Week of October 3 (Game 1) – In a span of 2 ½ minutes halfway through the second period, the HABitual Complainers turned a two-goal deficit into a two-goal lead in running away with a 7 – 4 victory over Consigliere and giving Consigliere their fourth straight loss to start the season.
In a wide open first period, Consigliere was intent on ending their losing streak and dictating how this game would be played. The appearance of defenseman John Lasala Jr provided the team with some added motivation. Halfway through the period, Angelo “Kato” Deluca of Consigliere gave his team the early lead as he was set up out front by his “Paisan” line mates Gino Tammaro and Rick Cassano. Three minutes later in a span of twelve seconds, HABitual Complainers took the lead on John “Codfather” Leite’s first goal of the season, set up by his Portuguese Power line mates Dominic Defrancisco and Tony Medeiros, followed by Tony’s shot from the point. With less than a minute in the period, Consigliere matched their opponent’s offensive outburst by scoring their own two goals in only sixteen seconds as Gino scored unassisted, followed by Joe Mancinelli scoring.
This game changed dramatically in the second period for Consigliere as Pat Pirone scored four minutes in providing his team with a two-goal lead. However, this was all wiped away in a span of 2 ½ minutes, as HABitual Complainers scored four unanswered goals led by who else but Dominic scoring himself, then setting up goals by Jason Carrien and two goals by rookie Joe Carlton.
In the third period, Jason scored his second goal of the game in garbage time (is he a defenseman or forward?). For Consigliere, they need a huge win soon or they can be watching their promising season fade away in front of them.
Week of October 3 (Game 2) – After last week’s embarrassing blowout loss, Broken Promises as a team, made a team commitment to show the rest of the league this was just a fluke and that they are a better team than that. Their plan worked as they jumped out to an early two-goal lead and scored late in defeating Labatt Blues by the score of 3 – 2.
In the first period, you could see that this was a different Broken Promises team on the rink as rookie Alex Leone scored his first goal of the season from the point, set up by acting captain John Kelleher and Mauro Colucciello. Two minutes later, Niko Vramis was set up out front by the hustle of Nick Romano. The hustle of Broken Promises and the play of Nick Romano throughout this game had a direct impact on how Labatt Blues was playing.
In the second period, Labatt Blues finally broke through as whom else but Shawn Miville scored his league leading tenth goal of the season as he was set up by Steve Iacoviello. For Shawn, he kept his goal scoring streak alive by scoring at least a goal in his first four games played.
In the third period, Labatt Blues tied the score only two minutes in, as rookie Walter Maslak found Shawn open on the left wing. As Shawn drew the attention of the defenseman, goalie and covering forward as he wound up to take his shot, he at the last moment froze everyone and smartly found a wide open Ray Dow crashing the net with a sweet fake shot pass, who buried his first goal of the season. With time winding down in this game, Nick Romano made a heads up individual hustle play driving to the net and shooting on net. Finding himself in the right place at the right time was Mauro Colucciello who jumped on the rebound giving his Broken Promises team a huge win.
