Another session underway and if your not enjoying it then maybe you should retire. Outstanding play all around some surprises, some disappointments. This is how I saw it.
This week's players:
Jamil Jabri 2 goals
Wil Dobson 2 goals (for 2 teams)
Dustin Nation 2 goals
Honorable mention to Travis Lehr
Goalie of the week:
Nina Bonifaz Shut-out on 27 shots
ATM 4
Grave Diggers 0
The evening got started with the debut of the Army of the Twelve Monkeys who looked very underwhelming throughout 32 minutes of play managing only one goal against the humble Grave Diggers, then all hell broke loose. In the final minute of play the monkeys went crazy for three more goals, one just before the final buzzer as Ellis (out of the net again) loses possession of the puck and Stephen Culps slips it in, uncontested. the other goals go to the Lehr boys and hockey newby, Wil Dobson. If this team wants to live-up to the hype they had better get their game together.
Warriors 4
Patriots 2
Returning champs the Warriors in the rematch against the Patriots. A contest ripe with drama and for the first two periods, a low scoring affair. In the third the Warriors begin to assert themselves. Geoffrey Goodson makes good on a breakaway and Eric Johnson makes it three nothing on the powerplay. The Patriots then turn the tables scoring two quick goals including a sweet deke on the Bryan Brookman breakaway. But Travis Lehr allays all the Warriors fears with the final score of the game (his second of the night). The Patriots will have no rest next week either as they face the Warriors again next week, er, um, I mean the Army of the Twelve Monkeys.
Blue Devils 3 OT
Brewzers 2
Jeron Gibson starts the scoring with an assist from Gloria Buell for the Blue Devils. Then Jamil Jabri puts the Brewzers on his back with a return volley just 24 seconds later. Buell ups the Blue Devils total with a goal of her own in the second, and Jabri answers once more to send it to overtime. Just short of halfway through the extra period, a communication meltdown of the highest order sees, otherwise blameless, goalie Mike Moore step out of his comfort zone to whip a pass up the boards. The pass becomes a turnover and then Danny Flynn makes him pay for leaving the net open. Hey Mike, it's only a game, I feel your pain.
Komets 3
Snipers 2
Wil Dobson makes it on the scoresheet again (how can this guy call himself a newby?) with the opening goal. Dustin Nation scores two more in the second at which time the Komets lean back on their heels. Now, somehow, goalie Nicolas Murphee scores with an assist to absentee Jen Leonard. Then Eysermans puts in another one... but Murphee's valiant .940 save percentage is all for naught. Two periods of play proves to be enough for the Komets to hold on for the win.
Stickmen 2 OT
Puckers 1
The Puckers reportedly have my prediction on their bulletin board. Ginger Parker has taken it personally and is looking to make a mockery of my fine investigative journalism. And in the first period she takes her first step down that path, drawing all the defense away she sends the assist to Steve Niekamp for the only goal they would score. Superior goaltending was on display in this game. Blubaugh makes twenty saves, allowing only that one Pucker goal. While Pucker netminder Patrick Donaghue stumps all of the Sticks, except one. Jeff Thomas finally finds a hole in the third to send it to overtime, where he does it again. Ginger may have me in her crosshairs but the focus should be on the underachieving Komets. Next week promises to be a brawl.
Spiders 1
Iceholes 0
This was amazing. The return of giant goaler Jayson Jones. The arrival of the pint sized Nina Bonifaz. With a total of 49 shots only one goal, someone had to blink. Sorry Mr. Jones. I told you to beware of the Roach, did you listen? Nina constipates the Iceholes offense stopping all 27 of the shots thrown her way. Pete Clarke gets the game winner in the second.
Thanks to Brian for the dolphin story, unfortunately I will not be relating it here. See you next week in the crossbar.
bcIII
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38 comments:
hey Ellis, do I have to come out of retirement after being the first goalie to Captain a all-star team last season. I like the effort but, you have played for teams that suck and teams that have a ton of talent and we are the loveable losers HUH? Look at our record last season and see that we were in every game and were competive. So when you call us losers when we have won many games with the same group that took last place for several years, YEARS not sessions. You of all people should know about the underdogs. How many teams Komets, Pats,warriors, etc......can say that. F@#k all who have lost the spirit of the true I league--the best league in the world.
