a shot in the past 4 seasons. good game by the goalie, like always. everyone played really well and we ran shit. Stabs is done for atleast 6 weeks now because he just had his hernia surgery so special shoutout to him, get better soon bud.
Good win team.
BOXSCORE
| Number | Name | G | A | PIM | |
| 4 | Ross Smiley | ||||
| 5 | Matt Kotchie | ||||
| 7 | Brian Stoute | 2 | 2 | ||
| 8 | Iain Anderson | 1 | |||
| 11 | Kevin Johnston | 3 | |||
| 14 | Brett Kelly | 1 | |||
| 17 | Andrew Hackett | 1 | |||
| 24 | Jason Megit | ||||
| 66 | Brett Vernoy | ||||
| 69 | Keith Gummer | 1 | |||
| 86 | Adam Beavan | ||||
| 97 | Jeremy Carr | 1 | |||
| 98 | Andrew Cowin | 1 | |||
| G | Maj | 1 | |||
Saturday, April 16, 2011
its been a few weeks, im slacking
yea, so, like the title implies, ive been slacking.
also, on a sidenote. the minivans lost 3 games in a row after a good start so i didnt really feel like writing about our failures. we finally won again to get back in the win column and im pretty sure we're 3-3 now.
ross smiley is back on the team and im glad. we missed him and his fast legs on the floor. its nice to have a speedster back and he's enjoying himself this year so that's great. he's still getting up to game speed, hasnt played too many so far but he's slowly getting his feet back under him and once that happens, watch out opposing defenders. can you say chip and chase and burn the D everytime?? because i can.
ok, sooo...
we lost to rampage 3-2 in the 3rd week. a game that i missed because i was at the Method Man concert and apparently we got outplayed and the refs missed one of their goals and it should have actually been 4-2. no biggie, the guys said we can beat them.
then the next week we had 2 games, one on tuesday and we got slaughtered 6-0 by a really good tuesday team. they were made up of a few guys from the roadrunners in our summer league and some other really good players.
thursday we lost to Weedman and it was a pretty bad game but we might be able to beat them if we can play like a team.
we finally got the W this past thursday against the Lincoln Park Net Intruders and it wasnt a very pretty game. we were down 1-0 for most of the game until the Hackett, Cheese and Stoutey line came to life in the 3rd and potted 2 goals for us in 17 seconds. after that we played well and held on for the win.
overall, 3 bad games and 1 good game. we're better than this, we need to win from now on. no more of this losing shit, i think im allergic to it.
-gummsy out
also, on a sidenote. the minivans lost 3 games in a row after a good start so i didnt really feel like writing about our failures. we finally won again to get back in the win column and im pretty sure we're 3-3 now.
ross smiley is back on the team and im glad. we missed him and his fast legs on the floor. its nice to have a speedster back and he's enjoying himself this year so that's great. he's still getting up to game speed, hasnt played too many so far but he's slowly getting his feet back under him and once that happens, watch out opposing defenders. can you say chip and chase and burn the D everytime?? because i can.
ok, sooo...
we lost to rampage 3-2 in the 3rd week. a game that i missed because i was at the Method Man concert and apparently we got outplayed and the refs missed one of their goals and it should have actually been 4-2. no biggie, the guys said we can beat them.
then the next week we had 2 games, one on tuesday and we got slaughtered 6-0 by a really good tuesday team. they were made up of a few guys from the roadrunners in our summer league and some other really good players.
thursday we lost to Weedman and it was a pretty bad game but we might be able to beat them if we can play like a team.
we finally got the W this past thursday against the Lincoln Park Net Intruders and it wasnt a very pretty game. we were down 1-0 for most of the game until the Hackett, Cheese and Stoutey line came to life in the 3rd and potted 2 goals for us in 17 seconds. after that we played well and held on for the win.
overall, 3 bad games and 1 good game. we're better than this, we need to win from now on. no more of this losing shit, i think im allergic to it.
