game #10

AHA!! VICTORY!! damn it never felt so good.

leading up to the game sunday im not going to lie, i was a little nervous. we were comming of a resounding defeat at the hands of a team we had previously beaten. and we were about to play a game against the 1st place team in the league that had also just been slaughtered by the best team in the entire floor hockey league, not just our division.

not to mention i know for a fact that the players on the a-town snipers were talking shit about our team all week leading up to the game. Adrian said that he heard them talking shit as he was walking onto the floor before the game. that's disrespect, and that kind of made me want to just embarass them and show people that our team is one of, if not the best team in our divison. like... seriously, we barely lost to the other team that is now first place in the league. BARELY!!

ok onto the game, we came out with a vengeance. considering we didnt have baskie in net and both brawley and kells thought that the game was at 4pm (damn daylight savings time!!) we played pretty well. the snipers were gaining the zone quite a lot, but once they got in they couldnt do anything. i heard from a source that adrian's weakness when he is in net are the booming slapshots from the point and throughout the entire game im pretty sure they got a grand total of 2 shots on net from the point. and then any other shot that made it through was either 2 feet over the net or wide left or right. we blocked a lot of their shots and made it hard for them to cycle around us.

we got a goal in the first 10 minutes but for some reason it got called off because stabs got pushed into the crease by one of their defencemen and i guess you cant have a guy in the crease. its ok though, they got called on a stupid high sticking penalty and we made them pay. hackett got one of his wierd angle slapshot goals that he seems to get every game and drew first blood. we got another goal 5 minutes later on another nice move by hackett on a rush into their zone and it was 2-0.

3 minutes later i got a lead pass and was able to chip it by the last man and raced in on a breakaway, only to get stopped by that same guy coming back and the ball rolled into the corner. no big deal... i played it around the net and it got passed out into the slot for johnson who made no mistake and put us up 3-0. finally, near the end of the game they had their goalie pulled and brawley had control and was trying to play it forward for kells to get the goal so he passed it through his legs but it rolled too far and right into their net, kind of a funny way to end the game.

closing thoughts: i heard from a couple people that the snipers thought they had "outplayed the shit" out of us. their inability to get shots in net from the point was their downfall. id say the same thing about us if we had lost, you cant take hundreds of shots from the point and have 90% of them get blocked, and then to add salt to the wound you cant miss on the shots you do get through. we didnt get outplayed, adrian wasnt tested very much in net, and when he was tested he killed it, they had a few scoring chances all game and their so called fast players didnt burn our defence once. they have 3 guys in the top 10 in scoring and we held them to 0 points. i can confidently say that we have the best defence in the league. just watching hackett burn them like 6 times yesterday was priceless too. im just dissapointed ross wasnt here, he would have had a field day with hackett on 2 on 1 rushes. i know for a fact they would have combined for atleast 3 goals.

good win team, panthers next week. lets show them who's boss



a side note, there were no periods, just 45 minutes run time with no breaks. thats why i didnt divide the article up.


SPECIAL MENTION: adrian AKA Ox had a stellar game in net. im glad that now we know that if baskie is away or sick we have a solid (very fucking solid) goalie that can play in his place.

im glad baskie is back though.