Brownbagging Loss
With the Sandbaggers facing a possible 5th loss in a row…, and without their captain Dave Costa and top scorer Paul Sequeira (who both were away in Canada with Team Portugal)…, the league’s Player Personnel Director assigned one “stacked” player in Rob Sheridan to replace the two “stacked” players missing for the Sandbaggers.
That was until White Lies Captain Jim Barber called “Shenanigans” as Rob would make the 10th player for Sandbaggers. Meanwhile White Lies only had 8-players, as they too, lost three of their “stacked” players (Dave Norton, Jason Carrien, Dan Poirier Jr.) along with their only “Bubble” player Jose Silva…, leaving White Lies with a bunch of “Brownbaggers”.
Rob Sheridan walked up thinking he was going to be reunited with his former Lowell Raiders teammate Lee Nogler…, only to learn last minute that he didn’t have a “no trade” clause in his contract and he was disappointedly traded to Jim Barber.
1-4
The losing streak stopped at four games thanks to Dave Costa and Paul Sequeira being out of the lineup…, and fill-in Rob Sheridan being traded (pre-game).
Garvin Chan was your hero of the game with his GWG in OT…, thanks to White Lies’ Todd Bryson who basically missed a wide-open opportunity to clinch the win for White Lies.
After Todd missed his opportunity to be the games hero…, Garvin and Lee Nogler took the ball the other way, and made sure the Sandbaggers got the extra point in the win column.
Slippery When Wet
Attention Hockeytown Owners…, can you please “do something” about the roof over the dek hockey rink. It becomes absolutely dangerous when it rains out…, and by “do something” we don’t mean send Johnny Lasalle up there with a can of flex seal and hope he finds all the holes.
All you need to do is stand on the peak and pour some roofing tar, latex paint, hot tar…, anything that when dry, will repel water…, and you only have to do it over the middle third of the roof.
The other two thirds of the building is over the ice rinks and you know what happens when water leaks onto the ice rinks… NOTHING!! It freezes, and you run a carbon monoxide leaking Zamboni over it.
Two Types
There are two types of motorcycle riders…, “those who have been down, and those who are going down”… The same holds true for Over-30 players playing on a rainy day upstairs…, there’s “those who have slipped, and those who are going to slip”
Last week George Medeiros spent the second straight week lying injured on the floor. Two weeks ago, it was at the hands of that road hog “Mr Magoo” Mark Stickney, and last week it was due to Hockeytown, and their negligent playing conditions.
George, who only knows how to play in one speed…, “FULL!!”, took a nasty fall on the wet surface causing him to whack his head so hard, that we were surprised George didn’t start puking into the barrel on the bench.
In light of George’s misfortune, we are going to petition the league to reduce his 7-goal challenge…, down to 6-goals.
Clash of the Titans (Part 3)
With the top two teams battling it out for the top seed… Last weekend we saw “Clash of the Titans (Part 3),” and the result was a little different this 3rd time around.
In their first two matchups Marooned bested Black Magic 4-1 & 2-1 to ensure if the standings come down to head-to-head matchups that Marooned has the advantage for the #1 seed.
Both teams have a candidate on the top of the leader boards for their respective positions:
Mike Duggan (24-goals, 14-assists) leading all forwards by a country mile.
Chris Torres (1-goal, 13-assists) to lead all defenseman (and Colleen O’Connell).
Scott Rosato (2.17 GAA) is edging out Dale McIsaac’s (2.75 GAA)
With just two games left… let’s see if the defending champs can overtake Black Magic for the top seed and make a bid to become back-to-back champions…, something Jamie Kehoe is very well versed in doing (Both Winning and Losing).
Two Games Left
With just two games left, Mike “Do-ggan” Duggan finds himself at a fork in the road. Go left and score 6-goals for the impressive 30-goals…, or go right and get 6-helpers for 20-assists and join the 20/20 Club.
The last two goalies Mike will face are Steve Taddonio (which last time he lit Steve up like a pinball machine)… so much, that he even caused Steve to “tilt.”
The last game of the season will be against Sean Roach, who he also owns this season.
It’s coming down to the wire…, Will 6 and 6 become 3 and 3 today after the 4:30 game vs Tealsters Union? Stay tuned…
My Bad
It was a week for noticeably bad passes in their own defensive zone that resulted in a goal for the opposing team.
First Jim Barber sent a blind sideways errant pass that went right to Tony Bono who took the turnover into the offensive zone and had the assist on Tony Fosco’s 4th goal of the year.
Then Ray Nickerson coughed it up, high in his defensive zone to Dominic DeFrancisco whose quick transition into the offensive zone helped set up Patrick Spencer’s 8th goal of the season to have a 3-way tie for most goals (8) on Black Magic.
At least with Ray’s gaffe…, he got his #8 on the scoring sheet.
Let’s not forget Johnny Mastrocola from behind his own net, as he coughed up the ball to Pedro Fontes who was standing just almost even with the faceoff dot… who in turn sent it over to Nick Romano… who then wisely passed it to Doug Sedille for the goal.
Johnny and those having an adult beverage at Scoreboards Pub had a front row seat for Dougie’s first (and probably only) goal of the season.
100-Reasons
There is probably 100-reasons Mike Duggan can think of when he fails to score 30-goals and he fails to join the easier option with the 20/20 Club as well.
Here’s a couple of them:
Reason #8 Ray Nickerson missing some of those easy giftwrapped one-timers.
Reason #97 Donny Maccini and his fear of shooting.
Reason #1 Joe “Guido” Conary and his candidate for the “Whiff of the Week”.
Last week, Mike had the ball in the offensive zone and made an excellent pass to Donny for a quick one-timer…, but instead Donny (got scared) and sent it back to “Do-ggan” which he then instinctively watched as “Guido” went streaking into the slot with a “W-I-D-E” open net in front of him.
Black Magic goaltender Scotty Rosato was lying down in his crease, giving Joe the entire net to score on and “Guido” roofed it… like literally “roofed it”, he almost hit the beam holding the roof up.
Those are some of the plays that will haunt Mike in the offseason (if he fails) to accomplish either of those two quests.
Survey Says…
Last week Rob Sheridan pulled double duty and for his efforts was rewarded with a 4-goal performance…, by scoring all the goals for both teams he was playing on.
First, he had two goals for White Lies (their only two) in their 3-2 loss…, and then “Dr Rob” did it again for his own team, but with a 2-1 win in overtime.
But it’s the last goal of the weekend that brings up this debate…, During the Tealsters Union overtime win…, Rob passed by Hecklers Row on his way to the net…, and goaltender Dale McIssac was warned by the fans in Hecklers Row to watch out for “Dr Rob’s” effortless top corner backhander goals.
As the Doctor closed in on Dale, he had two options. Dale was showing Rob the whole short side top corner…, and he also had his legs spread like an 80’s porn star.
You could clearly see that Rob was going to pick the top corner…, but instead seemed to whiff a little and it looked like he rolled his blade and he “whiffed” on the top corner attempt…, but since Dale was still airing out the 5-hole… the ball awkwardly trickled in for the win.
Rob tried to play it off as a good goal and that he meant to go 5-hole…, but the hecklers immediately started chanting that the doctor “Whiffed!!”
So, we asked 100 people…, Top (6) answers are on the board. Tell me, how did Rob Sheridan score the game winning goal in overtime?
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