Post by Old Bucks Admin on Apr 2, 2011 5:38:16 GMT -5
With Kenny a no-show, Week 5 saw Red facing the grim prospect of trying to win their fourth straight without his pinny-slinging genius to guide them. Blue took heart, and took advantage of the mad scramble by which the teams were now made, to put the lock on two big time players, Sean Saunders and Mark Egner, by which they hoped to subject Red to a good old-fashioned dyed-in-the-blue-wool thrashing. Red countered with a core of role players such as Lars Hedin and Tony Valerio who used a crisp passing game to score early and often and give Red a big lead. Steve Hendershott followed suit with a goal that gave new meaning to the term “razzle dazzle” and Angie Jr. knocked one home, showing the positive effects of having tapped into his dad’s kelp supply. Meantime, Vinnie played lights-out hockey between the pipes and snuffed out whatever scoring chances Blue had, leaving them completely discombobulated. In short, Red had it going and Blue did not.
Then somebody on Blue “flipped a switch”. Not a 15 amp switch either but a dynamo switch. Shots that once missed their mark now found it with lethal accuracy. The Saunders-Egner line worked the give-and-go like no one’s business. Greg Wright drew beads with his snap shot that could have cut pack thread at 50 paces. And Vinnie saw more three-on-ones in five minutes than he’d seen all year. In fact, Red couldn’t have tailored a more perfect meltdown than if they had duplicated every miscue Greg Norman made in the ‘96 Masters. The whole onslaught was punctuated by Mark Egner literally pulling a puck down from the rafters with his bare hand and whacking it in from point-blank range.
We can hardly blame Vinnie for losing track of the score at this point. Only a masochist would have continued to tabulate those numbers. To Red’s credit they made some semblance of a comeback in the latter stages of the game, but not enough to tip the balance in their favor. And though later reports had some of their bench bailing on the team early they don’t seem credible in light of the game’s final margin. Red pride simply does not allow it. Mike Dougherty claimed Hughie used the excuse “There’s only five minutes left” when he took off but we think this was either an accidental misquote or an intentional slander. What Hughie probably said was more along the lines of “There’s only five minutes left before I have to attend such-and-such an emergency lest such-and-such dire consequences befall my person.” That seems much more plausible.
Kudos to Craig Allen for jump-starting KSaun’s car in the parking lot. More proof of Red pride, even when it involves the enemy.
Then somebody on Blue “flipped a switch”. Not a 15 amp switch either but a dynamo switch. Shots that once missed their mark now found it with lethal accuracy. The Saunders-Egner line worked the give-and-go like no one’s business. Greg Wright drew beads with his snap shot that could have cut pack thread at 50 paces. And Vinnie saw more three-on-ones in five minutes than he’d seen all year. In fact, Red couldn’t have tailored a more perfect meltdown than if they had duplicated every miscue Greg Norman made in the ‘96 Masters. The whole onslaught was punctuated by Mark Egner literally pulling a puck down from the rafters with his bare hand and whacking it in from point-blank range.
We can hardly blame Vinnie for losing track of the score at this point. Only a masochist would have continued to tabulate those numbers. To Red’s credit they made some semblance of a comeback in the latter stages of the game, but not enough to tip the balance in their favor. And though later reports had some of their bench bailing on the team early they don’t seem credible in light of the game’s final margin. Red pride simply does not allow it. Mike Dougherty claimed Hughie used the excuse “There’s only five minutes left” when he took off but we think this was either an accidental misquote or an intentional slander. What Hughie probably said was more along the lines of “There’s only five minutes left before I have to attend such-and-such an emergency lest such-and-such dire consequences befall my person.” That seems much more plausible.
Kudos to Craig Allen for jump-starting KSaun’s car in the parking lot. More proof of Red pride, even when it involves the enemy.