It’s All Good
Goats, this one is for you. You deserve the goalie-girl this week after that game. As PSP said the only D we showed tonight was “De-breakway” 50-Mission showed a helluva lot of speed up front and their seagull took the puck time and time again in for breakaway chances.
The last we time faced the 50 Mission they had neither the goaltending nor the snipers that we faced tonight. here’s an exerpt from the March 2006 game write-up, which we won.:
only mere moments into the first period Geiber, with his first start on D this season, took the puck coast-to-coast and scored the game’s first goal.Everyone thought it was a beauty, and then we realized their goalie was drunk. Long shots, short sots, shots to his glove, shots to his belly were being bobbled, mishandled, dropped and deflected in all different directions, even behind him. Shoot hard and shoot often, fellas. But no matter what the goalie’s skill level may have been, the Grinders played the game properly with a lot of forechecking, good movement in the neutral zone and keeping the shot totals of 50 Mission way down.
This is also a shout out to the team as a whole. Both Rob and PSP made comments after the game about how great it was that everyone on our team kept it positive throughout the game and didn’t start raggin’ on each other during this loss. We played hard. We moved the puck well in their offensive zone, the D got off numerous point shots, our breakout was fairly effective, the forwards covered the D on their rushes and everyone hustled, no one panicked when 50 Mission was pressuring, good communication…
The score wasn’t indicative of the game and by no means is it Goats’ burden to bear. 50 Mission had snipers and speed on the front line that are more akin to Div 6 than 16.
Good on ya Grinders.
Oh! And lets not forget Frank. Coming out to support us during the late game AND picking up a new cooler for the team. (Bob, we owe Frank $60)
Date: November 10th, 2007 @ 01:54
Categories: Game Summaries
Jason
D’oh – went to have a nap before the game, and my alarm clock (the wife) fell asleep too. Sorry guys! That’s one case of that crazy cheap American beer that just has a label with a black heart on it and the word “beer” in the heart coming up – if I can find it. Otherwise it’s whatever’s on sale.
Man, if I had just been there we prolly woulda won. Right?