-gummsy out
Friday, March 25, 2011
game 2 - spring season
another game, another resounding victory for The Minivans. this week we played the Warriors and they've got a decent team but we've got a better team.
kevin johnston started off with a strong first shift alongside stoute and stabs and they scored 19 seconds into the game. kevin got the goal and the other two guys got assists. kevin got another goal 3 minutes later and put us up 2-0 and then stabsy lit the lamp with 36 seconds left in the first to end the period with us leading 3-0.
we let the warriors get back into the game in the second when dutch got called on a slash and they cycled the ball and put it past Maj but we responded back with a goal by hackett to make it 4-1 to end the second period.
stabs sniped another goal at 7:30 of the third period to put us up 5-1 and we were cruisin from then on. we took another penalty on a body checking call by cowin and the warriors scored again to make it 5-2 but it was all but over by then. stoute scored with 4 minutes left in the game and we ended the game 6-2.
overall a good win today by the minivans.
we were missing kotch, jeremy and jason today so we played well with a short bench.
good win
kevin johnston started off with a strong first shift alongside stoute and stabs and they scored 19 seconds into the game. kevin got the goal and the other two guys got assists. kevin got another goal 3 minutes later and put us up 2-0 and then stabsy lit the lamp with 36 seconds left in the first to end the period with us leading 3-0.
we let the warriors get back into the game in the second when dutch got called on a slash and they cycled the ball and put it past Maj but we responded back with a goal by hackett to make it 4-1 to end the second period.
stabs sniped another goal at 7:30 of the third period to put us up 5-1 and we were cruisin from then on. we took another penalty on a body checking call by cowin and the warriors scored again to make it 5-2 but it was all but over by then. stoute scored with 4 minutes left in the game and we ended the game 6-2.
overall a good win today by the minivans.
we were missing kotch, jeremy and jason today so we played well with a short bench.
good win
| Number | Name | G | A | PIM | |
| 14 | Brett Kelly | ||||
| 5 | Matt Kotchie | absent | |||
| 98 | Andrew Cowin | 2 | |||
| 52 | Chris Stabellini | 2 | 1 | ||
| 24 | Jason Megit | absent | |||
| Goalie | Maj | ||||
| 97 | Jeremy Carr | absent | |||
| 69 | Keith Gummer | ||||
| 86 | Adam Beavan | ||||
| 17 | Andrew Hackett | 1 | 1 | ||
| 7 | Brian Stoute | 1 | 2 | ||
| 11 | Kevin Johnston | 2 | |||
| 66 | Brett Vernoy | 2 | |||
| 9 | Adam Brawley | 1 |
Monday, March 21, 2011
first game of the winter/spring season
well, its great to be back playing again with the team. we have undergone a minor roster change due to the fact that brawleys cant play, as well as baskie, iain and ross (effective middle of last season). Our team has remained pretty similar though from the one that took home the championship last year (still waiting for our trophies). We have Majuren Subramaniam (for ease of reading I'll be using Maj for short) playing in net for us this year in place of the injured/post-surgery Baskie, and we're confident playing in front of him.
the date of the game was March 17th, i know i'm slightly late but oh well.
We were all itching to get back on the floor and get playing again so this game couldnt come soon enough and when it finally did it felt great. oh yea, and we also play on thursdays this season instead of sundays.
We were playing the Mighty Ducks, last year's champs for the thursday division and before the game the convener mentioned to one of our players that he was picking the Ducks to win it all again this year. needless to say that may have annoyed some of the Minivans players and we obviously wanted to start the season off with a win to prove the convener wrong.
i was playing defence for this game and i played absolutely terrible. being sick probably didnt help me at all and i was dying on the bench following my first shift.
the Ducks opened the scoring at 7:26 of the first period. after the initial goal we were able to slow them down and pretty much control the pace of the game. we were the better team from the start and it showed by the way we were keeping the ball in their zone for most of the first 2 periods. by the start of the 3rd it was still 1-0 for them and we had gotten several scoring chances but no finish. stabs hit a post and a crossbar while kevin and stoute both had really good scoring chances, as well as hackett.
The Mighty Ducks notched their second of the game 30 seconds into the 3rd period but we responded with a goal of our own 20 seconds later. they scored again to make it 3-1 and oh yea, i forgot to mention the fact that both their 2nd and 3rd goals were entirely my fault. i take blame for them, i was kicking myself on the bench and felt like an absolute idiot.
anyways, enough about me dropping the ball, after cowin got our first goal and the Ducks responded back to go ahead by 2 again we started to play the Minivans hockey that we were used to playing last year when we won it all.
Stoute lit the lamp a minute after they got their 3rd to pull us within 1 goal, and then with 4 minutes left in the game hackett sniped a beauty goal. then proceeded to stay on the floor after scoring and scored another a minute later to put us ahead 4-3. they pulled their goalie in the last moments but couldnt get anything going after we grabbed all the momentum. they looked distraught and pretty demoralized out there. by that time they were really pissed off and one of the Ducks took a run at Kells and dropped him on his ass with a pretty dirty hit with about 15 seconds left and that resulted in a scrum and there were offsetting penalties called and they were slapped with another penalty because of the dirty play.
we won, and thats the only thing that really matters. Minivans start the season off 1-0 and we're looking to continue that streak next thursday. the one upside of beating last year's champions the very first week is that we had the latest game so a few of our players went to the rink beforehand to watch some of the other teams and from the looks of it, we've got one of the best if not the best team in the division.
almost forgot to mention, we got a new player, Jeremy Carr. he played a great game and i'm glad he decided to join our team. good game.
good win team, lets keep it up vs the warriors on thursday.
