The Hateful 8

Long gone are the days of three lines. Thanks to Remi who came out to give us 8 skaters.  On the back end we had Marc C, Matt, and Andy.  Upfront we had Remi, Karl, Noe, Go20, and yours truly.
The Red Bastards got on the board first thanks to another brilliant episode of 
"Adventures with Ron!"
This one is tough to explain, let's just say is started with a flip, a batted down puck, a scramble, a stumble, a desperation swing of the stick, and Ronnie finally coming to rest flat on his back somewhere between his net and the right corner of the Rink as the referee dug out the puck from the back or our net and the Red Bastards headed to center ice in fits of giggles.  Even our Matt "The Rover" admired his creativity.
No worries, though.  We quickly tied it up and stretched the lead out to 3-1.
We traded goals the rest of the way and they came within two a couple of times, but it was never really in doubt.
So take that ya Red Bastards, 7-4 for the Good Guys!

Just when you think you're Hot Snot....

Ouch!

Well about 48hrs after our big win vs. the Islanders, the Hockey Gods decided to bring us crashing back down to earth.  We got skunked 6-0 vs. Molson. John was between the pipes, but it certainly wasn't his fault.
Up front we had yours truly, PA, Ti-Boy, Gilles, Karl, and Paul.  On the back end we had Matt, Brian, Pierre, and "I think I'm still drunk" Ti-ga. They jumped on us we two quick goals before we even knew what was going on....it didn't get any better. The play wasn't as one sided as the score would indicate, but we just couldn't bury anything.  They made their chances count and if it wasn't for John, it could have been worse.
So there ya have it. The Hockey Gods gave us a nice little mocking slap to the face just to keep us in check.

Gut Check

You had one Job! Put it in the emtpy net!

Well we'd lost 6-3 and 14-2 vs the Islanders the last couple of times out, so it was gut check time. On the back end we had Marc C., Ti-ga, PA, and Rover Matt.  Up front we had the blistering speed of yours truly, Ti-boy, Karl, Paul, Noe, and Stephane.  Between the pipes John Snair was back to the scene of the 14-2 drubbing he faced the last outing vs. these shmucks!
Stephane got us on the board picking up his own rebound. Matt tied the game, yes that's right, Matt banged a home a rebound in our own net.
Noe put us up by one on a nice shot from inside the circle on his off wing.  They tied it up with a pinball follow the bouncing puck, three stooges scramble in front of our net to make it 2-2.  They got the next one to make it 3-2 on a questionable high stick, then we had them exactly where we wanted them!
Can't remember who tied it, but we got it to 3-3.
Then on a delayed penalty call Ti-boy fed it up to me, I crossed the blue line, put on the brakes and fed Stephane steaking in across the blue line, he sucked in the D and he made a great play across to Noe who parked it in a wide open cage to make it 4-3.  I think it was Matt who after a scramble and kicking and poking at a loose puck at their blue line, Matt picked it up skated to the slot, faded to his forehand an roofed one glove side to give us a 5-3 lead.
Not long after, myself, Ti-boy and Noe broke out of our end.  Ti-Boy was on his off wing as we came across the blue line.  In a classic Ti-Boy drag, he looked over to pass, but instead saucered one top corner glove side to put us up 6-3 with about 6 minutes left.  They pulled their goalie with about 2 plus minutes left, and yes, I had a break and instead of skating it all the way in, I tried to put it in the open net outside the blue line and....MISSED!....Tabernac!
John was on his game and wasn't F***ing around.  He held the fort and there ya have it....6-3 for the Good Guys...take that ya Islander Bastards!