game #2

not a good game last nite. we got outplayed, its as simple as that. some may argue that we infact outplayed the stallions but i strongly disagree. they had the ball in our end for a lot of the game, got more shots, and they wanted it more. some players on our team were walking half the time while going for the ball, and that will not do.
we started out the game good, we were in the opposing team's end and had them on their heels for all of about the first 5 minutes then we played like shit the rest of the game. they got ugly goals, but no one ever remembers whether a goal was ugly or not, they just remember that it was a goal. some of the centers on our team werent doing their jobs, some of the wingers werent doing shit either so we're all to blame.
we were down 1-0 at the end of the first and 3-0 by the start of the third and by then it was damage control mode. try to get one goal and then build from there. Stabs got our only goal on a shot that would have never gone into the net if the opposing goalie hadnt knocked their net off the line and the refs didnt see it.

on a side note, the refs really screwed us this week. we got a couple biased penalty calls in a very rough game for both teams. some of them were warranted but some of the calls would never be called in any hockey game by any well trained referee. At one point, we had a powerplay and the refs called a penalty on us, so that would have meant it was even strength and the opposing team proceeded to ice the puck after the face off from behind their own blue line all the way to our end without anyone else touching the puck. im no genius or anything but im pretty sure that is an icing call, yet the refs for some reason thought that we still had a powerplay, even though they had just given us a penalty to make it 4 on 4. on another occasion, we had the ball in their end and Stabs took a slapshot that was delfected by one of their players and flew directly up and hit the ceiling, yet the refs called the faceoff to be outside of the zone and when we asked for an explanation the ref said that he shot it. when asked how it was even remotely possible that he shot it directly up into the air and at the ceiling the ref told johnson "i dont know, ask him".

ANYWAYS... it was a rough game and we got beat. its not the defences fault that we lost and its not the goalie's fault that we lost. all of the blame lies directly on the shoulders of every single offensive player, myself included.

the end of the game got pretty heated as well, some guy started pushing stabs and one of his gloves got knocked off so stabs punched the guy in the head above the eye and it looked like a UFC fight where you see a vicious elbow get thrown, instant blood all over the guys face. after he realized he was gushing blood he took his hand and wiped his blood on Stabs face, and that just a greasy classless move right there.

all in all, we got beat by a "better" team.
good thing it was only game #2. this wont happen again.