Ellis, good games this weekend and nice QUICK write up. I dont know where you got your info on some of the games but there is no Stephen Culps or Will Dobson. Even the score sheets on point streak got goofed up. We show to have a 00 but that was actually #5 Geoff Goodson that got the goals and #80 on the score sheet is actually #8 Aj Fierrero. #9 is a newbie on 2 times on ice, you may have seen him, we now call him Steven "wind mill" Roberts. Again appreciate the quick summaries. Nice to see Sharma and Serg back on the ice and also Jayson back in net, that was a great game on both ends...
you know the red sox were the lovable losers for 80 somethin' years and they were regularly competive. i love the puckers and everybody on the puckers, i have for years, not sessions, but you guys have never won the big one and that is the only knock on your club. i've never won anything ever so i am a loser, too. if you look back on the blog you might find that i have praised teams like yours that develop players rather than recruit them and i think that the spirit of i-league is maintained by staunch, fun teams like yours. i have trashed the gravediggers for their record also, but i think that they are doing it the right way, mostly. the main thing is, if reading what i put up here inspires anyone to play harder or focus the talent that they have, then by all means tear me a new one. i want you guys to win.
i love you
jan 12, 2008 is that post.
sorry about the inconsistencies in rosters 38W, i have pointstreak and very little else. if you didn't read the snipers re-cap check that out, i did catch a couple things there. if i got something wrong on anybody else's summary feel free to set it staight.
again,
i love you
heart u too, but your still not getting my bud light.
Im still kicking myself after that stupid play that caused the OT goal. I shall redeem myself next week!!!
Mike Moore
Mike, I am very much grateful for the OT goal! Good luck the rest of the season!
Danny F.
P.S. Jon...the Blue Devils second goal was scored by Ryan Wacker. (...a nice little rip from the point!)
Oh and Chris Zole scored the first Blue Devils goal on a rebound.
There surely *IS* a Wil Dobson [80], but he (I) was actually playing as an emergency Grave Digger, but was credited for a ATM goal. I keep looking at the Point Streak system and wondering how I can be listed on the Grave Diggers team, have a goal in their stats for that game, and yet the Grave Diggers are listed as being shut-out. Does that mean I scored against my own team? :) As a professional web programmer, I find this to be poor programming within the pointstreak system. No real validation would have allowed a point by a player on a game-pointless team. Sorry to whom the point was taken from.
Fear the Blue Devils.
Danny...Consider it a late christmas gift lol. From now Im just gonna try to play like Turco in the net instead of out of the net! Good luck the rest of the season as well.
To the person who made the first post in this string (Casey?).....get over it.
The problem with the Puckers is that their core is too small. I have seen it with other teams. Even the Warriors (aka Fugaweez, ATM) had down seasons when they had their fractioning and ended up with a core of 8 or so. One of the things I heard upstairs this last weekend was the team you had on the ice was not the same team people remember from last season and they all think it will be different this next week. That does not sound like a "core".
Why would anyone fear the Blue Devils I or D league?
did anyone see the drawing board nate had? it was bigger that he was
As for the "core group" comment, I agree. I know everyone hates the Patriots, but look at their success in the past 5 or 6sessions, I think they have been in the keg final 4 or 5 times.
And it was always the same core group of guys with a few newbies thrown in.
But I think the attrition that has occured to the "core group" over the past sessions is finally catching up with them and it looks like they will struggle to me middle of the pack. finally.
It seems the trick is to get a core group of 10-12 guys who will stick to it, learn as a group what it takes--rather than jump ship after one or two sessions looking for the better "team" to play for.
Just my 2 cents...
hey jon great job so far with this blog, also you played a great game against us.i also like to add not only was the warriors-pats game a good hard fought game, there was a lot of good sporstmanship between the teams and that is what makes our league a great one!
I don't know if we had blind refs or lazy scorekeepers Sat night, but there are several mistakes. The Puckers goal was apparantly scored by 2 people sitting on the bench.
Who is the "they" that think the Puckers will have a different team every week? Too afraid to leave a name? We do have the same core. Every now and then some people need to take a season off but they always come back and play for us. There was a league mixup and 3 guys showed up who had been assigned to my team but I already have a full roster. Rather than send them away I let them play--sue me.
