Steamers Hockey

Wow. In celebration of our Frozen Four victory last night, I figured I’d post this ridiculously hot picture of Hayden Panettiere licking the Stanley Cup. Word is she will be licking the winners of our game next week, so that is some motivation for you.

We beat the Milford Fire last night 4-3. During the first two periods we pretty much smoked em like phillly blunts and were up 3-0, even though they were skating with 14 guys and we were only skating with 10 guys. Per usual, after that, we slowed down some, and let them back into the game.

A big thank you goes out to the guys who decided to start throwing punches with 24 seconds left. In our league, the clock runs during an altercation, so instead of a faceoff right in front of me with an extra skater, the clock ran out on them while one of their guys was trying to de-jersey Ken. Whatever, it’s a win against a rival team, and we were very pleased with ourselves.

Kudos to the fans that came out. And the goalie’s wife deserves extra credit for coming out and watching me almost botch it.

And kudos to Russ. For the first time ever, Eric had nothing to say about him except that “Russ did everything right tonight and will be allowed back next season.” Russ scored a goal, did not trip over the blue line, brought 36 cans of PBR to the game, and actually stayed to completely drink a few after. Good show.

Next game is Monday night at 8:50pm. I haven’t heard who won the other Frozen Four game, so I don’t know who we’re playing yet.

Tags: beer, Hayden Panettiere, licking, Milford Fire, Playoffs, sexy, sillies, Stanley Cup, Win

I posted a quick update to the stats to reflect knocking off the Rampage on Monday night 3-1 in our first playoff game of the summer season. For once, we actually had a full bench, and we skated very well. We are now in the Frozen Four, and play the Milford Fire on Monday night.

Tags: Milford Fire, Playoffs, Rampage, Win

According to our captain, with our tie on Monday we earned ourselves at least 4th place in the division and a spot in the playoffs. Not too bad after having a short bench all season.

Monday night saw us play the Golden Seals, and we ended up skating to a 1-1 tie. A pretty good game all around. The first two periods we spent a lot of time down on their end of the ice, which is always fine by my account. Then, typical of our performance all season, we slowed down a whole lot in the third period and managed to stave off a few different scoring chances.

One more game to go in the regular season. Would be nice to end on a winning note.

A few notes:

• Russ – where the hell are you?
• Eric – no the Taco Bell was not open past 11pm. And you are a douchebag.

Tags: Golden Seals, Regular Season, Win

The streak continues. We managed to win yet another game last night, 2-1 over the Rampage. That brings us to 5-0-1 over our last six games. It’s certainly an interesting feeling. And I also finished all my beer. What a good night overall.

Tags: beer, Win

The Steamers pulled off another close win last night against the Golden Seals, beating them 3-2. Once again we played fairly well for such a short bench. That puts us on a 5 game unbeaten streak and a few games above .500. Much better than earlier this season.

In other news, I finished a bunch of code for some statistics, so take a look at some of the individual stats posted now. More to come.

Tags: Statistics, Win

Ok – it’s official – we’re streaking. We pulled off another win, this time against the Beachbums, and are now above .500 for the first time in a very long time. This one was a nice come from behind and finish it off in the last three minutes deal. And we did it with only 7 guys on the ice. I also realized that last week I won my 200th career game, which isn’t so bad for an old guy playing once a week.

Tags: Win

We managed to pull off our second win of the season last night. The offense decided to show up and we actually scored only one less goal than we have during all the previous games combined. That pulls us back to a .500 record.

I also managed to get a few more pieces of the website working, so now our schedule page shows the results for the season, and there is a team stats page that currently only shows our record, but will eventually get a little more involved.

Tags: offense, Statistics, Win

A few more games for our summer schedule have been posted.

June 23 9:00 Dudley Avalanche
June 30 10:10 Beachbums
July 7 9:00 Boston Brewers
July 14 9:40 Golden Seals
July 21 9:00 Rampage
July 28 10:30 PWS

Also in the good news column is that we finally posted our first win of the summer last week. I’m still working on the code for the stats, but I hope to have something running soon.

Tags: Schedule, Win