Steamers Hockey

Despite terrible goaltending, the Steamers managed to beat one of the new teams in the division, Hudson Fire, by an old football standby score of 9-6. Julz (pictured here) was not impressed by either goalie.

In other news, the first four games of the season have been posted in on the schedule page. And there are rumors of new jerseys. Stay tuned.

After blowing a 2 goal lead twice in the same game to give up a point to the Sled Dogs, I am the first one to admit that the shooter tutor pictured here is a better goalie than I am…

In other inexplicable news, we are evidently still in second place in our division, but also very close to the bubble, as the top four teams get in, and 5th place is only two points out from us at this point. So I leave you with the great Jim Mora. I believe based on his comments that he must have been sitting in the stands on Monday.

The Steamers pulled off a 6-2 win against the Bay State Beavers. In honor of beating up on Beavers, I give you Stacey. Stacey (pictured here) is happy the Steamers finally won a game in front of their old fat goalie. It’s about time.

For the second week in a row now, this author has given up four goals in the third period. At least this week we managed to have a seven goal lead coming out of the second, so we did eventually pull off a win. It was an 8-4 win against the Badenovs, the first place team in the division, so I guess I shouldn’t be too bitter. I am however, tired of the collapsing late in the game.

Some might argue that the breakaways in the third might have been a little more common than usual. I might be one of those people. Some might also argue that it could have been worse, had I not, at least for this last game, started coming out to tackle some guys before getting schooled. Ken called it “aggressive.” That’s a good word for it. I call it “having a headache driving home.”

Maybe next week we’ll decide to play for more than 30 minutes…

In other news, while writing this article, I googled the terms “hockey collapse” to try and find some appropriate graphics to stuff in the post and found this image of smokin’ hot Dutch field hockey player Ellen Hoog. So I figured I’d stuff her in the post too. Enjoy.

In our first comeback win of the season, the Steamers beat the second place Brewers on Monday night. Even after yours truly gave up a goal from outside the blue line. Sort of reminded me of Ron Hextall. In contrast, on the “played well” side of the ice, the captain had five points.

In other news, a few more games have been added to the schedule, so get your tickets now.

This is really pretty entertaining. I’m not sure why I don’t take it upon myself to do things like this more often.

Sticks, they are sick. I cannot save breakaway. Point shot I save it very much. Breakaway, sticks are afraid. I ask Jobu to come, take fear from sticks. I offer him cigar, rum. He will come.

I finally had my first true “old man” injury. This weekend I completely destroyed my back moving a refrigerator out of my house. Luckily for the team, that means I won’t be able to give up five goals like I did last week. But I will be there to sit on the bench, take some pictures, and drink your beer.

In other news, stats for the first few games of the winter season have been updated.

The Biggest Loser

After playing a stellar first two periods, I completely fell apart and let in an s-load of goals in the third and we ended up losing 6-2. I want to forget this one.

In a moment remeniscient of Russ (back in the days before Russ turned 15), Brent was caught dumping half of his precious Bud Light into a trash can. Was this a straight up case of alcohol abuse? You decide.

Brent did manage to finish a complete beer before wasting Chas’s money and destroying the team’s parking lot morale.

It’s unfortunate that on nights when the Steamers win, Brent still loses.