★ Unilla
★★ Witmarsh & Petes
★★★ Cory da Goalie
Last night the Burn won it’s first game in a division higher than they started the season in. The opponents were the E-Bombs that only had a couple of wins in this higher division, yet had enough to not get moved down to our vacated spot.
So why am I writing this?
Even this morning after, with an extra hour on my hands due to daylight savings and a baby that does not tell time, I’m still stoked about the win. Going into this game, the Burn were getting it done with good D and average O. Time spent in the penalty box was way more than necessary which I believe kept our scoring down. This game was different. Our D still sparkled, which was necessary because this E-bombs team came fast and usually forchecked two at time. Pete owned their forcheckers, usually conducting his hockey business in his office which to the layperson is behind our red line. The two penalties we took were match penalties, but we did connect on the power play for the first goal.
Eagles call up Scott Whitmarsh had a great game with two goals and a foiled breakaway. Their lady goalie was not the worst goalie I’ve seen, but she did give up a good number of rebounds that were usually cleared by their larger Defencemen. In fact, I think only one person and the goalie were less than 6ft on this team.
Anyway, we skated hard, played decent hockey and Unilla got his cup broken in the playoff circle. He says he took three upward slashes to his groinular region, but continued on anyway. I gotta give him a first star for that. Petes should share the second star with Whitmarsh, and Cory did a fine job controlling rebounds gets the third. There, I picked 4 stars, screw you convention.
Kid is up, enough cyberbabbling.