Ginger--Puckers Coordinator
Yea, I'm thinking that first comment was from Ginger. She likes to hate.
-Hodges
(btw, ur right, my coaching board is big)
Hodges does she play goalie? Do you small people don't know how to read the whole way through. What a F ing moron. Who was the hater who wrote, "The puckers would be better if they got rid of their lesser players". I thought this was I league not the nhl. How many kegs have you won as a coach? I have one do you? I don't need to start a blog to feed my ego. I have dumb sh@^ts like you for that. Oh and why don't you ever play the Mighty Beavers anymore? Just my two cents. And I want my change back.
Casey J
just to be sure, casey, you know that the main function of this junction is to generate B.S. i do agree with your point about dropping lesser players, it irritated me to hear and see comments like that about the puckers and the diggers too. i know that there will be ringers in this league and without a huge starcenter budget, there is no way around that, but it is ridiculous how many people bail out on a team that can't win now, instead of enjoying building a team, learning and teaching and making connections that go outside the rink. and flowers and rainbows. twirl in the sunny field, barefoot...
Mr. Ellis,
I do understand but, lets make it wacky and fun, not just bashing people. I am glad that you posted your comment about it being to generate b.s. At least I know that, the problem with the last blogs have been the captains writing stuff to discourage some of the bad teams and bore us with their teams crap. You want to write a colorful summary about each game cool but, two lines about "the diggers played the komets really boring game" for example and then I have to hear a disertation about the captains team and a shift by shift summary that is B.S. in it self. The blog should make peoeple love the league and have fun with it, not a place to feel like crap if they are not winning and happen to be on the losing side of a seasons' record. I don't know about you but noone wrote about the race that you and I had pushing each other to play better via the stats. Every goal I gave up I said " I hope ellis gave up a goal too'. It was fun to see a lot of new people on other teams try the game of hockey. There is plenty to write about on sat night. Lets keep it motivating but fair to each team at the same time.
Casey J
supernerd is a big smelly loser
There should be a draft.
do you think i am writing a fair blog, casey? i am making an effort to cover everyone's games the same way, i have friends on every team and don't want to short change anyone, i thought i was doing a pretty good job, i thought everyone could see my attempts at humor, nothing i have wrote was ever in ill will.
a draft is pie in the sky, my friend.
you are doing 'a pretty good job' JoJo. Keep doing what you are doing. And don't be afraid to express opinion. If your opinion is dispersed across as many teams as you have opinions on, it will be appreciated. (which you are doing from what I can see). I dont see any venom in your writing (yet). :)
Holly cow,
Yes you are doing a good job, you don't need my approval. I just want you to do what no one else has beem and thats to be honest and cover everyone the same. Its only been week one and looks good so far. Just trying to get you to do the blog some much needed justice. All the summarys were fair and unbiased.
Good job so far.
Mr Jenkins
You of all people know everything i say on this thing is in jest (when i did the blog and when i write dumb comments).
And i haven't played against the mighty beavers because sirkis hasn't needed me.
Ellis, ur doing a fine job. Keep up the good work sir.
Nate
Casey 1 Mini Me 0
"jo-jo" i like that one, whoever you are. i'm like the super hockey nanny.
Wow.
- Mitch
Can't we all ... just ... get along?
actually... I was thinking more of Jo-Jo the clown... but thats ok.
hey guys, you shouldn't talk shit about nate. you know her works for a utility company and he can cut off your power. all he has to do is stop running in his hampster wheel and cease the generation of electricity to half of the dfw area. we wouldn't want that now, would we?
Sirkis
Sirkis said: "you know her works for a utility "company and he can cut off your power."
Nice reference to Nate being a her...
this is the 37th comment....
PREVIEWS PREVIEWS PREVIEWS....c'mmon jo-jo
Sirkis said: "you know her works for a utility "company and he can cut off your power."
Nice reference to Nate being a her...
Come on...this is Basic English! The adverb you are looking for is, "She." If you are going to bash on Nate for being trans-gendered, smaller than his clip board, shorter than the curb, looked down on by midgets, as well as many other true and viable insults, at least do so without looking like a dumb@$$!!
Grammar Nazi Returns!
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