Wednesday, December 31, 2014

The Super Seven

Once again it was looking grim last Saturday.  We had the Super Seven, yours truly, JP, PA, Ti-ga, Gauvin, Andy, and Brian.  We put in an emergency call to Gaston who plays for the Wild and lives near by. He showed up to make it eight. Backstopping was a blast from the past as Warren filled in between the pipes. Ti-ga and Gauvin had to play up front and away we went.  Gauvin had a about three heart attacks, pulled his groin, but would come up big for us in the end...we'll get to that in a minute.
It was a decent game, they're a good match for us.  It went back and forth and both side were getting chances.  Unfortunately for us, we can't score, and as Gaston said on the bench we were making the other goalie look pretty good.  We found ourselves down 4-2 but we were getting all kinds of chances and never felt we were out of it.  They made if 5-2 about half way through and things started looking bleak.  Then we got a power play with Gaston getting cross checked in the back in front of our net.  As karma would have it, we weren't getting much going on the PP until Gaston made a rush and cranked one top corner to make it 5-3.  I think JP got the next one to make it 5-4 and it was Game On!  
Gauvin got a turn over and walked in and tried to roof it glove side. Their goalie made the stop but Ti-ga followed up the play and banged home the rebound...5-5!! 
Both teams pressed and one of their D got caught deep as the puck came around the boards, Brian chipped it out and Gauvin was away!  Their D slowly gained and Gauvin zipped one around the hash marks, right on the ice, stick side...6-5 !!...with about 4 minutes to go.  
We got hemmed in and I brought down the lumber and got a hooking penalty on one of their shooters getting ready to let one go with just under 3 minutes to go.  Some yakking ensued and by the time I got to the box and the guys lined up for the face off there was about 40 seconds to go.  We killed it off and there ya have it!  Four unanswered goals and it ended 6-5.  
Take that ya Alexandria Mouldy bastards!  6-5 for the good guys!

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