The Cuppa Joe Grinders

Grinders go three games deep but couldn’t contain the Albino Crackers in the first period. A well played, well fought battle ended the season. Hold your head high.

Turn out the lights the party’s over they say that all good things must end….

REGULAR SEASON STATS – TOP PERFORMERS

Longest Point Streak    5    Glen
Most Points in a Game    4    Paul
Most Goals in a Game    2    Gord / Paul / Andy / Jeff
Most PIMS in a Game    17    Jeff
Goals    9    Gord / Andy
Assists    17    Paul
Points    24    Paul
PIMS    29    Jeff
PPG    3    Glen
SHG    1    Jeff
GWG    3    Mike
PPGA    0.89    Paul
SO    2    Peter
GAA    2.2    Peter
SV%    0.903    Peter

PLAYOFF STATS – TOP PERFORMERS
Goals    2    Jay
Assists    2    Glen / Frank / Troy
Points    3    Glen / Frank
PIMS    4    Jay / Glen / Jeff / Paul / Andy
PPG    0
SHG    2    Jay
GWG    1    Jay / Jeff
PPGA    2    Troy
SO    1    Peter
GAA    1    Tim
SV%    0.970    Tim

Game Two against the second best Grinder team (otherwise known as the ass-hats) ends up 2-0 for the Grinders. With two full lines it took until the 2ns period for the Grinders to finally get a goal on the Ass-hat netminder. Jeffy Triggs ends up getting the game winner off an assist from Frank Williams. This author was too out of breath to actually be cognizant of how it was scored therefore no description will be provided.

Peter Hogan played another stellar game for the Grinders getting his first shutout of the playoffs and his 3rd of the season. Looks like first star of this game is going to Peter.

Jay sewed up the lead late in the third period while the Cuppa Joe Grinders had 2 men in the penalty box with under 2 minutes to go. The ass-hats pulled a bone-head move and instead of going with the 5 on 3, yanked their goalie to give themselves a 6-3, leaving their net gaping wide. Jay with his second chance on an empty netter in two games made good on this one hitting both posts (ok not really) before it hit the back of the net. A 2-0 Final advances the Grinders to their 3rd game

TONIGHT AGAINST THE ALBINO CRACKERS AT 8:45PM.

The CuppaJoe Grinders held the Ass-hats to only 14 shots in last night’s tilt and outscored them 3-1 to take Game 1 of the Playoffs. Although it ended as a spirited affair the game got off to a slow pace with each team playing defensive and keeping the game simple. The first period saw no goals, no penalties and no shots on net (ok I’m making that part up). But then 37 seconds into the 2nd frame its was Trainor and Frank connecting with Mr Williams making good on a lead pass, taking it hard to the net and slipping one past the Ass-hats’ goalie.

Most impressive, however, was Frank’s post goal celebration: caught on tape:

Then as Geiber sat in the sin bin for a tripping penalty it was Jay who capitalized on assists from Tidy and Troy (his second A of the night).

The third period started off a little scary as Trainor left an Ass-hat open in front of Tim to receive a pass from behind the net and bury it. But that was a quick wake-up call and the Grinders resumed their tight checking puck controlling game thereafter.  The Ass-hats started to get grumpy and cocky, getting dearly agitated from both Jay and Geiber throughout the night. The Ass-hats ended up taking 14 minutes in penalties in the third period and had 3 gentlemen ejected from the game.

The CuppaJoe Grinders took full advantage of the penalties and killed time through puck possession. PSP doing much of the work skating, controlling the puck, drawing penalties and then assisting on Ashworth’s Ass-hat Killer third period goal.

Well done boys.

See you guys next Friday April 17th at 6:45pm when we will win our second game of the playoffs.

It started bad and ended worse.
A 4-1 Loss was a likely curse.
Start the game with an empty net.
A sure way to lose, any man’s bet.
The Toques go up by a single point
Before our keeper is in the joint.
Now Tim’s arrived we have some hope
But Grinder’s goals came from just one dope.
Who’da thunk Trainor would be the son
of a bitch to tie it up one-one.
After that it was all down hill
a short bench and no will
or desire to dig deeper
except for the man that they call Geiber
he put in a solid game
each shift his position was not the same
But was not enough to stop the other
team from grabbing the puck not covered
and scoring two before we let
them get another on an empty net
That would end the 4-1 Game
3 days before St Patty’s day.

St Patty's Patties

Two games have passed since the webmaster has updated the site.  Both of them Wins!

The foist game was against the Hedgehawgs.  There are 16 species of hedgehog in five genera, found through parts of Europe, Asia, Africa, and New Zealand. There are no hedgehogs native to Australia, and no living species native to North America; which explains why they couldn’t skate.  The ice was soft and so was the hockey.  The game was slower than it should have been as the Grinders played down to the Hawgs level. Yet the grinders controlled the puck for the better part of the game and outshot the Hawgs only 19 to 9.  That doesn’t include, of course the few posts that were hit.  Peter, although only facing 9 shots, had to make a couple of breakaway sops to ensure the Grinders’ success.   That was Peter’s first of two shutouts.

The second shutout was sugnificantly more work as he faced, and stopped 23 shots on the night against the much better 5-Point Warthogs. This particular sounder of warthog, although again not native to North America, did learn to skate quite well and put up one hell of a game.  Warthogs are powerful diggers, using both heads and feet, and they play positionally sound hockey.  A fast game with numerous chanmces on both sides to put the other team away, it came down to the final 15 seconds when Andy Chacko converted a PSP rush for the games only goal. Andy redeemed himelf after falling flat on his face when attempting a previous slapshot from the point. Unlike comrade Trainor who, with a an open net and the puck on his blade made a perfect pass into the corner, some would say, almost a clearing attempt.

Next Game : Saturday, March 14th at 12:15 pm

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Get out there. Play. Have a beer. Laugh about it, whether a win or a loss. It’s all good at the average age of 40 for some of us its all we got. So when we get up against a team that has some players that are in the single digit divisional capabilities, “slumming it” so to speak to play with their buddies, then you just gotta go with the flow and give it what you got.

Jay certainly did, and at the time of this article is running away with the first star voting.  He sets up Goats on a 2 on 1 with a perfect pass that Goats made no mistake of burying. And then he pots the second goal with the support of Troy and Tidy. The game also saw the long awaited return of Brad Nickason to the line-up after missing far too many ice times, first with a concussion and then after a brief spell with the team he suffered a back sprain.  Welcome back old boy.

But alas, we were no match for The Crackers that have 3 players averaging 2pts per game. And their top player doing so by choice, limiting himself to that many lest their team get bumped up to a more competitive division and they only appear to be a mediocre team in Div 14.

And in closing I proudly announce the worst pun ever to appear in print: The team has decided to get together and buy Bob a Cyclone Taylor’s gift certificate for a new schtick.