game 7

im rattled... and not just from that disgusting display of terrible hockey last nite in the canada/usa game where martin brodeur proved that i'm right and he is a useless tit.
we were playing a team yesterday at 11am and they are about equal with us in the standings.
they were running on a short bench for a lot of the game and we should have been able to easily handle them if we had only just attempted to cycle the ball even a tiny bit. but guess what, we didnt and we pretty much sucked yesterday.
i wont get ahead of myself, the score was tied at 0-0 going into the 3rd period and we were playing decent enough to go on some nice rushes into their end and get some good scoring chances but at the same time, they were able to walk right into our end sometimes and get their own good chances.
fast forward to about 7 minutes left in the game. they get a goal, i cant really remember how so ill ask around and hopefully someone will remember and i can update this later. bottom line is that we're losing and the clock is slowly moving towards 0:00
to make matters worse, kotch gets a penalty for kind of nudging this sissy on the other team into the boards and he falls on the ground and flails like a little girl. no, let me rephrase that, kotch nailed this guy into the boards, a pretty bad ass check actually and ROCKED him. it was funny to see a guy get tagged pretty hard by kotch.
so we're a man down with like 3 minutes left and playing pretty good penalty kill, so good actually that johnston brings it into their end with hackett running at the net and wires a powerfull slapper right at the goalie's head and it just smacks him in the cage and falls right to the ground in front of him and onto hacketts stick and he burries it to tie the game up. nice shot kevin.
time is running down in regulation and its tied. the ball is in our end and ross is battling in front of the net with this guy and the guy tries to lift smiley's stick and actually raises the stick and smacks himself in the face with ross's stick. penalty with 2 seconds left in the game going into overtime but high sticking, kind of weak call but oh well. to make matters worse its a 4 minute penalty.
we played the first 3 minutes of overtime really well considering it was 4 on 3 and we were actually able to stop any chances they had. we had killed off about 3 minutes of the penalty and it looked like we were going to get a chance at even strength but then they scored to end the game. i dont really remember this goal either but who cares, it wasnt for us so why would i bother trying to remember it. the point is that we lost.

i had a terrible game, absolutely horrible. i made some STUPID decisions and pretty much cost us the game. next saturday night im not staying up till 4am.
cowin played well, so did everyone else including baskie (MVP of the game). cainer was up on forward for a bit and we have a new line combination ill call "the speed line". cainer, ross and hackett are the fastest forward line ive ever seen. i know for a fact that no one in the league will be able to keep up to them the next time they play together. we need to use that line to our advantage.

looking forward to next week. we are not going to lose again.