The Cuppa Joe Grinders

The Grinders lineup is decimated by injury with Mark Leng Gone for the season with two broken bones in his leg, Gord Schmidt, Gone for the season with a broken ring bone on his spine, Frank Williams,  Out indefinitely and visiting a head doctor due to a crosscheck to the back of the neck. And the late night game took its toll on others in the line-up as well; Bob was in Calgary (or so he says), Tidy had to wake up too early (or so he said), Triggsy was covering the early shift (or so he said), Trainor was ill (or so he said), and Troy just didn’t wanna (or so he said).

But 10 other skates and a goalie did honour thy commitment and came out as ornery as ever.  Chacko made his marks early into the game scoring the first goal with help from Tanchak and Newts at 10:11, and then sitting in the sin bin 22 seconds later with an interference minor.  Not to be outdone, Jay took a penalty as well at 13:53  for hooking, and then again at 10:53 in the second for roughing, and then again in the third for Body Checking…apparently Jay wanted to go home early.

Tanchak put the Grinders up by 2 in the second with an assist from Guy, but the Storm rallied back quickly in the third, first taking advantage of the Power Play and then tie-ing it up even strength at 8:09.

But no one is keep the Grinders out this late and then hand them a loss, no siree! Dave Tanchak put another point on the board an scored the game winner after being set up with a sweet pass from Ashworth. Then Goats and Nickason added the insurance to put up a convincing 5-2 win.

But there is a story left untold as we look at the details of the game with Mr Chacko getting a 10-minute misconduct for harassing the official and setting the Grinders up for a season of officiating misery. Please, do tell.

Fine….