Post by Old Bucks Admin on Feb 17, 2010 20:31:37 GMT -5
“Red by one.”
Such was the handwriting on the wall for Week 21 even if it was written in Kenny’s barely legible prescription-grade chicken scratch. Saunders was back after a five weeks absence, ready to drop the gloves even before he put them on. Jamie was in goal for Blue and Kenny for Red. Marty was home in bed, an assortment of painkillers and numbing creams by his side, tipping at the Brandy bottle if neither happened to work.
Red went up 1-0 on sweet three-on-one played to perfection with nice, crisp passes between Craig Allen, Ben Blankstein, and Hughie, with Hughie getting the goal. The score was soon 2-0 when Jim Heffern, skating for Blue, telegraphed a pass in the neutral zone that John Queriling easily intercepted and then dished off to Craig Allen, whose flimsy wrist trickled off the webbing of Jamie’s glove and into the goal. Jim would go on to have an abysmal night, botching two breakaways and a point-blank shot, all at key points of the game. Blue tried to return him mid-point but declined to pay Kenny’s six-beer restocking fee.
Blue had a ringer named Larry, who used to skate with Old Bucks “back in the day”. He didn’t wear any face shield and Greg Wright spent the whole game trying to take out one of his incisors. He did get Blue’s first goal, however, (Saunders assist) and got them back into the game. Brian Urban tied it up 2-2 off a nice pass from Larry the Cable Guy. After a five-minute lull Saunders took a loose puck in the neutral zone and blasted his way right through the converging defensemen of Hughie and Eddie. They set off after him, one hooked him high, the other took out his legs, and he crashed to the ice, sliding feet first into the boards. As someone who considers pain a violent form of pleasure, he got up smiling but demanded a penalty shot. Red conceded and a puck was placed at center ice. The penalty shot was pitiful, but oh-so Saunders. As he approached the goal, Hughie made a slight feint as if to intervene, and Saunders fell for it, getting completely spooked and flubbing the shot. True to form, he demanded another try but he was overruled, the consensus being to resume play.
Two tremendous rips off the sticks of Eddie and John Queriling put Red up 4-2. Brian Urban scored twice more to tie it at fours. Brian looked especially strong, given that he had shoveled both his and his dad’s driveways Tuesday night. Nick Swift added two late goals to Red’s tally, breaking the tie. A freak rebound off Kenny’s pads that ricocheted off Brian’s leg and back into the goal got Blue to within 5-6 but Red held on to win.
On this date (2009): Bill MacDowell brings in some of his wife’s famous homemade peanut brittle, unaware that locker rooms 3 and 4 had been declared “peanut sensitive” at the beginning of the year. No sooner does he open the tin and start dispensing the treats than Larry Johnson stumbles out of the room in the first stages of anaphylactic shock. “Jeez, you would have thought he was Superman and Bill just pulled out some kryptonite,” Eddie joked.
Such was the handwriting on the wall for Week 21 even if it was written in Kenny’s barely legible prescription-grade chicken scratch. Saunders was back after a five weeks absence, ready to drop the gloves even before he put them on. Jamie was in goal for Blue and Kenny for Red. Marty was home in bed, an assortment of painkillers and numbing creams by his side, tipping at the Brandy bottle if neither happened to work.
Red went up 1-0 on sweet three-on-one played to perfection with nice, crisp passes between Craig Allen, Ben Blankstein, and Hughie, with Hughie getting the goal. The score was soon 2-0 when Jim Heffern, skating for Blue, telegraphed a pass in the neutral zone that John Queriling easily intercepted and then dished off to Craig Allen, whose flimsy wrist trickled off the webbing of Jamie’s glove and into the goal. Jim would go on to have an abysmal night, botching two breakaways and a point-blank shot, all at key points of the game. Blue tried to return him mid-point but declined to pay Kenny’s six-beer restocking fee.
Blue had a ringer named Larry, who used to skate with Old Bucks “back in the day”. He didn’t wear any face shield and Greg Wright spent the whole game trying to take out one of his incisors. He did get Blue’s first goal, however, (Saunders assist) and got them back into the game. Brian Urban tied it up 2-2 off a nice pass from Larry the Cable Guy. After a five-minute lull Saunders took a loose puck in the neutral zone and blasted his way right through the converging defensemen of Hughie and Eddie. They set off after him, one hooked him high, the other took out his legs, and he crashed to the ice, sliding feet first into the boards. As someone who considers pain a violent form of pleasure, he got up smiling but demanded a penalty shot. Red conceded and a puck was placed at center ice. The penalty shot was pitiful, but oh-so Saunders. As he approached the goal, Hughie made a slight feint as if to intervene, and Saunders fell for it, getting completely spooked and flubbing the shot. True to form, he demanded another try but he was overruled, the consensus being to resume play.
Two tremendous rips off the sticks of Eddie and John Queriling put Red up 4-2. Brian Urban scored twice more to tie it at fours. Brian looked especially strong, given that he had shoveled both his and his dad’s driveways Tuesday night. Nick Swift added two late goals to Red’s tally, breaking the tie. A freak rebound off Kenny’s pads that ricocheted off Brian’s leg and back into the goal got Blue to within 5-6 but Red held on to win.
On this date (2009): Bill MacDowell brings in some of his wife’s famous homemade peanut brittle, unaware that locker rooms 3 and 4 had been declared “peanut sensitive” at the beginning of the year. No sooner does he open the tin and start dispensing the treats than Larry Johnson stumbles out of the room in the first stages of anaphylactic shock. “Jeez, you would have thought he was Superman and Bill just pulled out some kryptonite,” Eddie joked.