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

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

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