Last night the Burn managed to put together a couple of lines and 4 defencemen to take on the Black Legion or as I see them, Satan.
These are the guys that have two players with over 40 penalty minutes and a bunch more in the 20s and the same black legion team that gave us one of the chippiest games I have ever played in, over a year ago. Our game with them back then was close and it was physical to the point where I heaved my 165 lbs at #17 (better known as fishlips) by our goal and actually knocked him over. These are things that I should never do and know better, but getting nailed in the boards repeatedly had affected my better judgement.
The dressing room prior to our game was somber as Geoff gave a brief recount of this game and warned us all that it might get nasty. And it did, but not the way we expected. I started with Uunullua and J-lo and we gave up 2 goals on our first shift. Serious derailment to my plans to play in the iron league next year. This is our second game in this new, higher division and I’ve learned that the fore-checking does not happen with just one guy, they like to put two guys in real tight to force cough-ups. After the score was 3-1 the game relaxed a bit. It turns out that Satan’s defense kinda sucks and they gave up a bunch of chances that the Burn left unconverted. From a passing perspective, I think I’m starting to work better with J-lo, we had a couple of give and go’s that garnered a shot or two that had me thinking maybe he did actually live in Edmonton (hawk patooey).
At the end of the night, no penalties were called on either team. This was quite amusing to the refs who clearly knew of the Legion’s reputation, as overhead while walking to the dressing room. Speaking of unhappy endings, my U-Brew beers that I brought had ended their shelf life and pretty much disgusted poor Petes. Apologies to the team (I hope the jugs upstairs made reparations).
There are two game stars for the game tonight:
- Goats – great breakaway goal, but gets first star for trying two different bottles of crappy beer
- Gappy – for tea-bagging Goat’s gift pants before Goats could even put them on.