Boxscore
the date of the game was March 17th, i know i'm slightly late but oh well.
We were all itching to get back on the floor and get playing again so this game couldnt come soon enough and when it finally did it felt great. oh yea, and we also play on thursdays this season instead of sundays.
We were playing the Mighty Ducks, last year's champs for the thursday division and before the game the convener mentioned to one of our players that he was picking the Ducks to win it all again this year. needless to say that may have annoyed some of the Minivans players and we obviously wanted to start the season off with a win to prove the convener wrong.
i was playing defence for this game and i played absolutely terrible. being sick probably didnt help me at all and i was dying on the bench following my first shift.
the Ducks opened the scoring at 7:26 of the first period. after the initial goal we were able to slow them down and pretty much control the pace of the game. we were the better team from the start and it showed by the way we were keeping the ball in their zone for most of the first 2 periods. by the start of the 3rd it was still 1-0 for them and we had gotten several scoring chances but no finish. stabs hit a post and a crossbar while kevin and stoute both had really good scoring chances, as well as hackett.
The Mighty Ducks notched their second of the game 30 seconds into the 3rd period but we responded with a goal of our own 20 seconds later. they scored again to make it 3-1 and oh yea, i forgot to mention the fact that both their 2nd and 3rd goals were entirely my fault. i take blame for them, i was kicking myself on the bench and felt like an absolute idiot.
anyways, enough about me dropping the ball, after cowin got our first goal and the Ducks responded back to go ahead by 2 again we started to play the Minivans hockey that we were used to playing last year when we won it all.
Stoute lit the lamp a minute after they got their 3rd to pull us within 1 goal, and then with 4 minutes left in the game hackett sniped a beauty goal. then proceeded to stay on the floor after scoring and scored another a minute later to put us ahead 4-3. they pulled their goalie in the last moments but couldnt get anything going after we grabbed all the momentum. they looked distraught and pretty demoralized out there. by that time they were really pissed off and one of the Ducks took a run at Kells and dropped him on his ass with a pretty dirty hit with about 15 seconds left and that resulted in a scrum and there were offsetting penalties called and they were slapped with another penalty because of the dirty play.
we won, and thats the only thing that really matters. Minivans start the season off 1-0 and we're looking to continue that streak next thursday. the one upside of beating last year's champions the very first week is that we had the latest game so a few of our players went to the rink beforehand to watch some of the other teams and from the looks of it, we've got one of the best if not the best team in the division.
almost forgot to mention, we got a new player, Jeremy Carr. he played a great game and i'm glad he decided to join our team. good game.
good win team, lets keep it up vs the warriors on thursday.
Boxscore
| Number | Name | G | A | PIM | |
| 14 | Brett Kelly | 2 | |||
| 5 | Matt Kotchie | ||||
| 98 | Andrew Cowin | 1 | 2 | ||
| 52 | Chris Stabellini | 1 | 4 | ||
| 24 | Jason Megit | 1 | |||
| Goalie | Maj | ||||
| 97 | Jeremy Carr | 1 | |||
| 69 | Keith Gummer | ||||
| 86 | Adam Beavan | ||||
| 17 | Andrew Hackett | 2 | 1 | ||
| 7 | Brian Stoute | 1 | |||
| 11 | Kevin Johnston | ||||
| 66 | Brett Vernoy |
Monday, March 7, 2011
spring season
alright so this is gonna be sort of a a pre-season to get us ready for the real summer season. 8 games, smaller size team (i think) and we're missing our real goalie.
we might not be using the minivans name, im not sure yet and will find out when we start. our first game is march 17th and the team as a whole is looking forward to getting this started and seeing if our team can still dominate. i'm not sure what league or level we're playing but i guess i'll find out on the 17th.
hoping to get some sort of an idea on the roster soon and then ill get it added up here.
-gumm
we might not be using the minivans name, im not sure yet and will find out when we start. our first game is march 17th and the team as a whole is looking forward to getting this started and seeing if our team can still dominate. i'm not sure what league or level we're playing but i guess i'll find out on the 17th.
hoping to get some sort of an idea on the roster soon and then ill get it added up here.
-gumm
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