Post by Old Bucks Admin on Dec 5, 2009 9:13:26 GMT -5
Week 11 was a big disappointment for those who were hoping to cap off the holiday weekend with a good, competitive hockey game. Kenny dropped the ball, so to speak, when it came to making balanced teams. As to his intent, we’ll leave inferences to others. Suffice it to say Red’s explosive 12-goal effort sent out a blast wave that was felt as far away as the Hillbilly Hall, nearly knocking Kip Thomas off his bar stool.
Remarkably, Red scored three goals before Blue had their first shot on net. Tim White set up Dave Major for their first score, then Tim himself scored, and then Larry the Cable Guy scored which, in a way, got back at Marty for giving him the business last week. Blue did manage to make the game interesting—at least for the first twenty minutes—when Dan Dougherty and Jim Heffern scored, making it 3-2 Red. They almost tied the game when they broke down the Red D and lured Jamie way out of the crease, leaving the goal wide open. Mark Herr set up Rich Devlin for the one-timer but Eddie jumped in the crease at the last second and the shot bounced off the shaft of his stick and Kenny cleared it. Not that this was any kind of turning point, but it certainly made for some excitement.
Tim White set a torrid pace for the Red offense. He stood in for Greg Wright who was back on defense, having filled in for the absent Hughie. The Blue defense told each other Tim was a player who needed watching and they proceeded to watch him score two more goals giving Red the 5-2 lead.
Blue still had a pulse but it was sluggish at best. They got two more goals from Jim and Dan, and two more from their defense, but they never got close to tying the game as Red’s smoldering offense broke into flame and lit the lamp seven more times. The last goal was the stuff of a highlight reel. It featured Kenny shedding tacklers as he carried the puck up ice and then beating Mike Dougherty whose lax play seemed to imply four days of food and drink is not a performance enhancer. After Kenny scored he pointed to the heavens where Zeus, no doubt, is now one thunderbolt the poorer. We’ve since heard that Kenny retrieved the puck and gave it to the Old Bucks Heritage Foundation for preservation. It can be found under the heading, “Rarities”.
On this day (2001) Mike the Czech borrows Mark Smith’s backup jockstrap and then shows up the next week complaining it gave him the crabs. Mark is offended and counters that he just has to look at Mike’s skates in order to get a planter’s wart. They almost come to blows, at which point the club makes a new rule: that there will be no sharing of equipment unless it has first been sterilized.
Remarkably, Red scored three goals before Blue had their first shot on net. Tim White set up Dave Major for their first score, then Tim himself scored, and then Larry the Cable Guy scored which, in a way, got back at Marty for giving him the business last week. Blue did manage to make the game interesting—at least for the first twenty minutes—when Dan Dougherty and Jim Heffern scored, making it 3-2 Red. They almost tied the game when they broke down the Red D and lured Jamie way out of the crease, leaving the goal wide open. Mark Herr set up Rich Devlin for the one-timer but Eddie jumped in the crease at the last second and the shot bounced off the shaft of his stick and Kenny cleared it. Not that this was any kind of turning point, but it certainly made for some excitement.
Tim White set a torrid pace for the Red offense. He stood in for Greg Wright who was back on defense, having filled in for the absent Hughie. The Blue defense told each other Tim was a player who needed watching and they proceeded to watch him score two more goals giving Red the 5-2 lead.
Blue still had a pulse but it was sluggish at best. They got two more goals from Jim and Dan, and two more from their defense, but they never got close to tying the game as Red’s smoldering offense broke into flame and lit the lamp seven more times. The last goal was the stuff of a highlight reel. It featured Kenny shedding tacklers as he carried the puck up ice and then beating Mike Dougherty whose lax play seemed to imply four days of food and drink is not a performance enhancer. After Kenny scored he pointed to the heavens where Zeus, no doubt, is now one thunderbolt the poorer. We’ve since heard that Kenny retrieved the puck and gave it to the Old Bucks Heritage Foundation for preservation. It can be found under the heading, “Rarities”.
On this day (2001) Mike the Czech borrows Mark Smith’s backup jockstrap and then shows up the next week complaining it gave him the crabs. Mark is offended and counters that he just has to look at Mike’s skates in order to get a planter’s wart. They almost come to blows, at which point the club makes a new rule: that there will be no sharing of equipment unless it has first been sterilized.