The Cuppa Joe Grinders

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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